ARTS AND CRAFTS

The family's love for exquisitely hand-crafted furniture is on full display throughout the home, from local Italian designs to the handiwork of Ivory Coast craftsmen.

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屋主一家特別鍾情手製傢具，四周放滿同類型精緻作品，從意大利當地設計以至象牙海岸工匠的出色作品也有包括。 home, where you can feel influences assimilated during the years the family lived abroad in Africa. Reminiscent of an African house is the living area’s ceilings, which are covered with Canadian maple wood. Contrasting with the cream colour chosen for the finishing of the Venetian stone flooring, the warm hues of wood are again the protagonist in this environment, particularly in the use of rosewood, which recalls a 1960s aesthetic and is used to create a separation between the living room and kitchen.

Modern Italian furniture collected during years of research and pieces of African craftsmanship harmoniously blend with each other in the different rooms of the house, painting the picture of a family life lived in close relationship with nature. In the kitchen are ebony chairs designed by the homeowner and made in the Ivory Coast by a local craftsman, positioned around Eero Saarinen’s Tulip oval table for Knoll. The contrast of the colours and shapes of these elements is balanced out by the presence of a stunning Poliedri blown-glass chandelier in light pink, designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini.

In the living room, the only touch of colour that moves away from a deliberately neutral stylistic choice is in the banana-shaped dormeuse from the ’50s, which is covered in a green velvet and

大屋的獨特風格體現於其奢華用料、偌大空間和簡約線條上，同時亦不難看出這家人那些年旅居非洲日子留下的痕跡。以加拿大楓木鋪成的客廳天花板，一看便令人聯想到非洲百姓家。與米黃色威尼斯石地板形成對比的暖木色再次成為亮點，分隔客廳和廚房的黑檀木用料更帶60年代美感。

房間擺放了兩人多年來收集的現代意大利傢具與非洲工藝品，兩者共處一室毫不突兀，從中更可看出這家人的生活與大自然密不可分。廚房有Eero Saarinen為Knoll設計的橢圓形鬱金香桌，周圍放了屋主親自設計、由象牙海岸本地藝匠製作的烏黑色椅子。如此色彩與造型在Carlo Scarpa為Venini設計的Poliedri淺粉紅吹製玻璃吊燈襯托下得到平衡。

在客廳，與全屋中性色調有出入的是香蕉形50年代貴妃椅，其綠色天鵝絨布令人不期然想到他 HO≤E JOURNAL