Villa in Sorrento by Architetti Artigiani Anonimi
Villa in Sorrento sits within a historic garden above the Bay of Naples, its 1950s bones refreshed by Architetti Artigiani Anonimi. The house in Sorrento, Italy, opens to the greenery and the sea, recast as a flexible, light-steeped retreat for daily life. It’s a house by type, yet every move favors a relaxed, vacation cadence.
A salt-bright morning reaches the garden first. Then it lifts through new openings, carrying the blue of sky and sea over cool ceramic underfoot.
This is a house in Sorrento, Italy, reworked by Architetti Artigiani Anonimi in 2024. The project rethinks a 1950s villa through a tactile palette and flexible rooms that extend toward the historic garden of the Hotel Parco dei Principi. Material choices and chromatic cues lead the experience—light, color, and craft set the rhythm of daily life.
Open Ground Level
Walls come down, sightlines lengthen, and the garden reads as an outdoor room. By carving new windows and clearing partitions, the ground floor flows from entry to living to terrace in a single, legible sweep that brings air and greenery to the fore.
Sliding Wood Partitions
Flexibility runs the house. Sliding and folding wooden doors recast the plan on demand, screening the entrance, tucking away the kitchen, or opening for family life and formal gatherings without breaking the overall calm.
Celadon Underfoot
The ground floor holds a celadon ceramic floor with a subtle, fragmented pattern. Its handcrafted surface recalls stone paving in the garden, drawing a continuous feeling between inside and out while giving the room a quiet, cool sheen.
Blue Rooms Above
Upstairs, light blue ceramic and wavy tiles bring the sea and sky into daily routines. The gentle undulation catches sun and shadow across the day, bathing bedrooms and baths in a soft maritime cast that steadies the mind.
Garden, Sea, Vesuvio
Every view points outward. The villa’s openings frame greenery, the bay, and Vesuvio in turn, and the palette—greens below, blues above—keeps that dialogue alive from morning coffee to late light.
A line from Ponti echoes in the background. Blue sky, blue sea, blue tiles—here, those tones aren’t ornament, they’re the daily setting, tuned to relaxation and use.
By dusk, floors cool and walls mellow as the garden breathes in. The house holds the day’s warmth, its rooms ready to shift again with a hand on a timber door.
Photography by Filippo Bamberghi
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