Back to the future
Designed by arch. Edoardo GellnerBorca di Cadore, Italy
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Echi di Fiemme at Villaggio ENI in Borca di Cadore
By 2024, it will have been 70 years since its creation. Despite the fast-paced world we live in, where everything becomes old news in a flash, stepping into this place still feels like entering the future. Welcome to the former Villaggio ENI in Borca di Cadore: village- community, social, urban, architecture and interior design project. It embodied Enrico Mattei’s vision, thanks to Edoardo Gellner’s erudite and honest architecture: it is an extraordinary chapter in the history of business welfare and international modern architecture.
The aim of Gellner’s work, as he explained himself, was «to not override the deeds of nature». The woods and the environment established the location and construction methods of the buildings. In half a century, the forest grew at a rate that would take over 200 years elsewhere.
The love for the village grew by the day, and the young couple started an exciting hunt for original furnishings to restore the integrity of Gellner’s interiors as much
as possible, with few exceptions dictated by modern living standards. Erika and Guido – as other neighbour owners – in coherence with the village’s ethical, design and aesthetic heritage, chose Fiemme Tremila wood for their floors. Montefeudo of Echi di Fiemme collection, in larch wood as the trees surrounding the house, with authentic knots and burnished flames, enhances the typical brightness of home interiors designed by the Istrian architect for the comfort of Mattei’s employees. The ethical vision of the company results in the most natural of floors: a healthy surface, able to increase the well-being of a place that seems utopian but once existed and, hopefully, will be brought back to the future.
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Montefeudo | Unique | Brushed
Outside
Outside
ARCHITETTO
If man’s violent intervention on nature is called ‘classical’ or ‘rational’, the opposite behaviour to adapt to the environment can be defined as ‘romantic’ or ‘natural’. We should be more ‘natural’ than ‘rational’, and the Italian landscape will gain from it; the aspect of the new settlement will gain in strength and expression.
(Gellner, 1960)
Residential
Designed by Team Project New Line