Essence

Fior d'Oliva

The Elm's breathing

Designed by Giacomo Gioacchini e Francesca Maccioni
Cingoli, Italy

Essence

Fior d'Oliva
Inspirations

An authentic rural building between wholesomeness and stylish grandeurs

We are in Cingoli, the “balcony” of Marche, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. Here lies this ancient house that keeps and tells episodes dated back at the fourteenth century. In those years they built a convent, successfully transformed into a cottage and, at the end, when the current owners purchased it three years ago, it became a splendid 300-square-metre two-storey dwelling. 

Ideas of living

History and modernity live together in this cottage, giving life to a delicate balance both in the structure and in the pieces of furniture, like the very modern classic-style red varnished chest of drawers made of tulip tree, that the wood can bring out to live a sort of visual and sensory experience.

Here, Fior d'Oliva shows the colourful beauty of the elm, a tree with ancient roots and an important past that also Catullus and Virgil loved praising, is enhanced by the neutral and natural oiling and creates a rainbow of warm and brilliant nuances from the very light blond colours of the hardest grains, to the bronze and copper colours with some olive-green traits of its tenderest grains. A noble material.


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Fior d'Oliva | Variegated | Planed


Outside


Outside


Outside


Other references

Sought-after simplicity

A farm building in Asolo

Designed by arch. Mirco Cavallo

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