{"id":204935,"date":"2023-01-06T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=204935"},"modified":"2023-01-06T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:23:56","slug":"milan-apartments-studio-paradisiartificiali-art","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/milan-apartments-studio-paradisiartificiali-art\/","title":{"rendered":"20th-Century Art Enlivens This Standout Among Milan Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the living room, a Servomuto wall lamp and Peter Upward painting hang above a Miniforms coffee table, and Kasthall rug; nearby, a Knoll chair pulls up to a desk with modular shelving by Made. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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January 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Jesse Dorris<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Images by Fabio Bascetta; Stylist: Veronica Leali<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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20th-Century Art Enlivens This Standout Among Milan Apartments<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe enjoy reflecting on how to best employ the new technologies,\u201d say Studio Paradisiartificial<\/a>i founders Alessandro Cortesi and Lorenzo De Nicola. \u201cBut we feel very much like children of the 20th century.\u201d That may seem like a dichotomy, and to be sure the pair have made a career of interiors defined by contrasts and surprises. But their latest, a mini studio apartment in Milan, is definitive proof of the virtue of oppositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the modern way, the client\u2014a teacher at a local primary school\u2014contacted Alessandro and Lorenzo online. The rest of the story belongs to the previous century, however. Her 400-square-foot apartment is tucked into a case a ringhiera<\/em> or, as the pair explains, social housing structures built in the early 1900s. “To live in such places you feel like you are in a time-machine, or a pre-industrial, almost bucolic set,\u201d they add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The kitchen is by Scavolini, with KnIndustrie equipment and bowls sets by Beatrice Carolina, while a Kave Home pendant illuminates a dining table and Miniforms chairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stage set, they enlisted two of the previous century\u2019s major art movements. First, surrealism. \u201cWe imagined some hens escaping from their henhouse and running around the kitchen,\u201d they say. Chickens and eggs come to roost in the kitchen via \u201ca bizarre mathematic expression\u201d created in collaboration with Ukrainian artist Pavel Zhovba and digitally printed upon tiles. Next, another tile teamwork, this time in tribute to abstract expressionism. It began, they say, with a painting in the living room, a 1962 work by the gestural artist Peter Upward. \u201cBy observing this painting,\u201d they say, \u201cwe could notice the limited color palette present in his artwork. This brought us to have minimalistic reflections around the use of color. As architects, we asked ourselves how to interpret color through minimal gestures. Why not imagine the bathroom could become a small art gallery, with an exhibit of another giant of abstraction: Ellsworth Kelly?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not, indeed. They found a company with a wide range of colorful square tiles. \u201cAfterwards we selected some artworks by the master Kelly and we re-constructed them together,\u201d they share. Thus, through very contemporary means, they fit an entire history of the last century in a flat that looks like the future.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The side-by-side flats are accessed from a shared, open balcony around the central courtyard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Across from a Thonet coat-hanger, an illustration of the matriarchal hen watches over via digitally-printed tiles by Sodai Design. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“The Chicken Sisters,\u201d a series of artwork wall tiles, form the kitchen backsplash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the living room, a Servomuto wall lamp and Peter Upward painting hang above a Miniforms coffee table, and Kasthall rug; nearby, a Knoll chair pulls up to a desk with modular shelving by Made. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CE.SI manufactured the tiles referencing Ellsworth Kelly artworks; the toilet and bidet are by Globo, the bath fittings by Newform, and the floor tile by Florim.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An ex.t mirror reflects the Ellsworth Kelly installation in the bathroom, with Ideal Flux wall lamps and a Globo basin. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Golran rug serves as a headboard in the bedroom; the pendants are by Forstier, while Riva 1920 furnished the bedside table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n