How Bo-tikken Furnished Villa Asti — A Conversation Between Stone and Scandinavian Design

The brief was simple: let the stone and nature speak.

Villa Asti is made of stone — local limestone, laid by hand, in a part of southern Piemonte where people have been building this way for centuries. What we needed was someone who understood how to bring furniture and light into a space like this without competing with it. We found that in Søren and Charlotte at Bo-tikken.

Their work covers everything you touch at Villa Asti: the lamps in every room, the beds, the chairs, the textiles, and the outdoor furniture. What strikes you is how little calls attention to itself. The striped armchair in the reading corner sits against the stone wall as though it has always been there. The bronze floor lamp beside it provides exactly the quality of light that makes an evening feel like an evening.

The staircase — black iron, rising through three floors of exposed stone — is anchored by a chandelier of white cylindrical shades. In the bedrooms, geometric lanterns hang from beams. Outside under the loggia, a brass pendant with a filament bulb warms the stone and marks the corner as somewhere worth sitting.

Throughout the house, Bo-tikken chose materials that respond to the terracotta floors rather than contrast with them: natural linens, wool, leather, wood. Nothing cold. Nothing that belongs in a different kind of building.

The teak table on the terrace — where most guests will eat most breakfasts — says it plainly. Right size, right material, right place. Sometimes that is all good design needs to be.