Lucentini

Lucentini
A dream come true! It all started five years ago.

It was already two years since I had started restoring this beautiful historical place in Valletta – Valletta Lucente.

When a problem, one of the many, cropped up: the old floor tiles.

Yes the house was full of these beautifully designed tiles with so many different colours and yet all complimented each other. Where is the problem? The tiles became one big worry when imminent decisions on how the installation for the necessary construction works had to be done. How the necessary services had to be passed, installed and commissioned and at the same time safeguard this unique feature. The easiest way was to demolish, do the works and install new tiles… But how could I do that?

The more I looked at these old tiles the more and more I was falling in love. Eventually I decided that these tiles shall be taken off one by one, carefully number them, install whatever needed to be installed and reposition every single tile as intact.