Casa Bertola — Historic Bones Meet a Contemporary Ribbon of Light
Casa Bertola renovates a main-floor apartment in Turin, Italy with quiet precision by INEDITO Architetti. The project restores historical character while threading in contemporary elements that clarify circulation and daily routines. Within a historic shell, the designers balance restored floors and fresco traces with bold color, custom millwork, and a perimeter light ribbon that draws the rooms together without erasing their differences.
Light grazes a vaulted ceiling and traces a thin line where old plaster meets a precise new frame. A single gesture collects disparate rooms into one legible sequence.
This apartment renovation in Turin by INEDITO Architetti works within a historic envelope, prioritizing a clear interior palette and crafted elements that shape daily use. The approach respects period wood floors, doors, and rediscovered frescoes while introducing contemporary pieces—color, metal, and oak—that tune rhythm and continuity.
Stitching the Rooms
The former trio of living, dining, and kitchen becomes a bright enfilade without losing its edges. A slim metal strip with integrated lights runs the perimeter and reads like an architectural ribbon, marking vaults and guiding the gaze across the rooms. That continuous line gives cadence rather than collapse, unifying complexity into a calm, readable whole.
Oak Wall, Clear Order
A full-height oak storage wall anchors the main volume and sets the framework for everyday life. It organizes circulation, swallows clutter, and lets the historic floorboards do the talking while carrying a quiet, warm grain. Across the room, a raw iron bench—thin as a blade—floats off the wall and introduces a precise contemporary counterpoint.
Color Sets the Tone
Brick red wraps the living room frames and niches, adding heat and weight to the pale envelope. That chromatic depth balances the oak and sharpens the reading of openings, so thresholds register rather than blur. Light skims the tinted surfaces and deepens the vaults, trading ornament for atmosphere (and a clear sense of sequence).
Rooms Reproportioned
In the private wing, oversize rooms are right-sized for use and storage. Two bathrooms sit at the center, while a short corridor trims the second bedroom to grant direct access to the master suite. The planning restores balance and keeps circulation short, so the apartment feels measured and easy.
A Wardrobe as Divider
The master suite pivots around a custom blue wardrobe that acts like a stage set. It splits the room into a quiet sleeping side with a light-bathed study corner and a functional side organized as a walk-in. A tall mirrored door conceals the bathroom and amplifies depth, adding a subtle theatrical note without fuss.
Baths with a Beat
The main bathroom echoes the living room’s brick orange, now tempered by white geometric tiles and colored grout lines. A combined shower-tub becomes both scenic and practical, completing a compact composition in tune with the rest of the home. Nothing shouts—materials do the work.
Back in the living rooms, the perimeter light glows at dusk and guides movement gently. Grain, color, and metal keep their conversation going, restoring continuity between memory and the present. It lands with poise and a steady, human scale.
Photography by Francesca Cirilli
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