In a 1930s Milanese building, architect and designer Elisa Ossino has shaped a living space that is also a manifesto of her creative practice. Here, primary functions are concealed, practical elements take on sculptural forms, and art inhabits every room. Historical identity and contemporary sensibility converge: original floors, doors and fixtures have been preserved, while thoughtful interventions introduce new geometries and reframe spatial perspectives through a warm white palette.
At the heart of the home, the kitchen presents itself as a pure, monochrome volume. The island – part of the Passione collection by Ossino with Henry Timi – emerges like a sculptural monolith in travertine. From the kitchen, one steps onto a terrace where aromatic herbs, Mediterranean essences and agaves recall the designer’s Sicilian roots, forming a quiet, suspended garden.
The kitchen cabinetry features an integrated V-ZUG oven and steamer, its reflective surface discreetly echoing the surrounding space. Like the walls, the units are coated in a specially developed warm white lime plaster, with a velvety texture that diffuses the light. Set flush into the travertine island, the V-ZUG CombiCookTop with integrated extractor blends seamlessly into the stone, preserving the kitchen’s sculptural purity through its minimalist design.
“Matter and light, absence and presence, gesture and silence form an environment of experience and reflection, a space where time seems to slow down.” Elisa Ossino
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An architect, designer and art director with Sicilian roots, Elisa Ossino founded her eponymous studio in 2006. Her work, renowned worldwide, has a strong interdisciplinary component. Architecture, art, design and performance converge into a coherent vision, where objects have compositional weight in space and symbolic meaning at the same time.
