An Architect Called Wood

Essence

Perlepietra

Inspirations

Bold lines traced with an ecological "pencil" to create the very "best": what you must provide your children with. For Martina Sartori, a 28-year-old interior designer, this is her first true home. Because it will belong to her and she started designing it in the best moment of her life, when "he" was still on the way.

Martina designed everything down to the detail for her firstborn. For his happiness and, most of all, for his health, for the daily miracle of living a free and safe life. That's why she chose to fully cover the house in biocompatible wood, as it were a cosy nest where you could stay barefoot and breathe nature within the walls of your home.

Ideas of living

Perlepietra by Fiemme Tremila, the oak from the Luci di Fiemme collection, was the only wood Martina wanted to use on every surface, including bathrooms. But not exclusively. The wood was used to customise bathroom furniture, clad the bathtub, for the large bathroom and living room shelves, in the living space and hallway, and the panelling reaching up to the ceiling. All the doors are in Perlepietra. Vibrant, mixed interiors, because the wood veins and its knots, chasing various shades of grey, take on hues ranging from purple to brown to pink, depending on the time of day and the light they receive.

About this essence, Marina says: «Dark woods are often artificially coloured, and this dampens their properties and makes them dull and bland. Since Perlepietra is all-natural, it changes as daylight changes. And the Nodoso effect intensifies this aspect. It felt even more alive; that is why I chose it. It is a beautiful view».

Perlepietra | Knotty | Brushed

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