Nanda Vigo’s architectural exploration finds one of its most significant expressions in a residence on the piano nobile of an eighteenth-century palazzo overlooking Castelvecchio’s Scaliger bridge and the River Adige, in Verona’s historic centre. Now in the portfolio of Italy Sotheby’s International Realty, the home is one of the best-preserved examples of the architect’s entire body of work. Its distinctive design reinterprets the city’s history and identity through a contemporary language, bringing traditional local materials into dialogue with innovative spatial solutions and references to the urban memory.
Covering 230 square metres, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, the apartment was completely renovated by Vigo in the late 1980s. For its art-collecting owners, she devised an eclectic, unrepeatable intervention in which Prun stone, seventeenth-century Carrara marble, walls up to 60 centimetres thick, salvaged historic mouldings and a radial floor in red Verona marble sit alongside bespoke elements.
The connection with the city also emerges in the furnishings. In the living room, a small temple designed by Vigo and inspired by Porta Borsari divides the spaces with a composition that is both aesthetic and functional. Original furniture from the 1930s and 1940s complements the interiors alongside architectural furniture designed by the artist, helping to make the residence a veritable treasure chest of art.
The more intimate rooms reflect the same coherence: from the kitchen, enriched by a table with a bronze base designed by Prospero Rasulo, to the wardrobe conceived as a sculptural volume, and the bathroom, where a sheet of smoked mirrored glass separates the spaces without interrupting their visual continuity.
The monolithic bath-and-basin unit, made from pale marble terrazzo and mother-of-pearl, completes an ensemble in which every detail helps define a precise architectural identity.
By reinterpreting traditional Veronese materials and inventing new spatial relationships, Nanda Vigo shapes a home that goes beyond its purely residential function to become an interpretation of the city itself. Here, Verona’s historical layers translate into a contemporary design, preserved over time and now offered by Italy Sotheby’s International Realty as a rare expression of the encounter between architecture, art and cultural heritage.
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