We design spaces that age well — drawing on Italian material traditions and contemporary restraint to create interiors with genuine character.
Private homes and apartments across Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. We work closely with clients from concept to handover.
Boutique hotels, restaurants, and wine bars. We've worked on projects in Florence, Bruges, and Porto since 2020.
Direct relationships with stonecutters in Carrara, fabric mills in Prato, and ceramic workshops outside Caltagirone.
For developers and other studios. We advise on material specification, space planning, and Italian craft procurement.
A 14th-century farmhouse in the Chianti hills restored with reclaimed pietra serena and handwoven linen textiles from a cooperative in Anghiari.
A 95 m² flat near the Alzaia Naviglio Grande, reinterpreted around a custom walnut kitchen and a travertine bathroom sourced from Tivoli quarries.
A lakefront villa on the western shore of Como. We stripped sixty years of accumulated renovations to expose original 1930s terrazzo floors and cast-iron windows.
Sorello was founded in 2019 by Marta Ferretti and Johan Kruse after a decade working in large architecture practices in Milan and Amsterdam. The name comes from a small hill town in Umbria where Marta's family has a stone farmhouse — it stuck.
We keep the studio deliberately small. At any given time we carry four to six active commissions, and we visit every supplier ourselves. There are faster ways to run a practice, but not better ones.
Three days in the quarries above Massa Carrara with a blocksaw and a stone consultant who has been doing this since 1987. Notes on vein matching, minimum block orders, and why the "Calacatta" on most specification sheets is not what you think it is.
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How we integrate natural materials, light cycles, and acoustic texture into our projects without defaulting to the usual clichés. Including a discussion of the Como Residence, where the client initially wanted twelve houseplants in every room.
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We don't usually do colour trend posts, but after three client conversations in the same week about "warm minimalism" we decided to write down what we actually think. Spoiler: warm minimalism is not new, and most of what's being called trend is just good sense catching up.
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