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Embracing the darkness to create a cosy and colourful space.
In his 1,720-square-foot apartment 23 miles east of Milan, interior designer Daniele Daminelli has achieved something difficult: creating a dark-colored yet light-filled dwelling that is as hospitable as it is stylish, affording his young family a haven that is both comforting and aesthetically engaging, even during the pandemic. “COVID’s really allowed me to think differently about working from home,” says Daminelli, who with wife Giulia is raising their two children in the town of Treviglio. “Fortunately our apartment allowed us to experience quarantine easily, and actually enjoyably. We are interested in creating sophisticated spaces, even for the kids, and teaching them how to live with respect for beauty.”
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In his 1,720-square-foot apartment 23 miles east of Milan, interior designer Daniele Daminelli has achieved something difficult: creating a dark-colored yet light-filled dwelling that is as hospitable as it is stylish, affording his young family a haven that is both comforting and aesthetically engaging, even during the pandemic. “COVID’s really allowed me to think differently about working from home,” says Daminelli, who with wife Giulia is raising their two children in the town of Treviglio. “Fortunately our apartment allowed us to experience quarantine easily, and actually enjoyably. We are interested in creating sophisticated spaces, even for the kids, and teaching them how to live with respect for beauty.”
In "Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s," historian Marilyn Friedman traces America's darkest era became its period of great innovation.
See firsthand the integral decade’s incredible impact on modern American interior design
In his 1,720-square-foot apartment 23 miles east of Milan, interior designer Daniele Daminelli has achieved something difficult: creating a dark-colored yet light-filled dwelling that is as hospitable as it is stylish, affording his young family a haven that is both comforting and aesthetically engaging, even during the pandemic. “COVID’s really allowed me to think differently about working from home,” says Daminelli, who with wife Giulia is raising their two children in the town of Treviglio. “Fortunately our apartment allowed us to experience quarantine easily, and actually enjoyably. We are interested in creating sophisticated spaces, even for the kids, and teaching them how to live with respect for beauty.”
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Exploring alternative 1930s interiors to the dark and dramatic ones we're all familiar with by
