Stories Focus on Matteo Ghidoni, Salottobuono Text by Elisabetta Donati de Conti Add to bookmarks A Room, 2017, Mexico City. Ph. Credits Juan Benavides With his studio, Salottobuono, Matteo Ghidoni surfs seamlessly between buildings and books, exhibitions and magazines, in which architecture is a malleable material that can be seen from every possible perspective – as told in a quick-fire interview with the architect and editor of the magazine San Rocco. Portrait. Ph. Credits Delfino Sisto Legnani Name: Matteo Ghidoni / Salottobuono. Place where you work: Milan. Your Instagram account: @salottobuono What’s your studio involved with? Architecture. Where did you study? At the IUAV in Venice. Casinò, 2020, Venezia. Ph. Credits Marco Cappelletti Projects you are currently working on: a park in a small municipality in Emilia, extending a hotel in Veneto and rehabilitating a piece of coastline in Apulia. The project you dream of carrying out one day: A cemetery. The project that has influenced you the most: the Cemetery of the 366 Fossae by Ferdinando Fuga, in Naples. An element that cannot be missing from any of your projects: Precise geometry. City centre or remote geographies? I love the islands. Teatrino, 2018, Milano. Ph. Credits Louis De Belle Something you have at home designed by you: a table copied from Magistretti, an extremely robust wooden bench, a kitchen trolley and a “flying” bookcase. What gifts do you like giving? Plants. If you could build a secret passage in the house, where would it lead? To the past. What do you usually do on Sundays? I cook. Your favourite place in Milan: Via Sarpi. Le banquet gaulois, 2016, Kortrijk. Ph. Credits Fabrizio Vatieri A question from Adam Nathaniel Furman: if you had to give up potatoes or pasta for life, which would it be? I started off generally wondering who could possibly be interested in whether I chose pasta or potatoes, and I was going to ask you to reply to Adam and ask him, then the WhatsApp outage a few days ago cocked up my day and it went out of my mind. Now I think I would say that it would only make sense to answer from a collective point of view, because I don’t think my eating habits are of any interest to anyone, nonetheless I’d have to say that I’d give up pasta because I believe the ecological footprint of the potato to be a good deal smaller, but I would be more honest if I said I could give them both up, as long as you don’t take my cheese away! Would you also like to ask the next interviewee a question? As Gigi Marzullo would say: Ask yourself a question and answer it yourself. A Room, 2017, Mexico City. Ph. Credits Luis Gallardo Multiple, 2018, Paris. Ph. Credits Giaime Meloni Teatrino, 2018, Milano. Ph. Credits Louis De Belle Troglodyte Living, 2019, Matera. Ph. Credits Giaime Meloni Troglodyte Living, 2019, Matera. Ph. Credits Giaime Meloni Casinò, 2020, Venezia. Ph. Credits Marco Cappelletti Urban center, 2020, Milano. Ph. Credits Louis De Belle
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