CASE STUDY
Casa Ruffino thus takes shape as an immersive journey into the Ruffino world. Guided tours move through vineyards, historic rooms and production spaces, culminating in tastings where territory and oenological identity come together. The winery retains the force of its stone walls and large wooden barrels, enhanced by calibrated, raking light that emphasises the density of the surfaces without turning the productive space into a stage set. Here architecture works by subtraction, introducing raw iron details that affirm contemporaneity with discretion.
The Tre Rane Restaurant establishes a constant dialogue between cuisine and wine, reinterpreting Tuscan tradition through a contemporary sensibility that avoids any folkloric approach. The common rooms retain exposed beams, while the repainted parquet flooring with its geometric pattern and the controlled use of colour define a deep, enveloping atmosphere. Furnishings that combine contemporary design and vintage pieces act as mediators between heritage and the present, avoiding any museum-like effect and giving the spaces an authentically lived-in dimension. The wine shop completes the experience as a place where wine culture meets conviviality, transforming the bottles into an architectural and narrative presence.
The Wine Relais, housed within the Renaissance villa, welcomes guests into rooms conceived as intimate and measured spaces, where light, proportions and materiality generate a sense of continuity with the surrounding landscape. Here the palette becomes lighter, opening more fully to a dialogue with the vineyards and hills visible through the windows, in a constant visual and sensorial relationship between inside and outside.
Each compositional choice contributes to a unified and recognisable renewal, while preserving the historical value of the architectural structure. The interiors maintain the original layout of the rooms, enhancing period terracotta floors, exposed beams and historic surfaces that dialogue with contemporary materials. Raw iron— a recurring hallmark of the studio’ s research— introduces an essential and tactile presence, capable of asserting contemporaneity with measure.
Ruffino’ s identity emerges in a way that is recognisable yet never didactic. Colour, materiality, light and the rhythm of the spaces construct a coherent narrative that accompanies the visitor through the estate’ s various functions, rooting the experience in the productive and symbolic context of wine.
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