斯帕齐奥 24 公寓丨意大利罗马丨Sara D’Innocenzo

Italian designer Sara D’Innocenzo has completely reworked the Spazio24 apartment in Rome, transforming it into a home characterised by an agora-style central living space and spatial design elements. Placing the music-playing device with an “outer space” look at the centre of the home, she incorporated more playful and futuristic geometric forms, including a crystal dining table and Magis-Puppy seating. Bold colours such as green and orange also permeate the interior, contrasting with the wooden surfaces.

Sara D’Innocenzo has transformed the Spazio24 apartment in Rome, Italy, crafting a 180-square-metre home that merges modern design with nostalgic elements. The apartment, built between the 1960s and 70s, features large volumes and expansive windows. D’Innocenzo reimagined the entirety of the 180-square-metre (1,937-square-foot) space, focusing her design around the central, open-plan living area. “The main attraction of this space is the presence of an old jukebox, Ami Continental from 1962 with a science fiction design,” D’Innocenzo reflected.

A “science fiction” style jukebox designed by A.M.I. in 1962, central to the home’s aesthetic, commands a large living space – which she describes as an agora. “This large space, designed as an agora, a meeting space, a space where you spend your free time, where you listen to music, where you read a book and where you organise your days,” said D’Innocenzo.

The space’s most attention-grabbing feature is an old jukebox, the Mid-Century Modern Ami Continental. It has a mid-century modern shape, inspired by the space age, illuminated by white accent lighting cradles records to match its green and blue-toned frame.

“It was positioned on the direction of the entrance door as the true protagonist of the apartment.” The rest of the living space complements the colours of the jukebox with a lilac-grey couch and a crystal dining table, which sits off to one side of the room. “Other objects with a space design orbit in this large space,” she said.

“The crystal dining table as a liquid surface, poufs that look like meteors, ‘Puppy’ the abstract dog by Magis present in the various rooms like the dog Laika who was sent into space.” As for materials for the living space, D’Innocenzo adorned it in wood, offset by these contrasting objects.

“The entire horizontal surface of the apartment was covered in wood, heat-treated oak parquet; the walls instead were covered with different materials,” said D’Innocenzo. While some spaces used painted or plastered surfaces on the walls, most feature some type of texture including a 3D wall panel that blends into the surroundings around the jukebox where it stands nestled in the inflexible corridor.

“A 3D wall decoration was applied in a bold green colour in which a door is inserted flush with the wall that disappears into the wall covering itself, on which the jukebox object is placed,” she continued. Another wall in the narrowly structured home features an opening that connects the living area with an adjoining dining room that’s differentiated by a pop of vivid colour.

“The entrance wall adjacent to the kitchen was adorned with a fabric wallpaper in warm tones of brick orange and green, reminiscent of a lunar landscape, interrupted by a large glass opening through which you can glimpse the dining area and the kitchen open onto it,” she said.

“The kitchen made of CORIAN was designed with a large central peninsula in a candid color spread like the color of light ‘in Space’.” Thermal-treated oak is also featured extensively throughout the space as well, giving it a mid-tone hue and natural textural materiality.

“The wall overlooking the terraces is completely glass to strengthen the interaction between inside and outside,” she said. To elevate a perceived visual elongation of the corridors, especially those leading to the sleeping area, D’Innocenzo covered the walls with large bronzed mirrors.

“The corridors that lead to the sleeping area have been covered with large bronzed mirrors to confirm the same design atmosphere,” she said. D’Innocenzo’s intention for the interior was to create emotional spaces defined by the interplay of natural texture, artificial lighting, and sleek furniture details. “In the interiors design we are not only interested in aesthetic beauty, but we also focus on the emotional impact of spaces,” she said.