Terra Sol began in Matthew's 800-square-foot city apartment that wasn't in Italy, but he wished it were.
Terra Sol exists because the gap between an Italian summer and a Tuesday morning in the city is where most of us are forced to live. We aren't moving to the Mediterranean coast. The job is in New York, or San Francisco, or Chicago. The weather is gray nine months of the year. The apartment is rented. The walls aren't ours to plaster.
Matthew Digati is an Italian citizen with family in Palermo, originally from a small town an hour outside the city. He visits every year, sometimes for a month longer. He's also an architectural photographer by trade. His work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Dwell, and the New York Times, with a particular eye for Mediterranean interiors and the way light moves across natural surfaces like terracotta and stone. You can see his work at digatiphotography.com.
Terra Sol is what happens when these two things meet: an Italian sensibility for living, sized for the apartment you actually live in. Real linen. Hand-thrown ceramic. Olive wood. Brass that patinas. Pieces that close the gap between Tuesday morning and Sunday in Palermo.
The brand is small on purpose. We curate a tight library of shop the look scenes for the rooms most renters and small-apartment owners actually have. Every piece in every scene is linked. Some are affiliate links, which means Terra Sol may earn a small commission if you buy. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own apartment.
Bring Italy home.