FEBRUARY CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
A style that looks to the future
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“In order to develop taste, quality and personality, you need to respect the past, accept the present and enthusiastically look to the future”, claims Eleanor Brown, author of “The finest rooms by America's Great Decorators”. These are the ingredients of a very fashionable modern style-contemporary classic-which journalist Claudia Schiera discusses in her February Get inspired column. A timeless, elegant style that brings together contemporary and neoclassical furniture and which includes the use of parquet flooring, often laid in a herringbone pattern.
The contemporary classic style is dominated by a neutral yet warm colour palette: white, ivory, beige and light grey, sometimes with touches of a deeper grey or antique pink. And if you want a truly modern look, you can choose a strong shade of grey, which evokes strength, or yellow, which represents hope. These are the colours chosen by Pantone for 2021 and are described in more detail in this month’s Shades column.
Elegance and refinement are the hallmarks of the Lake Garda villa renovated by the architects Mingotti and Giordano and embellished with many bespoke pieces of furniture. A project that blends seamlessly into its setting, the same goal that architects Feltrin and Burnazzi set themselves when building a sustainable home in the province of Trento.
Marc Hertrich & Nicolas Adnet have renovated a house in the country in the south of France by seamlessly marrying aesthetics with functionality, an art that they define as interior design. Meanwhile, comfort, aesthetics, creativity and technology are the key ingredients of a ship-shaped villa on the Costa Brava, renovated by the architects Ribé and Puigdomènech. Finally, the architectural studio XUL Architecture of London applied a vibrant colour palette to
