Trascrizione
The Sala da Pranzo or dining room and the Sala del Caminetto, the fireplace room, are connected by a pocket sliding door. When open, the two rooms become a single space. Unfortunately, the outbreak of the Second World War prevented its use, but it is easy to imagine a group of academics sliding back the doors and, pipe in hand, heading to the fireside.
The dining room table is designed in modules so that it can accommodate an ever-varying number of diners. The mirror at the back opens to allow the passage of food from what was once the kitchen, beyond the wall.
In the Sala del Caminetto, an eye-catching piece of furniture on the right wall has curious oblique shelves. Could you tell what they might have contained?
No?
Okay, I will tell you. These shelves were intended to house telephone directories, large books that collected the telephone numbers of an entire city. Probably someone in your family remembers them, they were usually kept near the phone itself, which was then fixed and only one for the whole family!
One last gem: the small game table near the fireplace. Its drawers were designed as retractable ashtrays, a reminder of times when the ban on smoking did not exist.