Corso Magenta

Location: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Year: 2024
Type: Interiors
Area: 190 m²
Client: Private
Status: Completed 2024

A pale living room seen through a doorway: a curved sofa, a round stone table and a plaster fireplace wall

An apartment on the third floor of a 1920s palazzo, re-planned around the two rooms that catch the afternoon sun.

Materials

Lime plaster, hand-trowelled
Ceppo di Gré stone
Original oak parquet
Linen and wool

The old plan had eleven rooms and a corridor down the middle that never saw daylight. We took out the corridor and most of the walls, kept the two original salons, and joined them with a deep plaster niche that holds the fireplace, the shelves and a reading seat.

The colours come from what was already there: the grey of the stair stone, the white of the old cornices, and the brown of the parquet, which we lifted, cleaned and laid back.

A plaster niche with floating shelves above a stone bench, a round table and a curved armchair — Fig. 02The niche: fireplace, shelves and a reading seat

The plaster wall with a fireplace opening, open shelves and a white pendant light — Fig. 03Shelving cut into the plaster wall

The bedrooms are darker and quieter, finished in a green lime wash we mixed on site until it matched the trees in the courtyard.

A bed with grey linen against a deep green wall, lit by a small black wall lamp — Fig. 04Main bedroom · Lime wash, mixed on site

A corner with a white sofa, a round dark table and a wall of oak battens — Fig. 05The study, behind an oak screen · Oak battens, 30 mm