The Home of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Revives Family Memory in Naples
The Home of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is an apartment in Naples, Italy, where Colandrea Bausano Architetti reshapes a 75-square-meter home for a returning family. The project folds decades of memory into a modern plan, keeping Persian rugs and inherited pieces in conversation with newer furnishings. Light, color, and a few precise interventions guide the rooms from one daily use to the next.
About The Home of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
On the slopes of Posillipo Hill, nestled among Mediterranean pines, stands a home that embodies 60 years of history while looking toward the future.
A youthful couple in their golden years returns, after 40 years, to live in the house where he grew up. Colandrea Bausano Architetti has renovated a 75-square-meter apartment with the goal of accommodating the rhythms of a new daily life without erasing its past.
The open layout combines a linear kitchen with the living area, while the double living room allows the table to be extended for family Sundays. The corner fireplace anchors the room: the Trani stone shelf holds the television, and the forest-green niche houses a Soho Tubes radiator in the same shade.
A sliding wall transforms the living room’s function, turning it into a room for the grandchildren, a playroom, and a small bedroom thanks to the trundle bed with a pull-out second bed—which once belonged to the couple’s children and was custom reupholstered for this space. The terracotta tiles complement a sage-colored wallpaper with large leaves, while a suspended textile sculpture holds a pothos plant; completing the scene are the bronzed Drop lamp by 101 Copenhagen and its matching wall sconce.
At the entrance, floor-to-ceiling forest-green ash wood paneling separates the living area from the sleeping area. A bronze doorknob marks the entrance to the guest bathroom, where the terracotta tiles from Kronos’s Terra Crea collection and the curry-colored Nic Design sink create a warm, cozy space.
In the bedroom, wallpaper featuring cycas leaves frames the headboard. A small walk-in closet leads to the master bathroom, which is white and filled with light, bringing the tour to a more serene close.
Photography courtesy of Colandrea Bausano Architetti
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