Nature bursts in Milan

Turin-based architects Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa refurbished a 150m2 apartment in Milan, facing a lush internal garden. The visual relationship with nature was the guiding motivation behind the choice of this place on the part of the client, a place with which to identify and establish a personal rapport.

These were the premises for the project by the architecture studio Marcante-Testa, seen as an investigation of the elements that in the design of the residential space are capable of suggesting recollections on a domestic, often extra-urban plane,  drawn from family life.

Nature bursts in on a somewhat surreal level incorporating the treetops of the courtyard to the walls. Materials like wicker, Vienna straw and linen that form seats, accessorized dividers, wardrobe doors, the marble laminate of the kitchen table, the wicker headboards of the beds, join forces to stimulate memories of spaces, perhaps experienced in a “grandmother’s house,” reinterpreted here and rendered functional for contemporary needs. The choices are bold yet cohesive and full of design goodness at every turn.