Cocoon Apartment is a chic home located in Milan, Italy, designed in 2021 by Studio Tenca & Associati.

Description
One hundred and forty square meters in the neighborhood that best represents the renaissance architecture of Milan: Sempione – City life. The Cocoon apartment is also synonymous of rebirth, of new lifeblood, like that which the characters in the legendary 1985 film directed by Ron Howard draw from a miraculous pool.
Owned by the founder of our office, Arch. Eng. Emilio Tenca, it is now the residence of Eng. Arch. Emilio Leonida Tenca, the firm’s grandson and partner, and his wife, deputy editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. In an ideal passing of the baton, the renovation starts, therefore, from the desire to enhance the emotional bond that unites two generations and consequently the building in its original strengths. Underlying this is also the intuition to think of the dwelling as a sample house to be shown to clients,
taking advantage of the close proximity between it and our headquarters. That is why we have involved collaborators and suppliers who better than others share our philosophy.
Some names: the artist Paolo Proserpio, the brands Cappellini, Modulnova, Flos, Tecnografica, Plinio il giovane, Gubi, Driade, Fat Boy, Kriptonite, Luce Plan…
Immediately guiding the design choices was the flooring. With its valuable marbles ranging from purple to cream, red to yellow, some now unobtainable, it was inevitably dec...