Le Querce Farmhouse is a beautiful residence located in Lecce, Italy, redesigned in 2020 by Stefano Ghiretti.

Description
The story of this residence on two levels in farmhouse style begins with the request of the clients to complete the work of a structure whose buildings were already formally defined and in a rustic state, on the project of the previous architect in charge, arch. Antonella De Ramundo. If it is true that, as I believe, beauty is born subordinated to a purpose to be achieved, then we can say that the intention in the reworking of this project was subordinated to the idea of a rediscovered “simplicity” where it could sometimes seem to be lost. There are no given recipes, simplicity is not simple; its result appears obvious only once the work is finished. More specifically, the solutions were sought in the traditional abacus of Mediterranean and regional constructions, taken as a founding model of the type of construction that had begun. A work therefore of focus of the single parts, and of general cleaning, trying to remove possible elements “extraneous” to the typology of reference. Architectural solutions were needed in various points of the farmhouse with particular regard among others, the redesign of the large double-height central hall, the living room of which the final result makes the designers particularly proud. The intervention has affected mainly all the definition of the internal parts a...