(01)
Light comes first
Where the sun lands decides the plan. Objects arrive later, and only if the light still works with them.
(THE PRACTICE)
We staysmallby design
01
(HOW WE BEGAN)
One house
at a time
OMBRIA opened in 2019 above a bakery, in one borrowed room with a folding table in it. The brief we set ourselves has not moved since: compose a house, do not furnish it. Our first commission was two rooms and a corridor, and the opening week went on nothing except learning how the sun crossed that floor.
Nine years later the list is still short, because two of us carry every house end to end. You meet the same people at the first measure-up and on the morning the keys go back.
OUR FIRST COMMISSION, TESTACCIO
2019
02
(PHILOSOPHY)
What we come back to on every house.
(02)
Honest material
Plaster that reads as plaster, oak allowed to darken. Nothing imitating something it is not.
(03)
Enough is enough
A room is done when taking one more thing out would cost you something.
03
The three
of us
(WHO WE ARE)
IRENE CAPPONI
FOUNDER AND LEAD DESIGNER
TOMMASO RUSSO
SPACE PLANNING AND DRAWINGS
NORA BENEDETTI
SOURCING AND STYLING
We are not decorating. We are taking the noise out of a house.
( HOW WE THINK )
Tell us about the rooms you already have.