THE NORTHERN ITALIAN city of Turin has always embraced both high and low culture. For nearly 400 years, it was the seat of the Savoys, the royal family who ruled Italy from 1861 until 1946, when they were deposed by referendum. Their Baroque primary residence, Palazzo Reale, with its Versailles-inspired mirrored halls, still stands as a reminder of the city’s grandeur. In the 1960s, Turin was a center of the Arte Povera movement, which championed art made with commonplace materialsslot games real money, such as Mario Merz’s plastic-bag-and-soil igloos. It was also where the architect Ada Bursi, born in 1906 in Verona, became one of the first women in Italy to practice architecture, designing schools and public housing across the city. “[For her] beauty was not in the value of the materials — it was in how you worked with them,” says Andrea Marcante, 58, who runs the Turinese architecture studio Marcante-Testa with his longtime friend Adelaide Testa, 58. “Bursi believed in democratic luxury.”

Marcante and Testa are sitting in the dining area of the apartment they recently renovated for Marco Lobina, 58, the founder of Rezina, a Turin-based company that makes resin architectural finishings. The home is in a five-story building that’s among Bursi’s residential projects in Turin and sits on a quiet corner of Corso Giovanni Lanza in the Borgo Crimea neighborhood, a wealthy enclave on the Po River’s right bank. Completed in 1958, it features a plain white Modernist facade (a contrast to the area’s more common Art Nouveau-style edifices) pierced by rows of narrow windows and bookended by wide balconies. The structure had been conceived as low-cost housing, but Bursi still managed to include several playful details, such as curved panels of fluted wood in the entranceway, amoeba-shaped poured-glass door handles and confetti-like mosaic tiles that decorate the supporting columns and the balconies’ undersides.

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Like Bursi, both Marcante and Testa began their careers in Turin. In 2014, after working together for a decade at a different firm, the duo founded their own studio and started designing homes, restaurants and shops that incorporated their now-signature color-blocking, patterned surfaces and geometric molding. Inside a 2019 apartment project in Milan, for instance, the architects employed glass screens framed in bubble gum pink or brass to delineate hallways and create sitting nooks.

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