Property News · November 6, 2016

Riot of colour in a 1960s semi


Zinging prints and midcentury art turn Rocco Catalano’s small Northamptonshire house into a box of tricks“If I could go back in time, I’d live in Italy in the 1960s. I’d be zooming up and down cobbled streets on a Vespa, surrounded by colour and art, hanging out with all the other crazy cats.” It’s fair to say that Rocco Catalano works, lives and breathes retro. The house he shares with his partner, Peter Daniels, zings with the colours and shapes of midcentury design.The key to Catalano’s successful take on 60s style is his unpretentious approach. There’s no “oh-it’s-all-so-wonderfully-kitsch” attitude, just a genuine appreciation of an era that buzzed with creativity. This semi in the village of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, was, appropriately, built in the 1960s. “It was Peter’s home, but I moved in a year ago – along with an awful lot of stuff,’ says Catalano. Peter, director of a neurological charity, knew what he was in for. “We’ve been together for four years so he ‘gets’ my style,” says Catalano. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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