The boiserie on the staircase it forms a telescope that aims at the painting found in a gallery in Paris, illuminated by the zenith light. It is a clear invitation to discover the next level of this apartment where at 150 on the first floor another 70 m2 are added in addition to the large terrace. It is located in the very center of Milanoin Corso Magenta, on the seventh and eighth floors, with a privileged view of the dome of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the church which houses Leonardo’s Last Supper in its refectory.
The apartment featured theclassic system from the 1950s: entrance with large corridor and row of rooms on the right and left: the house has four bedrooms, a study and three bathrooms.
The upper floor then appeared disconnected, with an independent entrance. A configuration that is not ideal for the owners, a couple of forty-year-old professionals who are passionate about art and frequent travellers, who intend the house as a meeting place for friends.
For this reason it studio Dario De Santis he opted for one division of the living area who left the living room on the lower floorWhile kitchen and dining area I am now on the upper floor with the terrace, an open space of 80 square meters that can be used most of the year, quiet and sunny.
«Inside there were no particular valuable formal details or floors worth preserving», says the architect De Santis.
All new, then. Protagonist living room with a row of windows facing eastsome of which frame the dome mentioned above. Then other surprises, such as the dramatic new stairwell or the tension created by the anthropomorphic sculpture by Fabrizio Pozzoli, one of the many works of art and refined furnishings housed in the house, «put together with the client in what was a curatorial exercise» , says architect De Santis.
The central libraryborn from the need to incorporate a pillar, then took on the dividing function between the lounge with a more informal sofa and a more rigorous seating area in the entrance. The atmosphere is sober in the prevalence of white walls and the warm tone of the floor made of Vicenza stone slabs with a natural finish, contrasted with the darker tones of wood stained oak for the bookcase, study doors, staircase boiserie and furnishing accessories with brighter hints of colour. Change of mood instead al upper floormore modern and glamorous with the prevalence of satin steel in the kitchen and the teak of the terrace furnished with limited edition Marni pieces.
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