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# “I am not sure that time passes as the calendar or the clock describes it
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ia-ne-uveren-chto-vremia-idiot-tak-kak-ego-opisyvaet-kalendar-ili-chasy/
- Published: 2025-08-06T05:32:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:12.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Heritage, Mores, People, Rome

“I am not sure that time passes as the calendar or the clock describes it. 800 years of these walls is, for me, the present. That is why I am not nostalgic. I never truly believe that those who are no longer alive have gone. Everyone leaves a deep imprint behind.”

The designer Alessandro Michele on his apartment in Rome, in the Palazzo Scapucci, which he has restored, one of the few buildings in Rome with its own medieval tower. The building was constructed in the fifteenth century by the Italian architect Giovanni Fontana.

The house is some 800 years old, and a whole team of restorers worked on bringing it back. Michele calls himself a doctor to damaged, dilapidated houses: he buys houses that, in his view, may need his help, houses that have either been ruined or abandoned, and gives them a new life.

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