Precious wooden beamed ceilings, original inlaid parquet floorings, historical and design furniture and a technology as much sophisticated as much invisible, blend in harmony in this late 17th Century apartment located in the historical center of Milan.
In the living, the Tuscan 18th Century table shares the space with an international 20th Century design icon, such as the Arco lamp by Achille Castiglioni, while the recent Swarm Lamp, by the young Swedish designer Jangir Maddadi, coexists with 30’s colonial and French furniture, collected by the landlord during the many years spent working abroad.
The kitchen is characterized by concrete rough surfaces with corten steel inserts and technological pullout equipment. Designed in order to hide its function, it becomes an extension of the living.
As well as the bedroom, where an ironic composition of empty ancient frames and antique mirrors is the main character of this room and masks the big cabinet, suspended to avoid interrupting the extraordinary parquet pattern.
The design lamps are integrated by technical spots, carefully positioned in order to emphasize the volumes, the floorings and the ceiling frescoes.
The sound system, installed and independent in all the rooms, can be easily controlled using a smartphone, as well as the mechanism that raises the big picture of a famous model above the sofa, disclosing when necessary a television, or the last generation projector ,which animates the big central frame of the bedroom, transforming it into a cinematographic screen.