Sensorial Experience of Design

A Milanese refuge where design meets emotion. A project that becomes a sensorial experience, open to anyone wishing to embrace it. Project: Studio Locatelli Partners Year: 2024 Site: Milano

In the heart of Milan, opposite the historic Palazzo del Senato, a project takes shape-one that engages with the city’s architectural identity and contributes to an elegant, coherent urban patchwork.

Just steps from Via Montenapoleone, in a building meticulously renovated with sartorial care, a collection of exclusive apartments has been created for those who seek not just a place to stay, but a deeper immersion in the Milanese way of life. Here, interior design becomes narrative, and each floor a chapter of its own.

The five suites share the same layout: a spacious living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, three bathrooms, and two balconies. Yet it’s in the details that each floor reveals its soul. Finishes and furnishings shift in tone, following the natural light and creating a chromatic palette that grows more intense with each level.

The custom-designed kitchens on each floor are dressed in colors that evoke emotion: cactus green, sky blue, blush pink, rust red, and aqua green. Soft or bold tones, paired with interiors either in harmony or contrast, shape spaces where functionality is enhanced by visual delight. Materials invite touch, while maintaining durability over time.
In the junior bathrooms, time is reflected in the details.

Five different wood finishes—from natural and thermo-treated oak to maple, mahogany, and glossy lacquer—reinterpret a refined vintage style that converses with the present without nostalgia.
Each wood essence welcomes daily rituals with a new depth; every material choice invites one to slow down, to inhabit time. Maple also appears in a large library filled with curated books, inviting quiet moments of reading.

This project is an ode to Italian design: every floor is furnished with iconic objects and carefully chosen materials. The interiors evoke tradition and reinterpret it within a contemporary vision of living. And the view over central Milan is simply priceless.