“We used the natural materials, the white lime and the local stone textures as the only decorations, all of which express our idea of conceptual simplicity and honesty,” Roberto says. “No matter what we design, our designs are always ‘free’ in the sense that we are always curious and consistently challenge ourselves. If somebody wants to understand us then they have to live in our architecture,” he says noting that this personal home project is one through which their greater interior design vision is perfectly exemplified.

The result is a house that provides the busy duo with a place of much needed, “personal decompression… physical and mental. We knew exactly the result we wanted to achieve and it all happened in a very fluid way. It’s actually been a great honor to design something for ourselves,” Roberto shares, while in the next breath extending a very generous invitation to visit and see for ourselves. We don’t think anybody could refuse such an invitation and find ourselves wondering when the next train to Puglia is leaving from Milano Centrale…