Italian architect Matteo Thun regarded to the unique supplies and colors of Milan’s iconic Torre Velasca when creating its new interiors, which function pink hues impressed by the tower’s dusky facade.
Thun has designed 72 flats within the higher flooring of the tower, starting from suites to duplex penthouses. He approached the inside design of the skyscraper, constructed within the Nineteen Fifties by the structure studio BBPR, with a concentrate on reinterpretation.
“We allowed the masters and the constructing itself to talk, imagining a way of life inside it that will carry the constructing slightly additional into the long run, including a brand new chapter to its historical past,” Thun informed Dezeen.
“We didn’t search distinction: our design was knowledgeable instantly by the supplies and colors of Torre Velasca, and we selected to not intervene the place we felt the structure had already achieved a way of completeness.”
His studio preserved unique particulars, together with doorways, window frames, loggias and tiles within the loos and kitchens. These had been then juxtaposed with trendy furnishings and evergreen design classics.
“The interiors deliver collectively new furnishings designed by the studio and design references spanning the Nineteen Fifties to the Nineteen Eighties, together with iconic items developed in new colourways in collaboration with historic Milanese firms,” Thun mentioned.
“With a deep appreciation for craftsmanship and a powerful consideration to element, these designs share a capability to evolve with out dropping their identification.”
The color palette, too, was impressed by the unique hues of the Torre Velasca.
Within the residing rooms, partitions are lined in custom-made velvet wall coverings by textile firm Dedar in a pale pink color that resembles the pink plaster on Torre Velasca’s facade.
“The constructing itself was our place to begin,” Thun mentioned.
“The pink plaster, developed and patented particularly for the tower, along with the blue and inexperienced flooring tiles discovered each inside and within the loggias, fashioned the premise of our color palette,” he continued.
“We developed totally different gradations of those tones, choosing darker shades of inexperienced and blue to outline the doorway areas and bedrooms. “
In addition to the flats, Thun additionally designed the inside of the reception, foyer and the corridors on the bottom flooring.
And whereas this was an inside mission, Thun says it ended up turning into “a lesson in structure” for his studio.
“Working with a constructing as distinctive as Torre Velasca challenged us to assume and work at the beginning as architects,” Thun mentioned.
“The problem was to not reinvent the constructing, however to search out methods to make its unique character really feel related as we speak, whereas remaining true to BBPR’s imaginative and prescient,” he continued.
“On this sense, the mission grew to become a technique of discovery, with the constructing itself serving as our biggest trainer. It was, in some ways, a lesson in structure for us.”
Thun has beforehand designed the inside of the boutique lodge The Julius Prague and “hotel-like” rooms for a German hospital.
Images by Alberto Strada
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