As a Londoner living in Sweden, Massimo Minale has introduced plenty of familiar touches to the house he built just outside Stockholm. Not for him the traditional Scandi vernacular of pale-wooded minimalism: he prefers the more gritty urban style, with its rough, industrial edges such as bare-filament bulbs, black-framed Crittall windows and stark, engineered metal staircases. “Normally steel structures like this would be hidden away, but I like to expose all those functional nuts and bolts,” he says. The courtyard Adam HelbaouiThe same raw aesthetic can be seen in the band-sawn English oak floors, “which look as if they’ve come straight out of the forest”, and the leather-finish black granite used in the kitchen. “I wanted big, monolithic pieces that seem to be rooted in the earth,” he…

Source: The Times January 06, 2018 00:00 UTC