A Milanese apartment built in the late 1930s, which has been empty for many years but full of memories, finds a new life as a home and a working space.

The first design-action has been to empty the rooms, recording the traces of their previous uses.
The project redefines the servant spaces, the bathroom and the kitchen, while preserving the historical character of the other rooms with their original cementine tiles and wood-and-glass double doors.
The new tiles of the bathroom recalls the broken-geometry of the cementine, adding new green tones.
The strong character of the pre-existing floors is enhanced by the white of the new furniture and by the pure lines of the lighting elements. Books, objects and plants fill in the rooms, where the old and the new find a renovated balance.

PLACE: Milan
YEAR: 2020
CLIENT: Private
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT: Archiground
SQM: 75

PHOTO: Andrea Ceriani