Milan, city centre. Interior, daytime.
In the historic centre of Milan, a luminous first-floor apartment overlooking Corso Magenta engages in a direct dialogue with the city’s layered history. Framed by large windows, the view toward Santa Maria delle Grazie — the Renaissance masterpiece where Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper — becomes the conceptual starting point of the project.
Conceived for a family of art collectors returning to Italy after many years abroad, Dimora Magenta explores the coexistence of different temporalities: the slow rhythm of history and the fast pace of contemporary life. The original early-20th-century Milanese layout has been carefully reinterpreted, reorganizing the plan into a sequence of generous and intimate spaces.
operates on a double register. On the surface, the architectural envelope expresses a refined classical aesthetic, crafted with meticulous attention to detail and enriched by iconic design pieces, artworks, noble materials and exceptional craftsmanship — the best of Made in Italy. Beneath the surface, however, lies a highly international and technological soul: integrated home automation, precise lighting design and an advanced multi-room audio-video system transform the apartment into a hyper-contemporary living environment.
entrance sets the tone. Conceived as a tribute to the dome of Santa Maria delle Grazie, it becomes an almost sacred threshold between exterior and interior. A circular “envelope within an envelope” brings to different spaces of the house, between them the kitchen which, organized around a large custom-made island, becomes the pivot of family life. At the heart of the home lies the expansive living area. Preserved in its original proportions, the space acts almost as a gallery, where neutral tones and natural materials become the backdrop for iconic Italian design pieces and vibrant contemporary artworks.
