15/10/2026
VALLETTA, DRAWN IN STEEL
Some rooms arrive almost finished. These vaults were cut from the island’s own limestone, and for centuries they have held the same slow light. On my first visit the project felt like a question of attention more than invention.
So the new layer stays thin. One steel line traces the arch again and again, until the racks read as a drawing suspended inside the stone. The black terrazzo pulls the street light deep into the room and lets it settle at the back wall. The metalwork, made with Artisti del Metallo ✨ , brings warmth to the grey: brass you want to touch, placed where the hand naturally falls.
Now the sketch and the room share one geometry. That was the whole ambition.