On the top floor of a nineteenth-century building

In a late nineteenth-century building, designed by Luigi Broggi and decorated with pilasters, friezes and panels, terracotta vases and pinnacles, a long open space surrounds the top floor apartment.

Particularly sunny and warm, plants of the Mediterranean climate and Australian species were chosen for this terrace which are well suited to the sultry heat of the city summer: Pitosporum, mastic, myrtle, Chamaerops humilis or St. Peter’s palm, but also Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’, arranged in large terracotta vases that reflect the decorations of the facade.

Along the high wall that runs all around at half height, a cream-coloured painted metal shelf has been positioned, above which are arranged rectangular terracotta pots, made to measure, and planted only with Sedum palmeri, a succulent plant which does not require any care and blooms profusely yellow in April.

The purpose of the shelf was also to hide the lighting of the terrace: underneath there are fixtures that shed soft light downwards, so as to illuminate the plants without disturbing the view of the pinnacles and the night sky.