A somewhat snobbish home by the sea

We are back in the 1930s, when ocean liners were at their height, with interiors representing paragons of Italian design, including Gio Ponti, who was also a reference for the Milanese duo in this Riviera dwelling. Nestled in the architecture of its day, the apartment by Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran is located inside Latitude 43, a lavish hotel designed by French architect Georges-Henri Pingusson and built in the early 1930s.

Surrounded by the greenery of the Maritime Alps, among pines and cypresses, the building has an architectural design characterised by numerous references to the nautical aesthetic, particularly evident in the shape of the windows and arrangement of lines, reminiscent of an ocean liner’s hull and deck, with the upper volume set back with a series of terraces.

Starting with structural elements, such as the low ceiling height, the long corridor with its row of windows, the portholes and the long circular window in the living room overlooking the lush pine forest, Dimorestudio reconstructed every detail of this ‘home by the sea’. Shades of blue in the Vietri tiles materialise the concept of the Mediterranean and the atmosphere of the setting, and recall the designs and colours of the majolica tiles that Ponti made in the 1960s for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento.