The Patio Inside a Painting at Sacramora 12
- Category
- A Closer Look
- Written by
- Stacy Suaya
- Published
- September 30, 2020
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Imagine yourself on vacation, having found yourself inside a painting, looking out onto a lush garden and medicinal herbs. This Alice-in-Wonderland kind of moment is one that guests of Sacramora 12 can say they’ve had.
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The old barn at this design farmhouse near Faenza, Italy, houses a loft with a large patio at the back. A covered area, also visible from the inside through a glass window, it was created as though it were a piece of art. The project started from two small oil paintings by a friend of Picasso, Philippe Artias, with the authorization of his widow, Lydia, to be reproduced in various ways. In this case, they were created by the designer Gianni Pasini.
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The original source works were hung on the ceiling but reproduced in larger dimensions. The floor was also painted, continuing the colorful, swirling details. Finally, vertical screens, a sort of movable walls made of perforated sheet metal – also useful as sunshades in the summer season – are colored like pieces of the same paintings. “In short, the two paintings by the artist are reproduced on the walls, ceiling, and floor, of a sort of ideal room in which to immerse yourself completely, a way therefore to savor and deepen the work in a total way,” says architect and owner of Sacramora 12, Claudio Piersanti.
“The whole, however, also has a spatial value as well as an artistic one, being a very colorful and elegant place of relaxation, surrounded by the greenery of the park. A double reading by the guests is therefore possible: an immediate and pleasant one, and a more in-depth and cultured one.”
How would you read it: painting that doubles as a patio, or patio that doubles as a painting? To find out, book a stay at Sacramora 12 here.
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