Essence

Mieluce

Studying Perfection

Designed by Nico Monutti
Treviso, Italy 

Essence

Mieluce
Inspirations

Daily life in a house where light and matter mould conceptual boundaries, cancelling geographic ones.

The large windows come one after another on the perimeter of this newly built penthouse on the outskirts of the city centre. They flood the rooms with light and let the gaze wander towards the calm countryside in the north or the fascinating old town in the south. In the middle, a cosy but dynamic, welcoming area was born from the need to model the American Study Houses from the 1950s and 60s. A place where one can fully express every facet of their soul and where every need finds room for the answer it seeks.

Ideas of living

The house's physical structure was built around the central pillars, which set the layout of spaces and allow natural light to come from the windows. Reseach and refinement have been the conceptual pillars, from design to realisation. The research focused on harmonising natural elements – wood, stone, soil and light – while the refinement on making aesthetic elegance shine brightly, to elevate the material, its forms, and functions with a constant and steady study of each aspect and the attention to the smallest detail. Nothing is left to chance, and the most studied particulars are also - and above all – hidden where they cannot be seen. As the “invisible” doors, in the wood wall that separates the living from the sleeping area or the marble wall, on which the handle cannot even be perceived.

The open spaces are punctuated by pillars carefully covered in wood and transformed into display recesses, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, and closets, becoming discrete punctuation between the kitchen/dining area and the living/studio area. And it is precisely wood, coupled with light, that underlines and accompanies the fluidity of living spaces. Mieluce, knotty brushed oak honey-coloured with warm amber and golden hues, was the Fiemme Tremila Essence chosen to envelop the project in all its partitions – vertical and horizontal, on the floor, walls and ceilings. It became a continuity element in the space, with a strong stylistic impact.
 

Choosing Mieluce has created a sort of Esperanto aesthetics in which materials can communicate and engage freely and naturally. 


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Mieluce | Knotty | Brushed


Other references

Design, Efficiency and Nature

Residential

Designed by arch. Umberto Zanetti

TunnelStudios