![]() ![]() SEE ALSO: OVS new flagship store at via Dante designed by Vincenzo de Cotiis The effect is at once warm and inviting it feels lived-in but luxurious - a trademark style for the designer, whose work reflects his love of surface texture, organic forms and light. To that end, each room reveals beautifully crumbling plaster and gently vaulted ceilings with original mouldings in an evocative state of disrepair, all in soft colours bleached by decades of sunlight. I then worked out what needed my intervention in a contemporary way.” The idea was to maintain its character, but uncover the original paint colours, the ceiling and especially the light. “Mostly I wanted to preserve the history and positive atmosphere that already existed here. What was beneath, in a wonderfully imperfect, worn state, was far more incredible,” says de Cotiis. The 300-square-metre apartment - with its grandly proportioned, interconnecting rooms, high ceilings and rich parquetry floors - is awash with the most glorious natural sunlight that floods every room from the street-side balcony back to the courtyard. SEE ALSO: Best Milan restaurants – 5 designer restaurants to not miss Originally from the north of Italy, de Cotiis set up his design practice more than 20 years ago and has become known for the interiors he creates for high-end stores such as Excelsior Milano and Antonia, as well as his sculpting and, more recently, a limited-edition furniture collection. If the designer attributes his love of art and architecture to his mother’s impeccable taste, then her influence is apparent in their home in the heart of Milan. SEE ALSO: Shopping in Milan – New Vincenzo de Cotiis Milan store ![]() The palazzo stands behind discreet gates on a quiet street, its wide, soaring stairwell leading from the central courtyard to de Cotiis’s first-floor home. It feels like an oasis, just 10 minutes from the touristy centre of the Duomo. Magenta traditionally attracted nobility and has long been known for its small artisan workshops. Prepare to be knock out by Cotiis’s apartment decoration. It was two years ago when Italian architect and sculptor, Vincenzo de Cotiis and his wife,discovered their 18th-century palazzo apartment in the old neighbourhood of Corso Magenta. ![]()
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