Modern Italy

Modern Italian design also sets a focus on meshing the old with the new. Ultra-modern furnishings demand some classical touches to add that sun-soaked Mediterranean feel.

Landed, Living and Dining

A Clever Use of Space

Anyone who’s ever visited Italy will be aware that for all the opulence of their exteriors, when it comes down to the bare facts, Italian homes tend to be a little “cozy”. Where once a single family-owned an entire building, now that same block houses maybe 30-50 individual apartments. Not that you’d always notice, however. When it comes to clever utilization of space, Italians are the masters and can make a poky little dwelling seem as spacious and airy as a mansion in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Through the clever placement of furniture, light fittings, and architectural features, Italians can create the feeling of a large, bright, airy space that has very little to do with the room’s actual dimensions.

A Shift Towards Minimalism

As Life In Italy notes, while Italians haven’t embraced minimalism in the same way as say the Japanese or the Scandinavians have, they do tend to prefer a much cleaner, simpler aesthetic to the ones their ancestors did. This embrace of all things clean and uncluttered has led modern Italian homes to shun their previous habit of ornamenting their surrounds to the max, preferring instead to keep thing safely stowed away in handy storage spaces. Furniture is required to justify its place in these new clean spaces, with the result that single pieces will often serve one or more functions (a sofa that turns into a bed, for example, or an easy chair that incorporates storage space in its arms and base).

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Italian interior designers tend to prefer a clean, contemporary color palette with white as its main focus. Walls in modern homes tend to be pure white, while bolder hues such as red will often be used as an accent. In more traditional properties, cream, beige, and ivory tend to dominate as the background color, while olive, terracotta, blue and lavender serve as complementary accents.

Dining from [Mai Space]

• Dining table

• Dining chairs

• Chandelier

Living from [Mai Space]

• Sofa

• Single seat sofa

• Arm chair with leg rest

• Side table

• Coffee table

• Carpet

• Curtain

• Vases

More from [Mai Space]

• Aromatherapy

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