There aren’t many people who would see potential in a sprawling industrial warehouse filled with water pipes and various other industrial paraphernalia mere metres from the Adriatic coastline. But interior designer Eva Germani has a vivid imagination and, she says, “an innate attraction for imperfection”.
The 50-year-old designer came across the cavernous property one day in 2019, while walking in the seaside town of Riccione where she grew up. “I found myself disarmed in front of an uninteresting space,” she explains. “Since I was a child, I dreamed of living in decadent or poetic historic buildings.” The one standing before her had “no history and this area is not known for buildings of architectural or historical value” but she was undeterred.
