Milan Apartment in Porta Venezia
Milan Apartment in Porta Venezia sits inside a classical palazzo in Milan, Italy, reimagined by Eligo Studio for a creative couple. The renovation holds onto early-20th-century craft while threading a clear palette of soft hues and anthracite across rooms. It’s an apartment reshaped for convivial, contemporary living without losing its Milanese poise.
A small wrought-iron door invites entry. Beyond it, light washes pale walls while anthracite accents hold the line between rooms, giving the old palazzo a crisp new tempo.
This apartment in Milan’s Porta Venezia district is reworked by Eligo Studio as a lived-in study of contrast and calm. The project keeps the period framework intact yet reframes daily life through color, material, and a few decisive thresholds.
Set The Contrast
Light and anthracite define the palette from the first step, a dialogue carried by chalky whites, lime-washed walls, and sharp iron lines. The hallway in anthracite resin acts as a clear datum, distributing movement while emphasizing the apartment’s classical bones with a contemporary cadence.
Link Rooms With Iron
Kitchen, dining, and living now connect as one generous heart, a choice that aligns conversation with cooking and long meals. A deep trapezoidal iron portal frames the threshold between living and dining, its dark geometry holding an axial view to a large contemporary painting and anchoring the warm tones around it.
Restore And Refine
Original wooden doors, once replaced by 1970s elements, return in restored form to soften the line between old and new. Slaked lime on white walls lends a dry, velvety texture that gathers daylight, while the anthracite corridor underscores the plan without overwhelming the historic detailing.
Baths Reveal Layers
The former kitchen-living room becomes a large bathroom, where a free-standing tub with classical lines stands on a contemporary lime and resin floor. Ceilings stripped of later paint reveal timeworn layers, turning the room into a quiet archive of the building’s past and a counterpoint to the crisp palette below.
Art, Icons, Custom
Art and vintage pieces sit easily alongside bespoke work. LC1 armchairs, an Ico Parisi console, and tailored furnishings by Eligo create a measured rhythm, with each object given breathing room and purpose.
A Fireplace As Anchor
A fireplace from an early-20th-century villa in San Remo anchors the living room, its presence tying the apartment back to Italian craft. Around it, the palette’s push and pull—soft plaster tones versus decisive iron—keeps the rooms lucid and warm.
By day, light slides across lime-washed walls and catches the iron portal’s edge. By night, anthracite surfaces quiet the rooms, letting texture and silhouette lead—an elegant balance set for daily life.
Photography by Nathalie Krag
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