72 ELLE DECORLIVING ANATOMY OF A HOUSE
FOR^DETAILS,^ SEERESOURCESCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: In the
library, the Franco Albini bookshelves
and Piero Fornasetti cocktail table
are all vintage; the 1960s chandelier
is by Murano Seguso. The master bed
is by Gio Ponti, the Art Deco rug is
Chinese, and the artwork is by Chiara
Samugheo. A Gio Ponti chair and Billy
Sullivan artwork in the bathroom.
The kitchen has custom stainless
steel cabinetry and a 1970s Seguso
chandelier. BELOW: Roger Vivier
Leopard Beau Vivier bag, $3,450.with a gilded glow. Martini also
created the monumental piece
that stands in the front hallway, an
abstract table made of cement, wax,
and resin. “For me
everything is about
the contrast and the
mix of things from
different epochs to
different shapes,”
says Felloni, glanc-
ing at the Martini
piece, which is so
heavy that much of it
had to be constructed
on-site. That piece is
“symbolic” of his relationship to his
new home, he remarks. “It means
I’m staying.”
An efficient basement kitchen is
constructed mostly of stainless steel
and leads to a wild sloping garden.It’s attached to a small formal din-
ing room, where the vintage wood
and Formica table—designed by a
professor who sometimes used it
as a school table—is surrounded by
black-lacquered chairs with tall and
narrow backs by the Italian designer
Vico Magistretti. There, over coffee
and biscuits, Felloni chatted about
his current obsessions: on the one
hand, the renovation of an old light-
house in Tuscany, and on the other,
his interest in furni-
ture by the Scottish
Art Nouveau archi-
tect Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. “I’m
starting to get excited
about things from the
1990s,” he adds. After
all, he observes, many
of the things he has
collected in the past,
from Gio Ponti pieces
to antique jewelry, have become
increasingly expensive. “Every day it
becomes more difficult to buy some-
thing beautiful,” Felloni says with
a sigh. Fortunately, he is one step
ahead of the curve. ◾