Perfectly inserted in the surrounding environment and realized with a restoration respectful of the origins of the spaces, my studio is a declaration of intent, a story to be told. Here, in fact, once was one of the many warehouses that stood on the ground floor or in the cellars of the elegant surrounding buildings. Owned by wealthy merchants who – from the merchant ships moored in the port and had their goods transported by barge across the canals.

I wanted to maintain this mercantile flavor, this idea of work that was at the base of the space, using fir boards for the floors, obtained from the wooden planks normally used as walking surfaces for scaffolding by construction companies for the floors.

Then, right from the start, the idea emerged of reusing the waterways to access the study by means of small boats typical of Leghorn, just as was done in the past. After all, the canals in Leghorn are still today, as a whole, a real road system that would be interesting to recover and enhance.