Stella Orsini

This private apartment in Milan had been renovated a few years back, when the owners first had moved in. when i was contacted their need was to refresh the living room and make the layout of the bedroom more efficient.  the kitchen also needed a revamp, without drastic intervention.

I worked with the constraints of the cut of the apartment and tried to limit my inteventin to color, materials and some furniture. 

The living room had a very big empty wall where the TV was the sole element on a shelf. beside it, stood a geometric portal with neon lights leading to the bedrooms area.

I designed a bookshelf that takes up the whole wall and used the portal design as an inspiration for the shelving: the big books are housed in vertical slits that resemble the door frame. 

I chose the new couch from Flexform in a sturdy fabric to accomodate the life of the children in the family; the armchairs are custom made in leather and the other elements were preexisting.

I also completely changed the lighting - warm led in the portal and in the ceiling, plus warm warm led in the new bookshelf. 

new raw linen  curtains also add a soft touch.

the colour of the walls in the living room was carefully selected to be neutral, contemporary, on the warm side.

the original door frame was dark grey and i decided to blended it in making it of the same colour of the wall, so it looks more like an architectural detail.

the palette of the whole house - with the blues and greens as well as neutrals - was inspired by an enchanting little watercolour of the owners.

The bedroom had a strange layout where the built-in closet jutted out in the bedroom making the space unpractical.

we teared down a little wall and redesigned the whole perimeter of the room with a wood boiserie, that has the scope of balancing out the position of the bed and creating some shelf space.





the all-white kitchen has an alcove where a modern metal table and custom white shelf made the family breakfast atmosphere quite chilly. 
i added a splash of colour by tiling up the whole area with Mutina’s Din series, characteristic because it has many formats and finishes you can mix which allowed me to make playful pattern that integrates the existing shelf.

I also proposed to use an old wood family table and original Thonet chairs  - from their vacation home - to give a cosy feeling completed by the orange vintage chandelier.