We read the impressive Large, permanent and inevitable: Jorge Silvetti in dialogues and writings on architecture as cultural practice (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Through a number of interviews of former students and colleagues, he tells a dense and fascinating journey through Silvetti's career.
How many on the outer cloak we are familiar with The Jorge Silvetti-Der, whose company Machado Silvetti brought us the extraordinary renovation and supplement to the Provincetown Art Association and the museum in 2006. But there is another Jorge Silvetti, who, with his husband and professional partner Rodolfo Machado, not only with the feathers from this place, but also the drive before the force that dealt with the power of a well -known room, and the work that has been well equipped, and the work that has been well equipped.
One of these houses is a cloak of the 1940s in the Main Street in Wellfleet, which we have photographed over the years before they sold it last summer to spend more time in Buenos Aires. If we look at these photos now, we will see the most important lesson we learned from Jorge and Rodolfo, one that has informed our practice in the past 30 years. It's about decoration, but it's also about the place.
We both – we are also partners, an architecture designer and a decorator – had just started to meet when we came to Provincetown for the first time. It must have been in 1980. We spent this weekend along the beach, which connects the eastern end with the west end. Although we were lost in conversation, the magic of this place did not escape us. The sense of history, mystery, melancholy and beauty was more noticeable in every step.
Not long after this first visit, our commitment to Cape Cod Ernst when we rented a house in Truro for the month of August with our friends Rodolfo and Jorge.
This house was at the end of the North Pamet Road. A fire road on the other side of the street led us to a remote section of the beach between the Ballston and Longnook through a cranberry moor, with very few people on their way as proof.
After this August, friends from Boston, New York and Buenos Aires came to us in this house for as many weeks as their schedules. This KAP tradition became a constant in our whole life when Rodolfo and Jorge bought the Wellfleet House in 1989. The house became the epicenter of our summer vacation with a view of Marshland.
Over the years, the two improved the property: first a new kitchen and a new studio, then a winter garden; Location work to create living rooms and gardens outdoors came next and finally an extension of the roof goods to enlarge bedrooms on the second floor. In the entire architectural iterations of the house, the attraction of the couple informed the interiors on beautiful objects and their obsession with the style. Every room in the house became a repository for the things they loved. Thoughtful furniture and artistic arrangements, from Frankoma ceramics and vintage kitchen utensils to art and books – many of both – created seductive spaces for social or lonely joy.
The Argentinians (long “I”) – like our group of friends Rodolfo and Jorge – are enthusiastic collectors. In 2021, they arranged to give Fred Jones Jones Jones Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma to give their collection of more than 200 parts of Frankoma, a beloved company in Oklahoma. They had collected vintage pieces in Frankomas Prairie Green Color Palette for more than four decades.
The couple was born in Buenos Aires and grew up. The couple finally stood in Boston to start what would become their international architecture company. Jorge taught in Harvard and Rodolfo at the Rhode Island School of Design.
But it was a time in Pittsburgh to teach in Carnegie Mellon before she arrived in Boston, which she did enthusiastic flea market fans. Western Pennsylvania proved to be a treasury forgotten objects. Decades later, the cache of things they found in these markets, as well as collections that were collected by their travels, adorned the rooms of their well fleet house.
For many years we have seen how clever, informed, delightful and sensible good spaces. We have learned about rooms that were created for pleasure. With all of this, Rodolfo and Jorges Wellfleet House stand out in our memories, which reveal the relevance of these contaminated terms: we have understood the components of the taste.
We have learned that a good room has the spirit of its inhabitants even without absence. Memories of a good room provide a thousand more.