Casa Funkis

Christina Arnoldi and the owner have collaborated in the total renovation and furnishing of the villa. The house has been worked through to the smallest detail inside and out for 18 months for 8 hours a day, and countless conversations and meetings are behind the decisions. Christina Arnoldi makes houses for customers all over the world, and is responsible for construction management and total contracts of large projects in the form of both private homes and businesses.

The owner of the house herself had a lot of ideas about what she wanted, but needed overall management of the project. Christina's role is usually to offer the big picture, set her team of craftsmen in motion and then process the customer's ideas into a beautiful and coherent home. "I have gradually built up a good and valuable network of good, reliable craftsmen and engineers both here and in Italy, which means that I can focus completely on the smallest details when the big framework is set in motion," says Christina.

"Funki's houses are usually simple and with clean lines, but in this house there has been the challenge that not a single angle in the villa is right-angled, and it is a much bigger job compared to permanently built-in elements," says Christina. Most often, when Christina builds houses herself, minimalism is the focus, and since she has lived in Italy for a number of years, she has become fond of the cool blue-green palette that ranges from the pale ocean tones to the more pigment-heavy deep shades that Christina has incorporated into the interior of the house, in connection with the warmer tones and Italian style the Owner wanted to mix into the interior, which for example the adventurous wallpapers, marble and mosaics have been added.

The original mahogany windows in the villa have been restored, outside copper pipes, coverings and details have been installed. Inside, there are custom-made iron doors with glass in them, railings in black iron and brass, and in the bathrooms Italian marble is used with fantastic grain patterns and diagonal pin mosaics, combined with brass details. "I think that every home should have a personal distinctive character that tells about who lives there, and that we can implement our dreams and inspiration from all over the world in a beautiful way, says Christina. "Our collaboration has been characterized by an exciting and unpredictable process, such as when the Owner and I suddenly had to go to Italy to handpick every single piece of the rare 'Borghini Gold' for the approximately 100 sqm bathrooms.

At the same time, we ended up falling in love with an extra 200 sqm of marble, a beautiful blue-grey 'Fior di Bosco' marble, for the entire flooring on the lower floor of the house". Precisely that energy has filled their collaboration and especially they agree that nothing is left to chance, everything is turned and turned before the decision was made," says Christina.
 

Location: Charlottenlund, Copenhagen
Built: 1930
Renovated: 2018
Space: 490 sqm