Interior designer Andrea Auletta has recently completed the project for his family home, a sophisticated apartment located in a residential area of Milan between Porta Venezia and Piazzale Loreto.
The classic layout of the apartment has been redesigned, by sacrifying traditional and underutilized areas such as long corridors and entrances, in favour of wide-ranging environments more suitable for new functions and for a different way of living the domestic landscape.
Thus, the living-dining-kitchen area becomes a single large space with arched doors, while the master bedroom area, with a bedroom and double walk-in closet, extends into the bathroom-shower area that takes natural light from the outside; again, the two twin bedrooms of the children present the original pass-through shower and works by Simone d’Auria on the walls.
Auletta has chosen original solutions for his house: scratched rough resin walls, mother-of-pearl wallpaper, pietra serena floors and the use of a light and resistant wood covering, usually used to counterplate the doors.
Technology is very important in this house, where all devices remain carefully hidden and a highly advanced home automation system allows the remote control of all functions, from air conditioning to the regulation of lights, from starting / switching off appliances to managing the safety control system.
Anyway, the unifying element is the colour: RAL 1013, one of the infinite shades of white which, in our case, takes on the tones of a warm, soft and embracing white tending to taupe; the contrast is expressed through furnishing elements finished with metal edges, a brushed and burnished steel, created ad hoc, with ribbed woods, resin and sand stone.
Pieces of art collection live with the rhythm of the environment: the large table ‘La Rosa dei Venti’ and the parade chairs by Mario Ceroli, the historical Flos lamps from the 1970s, the paintings by Fortunato Depero and Mimmo Rotella, the drawings by Marino Marini, an exclusive French parchment piece of furniture, bedside tables in arabesque marble, up to the careful choice of fabrics and coverings.
Finally, a pale blue sky is painted on the elliptical ceilings, crossed by a passage of clouds: a special touch that broadens the perspective by increasing the sense of bright and lightness.
