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Casa Salvatori, Milan
A 200-year-old Milanese apartment reinterpreted
This 200-year old apartment on the fourth floor of a typical example of Milan’s beautiful palazzi, in what many consider one of the city’s most beautiful courtyards, has become not only a city pied-a-terre but also an extension of the Salvatori showroom just across the courtyard.
In planning the interior project, the designer Elisa Ossino sought to preserve some of the special existing features of the 136-square metre apartment, in particular the original Terrazzo floors and fireplace, whilst reinterpreting the space. She did this by using vivid accents to create three-dimensional pictures, and furniture and objects as bold contrasting points of colour.
Eschewing conventionality, the exposed beams of the main living spaces have been painted in an elegant dark green, each room in a slightly different tone. The dominance of the roof is a counterpoint to the bold geometric forms of the furniture, each piece carefully selected to strike the perfect contrast with the walls in an engrossing dialogue between warm and cool colours. The two enormous pictures in marble were designed by Elisa and created by Salvatori using a combination of sophisticated cutting techniques and experienced craftsmanship.
The bathroom is a veritable showpiece of Salvatori’s signature textures, such as Tratti where tiles in matt natural stone are interspersed by accents of midnight black aluminium to create an intriguing chromatic interplay between stone and metal.
The craft of marquetry is reworked in a contemporary key in the kitchen counter unit where Pietra d’Avola and Gris du Marais alternate with Bianco Carrara and Rosa Portogallo marble. The doors of the unit sit perfectly flush with the counter top and create the illusion of a vast geometric canvas.
DESIGN: Elisa Ossino Studio
