A Liberty-era penthouse in central Milan, restyled by Interni's Creative Team for an owner whose taste begins and ends with art. The brief was less about decoration than about creating a frame for a collection. Color and furniture were selected with the discipline of someone hanging a private gallery, and the project's most consistent gesture is restraint: the rooms know when to step back.
The architectural argument running underneath the work is conservation. The original flooring, threatened by the removal and relocation of several partitions, was protected on site and then restored, allowed to operate as a decorative substrate that gives each room a different period inflection through its patterns and tonal shifts. Ceilings were lowered selectively to absorb new systems without disturbing the surfaces worth keeping. Interior doors and windows, all original, were restored rather than replaced.
The living room is composed around a Porro Modern cabinet in matte Canaletto walnut, paired with a Cassina chaise longue, a Bob occasional table from Poltrona Frau, and Antonio Citterio's Michel sofa for B&B Italia, here in blue velvet. Paintings by Massimo Soprano hang at the room's principal vantages. The window treatments, a double-layer curtain program, were specified by Athena Tende. In the dining room, a Manta table by Rimadesio in gray glass meets Febo armchairs by Maxalto and a Mida sideboard from the same house in dark oak. A sculpture by Perry Bianchini occupies the back wall, set off by a purple frame that matches the rug, and table lighting comes from Flos.
The kitchen is by Poliform, with a stoneware countertop and splashback in matte Orobico Grey and a natural oak snack counter with matching stools. Decorative pieces include Kartell's Napoleon gnome and a small group of Fornasetti objects, the kind of selections that signal an owner with a sense of humor about the seriousness of the rest of the apartment.
The principal bedroom centers on the You and Me bed by Ivano Redaelli in velvet, paired with a round Bob table from Poltrona Frau. Lighting was specified room by room rather than as a single scheme. A reflective polycarbonate chandelier from Penta Light, an Oty Light ceiling fixture, and a Flos Glo-Ball lamp together describe an approach in which each room was given the fixture that suited its mood rather than enforcing visual continuity across the residence.
