A design flat in sophisticated colours forms the backdrop to a design flat in Milan
A fluid layout where a central technical volume separates and connects the rooms, leaving light the task of uniting everything.
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A Milanese flat where a hollowed-out volume does everything: it contains kitchen, bathrooms, laundry and walk-in wardrobe, and naturally divides the living area from the sleeping area. In Casa La Vetreria, the services’ parallelepiped becomes the true architectural protagonist — a habitable threshold between the home’s two halves, carved out at the total-black Ernesto Meda kitchen in black Fenix. Sage green on the walls, Ghost sofas by Gervasoni, Davide Groppi lamps, Fornasetti wallpapers: every piece finds the right place. The project was published by Living del Corriere della Sera.
Spaces and solutions. The living area is divided from the sleeping area by a volume, a parallelepiped that contains all the services, the walk-in wardrobe, the laundry and the two bathrooms.
This volume is ‘hollowed out’ at the kitchen, made inside it. This way the L-shaped living-area windows are continuous between the kitchen and the living room proper, bringing the maximum possible light into the home.
Living room. The living room has a bespoke unit, at the entrance, that hides the electrical panels and holds the guest-coat hanging, as well as a key-tray, the umbrella stand and a full-length mirror.
Modules with iron shelves divide the entrance from the sofa zone. The sofas are by Gervasoni, the Ghost, oriented towards the TV zone and the living-room windows. The dining-table zone is the absolute protagonist. The table and the small armchairs are framed by 3 Neuro by Davide Groppi that enhance their position.
There is a careful, never banal use of colour. The sage green on the walls is deliberately kept in a band not coinciding with the whole wall, and balances the black-and-white play of the services volume with the bespoke bookcase. The services volume is also a technical element for distributing the systems, both for air distribution and for lighting, via a long LED strip that detaches it from the ceiling.
Kitchen. The Ernesto Meda kitchen, in total black, is the absolute protagonist of the sleeping area. It is made of black Fenix, anti-fingerprint and anti-stain. Every detail is looked after to be total black, from the sockets, to the solid-Fenix top, to the taps and the lighting. It is ‘hollowed out’ inside the technical volume, to create the necessary space in front of the window for a dedicated table.
It is divided from the living area by an iron-and-glass door, to have visual continuity but, when needed, to ensure a barrier against odours from food preparation.
Corridor. The corridor leading to the sleeping area is also total black, and houses a storeroom and the laundry, hidden and integrated into the furnishing. It is like a real ‘threshold’ between the day and night parts of the home.
Bedrooms. The two bedrooms have in common the fact that both have splendid Fornasetti wallpapers. One bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe created within the technical volume, closed by a black curtain.
The other bedroom has a shoe cupboard, made in the same way, while the back wall is designed by a Lema wardrobe.
Bathrooms. The bathrooms have sophisticated colour combinations. One is made with Florim tiles that mimic a Venetian terrazzo, and has black details, such as the taps and the shower enclosure.
The other is clad in Bardelli tiles, Pittorica series, and it too has almost industrial, contrasting black details.
Discover the article on Living Corriere della Sera about this project.
