00:01We love colour. I mean, our projects are characterised by colour. We love colour.
00:07I think the most important when we design a home is to create an atmosphere,
00:12to create a space where the people feel good.
00:17We think house like story, like music.
00:22From the beginning we wanted a home where we could experiment, draw and create design objects.
00:30My name is Julie, I'm a friend, chef from Paris.
00:33And I'm Giuseppe, I'm Italian from Naples.
00:36We are partners in life and work.
00:41We are partners in La Photosynthesis, an architectural studio based in Naples.
00:55I love all the home, but I think entrance, I love it.
01:00Me too, and the mezzanine too.
01:02It's a nice place, I don't know, you are in the middle of the house, you can see all the
01:06high ceiling.
01:10The bedroom and morning is like the best place in the world, I think.
01:14I don't like morning, but since I live here, it made me love morning.
01:19It made me love waking up.
01:21Where you are on the bed in the morning, you see really Vesuvius, the sun.
01:25So nice.
01:28Yeah, if you go to Naples, you see these concerts, you see that there are a lot of beauty.
01:35A lot of the city that is abandoned, but it's under the big sun.
01:42I think that Naples has been the start of this home.
01:48Naples has inspired us.
01:52So the idea for the project, we put a lot of history because Naples is a historical city
01:58where there is a little bit of modernity.
02:01We keep the old floor and we contrast with a little bit of modernity.
02:08The furniture, the lamp, the kitchen.
02:15We were walking in the street because we were visiting another home close to this one.
02:21And so this house that had been abandoned for years.
02:25And then when we back home, we saw on internet this house.
02:29So we went to visit it and we had a crush.
02:38The floor plan has remained mostly unchanged.
02:40There was a wall here and there was the kitchen.
02:44And here there was a bedroom.
02:46We changed the function of the rooms in order to create a large living room
02:50with an open kitchen and a comfortably sized bedroom.
02:55We wanted to preserve a large entrance, something we always try to include in our projects.
03:02We also had a mezzanine that contains a studio area.
03:06We designed this desk that can be put away to create a guest room.
03:11We have another desk that goes to the terrace.
03:17The entrance is surprisingly spacious for this type of apartment.
03:22The floor features a pattern mix of original styles from the era.
03:27We feel they give a lot of character to the home.
03:30The closet in the entrance is an original one.
03:33We bring it up from the windows.
03:36There was two guys here on the balcony that take the top and I push them down.
03:44The chair in the entrance is from Anonima Castelli.
03:48The shirt is for the key and we designed it, yes.
03:55Original pallet doors, over three meters tall, open into the living room and bedroom.
04:04The custom kitchen is a very simple, clean, horizontal element where all the functions are integrated.
04:14It's really, really, really compact, but functional, super functional.
04:22And then this door, the left, you can find all the projects to clean.
04:28There's the bin, the washing machine, we have all the stuff to cook.
04:36The refrigerator was placed under the mezzanine and hidden away.
04:42During the renovation, we removed the wallpaper and uncovered the original colors of the time.
04:48We kept the color because it was nice to mix the past and the modern.
04:54We love this color because it's really linked to the color outside of the garden.
05:03In the living room, the couch is vintage from Hedra and we found it in Ferenc, Florence.
05:12It's the Homela Farm, the word women and men, it's called.
05:15Because this is women, there is another word, there is men.
05:20We need a coffee table, but there are a lot of stuff in this apartment, so we decided to make
05:25something clear that it disappear.
05:28We liked the contrast of the new windows, super modern, with the context.
05:35Because there was a normal window split in two.
05:37And so we saw this beautiful panorama, so we wanted just one window to make like a painting.
05:42When we started at Naples, we were so surprised that there is a lot of craftsmanship.
05:50And so we started to have fun, we started to design a lot of things.
05:56In the living room, we designed this console and we designed this table.
06:02We love nature, so we bring a lot of plants.
06:07So you know, this one, it was on the big road, there is a man that sold the plant.
06:13We take with us the motorbike and we drive through Naples with this big tree.
06:19And I was behind Giuseppe, with my hand, I hold it, and I was like...
06:24Behind him, it was so funny.
06:27We found the light in our house.
06:29We wanted something very simple in contrast with the light.
06:32And then the man that did the orange part decided, without telling us, to do these things.
06:41And so we were like, nice, okay, it's okay, it's nice.
06:47The living area is paved with vintage cement tiles.
06:52To match the original green of the walls, we're painting all the frames and the bottom of the walls.
06:59And the bottom of the costumes with the sage green.
07:08In the bedroom, the red applique was designed by Heustad Leuchten in the 1960s.
07:16And it's the applique that I prefer in the house because it's the first one that we bought.
07:21It's a symbolic one.
07:23The entrance and the bedroom is connected.
07:25And so that's why we decided to put our clothes in the entrance and to make it functional.
07:34So we found a red painting on the wall.
07:37We found also a little heart.
07:41There's a little graved heart in the wall.
07:43It was covered by the paper.
07:45It's a religious sign.
07:50We keep the color and then we contrast with this red Pompeian color of the flower.
08:00The green coat hanger, we found it in a vintage store.
08:05We bought it because it was nice.
08:08It was funny.
08:12The bathroom is hidden under the mezzanine.
08:15It's a little space, so we prefer to have a big shower.
08:20To make more natural the bathroom, we choose to have a flower with stones.
08:25We mix with some vintage stuff like the basin that we found.
08:30Generally, when we have a small space, we like to have some big furniture in a small place.
08:39The bright metal orange staircase leading to the mezzanine is a bold sculptural future in the room.
08:47Because we want another contrast with the apartment, so we put these orange stairs in steel.
08:55It's really nice to work upstairs because you have the landscape, you have the light of the terrace.
09:00It's really quiet and it's really nice.
09:03And you feel elevated.
09:08We designed this desk that can be put away to create a guest room.
09:16We have another set that goes to the terrace that we choose to make white to have more contrast with
09:22the orange one.
09:24The terrace is one of the best parts, I think.
09:27We spend also a lot of time in the morning because we have a hot shower.
09:34You can see the mountains, the volcanoes, the sea, and also all the historical parts of Naples.
09:42You see all the church.
09:45In small spaces, not everything has to be functional.
09:49This console, for example, that we put here is absolutely not functional.
09:56So it's a gift that we made to ourselves to have furniture in a small space, not functional.
10:04And these things feel like the space is bigger, I think.
10:09It's like some objects that make you happy.
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