The loft has been featured in the printed and online issue of Interior Design Magazine. Read an excerpt of the article below, or find the whole story here.
Tommaso Spinzi is transcontinental. The young architect is a native of Como, Italy, but has lived or worked in New York, Switzerland, and Australia, the latter where he was located for nearly a decade and launched his firm, Spinzi. But in 2018, he decided to return home, to Milan specifically. It’s there that he found and converted a former workplace near the city center into a luminous loft, now his own. The 2,000-square-foot “white canvas,” as he calls it, reflects his work, which ranges from conceiving interiors and furniture to lighting and watches, as well as his passion for Italian art, design, and heritage architecture. “You can’t walk toward the future without learning from the past,” he proclaims.
The origins of his loft are most definitely rooted in the past. “We received word that, in the late 1800’s, it housed a stable for the postal service horses,” he says. “In more recent years, it served as an office.” Upon acquisition of the ground-floor space, Spinzi employed a measured approach to the renovation, working with its industrial elements—the tall multi-paned windows, the concrete floor, the open plan—and underlining them with the addition of softer elements both old and new. His main and only architectural intervention was, in order to create a dining area, opening a passage underneath the existing mezzanine, a former work area that Spinzi turned into his bedroom.
