Made to Measure Furniture in Alassio: Between Art and Architecture

by Eleonora | May 26, 2026 | Custom interior Decoration

The evolution of contemporary living requires an increasingly deep fusion between architectural design and excellent craftsmanship. The project signed by Saglietti Group in Alassio perfectly embodies this synergy by translating into a custom-made interior design intervention where the structural constraints of the building site are transformed into key elements of spatial aesthetics. Born from the ongoing collaboration withArchitect Giorgio Domenino and coordinated by the technical expertise of Daria Bergese, this path was developed in two distinct temporal phases redefining an original dwelling of about 60 square meters and integrating it, in 2025, with an extension of an additional 23 square meters.

Wood as structure and design language

The material core of the entire apartment is birch plywood. Far from being a simple choice of finish, this material was elected as a true architectural language because of its inherent stability and visual cleanliness. Unlike standard commercial plywood, normally finished on one side only, special panels with a high-quality laminated finish on both sides were engineered and produced for this realization. This technical choice made it possible to ensure uniform surfaces even in double-sided, multi-sided furniture elements. In keeping with this quest for formal purity, all cabinet openings exclude traditional handles in favor of grooves carved directly into the wood.

“Without Walls” interior architecture: the wall-furnishings and the technical core

The initial challenge of the construction site was radical as the accommodation was completely devoid of internal partitions. The design choice was not to erect wall partitions but to entrust the compartmentalization of the rooms entirely to the custom-made wall-furnishings separating the entrance from the bathrooms and fluidly distributing the living area and bedrooms. The real engineering fulcrum lies in the gray lacquered MDF ceiling. Integrated within it is a custom engineered beam system that serves a triple function: it houses the plenums and aeraulic ducts for air conditioning, supports the tracks of the sliding doors, and provides the substructure for attaching the closing panels. The result is an invisible plant integration that does not compromise with the formal cleanliness of the architecture.

Millimeter solutions for space optimization

When working on geometrically dense floor plans, millimeter precision becomes a prerequisite for solving structural constraints such as non-removable concrete pillars. In the guest bathroom, conceived as a true three-dimensional puzzle, a custom paneling wraps around the central pillar. On one side of the structure, a folding door conceals a column laundry room and a full-height trapezoidal compartment; on the other, the same thickness encases the adjacent kitchen refrigerator column. The kitchen area is developed around a peninsula with a top in bromine gray Fenix, a high-strength soft-touch matte finish. Here the structural pillar is absorbed by the countertop, which extends at the back to generate a snack top. To allow standard-height seating and avoid high stools, the base was set on a 12-cm raised platform, improving overall ergonomics. Smoke evacuation also required a timely study by routing the vent from the integrated hood directly into the front plinth of the kitchen.

The fusion of art, carpentry and oriental graphisms

Interior design dialogues directly with contemporary art through the involvement of Japanese artist Tomoko Nagao. In the living room, a storage unit only 30 cm deep houses three large sliding doors on which the artist has painted the work “Narcissus”. For this occasion, the historic woodworking shop in Narzole (just during the move to the new factory in Novello) was transformed into an ad hoc workshop. The technical team performed numerous tests to identify a specific protective clear coating formulated to stabilize acrylic pigments and avoid adverse chemical reactions by sealing the artwork within the furniture finishing cycle. A second work on canvas by the artist, the “Mona Lisa Green Ribbon Black Dotts”, was later framed in plywood and suspended on the partition wall of the master bedroom. The graphic theme of the apartment is strongly influenced by oriental geometric motifs. The access doors to the sleeping area were made by coupling two layers of numerically controlled pantographed wood with an inner core of opal plexiglass that diffuses light evenly, transforming the doors into scenic light elements. This pattern is repeated in the master bedroom where the closet doors feature non-passing millings lacquered in butter color (color evolution of the previous Tiffany shade defined in 2025). The concept finds maximum customization in the boys’ room: here the headboards of the single beds, equipped with large lower drawers, feature the names of the young occupants engraved in Morse code through greenish-colored millings.

The 2025 Expansion: connecting two housing units

In 2025, the project faced a new development with the purchase of the adjacent apartment requiring unification work on an area of 23 square meters. After the survey carried out in mid-March and the demolition of the old entrance doors by the construction company to create a single central access, the installation phase was completed in July. A large eight-door cabinet was installed in the new hallway, incorporating an existing pillar and accommodating a central sliding door to separate rooms. To allow the door to disappear within the niche created behind the master bathroom cabinet, the designers had to engineer an exclusively side-fixing system for the suspended washbasin, freeing the back wall from constraints and anchors. To maintain visual consistency between the two accommodations, it was necessary to connect the old plant ceiling with the new one by making several structural adjustments and filings in place to compensate for misalignments in elevations. The intervention concludes in the new master bathroom where a full-height column cabinet dialogues with the washbasin top and window sill, both clad in a single block of Emperador marble, inserting a natural and refined material accent that enhances the essentiality of the birch plywood. Outdoor appurtenances also received attention: at an intermediate stage (2022), the cellar on the ground floor was equipped with a bilaminate bench-changing room raised on a blue metal structure designed for marine equipment.

Saglietti Group confirms itself as a strategic partner for designers who consider space a challenge of sartorial precision, demonstrating how invisible structures and advanced technical detail are the true drivers of a project’s aesthetic success.

Bedrooms or micro-architectures: the vision of Saglietti Group

by Eleonora | Feb 13, 2026 | Custom interior Decoration

For us, design has always been not just about form, but about the relationship between thought, space and matter. When we talk about bedrooms, we refer not only to a place to sleep, but to experiential spaces that tell a story and dialogue with the environment that hosts them.

From MODE Hotel to StarsBOX: modularity and lightness

La Greenside Suite, developed together with architect Paolo Scoglio for the MODE – Eco Mood Hotel in Rimini, is a modular, reversible and conscious hospitality model. The integrated furniture system respects space constraints and transforms them into design value, offering a unique experience for the guest and a concrete example of sustainable design.
The StarsBOX, engineered for Officina82 (Lara Sappa and Fabio Revetria), instead represents pure microarchitecture: lightweight, replicable and immediately usable. Produced to order, in small batches or limited series, it combines industrial precision and attention to detail, embodying the approach of our Design Hub: designing unique objects and spaces, ready to be transformed into real experiences.

A bedroom–inside a goblet of wine

Then there is the most iconic and challenging project: a room suspended inside a wine glass. In 2018, together with architect Paolo Maldotti of ARCHILANDstudio, we engineered the famous Nu-Ovo, transforming it into a habitable micro-architecture in the barrique cellar of Domaine des Féraud, an organic winery in the heart of Provence.
The goal was to offer an unrepeatable experience: to sleep in the place where the wine rests, immersed in controlled humidity, among barrels, silence and history. The stem, 2.80 m high, is made of pinkish salmon-colored painted iron; the upper cup, made of white lacquered birch plywood, is covered in elastic lycra, which guarantees lightness and privacy. Every detail, from the round mattress to the rotating bed top and integrated LED lighting, is custom-designed to make the experience unique and functional.

Value beyond category

Projects such as StarsBOX o Casattava can be replicated, but the Greenside Suite and Chalice cannot exist without the space that houses them. These are not standard products: they are site-specific architectures, unrepeatable and deeply connected to their context.
For Saglietti Group, the value of a design lies not in its category, but in its ability to generate relationship between space, function and vision. This is where design becomes experience, and architecture is transformed into storytelling.

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