Tommaso Dorigo: The living room

Piece by piece, I hope I will soon manage to post pictures of my new house. All in a single post would be nuts... Just think it takes this weblog interface about 3 minutes to process one of my nikon's images... I don't want to be stuck here for one day in a row!

Today, the living room. It is far from complete - I still need to mount the lights on the ceiling, and some paintings on the walls. But I managed to set a few of the paintings during the last weekend, so I am comfortable with inviting you: here we go on tour.

Here you can see the room from one corner - the opening which leads to the kitchen. In this picture the living room does not seem to be very spacious, because the pic has been taken with a 27mm-equivalent lens. The room is in fact 8 by 5 meters, trapezoidal. On one side there are windows and doors which lead to a balcony (you can see two on the left).

Here you see the two openings that lead to the kitchen - and the first step of the stairs that lead to the fourth floor. The painting on the left is a prova d'autore by Mario de Luigi, while the three on the right are by Daniele Bianchi, a very talented painter and a friend of mine. A bit of the kitchen can be seen in the background on the right.

Here are the two doors leading to the balcony, the table, and a smaller crystal-and-mahogany table hand-built in Peru. The painting is a view of a bay with some boats, by G.Morandi. The floor is "alla veneziana", quite typical of buildings in Venice. It is made by small stones flattened and polished.

Here you can see a nifty detail. I placed on the lower shelf of the crystal table a tray, on which I collected some of the gemstones from my collection. This way, the tray is protected by the upper crystal, and I can always enjoy the sight of the gemstones, instead of having to dig them out of the small boxes where I kept them. Moreover, in the daylight when the sun shines through the windows on the stones, the effect is marvelous.

It is a bit hard to see, but if you're curious, on the left there are several colored sapphires, then a couple of large kunzites, a hundred very small yellow sapphires and a dozen peridots in the center, plus a fluorite, a large orange spinel and several garnets, then a large blue sapphire, several alexandrites, a few topazes, a square diamond and a large citrine.

And here you can see the "less modern" corner of the living room. The small table is a wooden sculpture from the late 18th century. The painting on the right is by Emilio Vedova (1950).

That's it for tonight... To be continued.

Comments

Very, very nice....how about the view from the balcony?
And yet they say that money doesn't buy happiness. I'd like to put that saying to the test personally... :-)

Posted by: T.Riestino | November 29, 2005 at 05:41 PM