Projects
We want our period buildings to look the way they were once meant to. When a tenant moves out, we use the time before the next letting: the apartment is renovated, and we look at what is still there beneath wallpaper and layers of paint.
The work is done by restorers and tradespeople we work with regularly.
Built 1880
The stairwell had been painted white. Underneath were a painted, marble-effect dado and a frieze of blossoms; both can be seen again. Floors and banisters have been matched to it in colour, and in one apartment paintings decorate the ceiling once more.
Built 1905
In one apartment, a band of small stylised trees runs across an ochre ground again, above a blue-green dado. The painting lay behind wallpaper; what was missing has been added.
Built 1910
In several apartments the hallways have their painting back: marbled surfaces beneath an ornamental frieze. The stairwell still has its old doors and fittings, glazed tiles and letterboxes set into the wall.
In print
The Denkmalverein Hamburg presents the three buildings in the third volume of its series “Stadt Neu! Beispielhafte Sanierungen aus Hamburg” (exemplary renovations from Hamburg), with Livia Zanella as the building owner.
Stadt Neu! Beispielhafte Sanierungen aus Hamburg, vol. 3. Edited by Denkmalverein Hamburg e.V. Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 2026. Pages 82–89 (in German).
The book at Denkmalverein Hamburg
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