Opening Velasca

Torre Velasca opens to the city of Milan thanks to the project by Piero Lissoni, which integrates Living Divani collection in the rigorous elegance of a penthouse on the twenty-fifth floor.

L'allestimento di Piero Lissoni per l’attico al 25° piano della Torre Velasca

With the project Opening Velasca the Torre Velasca, owned by the Unipol Group since 2012, returns to be a place of great beauty proposing its central role within the cultural life of Milan.

Together with the square furnished with Living Divani’s outdoor collection, and the temporary store of the brand at the ground floor, the project of Opening Velasca culminates in the outfitting of the Tower’s penthouse. Here Piero Lissoni has created a space for events where to experiment the concept design driving the residential requalification of the Brutalist iconic tower designed by BBPR at the end of the Fifties.

The space is furnished with several proposals from Living Divani collection: at the entrance the Inari console by mist-o creates anticipates the double-height dining room personalized by the classical Maja D armchairs by Piero Lissoni, covered in fabric. On the upper floor, the first room hosts Rod armchairs by Piero Lissoni, Strato coffee table by Victor Carrasco with contoured shape wooden tops and Off Cut bookcase by Nathan Yong, designed by assembling interlocking laths of solid wood.

In the next room we can find Marquise armchairs by Piero Lissoni, the Track bench and Anin stools by David Lopez Quincoces, laid on the Wired carpet hand-knotted in Nepal’s, belonging to the Carpet Collection designed by Harry & Camila, and the total black Inari desk by mist-o.

One can appreciate the unique view from the top of the tower sitting on the Frog armchairs, accompained by Jelly round coffee tables, once again designed by Piero Lissoni.

L'allestimento di Piero Lissoni per l’attico al 25° piano della Torre Velasca. Photo Santi Caleca — Piero Lissoni's set up for the Torre Velasca's penthouse. Photo Santi Caleca

Torre Velasca is part of Urban Up, the property requalification project of the Gruppo Unipol aimed at enhancing the value of some of the most important Milan buildings that it owns. It is a new temporary urban space dedicated to the inhabitants and visitors of the city, pre-empting the refined and topquality spirit of the majestic general requalification project of the Tower.

Under the metal structure constructed to support the future scaffolding in order to renovate all of the external parts of Torre Velasca, a garden has been set up; a slow, calm oasis open towards the moving city, where the raw, industrial aesthetics of the scaffolding mixes with Living Divani furniture, with the contribute of Kerakoll Design House for finishing, Flos for lighting, Nespoli Vivai for plants and Carnini Irrigazione for the maintenance of this green area.

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