米兰时尚公寓 | 色彩与创新的完美融合

A stone’s throw from the Brera Academy and famous opera house La Scala in Milan, in a verdant setting between ancient cloisters and monumental buildings, sits the colourfully trimmed form of this postwar apartment block designed by BBPR (the groundbreaking studio behind the city’s once-controversial Torre Velasca tower).

Occupying its top two floors, like a lovingly reconditioned crown, is the home of Sergio Antonini, creative director of the historic jewellery store Antonini Milan, and his daughter Annamaria, a student at the nearby Polytechnic.

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The apartment’s reinvention has been the work of architect and friend Luciano Giorgi, who found rich inspiration in the building’s exterior, translating its experimental spirit and distinctive palette of materials into his own contemporary design language. The project, he tells us, ‘is the consequence of a precise path of chromatic and stylistic research’.

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‘Starting from the great masters of design, and with the support of the Luisa Delle Piane gallery, I formed a creative dialogue with the aesthetic of the building.’ There are furniture classics – such as the ‘Elettra’ chairs by BBPR and ‘Camaleonda’ sofa by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia – as well as works by renowned Italian artists such as Carla Accardi, Giulio Paolini and Enrico Castellani.

First, though, Luciano had to eliminate the traces of a 1980s renovation, removing internal walls to allow for more fluid living spaces.

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Today, the layout consists of polyhedral forms arranged around a spectacular new spiral staircase. Custom-designed, this focal point is described by Luciano as a ‘chromatic tornado’; one that borrows from the bold primary colours of the klinker tiles that decorate the building’s terraces.

This reinterpretation of the apartment block’s palette can be seen elsewhere. Take, for instance, the striking green enamel-covered walls of the kitchen or the glossy tiles that clad the bathroom.

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It is on the property’s second floor, however, that the colour scheme kicks into overdrive. Here, in what Luciano describes as an ‘apartment within an apartment’ (a kitchenette, snug and study, all connected to outdoor spaces curated by landscape designer Marco Bay), you can find an ‘optical game with blue and fiery red walls, furnishings and curtains’.

It’s the final flourish for a home that is referential but never deferential. A place that shows respect to the creatives of the past by continuing to break with design conventions. lgb-architetti.it

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