An apartment in Milan where the Classic style and the Milanese design. A union – not so difficult, since the styles are marked by sobriety and Minimalist elegance– That Studio 13.1 has just done for Sophie Caulcutt, a Socialité English with a great passion for Italy and, above all, for Milan, where she wanted to have, she who travels the world for work (she owns the voyager club, an agency specialized in luxury travel experiences based in England and that operates worldwide) and has permanent bases in London and St. Moritz, a Pied à Terre Only for her, a kind of urban oasis where to feel good and meet with friends. Federico Sigali and Filippo Fiora, aka Studio 13.1, in close collaboration with the owner of the house, intervened in an apartment within a building art nouveau of beautiful volumes to adapt its distribution to contemporary needs. «The house was remarkable, but it was organized according to a Distribution of outdated spacewith a sequence of passage rooms and a huge hall of entry barely usable, «explains Federico Sigali.» Mix the classic style and design Milanés came later. First we redesign it to create, in its 130 square meters, two bedrooms with two bathrooms, a living room, a dining room, a small breakfast room, a kitchen and a laundry room. «
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Mixture of classic style and Milanés design
«The owner's mandate was very clear: he wanted a warm and cozy house, but very British,» says Filippo Fiora. «What forced us to leave our comfort zone to adapt to the request. Sophie was always very present – but never intrusive – during the project, which helped us better understand their needs.» Keeping within the sobriety and elegance Milanesas, this department – and his designers – gave up some positions to the Classic style From the owner: some color schemes, some furniture, some tapestry paper designs. «But in one thing we were inflexible: the parquet. Nothing of Hungarian or French spine in an apartment in the heart of Milan, but, of course, Italian spine,» says the architects.
A mixture that works
When choosing the interior, the mixture of classic style and Milanese design created an underlying harmony thanks to the neutral palette. In the little one breakfast roomfor example, a travertine table designed by Studio 13.1 with chairs from Osvaldo Borsani, is crowned by an English lantern of the early twentieth century, with details painted in the colors of the house. And in the dining room, which is accessed by an old door in which the glass has been replaced by mirrors to better insulate the rooms, the walls have plaster moldings in which Iksel's tapestry paper has been placed Italian promenadereaffirming the pairing of the two cultures. The Ratán chairs come from England, two old Chinese vases are the bases of the two lamps of the console designed by Studio 13.1 and the mirror is old. In the living room, the old fireplace It comes from a palace in the center of Italy and the mirror on it hides a television inside. The center tables, For their part, they are made to measure in England. «We work looking for symmetries, openings, perspective axes. We love the wall decorations and, in this case, we calculate the gypsum friests – so as the old door that served as a prototype for all the others we did – about the originals to give a sense of continuity between the past and the contemporary, between inheritance and the function,» the architects say.