Melina Romano · May 2024

Sand, slats and a tree.

A pale house of timber screens and a dry tree.

Client: Melina Romano
Produced: May 2024
Story: CASACOR house
Setting: Slatted timber, grid ceiling, pale stone
Pictures: 12

Melina Romano's Casa 05 Portinari at CASACOR São Paulo 2024: a sand-toned house of slatted timber screens, a white grid ceiling and pale stone, with a dry tree standing in the middle of the plan.

The house works in one tone, sand, and changes it only through texture. Timber slats screen the windows and the bedroom, a white grid ceiling lights the open plan, and a tiled kitchen island echoes the slats in ceramic.

At the centre stands a bare branching tree, which the pictures use as a landmark: seen from the dining table, past a column, from the bath. It holds the open plan together the way a courtyard would.

Most frames are portrait, built for height. The light is kept low and even, so the sand tones separate into wood, stone and fabric rather than one beige.

Cream boucle armchair and pouf on a pale rug before a perforated metal screen and windows — 0112

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Marble bath block and basin around white columns with a branch sculpture beyond — 0212

Sand, slats and a tree. A pale house of timber screens and a dry tree.

A tree at the centre.

Stone based dining table with blue chairs under a white grid ceiling beside a bare branch — 0312

Mustard sofa and oval stone coffee table with a plant under lit timber panelling — 0412

Tiled kitchen island with sink and ceramics beside a round column and grid ceiling — 0512

Bed with a long upholstered bench at its foot against slatted timber panelling — 0612

Bed with ribbed cushions and a timber chair beside a round wall light — 0712

Marble vanity wrapping a round column with a square basin under a grid ceiling — 0812

Pale stone floor leading past a white column and bare tree under a lit grid ceiling — 0912

Tiled counter with suspended glass shelves of ceramics and plants before a metal screen — 1012

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Faceted timber side table with a lamp and dried flowers against pale panelling — 1112

Oval white coffee table with books and a sculpture before a mustard sofa — 1212

Sand, slats and a tree.

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