Trionfale House

The apartment is located within a historic building designed by Sabatini in the early 1900s, in Rome’s Trionfale district. It is a building of great charm, featuring structural and material elements with a strong identity that guided the entire renovation project.

The intervention involved a complete reconstruction of the walls and a new internal layout, designed to make the spaces more fluid and functional while simultaneously enhancing the home’s original proportions. A unifying element is the Italian herringbone wood flooring chosen for all main rooms: a continuous, luminous surface that guides the internal path and brings warmth to the spaces.

The brick ceilings have been left exposed in certain areas, emphasizing the materiality of the original shell and creating a balanced contrast with the cleaner, neutral surfaces of the walls. Great attention was paid to the design of thresholds and passages, resolved through soft arches or simple lintel casings that punctuate the layout and create a fluid visual sequence between the kitchen, living area, and study.

The kitchen, conceived as an integral part of the living space, features natural oak cabinetry and a countertop and backsplash in green marble—a material with a strong presence chosen to dialogue with the apartment’s color palette and introduce a more intense chromatic note.

Color plays a central role as a true design tool: warm, desaturated tones accompany the rooms, defining different atmospheres without interrupting the spatial continuity. In the bedroom, the chromatic scheme combines with the decision to preserve and highlight traces of the original masonry, left exposed as a mark of time and the building’s historical stratification.

The bathrooms represent an independent material chapter: both feature terrazzo surfaces used as a continuous, enveloping element, paired with carefully designed fixtures. The project thus presents itself as a measured, bespoke intervention where every choice—spatial, material, and chromatic—is intended to enhance the building’s identity and strike a balance between historical memory and contemporary living.