Veiny slabs of green and grey marble help visually tie together living spaces within this Milan apartment, which has been overhauled by design studio Marcante-Testa.
Previously described as a "typical bourgeois home", Teorema Milanese has been redesigned by Turin-based Marcante-Testa to feature a rich mix of materials and colours.

The studio was keen to maintain the apartment's classic layout and thus decided to make just one significant structural change ? a partition wall has been knocked through to form an open-plan living and dining room.
"Through doing so, something unexpected happens: the space is unified and, somewhat surprisingly, extended outwards, yet at the same time it is still subdivided into perceptible functional areas," said the studio.
Pale grey cipollino tirreno marble becomes a "carpet" in the sitting area, which is dressed with sculptural armchairs, a khaki-green leather sofa and an oversized floor lamp.
The marble also extends up part of the wall and ceiling to create a giant window frame that looks out over a tree-lined boulevard below.
"The design of the marble slabs and the pattern of the veins within them create visual pathways, guiding the inhabitants through a pattern of precise spatial hierarchies," the studio explained.

Deep-green verde alpi marble then covers the floor and sideboard of the other half of the room, which is centred by an oval, timber table.

Adjacently lies a brass-framed screen that off...