CARLA SOZZANI

Once home to a foreign embassy, Carla Sozzani’s Milan apartment retains a sense of haven to this day. Part of that feeling can be put down to the U-shaped space leading onto a private garden in a leafy street so serene it has ‘tranquilo’ in its name. Another part is because Sozzani has not so much designed the interior as allowed it to quietly evolve over time.

“It’s layered, very much like the way we layer life,” says the revered