Casa PZ Reimagines Alpine Apartment Living With Discreet Luxury Style
Casa PZ draws together alpine context and refined interior thinking in an apartment in Courmayeur, Italy by DC|EF studio. The project reworks a compact mountain residence into a layered, contemporary setting where custom pieces and calibrated light reframe everyday rituals. Within this tight envelope, the studio orchestrates a sequence of convivial rooms and quiet retreats that echo local material culture while maintaining a crisp, modern edge.
Soft mountain light drifts across timber and stone as the apartment opens toward the peaks beyond. Surfaces catch this glow and deepen it, turning a compact footprint into a rich interior landscape.
Casa PZ is a reconfigured apartment in Courmayeur, Italy, where DC|EF studio reshapes a developer shell into a mountain residence with discreet, functional luxury at its core. The work concentrates on interior layout, custom furnishings, and finishes that stitch together existing rooms with new extensions. Through a precise chromatic palette and tailored joinery, the apartment balances traditional warmth with a sharply modern attitude.
The home belongs to the typology of contemporary alpine retreats yet resists clichés through careful editing and craft. DC|EF studio focuses on how people live day to day: where they gather, how they move, and which surfaces they touch. Light, color, and built-in furniture become the main tools, transforming every corner into either a sociable setting or a quiet, enveloping room.
Layered Living Core
The living area forms the heart of the apartment, created by relinquishing a third bedroom to gain a generous zone for social life. Double-height ceilings allow the kitchen block and a custom bench to rise upward, carving out an intimate mezzanine for guests above. Wooden boiserie wraps the entrance and flows into the kitchen cabinetry, hiding technical compartments and smoothing every junction. Around a large sofa, a conversation area gathers near the fireplace, where a “De Curtil” stone bench grounds the room with local texture.
Chromatic Private Rooms
In the sleeping quarters, wood acts as a constant companion while color shifts from floor to floor. The lower level leans on shades of blue, set against neutral tones and wooden paneling that keep the rooms calm yet distinct. Textiles play a central role here, wrapping the headboard and the doors of a wardrobe tucked cleverly under the stair. Higher up, the master suite sits in a turret, where green and brick-red tones bring a vivid but relaxing atmosphere to this compact retreat with its own small walk-in closet.
Bathrooms In Dialogue
Bathrooms echo the chromatic choices of their adjacent rooms, extending the narrative rather than interrupting it. Resin finishes pull color across floors and walls, giving each volume a continuous, modern shell. This approach keeps visual noise low while reinforcing the rhythm between blue, green, and brick-red accents. Everyday routines unfold against surfaces that feel both robust and visually calm.
Light As Material
Throughout the apartment, natural and artificial light is treated almost like another building material. Careful positioning of openings and fixtures shapes surfaces, deepens wood grain, and animates the stone bench by the hearth. Compact rooms gain depth as light traces boiserie lines and filters across textiles, emphasizing their weave. In this interplay, comfort comes as much from glow and shadow as from planning and joinery.
Mountain life here unfolds in measured layers of wood, color, and stone that respond to both climate and daily habit. From the entrance to the turret suite, each room feels tuned to its role yet tied into a larger story. As day fades and the fireplace embers pick up the last traces of light, Casa PZ reads as a considered portrait of contemporary high-altitude living.
Photography courtesy of DC|EF studio
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