“My interior décor is like water for a fish: it is the vital element, the unconscious envelope, a situation now dominated now undergone, but always essential”, said Alessandro Mendini when describing none other than his own home, in Domus, the magazine he directed in 1982.

Today, we still spend a great deal of time in our homes, perhaps more in search of coolness than warmth, and always in search of a place that reflects how we inhabit our environment, whether it’s in the city, in the woods, by the sea, or even on an island.

We’ve gathered some of the most inspiring interiors we've featured, to tell stories of diverse ways of living: from the essential spaces of compact urban homes to the rebirth of apartments designed by Le Corbusier, from the surprisingly brutalist character of certain domestic settings to transparent garden dwellings.
And you might also join us as we explore one of the most talked-about interiors, and one of the least accessible in a precise moment of the year.

Studio Marcante-Testa has renovated a 1950s apartment originally designed by Ada Bursi – one of the first registered female architects in Italy – highlighting a “democratic luxury” made of modern spatiality and refined mid-century details. Keep reading

The renovation by Noe9 reinterprets historic textures and materials to create a contrast of optical geometric textures, neutral surfaces and design icons. Keep reading

History and contemporary design merge in the renovation of a Milanese apartment, where the superfluous is cut by inserting a thin green metal structure and an abstract semicircular staircase. Keep reading

Studio RREEL has renovated an apartment in the famous Porte Molitor building, where the modern master had created his home and studio, in a dialogue with his legacy through space, colors and materials. Keep reading

Isla Architects have translated the local character of the Balearic Islands into a dialogue of earth, stone and white interiors gathered around a linear open space. Keep reading

Restored by Bian Office, the apartment overlooks the Spanish city’s bay and features a new organization of spaces and an eccentric choice of finishes and colors that bring a contemporary lifestyle to the interior. Keep reading