There’s something dreamlike about the spaces created by Studio Strato, the latest architecture firm to cross my screen, that feels completely of-the-moment.
Photography by Serena Eller, courtesy of Mondador and Studio Strato.
The studio, a collaboration between Italian architects Vincenzo Tattolo and Martino Fraschetti, started in 2007 and is based in Rome, and the architects’ creations feel both serene and unexpected, sophisticated and playful.
The living room of the couple’s “Ping Pong House.” The standing lamp with a metal base and exposed cord is the Flos Toio Lamp by Achille Castiglione and the rug is the linen and wool Arkad Retro Graphic from Kasthall.
Light reflects beautifully on the pitched ceilings.
A doorway in a bookshelf leads to the dining room. Elsewhere, the team was able to demolish the more recently built office walls that chopped up the space.
Into the pared-back dining room.
“The homeowner is very passionate about ping pong,” Vincenzo says of his partner, Martino.
The ping pong table can seamlessly transition to a dining table with plenty of quirk.
The table, set with finds “from a Roman store” and a wooden fruit basket by Piet Hein Eek.
The passage into the kitchen, where architectural glass forms the top half of the dividing wall.
Studio Strato created the bright and casual kitchen from scratch.
A small marble-top table (once “Martino’s nanny’s”) serves as a place for breakfast.
Hooks hold kitchen ephemera.
The architects positioned the Ikea sink beneath the window, overlooking the Roman street.
Hooks beneath a shelf provide storage for tea cups.
A short stairway past the kitchen leads to a “multifunctional room, used as a studio, guest room, and laundry room,” painted in Little Greene’s Light Gold.
In the high-ceilinged master bedroom, a pink wool rug from Kasthall (and a matching candy-striped cushion in the window seat) sets a playful tone.
Twin bedside sconces are fitted with unexpected painted lampshades by Lisa Corti.