ROBERTO VARCHI - Interior Designer
Roberto Varchi is an interior and lighting designer whose stylistic seal is based on the right counterweight between traditional materials and innovative technologies: a formal balance where the wise use of lighting gives a pleasant impactful arrangement to the location, sealing today’s essential style to the artistic one of the past.
He studies at the Cappiello Design and Communication Academy in Florence and graduates in 1988 with a specialization in ancient and modern interior design, by presenting a thesis about Macchiaioli and Belle Epoque’s principal painters. Here he’s given the opportunity to work in studios of international relevance, like his friend and mentor Giacomo Giovannoni’s, who tutors him in his professional growth. He then produces blueprints for some XIXth century London buildings that get ranked as the best of year 1989 and exposed in Milan, at the Salone del Mobile.
In 2000 he gets a specialization in lighting design because of his need to design, with both his technical and creative abilities, lighting solutions that can be functional for interior purposes. His modus operandi is then enriched by research and design studies about which ideal devices fit best the mixture of traditional and contemporary style. He recently got a degree in Energy Performance Certificate (EPCs) at the CUTGANA University Department in Catania, accomplishment which made him more aware and caring about eco-friendly architecture: green living’s concept has always been a key theory in his ideology, careful about the delicate balances of the Earth.
According to Roberto, actually, today’s home has to be built with sustainable materials to take care of the environment and the people living in it, it needs a correct EPC to allow low consumptions, it demands structures that improve insulation and minimize losses of climatization and energy to reduce the waste of resources, preferring sustainable energy sources. All of this merges into a smart way of living the surrounding environment. One of the key elements of his design technique is Archicad, a program thanks to which he develops and renders virtual building blueprints; although he still hasn’t lost his capability of creating blueprints in just a few minutes, developing them on simple paper, right at the needed time.
Roberto has also always been a passionate photographer, sharpening his creativity through the study of camera techniques. His style is oriented towards black and white and wise contrast measurement, bidimensional geometric scenes and plays of light and shadow. Since childhood he has loved painting with oil paint on canvas. His favourites artists are the major representatives of various decades and trends, just like Giovanni Boldini, Giovanni Fattori, Pablo Picasso and Mimmo Rotella. The hobbies that fill his personal time, apart from work, include, other than art and museums, sports and activities close to nature, fishing and ultralight aviation.
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