{"id":148256,"date":"2024-11-24T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T14:11:52","slug":"marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Marble marvel: natural stone takes centre stage in historic Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAn apartment in the Italian city is transformed into an elegant home and showcase for natural stone interiorsIn the early noughties, Gabriele Salvatori was still enduring a long commute between Tuscany, where Salvatori, the family business was launched, and Milan where the opportunities for growth lay. He was looking for a pied-\u00e0-terre and also a showroom for the company, which specialises in stone for interiors. When he saw the first-floor space he was initially hesitant because of the cramped entryway. \u201cI called Piero Lissoni for advice and he said, \u2018Are you mad? Take it, you can make it beautiful.\u2019\u201dWhen such a renowned architect advises you to rent in a building with potential, you do it. So Gabriele took the plunge and also rented the apartment above it. This looked out on to a busy square making it noisy at times. It was also dark because it was north-facing. The location in Milan\u2019s historic centre, however, was optimal, and in time Gabriele would move up another floor into what is now his home. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/nov\/24\/marble-marvel-natural-stone-takes-centre-stage-in-historic-milan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marble marvel: natural stone takes centre stage in historic Milan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; An apartment in the Italian city is transformed into an elegant home and showcase for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-Cze","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148489,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/finding-beauty-in-brutalism-a-flat-in-milan-provides-a-haven-for-creativity\/","url_meta":{"origin":148256,"position":0},"title":"Finding beauty in Brutalism: a flat in Milan provides a haven for creativity","date":"December 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Art defines the space in an apartment in an iconic building whose Brutalist architecture once led to protestsSome people buy their dream home for the location, others for the space it affords them; for Italian fashion designer Massimo Giorgetti, it was a\u00a0love affair with Brutalism.His one-bedroom Milan apartment is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":146586,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sex-in-the-city-a-designers-porno-chic-home-in-milan\/","url_meta":{"origin":148256,"position":1},"title":"Sex in the city: a designer\u2019s \u2018porno chic\u2019 home in Milan","date":"August 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A 1930s apartment and gallery, packed with erotic touches and eccentric clashes, doesn\u2019t fail to titillateFasten your seatbelts. 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