Careful organization of the spaces also through the design of custom-made furniture and involvement of local workers in respect of the decorative culture of the place are the keys to the project put in place by Studio Pietro Airoldi to redesign a small apartment located on the tip of the Sicilian city of Syracuse, the island of Ortigia.

This approach, sartorial design in dialogue with the genius loci, is today at the basis of several architectural practices, and yet manages to be incisive when an eye for details and the capacity for a synthesis outside the clichés is put in place. In this case, the encounter between a line of essential bespoke plywood furniture and bespoke hand painted tiles determines a total look that excludes the need for further insertions. In the background, a cerulean piece of furniture reclaims the spotlight through the only colour deviation allowed in this essential – yet not dull - setting.