The renovation project of this Milan apartment focused on reorganizing the spaces to meet contemporary needs while preserving its original charm.
The main intervention involved expanding the living area by merging the kitchen and living room into a single, fluid, and luminous space. At the same time, a private core was created, comprising the master bedroom with an integrated walk-in closet and an en suite bathroom, ensuring an intimate and reserved area.
The renovation avoided invasive structural changes to safeguard the existing architectural elements—true treasures of early 20th-century design: molded doors, decorative wall and ceiling cornices, wooden-framed French doors, and the elegant parquet flooring laid with a fascia and bindello pattern.
The true highlight of the apartment, however, is the presence of two spaces distinguished by colored terrazzo tiles arranged in refined geometric patterns.
One of these is a studio/bedroom, while the other is the foyer, the vibrant heart of the home from which all other rooms unfold.
To maintain aesthetic coherence, the color palette and materials were carefully chosen in harmony with the pre-existing elements.
The bathroom facing the foyer reflects the tones of the original tiles, reinterpreted in three shades that create a sophisticated interplay of visual connections.
In the remaining spaces, all newly designed elements—including the resin flooring in the kitchen, the en suite bathroom finishes, and the custom-made furnishings—are characterized by neutral and elegant tones.
This approach highlights the contrast between past and present without abrupt transitions while ensuring visual balance, preventing an overload of decorative details in an already richly adorned setting.
The result is an apartment where the dialogue between old and new unfolds naturally, creating a sophisticated yet welcoming atmosphere, where visual and conceptual echoes intertwine in a harmonious interplay of history and modernity.
About
Atelierzero is an architectural studio founded in 2013. The firm works on different themes an typologies (residential, retail, interior and product design). Always striving to create emotional designs with conceptual clarity, our design process is informed by both traditional craft based techniques and the possibilities offered by modern materials and fabrication methods.
Photography & Styling: Specchi Studio
