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Casa SANNA-CLAYTON Santa Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Sardegna – Italia Architettura e Interior Design: Photo : - Pierluigi Piu Pierluigi Piu - Pierluigi Dessì Architetto “CONFINI VISIVI” www.pierluigipiu.it [email protected] Te.: (+39)3405293381 DESIGN CONCEPT When designing this villa to be built along Sardinia’s coastline the intention was to link it to its geographical and cultural environment using a contemporary and sober language, yet unmistakably Mediterranean and referring to the traditional arts and crafts of this Italian island. Far from wishing to evoke Sardinia through trite conventional images, inspiration was found in reproducing some textures of traditional weaving (typical ancient and contemporary fabrics and carpets), jewellery (gold filigree), embroidery and basket weaving, transposing them into stone and ceramic finishes and coverings. REFERENCE 1 Typical Sardinian woven baskets Rush basket, woven in San Vero Milis (Oristano) – 1969 Lentisk basket, woven in Paulilatino (OR),1930 Cane and olivaster baskets, woven in the village of Paulilatino (Oristano) - 1930 TRASPOSITION OF REFERENCE 1 A textured stone dado of red basalt - recessed in the perimetric walls’ surface and co-planar with the thick lime plaster laid above – surrounds the whole ground floor and, with its engraved surface, is meant to evoke the wattled vegetal fibres of typical Sardinian baskets REFERENCE 2 White natural wool handwoven blanket, 1892; A typical sample of the weaving technique named “a pibiònes” (thick grain), peculiar to Sardinia TRASPOSITION OF REFERENCE 2 A textured limestone wall cladding (by artist Pinuccio Sciola), visibly inspired by the above mentioned weaving technique, is the main feature of the wide living room. REFERENCE 3 Contemporary revisiting of patterns of traditional Sardinian carpets (design by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso) TRASPOSITION OF REFERENCE 3 The walls of the main bathroom are covered with 120x120cm wide ceramic tiles designed by Patricia Urquiola for Mutina, featuring a relief with the same patterns as her carpets. REFERENCE 4 Typical gold filigree Sardinian jewellery TRANSPOSITION OF REFERENCE 4 One of the guests rooms features a covering with special ceramic tiles , the texture of which is meant to evoke traditional ancient Sardinian jewellery (golden filigree) and embroidery. REFERENCE 5 Hand weaving of carpets and blankets Traditional domestic loom, once owned – in all villages – by about one family out of ten. Black and white natural sheep wool blanket Black and white natural sheep wool woven in the village of Pompu in 1890 carpet woven in Bolòtana (NU), 1950 TRASPOSITION OF REFERENCE 5 A band of black and white textured ceramic tiles runs from floor to walls, up to the ceiling, laying on the same surface as the surrounding finish of floor and walls (dove grey cement-resin, “cementodiluna”) and integrating a transversal brushed stainless steel band devoted to the flush operation buttons. .