Panoramic Suite Red

On the first floor of the former school of Pensoglio, the Red Suite is conceived as a single space in which the sleeping area, the living area and a small service corner coexist without partitions. Terracotta walls, a Hungarian-point oak floor and a slatted timber headboard build a warm, enveloping atmosphere. Two large French windows, with glass balustrades, open the view onto the vineyards of Monforte d’Alba and the landscape of the Langhe. The suite comes from the transformation of part of the old schoolmaster’s apartment, which occupied a portion of the school building. Rather than reinstating a conventional layout of corridors and separate rooms, the project organises the different functions through colour and a few architectural elements. The terracotta tone wraps the sleeping area and the kitchen block, while light plastered surfaces define the living area, furnished with a comfortable sofa bed and a sideboard. The headboard becomes an architectural element, carrying onto the wall the warmth of the wood already present underfoot. Built as a sequence of horizontal slats, it works as a low screen that distinguishes the sleeping area from the volume of the bathroom without interrupting the visual continuity of the room. The bathroom is faced with marble-effect stoneware, run through with veining and orange shading that take up the suite’s palette. A window facing the peaks of the Alps turns the shower into a small panoramic space: a built-in bench allows you to sit and take in the landscape, introducing a moment of wellbeing into the everyday life of the room. The service corner is built into a continuous dark front that gathers appliances and storage into a discreet composition. Concentrating the service functions in a single element preserves the perception of one unified space, closer to an elegant living room than to a conventional hotel bedroom. Film-inspired graphics, selected furnishings and warm, contained lighting complete the interiors, creating a soft atmosphere that is at its most evocative in the evening hours. The relationship with the landscape is entrusted to the large openings, whose glass balustrades leave the view towards the vineyards and Monforte d’Alba unobstructed. The French window on the short side of the suite also takes in the light of the sunset, bringing the warm tones of the landscape indoors along with the view over the village of Novello. The Red Suite thus interprets the transformation of the old schoolmaster’s apartment through a project that favours the continuity of the spaces, colour and the relationship with the panorama, preserving the domestic character of the original building and reinterpreting it for the needs of contemporary hospitality. Like the rest of the house, the suite runs almost entirely on energy produced on site by the building’s photovoltaic system with storage.