PONTI IN THE AIR
It’s a well-worn cliché that Milanese interiors are mannered tributes to their northern Italian metropolis — aged monumentality integrating with mid-century modernism in an ambient tension of high and low. This is true of the Milano Centrale apartment owned and designed by architect Francesco Librizzi, founder of the self-named studio reputed for divining the essence of people and place in its modelling of space.
Librizzi first came to media and museum attention with a series of fine metal-frame staircases; or sculptural “back-bones” as he coins the conceptually rich bridging constructions that would later build into his renovations of Casa C and Casa G, a coastal cottage in Sicily that garnered international awards. These projects established the erstwhile urban
