Milan houses

In this extract from Inside Milan, Nicolò Castellini Baldiserra discusses how the Milanese bring beauty to an otherwise functional, industrial city – and how he did the same to his apartment

Although he has homes in Milan and Tangier, it is Rohuna, his house in the Moroccan countryside, that epitomizes the diversity of Umberto Pasti’s interests – including gardening, writing and collecting beautiful things

Behind a nondescript facade in northeastern Milan is the magical residence of Barnaba Fornasetti. It's a shrine to the style developed by his design-legend father, which still defies categorization.

Inside Villa Borsani, Italian designer-architect Osvaldo Borsani's modernist masterpiece that in its heyday was creative think tank where ideas were composed, discussed and considered by greats like Lucio Fontana and Giò Ponti.

Following the recent reissue of some of Piero Portaluppi's most prized furniture designs, we get a glimpse into Casa degli Atellani the Milan palazzo where the famed Italian architect once lived.