This contemporary apartment with this million dollar view located in Turin, Italy designed by Andrea Marcante & Adelaide Testa.
An apartment built on the mezzanine level of a creating overlooking the square that symbolises the city of Turin, Piazza San Carlo erected by the Dukes of Savoy and in particular Maria Cristina di Francia, who reigned as “Madama Reale” during the first half of the 17th century, turns into a contemporary-day theatre representing a specific concept of the bourgeois property, the property of the Turin skilled middle classes, by means of its spaces and the furniture inside it, all embodying reassuring engineering precision and subtle concerns.
The building program, characterised by a tunnel-shaped progression from the rear to the drawing room facing the square, the windows opening onto the square itself with their offered shape and size of the “oculus” on the developing facades marking the perimeter, and the require to set out the relational spaces in the living quarters as zones and premises that (to a greater or lesser degree) can be noticed from outside, offer the initial input for the construction of a vaguely metaphysical residence atmosphere.
Photography by Carola Ripamonti.