Holiday Residence in Tuscany, Italy
The soon 60 year-old Gonzaga-born, Milan-educated Italian designer and architect, Vincenzo De Cotiis, is a master of the kind of balance we love.
We mean the ability to combine elements that ?don?t belong? without being pretentious or too obvious about it. No fake-looking touches of color or odd furniture. No startling or forced discord. No conflicting messages. It is a difficult skill but De Cotiis is very good at it.
He is particularly exceptional because he uses reclaimed, recycled, reconstructed and re-worked materials and components ? wood, metal, leather, stone, textiles – in all of his work. His style is rough and raw, sophisticated and brutalist, all at the same time.
Prime example of this is the private luxury holiday residence he created out of a historic boathouse in Forte dei Marmi in the province of Lucca in northern Tuscany. This is a former fishing port and marble-warehouse town where stars and Europe?s cultural elite have now resided and holidayed for decades. Among them are Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, fashion icon Giorgio Armani, British writer Aldous Huxley, and sculptor and artist Henry Moore.
Respecting the history of the area, and of the brick building itself, De Cotiis has selected and custom-created pieces in marble, concrete, brass, fiberglass and lacquered wood, some with references to the maritime past.
He created a comprehensive whole that speaks one and the same language from the rough walls to the antique Murano glass vase, from furni...
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