Porte e Finestre - April 2019
Porte e Finestre, a Gruppo Tecniche Nuove magazine, devotes a feature in its April 2019 issue to Officine Milano, the showroom designed by Francesco Meneghello for Gaia Massetti in a former coal depot on Via Francesco De Sanctis in Milan.
Porte e Finestre publishes a feature on Officine Milano, the showroom at Via Francesco De Sanctis 30 in Milan. Anna Rucci’s article, titled ‘Lo spazio, la luce, le superfici’, tells how a former coal depot became a 500-square-metre interiors boutique.
Gaia Massetti, the owner of Officine Milano, entrusted the design of the space to Francesco Meneghello. The project plays on the height of the industrial volume and the natural light from the large windows, tracing a route that brings together wood, terracotta, cement-tile and terrazzo flooring, window-frame sections, marble and natural stone. The showroom presents the work of its eleven partner companies, Ac Marmi, Carlo Apollo, Cotto Etrusco, De Piero, Fogazza, Oldline, Leonardo Projekt, Materica, Mogs, Pako Arreda and Sallustio Infissi, and offers technical advice, design and installation.
The magazine calls Officine Milano ‘the factory of ideas’, a place where architects and interior designers can handle materials and talk to specialists in the field. As Gaia Massetti puts it, ‘a home should be the expression of a desire, of a dream’.
