One of the first works carried out "across the border" was the renovation of this villa in Beausoleil, France. It was a magnificent adventure for us, because it is a villa of 470 square meters entirely at the disposal of our creativity.
We started with a still rustic construction, to be dressed entirely according to our ideas. It is thanks to the talent of all the members of Capponi GC that we were able to obtain this order. We were invited to participate in a tender, in which we compared ourselves with two French companies, but we got the better of it thanks to our inventiveness, shown through a solid portfolio, but also thanks to our philosophy, which makes the guarantee in terms of delivery and prices a great strength.
The villa is spread over three floors accompanying the hill that supports the building. The entrance is located on the villa’s second floor, with an elevator and a cloakroom, to welcome guests in the best possible way. On the first floor, we find the living room, the guest bathroom and the master bedroom with its private bathroom.
The ground floor houses four bedrooms with as many bathrooms available, a gym and a cellar. We also worked on the external areas of the house, giving it a new and modern look: we redesigned the entrance and the garden and added a magnificent swimming pool right outside the villa's second floor. This work, which took us only 86 days, led to the creation of a villa of incredible beauty and equipped with highly functional spaces, all to be lived in. Our commitment was to respect the requests of the family who live there, but we also wanted to add an innovative, modern, gritty character.
Our Francesca Ravasio, a young and emerging interior designer, stands out for her creativity and for her ability to understand the client's tastes. And so it was: interpreting the brief provided by the client, Francesca was able to capture the right atmosphere for the villa, imagining and then creating the right setting, comfortable, relaxed but chic and essential. The materials chosen for the house also tell this flavour: all the rooms have natural colours and interesting materials, different from one another but creating a pleasant contrast.
We have chosen parquet for the bedrooms and very large stoneware tiles for the living area in a dove-gray colour, which is also used in the kitchen furniture, whose dark top creates a beautiful play of contrasts. Very interesting, again, is the structure of the staircase: on the second floor we find glass barriers, designed to facilitate the passage of light; on the lower floors, however, there is a different mix of materials, one part is in masonry but the end part, towards the living room, is lightened by a tubular screen in white enamelled metal.
The house’s exterior tells another chapter of this story: the house walls are treated differently, visually shifting the final result. One part of the building is plastered in bright white, while the other overlooking the garden, is covered with a rough stone with yellowish shades. Also in stone, this time smooth and grey, the swimming pool and the sunbathing area surrounding it are moved with beautiful wooden inserts, comfortable to walk on barefoot and lie down on sunny days.
