Milan residences
Apartments and houses read through their plans, their light and the small objects that give a room its character.
Every interior in the journal is looked at in the same order it is usually made: five stages, each with its own questions.
Reading the building first: its age, its courtyard, the way daylight enters and how the people living there actually use each room.
Sightlines, thresholds and circulation. A plan decides what you see from the door long before any furniture arrives.
Terrazzo, oak, lime plaster, brushed steel. How surfaces age and how they hold colour under northern Italian light.
Natural light through the day, then the lamps that take over at dusk: where they sit, what they reveal and what they leave in shadow.
Handles, frames, a stack of books, a chair turned slightly off axis. The styling that makes a photograph read as a lived-in home.
A sense of home isn’t something you decorate into existence. It builds up slowly, layer by layer, the way a composition comes together in a frame. Architecture gives a room its bones and its breathing room. Interiors translate that structure into daily comfort. Objects carry the memory, the rhythm, the personal handwriting. In Milan, where […]
Italian design classics stay relevant for a reason that has little to do with nostalgia. They were built around proportion, comfort, material honesty, and a visual clarity that still works in Milan apartments today. When I look at a room, I read it the way I used to read a fashion image: where the weight […]
In Milan, material choice is never just decoration. Marble, wood, and terrazzo shape how a room feels, ages, and photographs — especially in apartments where architecture, light, and everyday life are closely connected. I’ve spent years training my eye to read surfaces the way a stylist reads fabric: not for what they claim to be, but […]
Residential architecture, interior solutions and earlier styling work, collected in one place and ordered by date.
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