IMAGES: MARTINA BONETTI; AWL IMAGES; HOTEL VIU MILAN; COURTESY OF CAMPARINO IN GALLERIA
F IVE MOR E Design dens
THE BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT Milan’s boho-chic design district is a delight, with smart cafes, perfume boutiques and contemporary furniture shops tucked into the cobblestone courtyards of former artist ateliers. At its heart, La Pinacoteca Brera is a baroque reworking of a 14th- century monastery housing some 400 paintings by the likes of Piero della Francesca, Titian and Tintoretto. Wander north along Corso Garibaldi to the Moscova metro area for hip bars and bistros including Cortile Flora, with its plant-forward menu. Check into the Bvlgari Hotel, flagship of the resort franchise helmed by the Italian jewellery company, overlooking Brera’s botanical garden.
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ADI Design Museum is one of Europe’s largest museums dedicated to design
Clockwise from below: Naviglio Grande canal; the VIU suite at Hotel VIU Milan;
camparino cocktail and food pairing at Camparino in Galleria; Milano Centrale Railway Station and Piazza Duca D’Aosta
ADI DESIGN MUSEUM One of the largest museums in Europe dedicated to design, it houses every project celebrated in the history of the Compasso d’Oro Award, an ongoing industrial design prize born in Italy in 1954. The building itself is worth a medal, a masterfully revamped depot, initially for horse-drawn trams, then an electricity station. Highlights from its collection of award-winning Italian designs through the ages include everyday objects we take for granted — coffee machines to cars, manhole covers to myriad versions of the chair.
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VILLA NECCHI CAMPIGLIO This jewel of Milan’s 1930s design, by Italian rationalist architect Piero Portaluppi, has recently been used as a filming location for both House of Gucci and Luca Guadagnino’s, I am Love. The former home of the Necchi Campiglio family, one of Lombardy’s leading industrialist dynasties, is a modernist villa in grand style. Marvel at sleek walnut panelling and parquetry, steel embossed doors and room divides that glide invisibly into walls. Servants’ quarters and service kitchens are woven seamlessly into the building’s structure, and the swimming pool is shielded by carefully planted, walled gardens. A bastion of restrained luxury in the heart of the Centro Storico.
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THE NAVIGLI The last Sunday of the month sees Milan’s best-loved flea market line the pavements of canal-side streets Ripa di Porta Ticinese and Alzaia Naviglio Grande, in Milan’s Navigli (canal) district. Among the knick- knacks, Versace knock-offs and vintage copies of Sunday newspaper, Domenica del Corriere, you might just find a treasure or two. The surrounding streets are home to eclectic antique shops, and casi di ringhiera (tenement buildings with shared balconies) typical of old Milan, some now dedicated to art galleries. This low-rise district is a good sunset spot, and its aperitivi scene gets fairly lively. Escape for an ice cream along the canal at La Gelateria della Musica.
ROSSANNA ORLANDI MASTER GALLERY The so-called Anna Wintour of Italy has made her home in Milan’s handsome Liberty (Italian art nouveau) Magenta district. Rossana Orlandi, former fabric designer and exhibition curator, has built a gallery and design emporium around the pretty courtyard at the centre of this transformed old tie factory. At the forefront of the Salone del Mobile, Orlandi has created a showcase for promising young designers and their collections, as well as offering passers- by a feast for the eyes. Pretty much everything is for sale, from mid- century armchairs to used fabrics and contemporary candelabra.
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