The most beautiful houses of Design Week

In recent years, the boundary between domestic interiors and exhibition design has become increasingly blurred, transforming private homes, studios and ateliers into one of the most interesting languages of Fuorisalone. During Design Week these spaces become narrative environments where design, art and interiors overlap in a freer and more personal way. Sometimes the addresses are revealed at the very last moment, often registration is required or long queues are unavoidable, yet it is precisely this almost secret dimension that continues to fuel their appeal. And perhaps that is why, among all the events, these places often remain the most memorable. Below are the most beautiful houses we visited this year.

Casa Osvaldo Borsani by Interni Venosta


© Andrea Ferrari

A private home designed by Osvaldo Borsani between 1947 and 1948, never before opened to the public and located inside Palazzo Olivazzi on Via Bigli 21. Here Interni Venosta - the independent project by Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, founded in 2024 together with Fabbri Services in Tuscany - creates a subtle dialogue between contemporary design and postwar architecture. The interiors preserve Borsani’s elegant rigor, with sculptural walls, precious woods and carefully calibrated details, while the new collection of furniture and objects blends into the space with material and formal continuity, transforming the apartment into a sort of house museum suspended between memory and contemporaneity.

REdDUO Galleria


© RedDuo

In the Porta Genova area, the home-studio of REdDUO - the duo founded by Fabiola Di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso - was one of the most sought-after addresses of the week. More than a staging, it was a lived-in and layered interior, where vintage pieces, ceramics, textiles, collected objects and contemporary interventions built a free and highly personal domestic narrative.

L’Appartamento by L’Artisan Parfumeur and Antoine Billore


© L’Appartement di Artisan Parfumeur, Antoine Billore

At Via Giovanni Lulli 2 we stepped into what became one of our favorite apartments. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of L’Artisan Parfumeur, Parisian collector and antiques dealer Antoine Billore transformed the apartment into an eclectic and deeply personal interior, where hybrid furniture assembled from reclaimed elements coexisted with Persian rugs, inlaid panels, handcrafted pieces and found objects. L’Appartement felt like the domestic portrait of a compulsive traveler, guided more by instinct than by conventional collecting, capable of giving new life to forgotten objects without any sense of nostalgia. The olfactory universe of L’Artisan Parfumeur naturally entered the space, creating wonderfully pleasant sensations throughout the visit.

The Intimacy by Studiopepe


© Andrea Ferrari

For the twentieth anniversary of Studiopepe, the duo formed by Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto transformed the historic spaces of Viale Abruzzi - next to Bar Basso - into a permanent place dedicated to experimentation and creative exchange. Designed to remain active throughout the year with exhibitions, workshops, talks and special projects, the space also becomes a sort of three-dimensional manifesto of the studio’s language: a layered and strongly atmospheric interior where materials, furniture, artworks and decorative details express an intimate, sensory and deeply narrative vision of interior design.

Materials at Edge by Giampiero Tagliaferri


© Billal Barak Taright

In the heart of Brera, Giampiero Tagliaferri opened the doors of his new Milan studio for the first time, an apartment designed by the BBPR group and transformed during Design Week into a space suspended between home, gallery and creative laboratory. For the occasion, curators Truls Blaasmo and Chiara Rusconi of APALAZZOGALLERY created a dialogue between Italian postwar masters and contemporary artists, mixing furniture, artworks and materials in a layered and atmospheric interior where the boundary between collecting, design and domestic life became intentionally blurred.

Animale Sociale by Casaornella


© Casaornella, Milano Design Week 2026

With Animale Sociale, Casaornella continues to use the domestic dimension as a field of research rather than simply an exhibition space. In the apartment curated by Maria Vittoria Paggini, rooms, furnishings and surfaces create a fluid and almost immersive landscape, where light, materials and colors guide the visitor from one room to another without real separations. Artworks, lamps and artistic interventions scattered throughout the interiors contribute to transforming the house into a narrative and strongly sensory environment, culminating in the bedroom where the ceramic-covered bed appears almost like a sculptural presence.

An American Private Room by Yves Salomon x Michael Bargo


© Matto Verdini

At Casa Mascagni, a Milanese 1960s residence opened for Design Week, Yves Salomon Éditions and American designer Michael Bargo create an interior that blends French modernism, American domestic memory and collectible design. Fur quilts, reinterpreted historical furniture and unique pieces reinterpret the tradition of American quilts through the savoir-faire of the maison’s Paris ateliers, transforming the apartment into a lived-in and deeply personal home. The result is a layered and almost autobiographical environment where design, craftsmanship and memory coexist naturally.

Villa Pestarini, Franco Albini, ALCOVA 2026


© Villa Pestarini, Franco Albini

Designed by Franco Albini in the late 1940s, Villa Pestarini re-emerged during Milan Design Week as one of those places that seem to preserve intact the memory of another Milan. Exceptionally opened to the public by Alcova, the house revealed all the restrained refinement of Albini’s modernism: calibrated transitions, quiet materials and details designed more to be discovered than displayed. Contemporary installations entered the interiors almost on tiptoe, amplifying the sensation of walking through a house suspended in time, where architecture, light and objects continued to converse naturally.