Marcante-Testa makes use of marble to merge residing areas in Teorema Milanese residence

Veiny slabs of inexperienced and gray marble assist visually tie collectively residing areas inside this Milan residence, which has been overhauled by design studio Marcante-Testa.

Beforehand described as a “typical bourgeois residence”, Teorema Milanese has been redesigned by Turin-based Marcante-Testa to characteristic a wealthy mixture of supplies and hues.

The studio was eager to keep up the residence’s basic structure and thus determined to make only one important structural change – a partition wall has been knocked by way of to type an open-plan residing and eating room.

“By means of doing so, one thing surprising occurs: the house is unified and, considerably surprisingly, prolonged outwards, but on the similar time it’s nonetheless subdivided into perceptible useful areas,” stated the studio.

Pale gray cipollino tirreno marble turns into a “carpet” within the sitting space, which is dressed with sculptural armchairs, a khaki-green leather-based couch and an outsized flooring lamp.

The marble additionally extends up a part of the wall and ceiling to create an enormous window body that appears out over a tree-lined boulevard under.

“The design of the marble slabs and the sample of the veins inside them create visible pathways, guiding the inhabitants by way of a sample of exact spatial hierarchies,” the studio defined.

Deep-green verde alpi marble then covers the ground and sideboard of the opposite half of the room, which is centred by an oval, timber desk.

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Adjacently lies a brass-framed display screen that provides a way of separation between the eating space and the residence’s entryway.

It is inbuilt with a diamond-shaped mirror and a lemon-yellow cupboard the place inhabitants can stow away their belongings.

An extended central hall leads off to the house’s different brightly hued rooms, that are partially hid by panels of mottled glass with coral-orange borders.

Maroon-streaked salomè marble serves as a splashback to sinks within the rest room, full with jet-black faucet taps.

In the meantime, within the kitchen, sea-green cabinetry enhances geometric flooring tiles that seem within the adjoining breakfast nook. Leaf-print ochre wallpaper runs throughout the ceiling above.

A equally clashing combine seems in the main bedroom, the place heavily-patterned wallpaper has been paired with flecked blue wardrobes and sheer polka-dot curtains.

Marble flooring right here has additionally been traded for herringbone-pattern floorboards, elements of which have been painted to type a vibrant border.

Marcante Testa was established in 2014 and is headed up by Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa.

This is not the one undertaking the studio has accomplished in Milan – earlier this yr it overhauled the inside of a style boutique to characteristic an “architectural panorama” of pink-clay partitions, copper pipes and plexiglass panels.

Images is by Carola Ripamonti.