In a street of craft shops, in the historic centre of Ronciglione, the Barbieria has kept its originality. A large warehouse on the ground floor of one of the many Renaissance buildings that characterize the centre of the city. A place for Andrea, the barber, full of memories… here his dad started the barbershop activity in the late 1940s.
The powerful wall structure defines the spaces. An arch of the building foundation transversely cuts the linearity of the plan. A linearity that from the main street (Via Solferino, from which the Barbieria takes its name) crosses the space and arrives in the inner courtyard of the building. Thus, a passage. The project aims indeed to a flow of more operations that, by synthesis, can meet the needs of restyling.
Today we have the furnishings of what was the first barber shop: the counter, the cash register and some stools. All in wood, all designed and built by Andrea’s father: it is up to us designers to integrate them into the project. Hence the need for a light and essential intervention that combines at the same time functions, spaces and visual perceptions, through the use of points, lines and surfaces.
The walls become mirrors, thus assuming the dual function of beauty instruments and natural light diffusers. Moreover, for a game of reflexes, they reveal the recovery of the courtyard that has so far been an off-limits area. The metal structure, a key element of the project, fits on the walls and leans on the old “family” furnishings. A series of actions that draw a flexible and dynamic space.
The new Barbieria distances itself from the now stereotypical image of the barber shop thanks to the detailsthat give it unique elegance and peculiarity. Today, as then, this place is characterized by the union of simple and above all handcrafted elements, distinctive of the space they draw.
project info
- type: renovation + interior design
- location: Ronciglione [VT] – Italy
- project year: 2018 – 2019
- client: Barbieria – Via Solferino
- area: 60 sqm
- project: deltastudio
- project team: Dario Pompei, Valerio Galeone
- collaborators: Simone Antonelli
- joinery: Falegnameria M.B.
- metalworking: F.M. Costruzioni in Ferro
- photographer: Simone Bossi
- Press web: Interiores Minimalistas – 17 june 2019