LIVING ROOM
‘I love to hunt for out-of-the-ordinary items to create interiors that are not standardised,’ says owner Tessa. The piece over the mantel is actually a rug.
in the elegant residential neighbourhood around Milan’s Via XX Settembre, Tessa Horovitz, a Parisian architect, has been working on her most important project – the house she shares with her husband Alvise Raccanelli, astrophysicist and professor at the University of Padua. ‘We immediately fell in love with the area,’ she says. ‘Coming from Paris and having grown up among ancient