Eligo Studio reinterprets the traditional Ligurian holiday home, transforming it into an essential space where beauty emerges from balance and restraint. Eastern influences, references to the nautical world, and nuanced shades of white create a language that is understated yet rich in meaning.
The true protagonist remains the panorama, framed by large windows like a vivid natural backdrop.
Only two colors guide the project, with no concessions to stereotypes: the blue of the Ligurian Sea and the green of the pine groves. Everything else unfolds in tones of white, rope, and wood, evoking the deck of a boat.
The studio designed a newly built apartment in Punta dell’Olmo, on the Riviera di Ponente, deliberately granting absolute centrality to the promontory landscape, visible beyond the glazing like a constantly shifting painting. The interiors are airy, sparsely decorated, and grounded in a conscious simplicity.
Eligo Studio chose to pay tribute to the formal purity of Carlo Scarpa with a slender pedestal in MDF and iron, recalling the filiform silhouettes of columns and display elements designed by the master.
The bespoke furnishings function as integrated storage systems, coordinated between the living and sleeping areas. The craftsmanship is tailored in nature: textile raffia cabinet fronts, rounded walnut profiles, and an absence of superfluous ornamentation.
The bedroom is more intimate, clad in wood from floor to ceiling like a continuous shell that envelops and protects. The volume is articulated by custom boiserie integrating wardrobes and passageways in a rigorous design of vertical panels and slender profiles in warm-toned wood.
The atmosphere hovers between two references: the cabin of an ocean liner and the tatami room of a traditional Japanese home. Both interpretations coexist naturally.
In Punta dell’Olmo, materiality is expressed through contrasts between glossy and matte surfaces, chrome finishes and burnished brass, and above all through tactile qualities: the coarse hand-troweled resin flooring and the lime plaster walls treated with Marseille soap according to traditional methods. These choices are intended to capture the light and convey the impression of sunlight constantly flooding the interiors.
