Chironi’s point of departure is a true story. In the second half of the Sixties artist Constantino Nivola, who shared a deep friendship and a history of collaboration with architect Le Corbusier, was passing by the town of Orani (both Nivola’s and Chironi’s town of origin). There, in the hands of his brother “Chischeddu”, he left a signed project of the great architect in the hopes that Chischeddu and his sons (who were masons) would scrupulously follow its instructions for a house they were about to start building. However, the token’s importance was not received and some time later, after returning from Long Island, Nivola noticed that the house, which was ready, did not correspond at all to the characteristics of the original project. 

Constantino Nivola reacted by taking the project back. The house, which still stands, was built favouring working class functionality over the modernist idea (the same family declared “it had neither doors or windows and it looked more like a hovel than a home”) and it now bears, perhaps only the “mood” the original plan.