Eurohouse did not build this home. We were brought in after the house was finished, to furnish it. We designed the scheme room by room, sourced the pieces, and presented the collection to the owners: Francesco Molon, one of the classic Italian houses, so the whole home would read in one voice rather than be assembled piece by piece over years. From there our job was to supply the collection, get it here from Italy in one condition, and place it.
Francesco Molon furniture is made the slow way. Frames are carved from solid hardwood by hand. Table tops and cabinet fronts are marquetry, which means the pattern is not printed or stamped on, it is cut from different woods and set into the surface piece by piece. Edges and carving are finished in gold leaf. Seating is upholstered in silk damask. A single dining table can take months.
That kind of furniture is unforgiving on site. It arrives crated, heavy, and finished, with nothing left to hide a scuff. Doorways, stair turns, floor protection, and the order rooms get loaded in all have to be worked out before the first crate is opened. It is closer to a millwork installation than a furniture delivery, which is why the owners wanted a builder handling it.
The result is a house that reads as one collection. The same carving vocabulary, the same gold, and the same family of woods run from the entry through the living room, both dining rooms, the panelled study, and the bedrooms.
The main living room takes the full Molon vocabulary at once: carved and gilded frames, silk damask, a marquetry centre table, and drapery cut to the ceiling height rather than the window height.
Marquetry is the reason this furniture takes months. The pattern is not printed on the surface. It is cut from different woods, fitted like a puzzle, then levelled and polished flat.
The house has a formal dining room and a second, less formal one. Both were furnished from the same collection, with different tops and different upholstery so they do not read as copies of each other.
The second table is oval rather than round, on a turned and gilded pedestal, with chairs in a teal and gold weave instead of crimson.
The study was already panelled in dark wood. The desk was chosen to sit inside that panelling rather than fight it: a bowfront pedestal desk with inlaid banding and an inset leather top.
The bedrooms move away from the dark woods. Frames here are painted and gilded, with the same carving profile as the rest of the house.
Upholstery and window treatments were part of the same order. Doing them together is what keeps a house like this from looking like a showroom floor with curtains added later.
Furnishing a whole house at once means the sightlines work. From the entry you look through three rooms and see one collection, not three.
Most furniture arrives on a truck and gets carried in. This did not. It came from Italy, crated, and it had to be received, stored, and then placed in an order that made sense room by room.
The parts that go wrong on a job like this are the boring ones. A crate that does not fit the stair turn. A finished floor with no protection on the day the heavy pieces land. Two trades on site at once. A delivery window that does not match the elevator booking. All of that is scheduling, and scheduling is what a general contractor does every day.
Eurohouse has been importing materials from Europe and Asia for years, so the freight and receiving side was familiar ground. The furniture arrived, went in, and the owners moved into a finished house rather than a staging area.
Solid hardwood, carved by hand rather than moulded or pressed. The carving profile repeats across seating, tables, beds, and casegoods, which is what makes the house read as one collection.
Table tops and cabinet fronts are built up from cut pieces of contrasting wood, set into the surface and polished flat. It is the slowest part of the process and the first thing people notice.
Carved edges, feet, mounts, and aprons finished in gold leaf, applied to the carving rather than sprayed over it.
Seating upholstered in silk damask, with window treatments made to the room and hung above the window head so the ceilings read taller.
If you are bringing a collection in from Europe and want one team handling freight, customs, storage, protection, and placement, we have done it before.
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