A Home for Readers is a midcentury modern apartment located in Milan, Italy, designed in 2020 by Atomaa.

Description
High above the treetops of one of the most beautiful streets in Milan, the sun fills an apartment with light, where functionality and aesthetics compete for the throne. The house, designed and built in the fall of 2019, narrates the story of those who live within: a young couple with a passion for reading, cinema, design and music. The architectural project is tailored to the clients? desires with precision and dedication: the environments retain their original nature but are distorted in aesthetics and colours. A partition divides the original room used for the kitchen, obtaining – on the one hand – a compact dining room characterized by decorative wallpaper, a legacy of British domestic spaces, and – on the other – a minimal, elegant and functional kitchen. The existing living room, well defined by walls, corridors and a washroom, changes its face and becomes a large open space, characterized by a colourful floor in concrete grit, which creeps into every room. The space opens, through a sequence of large portals, towards the kitchen and the dining room on one side, and towards a reading-nook and bow-window, towards the east. The act of opening continues to the study/guest room through a series of large portal doors. The latter, however, completely integrated into a long bookcase, hides panels of an intense yel...