Michelini, Italy

Michelini is a project uniting two apartments in San Michele di Pagana, Liguria, conceived as a home to be lived in throughout the year.
The project draws inspiration from the principles of Purism: formal clarity, proportion, restraint, and the dialogue between art and architecture while moving beyond its historical austerity. It seeks instead a balance between the rigour of Italian Modernism and the intimacy of a home shaped by comfort, memory and everyday life.
The Mediterranean landscape became an essential part of the concept. The proximity to the sea and surrounding vegetation inspired a palette of natural materials, warm timber and linen, complemented by carefully curated artworks and objects.
Every element was selected for the meaning it brings to the space. Artworks, furniture, books and ceramics are not treated as independent decorative pieces, but as part of a continuous architectural dialogue.

The result is a home designed to invite observation: of a painting, a book, the movement of light across a room, or the landscape extending into the interior. Its richness lies not in accumulation, but in what it chooses to preserve—and what it deliberately leaves unsaid.