Corpus
2023 – 2007
Antonino Cardillo explores an architecture rooted in archetype and sensory depth. Deepening an archaeological and hermeneutic tradition, his work investigates how space can disclose meanings sedimented across history
Topics
Elogio del grigio
The House of Ariadne near Lake Garda as a miniature palazzo: a rectangular marble living room with a cuspidated ceiling.
Castiglione delle Stiviere,
Memories for Cruising
The apartment near the station of Parma: zones in muted greens, yellows and reds, flooring of diagonal wooden strips and MDF doors in an eggshell finish.
Parma,
Mammacaura
The embarkation canal for Motya at the Saline Ettore e Infersa, on the Laguna dello Stagnone: a square-exedra in yellow calcarenite and a bar counter in pink granite and pink-crimson enamel.
Saline Ettore e Infersa, Marsala,
Paradiso
The nightclub Off Club in Casal Bertone with golden rough-plaster vault, black iconostasis and a sequence of arches: a nocturnal liturgy of form.
Off Club, Rome,
Specus Corallii
The oratory Sala Laurentina of the Cattedrale di San Lorenzo: a green archway, pink rough plaster and a silver rectangle of limestone.
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Trapani,
Colour as a Narrative
The perfume shop Illuminum on Dover Street in Mayfair ward: a grey rough-plaster grotto, silk carpet and olfactory glass bowls.
Illuminum Fragrance, London,
Min at the Soane
Seven sculptures in Soane’s bookcase in the Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane’s Museum: marble monoliths with four arched sides and a dome, inspired by the Egyptian god of fertility.
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London,
Crepuscular Green
The Mondrian Suite art gallery in Rione San Lorenzo: golden-green rough plaster, an arched mirror altar and black trumpet lamps.
Mondrian Suite, Rome,
House of Dust
The apartment near Via Veneto and Villa Borghese: brown rough plaster and a series of pink arched doors.
Rome,
Arcade
The Arcade store on Corso XXII Marzo in Milan, an enchanted palace in a rationalist building: a succession of slender arches, pearlescent greys, mauve greens and intense magenta.
Milan,
Postmodern Café
The entrance to the London Design Festival exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–90.
London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum, London,
Akin to a Cinema Set
The Sergio Rossi shoe store in the Brera district: blue background, grey carpet, timber-frame enclosure, fluorescent tubes and Joe Colombo’s lamps.
Sergio Rossi, Milan,
House for Wallpaper*
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory model house: a vault, a courtyard and golden plaster.
Wallpaper*, Marrakech,
Seven Houses for No One
Seven houses imagined for six cities and never built: not buildings but images, received as real by the international press.
2007–2011