Best interior design studios for a project in Milan
Five practices, with different ways to bring an apartment’s architecture, furnishings and daily life together.
A Milan apartment may come with features that made you fall in love with it: tall double doors, parquet, a terrace or a sequence of generous rooms. The new interior has to give those qualities a place in the life you want to lead there.
The five studios below offer different references for that conversation. AD’ Design Studio publishes this guide and is included. Each project’s location remains explicit, so an international residential reference is read alongside the Milan examples on its own terms.
Read the apartment before choosing a style
Existing doors can connect a series of rooms or preserve their independence. A retained floor can give new joinery its proportions. The light may favour one part of the apartment for family life and another for bedrooms.
A designer studies those conditions alongside the furniture, collections and routines you want to bring into the home. That work helps establish what should remain and where a different arrangement could make the property more enjoyable to use. The style develops with those decisions.
A Milan apartment for weekdays and guests
The same rooms may need to support a dinner with friends, a private working day and a visit from family. Their relationship matters as much as their individual size.
A designer can compare ways to arrange those activities on the apartment’s measured plan. One proposal may keep dining and conversation in adjoining rooms, with a study that closes. Another may bring living and dining together and give guests a more independent room. Furnished layouts make the difference visible: where you would sit, how the doors work and which rooms can feel private.
You can then choose the arrangement that suits your household. Dimorestudio’s furnished entrance, Dome’s retained doors and parquet, and Spagnulo’s response to daylight offer different references for that discussion.
AD’ Design Studio: complete residential interiors
AD’ Design Studio is an Italian interior architecture and design studio available for commissions in Milan and internationally.
In the private residence in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, breakfast dining sits beside the windows and the main dining room opens towards the salon. The design connects the scale of the rooms with bespoke elements, including the dining-room bar wall developed in drawings through stone, metal and light. This is a Cambodian residential reference, not a Milan commission.
Interior Architecture & Design develops the interior from room planning to materials, lighting, furnishings and construction details. When another team is developing the design, Design Direction provides a different, agreed role in its decisions and reviews. AD’ Design Studio works directly with owners or through their family office or representative.
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Dimorestudio: Milano Indipendenza
Milano Indipendenza appears in Dimorestudio’s residential portfolio. In co-founder Emiliano Salci’s own apartment, the entrance is furnished as a room and leads into connected living spaces.
Dark aubergine walls, rugs and pieces from different periods give those rooms depth; softer tones distinguish the bedrooms. The reference shows how circulation itself can become part of the furnished interior.
The studio’s design commissions are distinct from Dimoremilano’s products.
Dome Milano: Corso Magenta
Dome Milano’s interior portfolio includes Corso Magenta, a Milan apartment developed around existing features.
Dark timber double doors and herringbone parquet inform the rhythm of new wall and ceiling mouldings. White and pale grey sit with Carrara marble, while library-pattern wallpaper gives the bedrooms a private character. It is a relevant starting point for an owner who wants the existing doors, floors or proportions to remain important in the new home.
Marcante–Testa: Citylife
The Citylife apartment in Milan appears in Marcante–Testa’s residential portfolio. Ceiling frames and curtains distinguish dining, conversation and gathering areas without enclosing every activity in a separate room.
Colour gives those settings different characters, and bespoke elements hold specific artworks selected with the clients. Terraces extend the home with outdoor dining and seating. The reference connects a collection and family activities with the relationship between indoor and outdoor rooms.
Spagnulo & Partners: Navigli apartment
The Navigli apartment shows Spagnulo & Partners adapting a former warehouse with limited daylight.
Bedrooms occupy the darker ground floor. Living spaces sit above, lit through rooflights, while the existing stone staircase remains. Fabric-covered partitions accompany the transition between levels and the roof becomes a terrace. The arrangement follows the available light and the building’s existing structure.
Compare the studios
| What interests you | Practice and reference |
|---|---|
| Complete interior architecture, material design and bespoke furniture | AD’ Design Studio: private residence, Phnom Penh |
| A layered interior where circulation, colour, art and furniture belong together | Dimorestudio: Milano Indipendenza |
| An apartment shaped by retained doors, floors and proportions | Dome Milano: Corso Magenta |
| Rooms that accommodate a collection and different family activities | Marcante–Testa: Citylife |
| A new arrangement developed around the light in an existing building | Spagnulo & Partners: Navigli apartment |
Approach your shortlist
A first conversation can begin with the home and what you want to enjoy there. The designer should help you explore the possibilities and explain how they would be developed with you. The written proposal then sets out the work, stages and fee.
Our guide to choosing an interior design studio in Italy explains that next step.