Taking the Edge Off
Jazz was playing upstairs—Ella Fitzgerald’s voice gliding down a twist of white steel steps toward the pastel terrazzo floor below. But the soundtrack could easily have been bossa nova.
The house that Tito Ficarelli built for his family on a hill in the calm Alto de Pinheiros neighborhood, a tree-lined haven on the west side of sprawling São Paulo, merges two distinctly Brazilian architectural styles. From the
