{"id":951,"date":"2025-12-03T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/a-house-with-an-artistic-soul-and-roots-in-the-heart-of-brtonigla\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:47:04","slug":"a-house-with-an-artistic-soul-and-roots-in-the-heart-of-brtonigla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/a-house-with-an-artistic-soul-and-roots-in-the-heart-of-brtonigla\/","title":{"rendered":"A house with an artistic soul and roots in the heart of Brtonigla"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are houses built with bricks, and there are houses born from emotions and memories.
\nAtelier Lakota<\/em> is precisely of this second kind.<\/p>\n

The house is, first and foremost, a tribute to my paternal ancestors \u2014 a family that lived in this area for generations and slowly, quietly, yet permanently wove their stories into the Istrian land.<\/p>\n

I remember my father who lived here. His premature passing when I was a child left me with silence and emptiness, but also a deep need in adulthood to preserve what was his.<\/p>\n

I remember my grandparents and their rural rhythm that today’s fast-paced world no longer knows, and their nearby countryside where the red Istrian soil dirtied our knees, hands, and faces, and where it was sweetest to eat fruit from a tree, watch rabbits, or chase chickens.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember when my grandfather Antonio was a cinematographer, traveling through villages and showing films on a screen to people<\/strong>,<\/strong> bringing them the first moments of moving picture magic, but many other people remember it and recall him fondly.<\/p>\n

I remember my uncle, the village painter Paolo, who until recently had his small gallery in the village. His distinctive brushstrokes and oil-on-canvas techniques \u2014 panoramas of village scenes, Istrian landscapes, and cityscapes \u2014 still adorn many homes and hospitality establishments in the area today.<\/p>\n

And of course, I remember our family, me, my brother, mom, and dad, when we were happy. When the first snow fell that I had ever seen in my life. That was in Brtonigla. In this courtyard\u2026<\/p>\n

And that’s why I love this house, because it is a link to the roots that hold me, guide me, and bring me back to what is truly important \u2013 and that is family.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for a place with a story, depth, peace, and warmth \u2014 I believe that Atelier Lakota<\/em> will be your true home in Istria. We welcome you as a friend, and send you off as family.<\/p>\n

Our canvas, your painting.<\/p>\n

See you in Brtonigla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are houses built with bricks, and there are houses born from emotions and memories. Atelier Lakota is precisely of this second kind. The house is, first and foremost, a tribute to my paternal ancestors \u2014 a family that lived in this area for generations and slowly, quietly, yet permanently wove their stories into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atelierlakota.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}