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Medieval Researches    My special design-style comes from years of interest and researches (as journalist and designer) on sustainable and wooden architecture, looking for medieval archetypes with special interest for Norwegian and Viking architecture that I consider the best sourches for nowadays sustainable architecture in therms of materials and technical solutions, and this for a simple reason: in medieval age, and in particular way the northern european experience, they used in special way dry-joint systems to survive to the strong northern winds and the poor availability of resourches, wood apart. Works to be caressed    Every works of mine, from the design of a chair to the design of a whole house, from a table to a treehouse, is it a modern villa in the city center or a rural house in medieval village in Tuscany, is it a client with a low budget or clients of excellence that give to me great freedom about it, my philosophy and passion is always the same: everyone that trusts in my passion and my ideas, he deserves just for this my totally attention and care to create works where wood is not only the first actor of the story but also the best language to tell it. High quality of materials and technical solutions, and about in particular the furniture's design, great attention to make that veins and natural fibers of woods are good to partecipate to the final aesthetic effect, and using no varnish but only 100% natural wax to protect timbers that are so good in quality that they could stay without any protection. Our furniture are maden to be caressed. The Irish Lesson    Working in Ireland, I had time to use waste timber from building sites to buil a treeterrace upon a 300 years old ash of my friend Paddy Fogarty of Bellynderry village close to Terryglass on lake Derg, Tipperary County. At 4 meters above the ground level, I often was in company of giants crows. Looking together the sunset, and every night always more crows were beside me beeing not scared by me, I learned one of the most important lessons of my life: when architecture is to live Nature "with" Nature, side by side, without any competition as the embankments do with the river flowing, we get the best architecture of ever, and Nature thanks us for that because it is usefull to Nature too. Every time I start to design, it is a house or a chair, I remember this lesson, I order to myself to don't forget the irish crows' lesson. This is the why I define in different way "architecture" and "Architecture", where architecture is simply good to protect the customer and to make rich who build it, while Architecture makes richer everyone of us, even if we are not the directly users, architecture can help us to survive while it is only because of Architecture that we have the highest possibility to evolve... and wooden architecture is the most short, easy, cheap and amazing way in the evolution trip on board of the noble art of Architecture. Thomas Allocca

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