An Eye-Popping Stair Puts a Contemporary Twist on a Historic Apartment in Argentina
Working with a challenging layout, a designer couple add a show-stopping stair enclosure.
Working with a challenging layout, a designer couple add a show-stopping stair enclosure.
Ezequiel Adelmo Manasseri and María Sol Depetris had been searching for three years when they finally found their future apartment. Occupying the full second floor and an attic in one of Rosario, Argentina’s many "French-style" buildings—Haussmann-esque constructions dating from the early 20th century—the space had most recently housed an accounting firm.
Designers Ezequiel Adelmo Manasseri and María Sol Depetris turned the second floor and attic of a 1906 four-story "French-style" building in Rosario, Argentina, into an apartment that combines historic details with contemporary pieces from their furniture company, Citrino.
Photo by Javier Agustín Rojas
Original doors lead from a foyer into the main living area.
Photo by Javier Agustín Rojas
The walls were painted a shabby pastel yellow, but it still had many original plaster details and a "casa chorizo" layout, a succession of rooms that open to an exterior gallery. The young couple, cofounders of both the architecture studio Manasseri Depetris and furniture brand Citrino, knew they had come across something special.
In the office, the table—a prototype they hope to put into production—was inspired by a Sol LeWitt work.
Photo by Javier Agustín Rojas
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