60s Style House: Bold Italian Apartment for a Young Creative Life
60s Style House reimagines a 1960s apartment in Forlì, Italy, through the vivid lens of Pier Currà Architettura. The studio reshapes a historic flat for a young creative couple, fusing custom pieces with a graphic palette rooted in mid-century visual culture. Color, light, and pop references reframe everyday rooms into a lived-in narrative of memory and invention.
Morning light cuts across the double-height living room and lands on the orange stair, turning the metal into a glowing vertical stripe. Color bounces between wall, bookcase, and ceiling in exotic wood slats, so the first step into the apartment feels like walking into a vivid frame from 1960s visual culture.
This is a compact urban apartment in Forlì, redesigned by Pier Currà Architettura for a young creative couple. The project keeps the structure of a 1960s flat but recasts it through custom furniture, saturated hues, and pop-era lighting in every main room. Interior character grows from the palette and the pieces, with each volume acting as both storage and scenography.
The living area anchors the renovation, rising through two levels and framed by a large original window that floods it with changing daylight. Here, the orange staircase doubles as a tall bookcase, turning circulation into a lived-in archive of objects and books that sets the tone for the rest of the home.
Color As Structure
In the living room, color is not surface decoration but a way to articulate volume and order. The bright stair, the lowered hallway, and the storage entrance create a layered sequence, so movement through the apartment traces a rhythm of saturated fields and quieter planes. Morning light from the large window sharpens these contrasts, then softens them as the day passes, giving the interiors a steady sense of motion.
Pop Icons At Home
Lighting carries much of the 1960s spirit, pulling recognizable silhouettes into everyday routines. Parentesi by Flos drops through the double-height living room, engaging with the stair and books as a slim vertical accent. Nessino and Teti by Artemide punctuate surfaces with compact halos, while Nordic’s FlowerPot lamp rounds off the kitchen scene, so each fixture adds both practical light and a clear visual cue from the era.
Kitchen As Graphic Room
The kitchen leans into saturation, with intense blue cabinetry set against a steel worktop that keeps the composition crisp. Underfoot, optical-style tiles nod to 1970s interiors, their pattern setting up a visual tempo that runs counter to the stillness of the steel plane. A glass brick wall filters daylight into prismatic bands and adds another grid to the room, weaving geometry, color, and reflection into a compact, everyday stage for cooking and conversation.
Rooms Between Past And Present
Across the apartment, restored elements share the scene with new, custom-built pieces. The large original window and the ceiling finished with exotic wood slats keep the 1960s envelope legible, while burgundy wardrobes, white paneling in the master bedroom, and a balcony-flower box on the upper floor express a current sensibility. Pastel bathrooms lined with cement tiles and punched up by red taps continue the chromatic script, turning routine rituals into part of the project’s visual story.
On the upper level, a small study overlooks the double-height living room, giving a daily view back onto the orange stair and the main window. That quiet vantage point ties the couple’s working life to the shared rooms below, keeping intimacy and openness in balance.
In the end, the apartment holds its original era but filters it through present-day color, furniture, and light. Every room carries a clear reference to memory, yet nothing feels frozen. The renovation reads as an ongoing narrative: a 1960s flat tuned to the rhythms, objects, and emotions of the people who live there now.
Photography by Nicolas Piazza
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