The Designer Magazine
Glass Houses
Interesting new conceptual projects by Santambrogio Milano
This week we were sent a press release from Italian company Santambrogio Milano. It gave details their ambitious new project to create two glass houses - one in the woods and one by the sea.
The idea is apparently to create a building where inside and out can exist in total harmony and where the house is a window onto the outside world. The furniture within the building is from their Simplicity product range also made from glass.
Carlo Santambrogio on the forest house: "Living in the forest day and night, in sun and rain, in wind, ice and snow, realizing the dream of making the forest the house so as to live in the forest. A house that must never be an object that can just be set down anywhere, but rather a place of enchantment, of wonder, of amazement. Three floors of vertical development, for the sake of all-round vision. Going up the transparent stairs makes you feel you are climbing into the tree tops. In the house, where the forest is at home, in the shower cubicle the water patters on the skin like the drumming of rain in spring, the dormeuse is shaded from the warm summer sun, the scent of autumn is in the mushrooms on the table, winter in the sudden darkness that surprises the day."
The creation of a house entirely made from glass has been the goal of Santambrogio Milano since the company began. Their furniture ranges have extended into architectural ranges including staircases, but the possibility of creating an entire house from this versatile material has always been on the agenda.
Santambrogio Milano tell us that the project is something they hope to realise within the next two years and they are currently in search of the ideal location, preferably in a wooded area. So watch this space!!
