Whispers Across Time on Via Bigli

 For Milan Design Week 2026, a long-private apartment inside Palazzo Olivazzi on Via Bigli 21 opens to the public for the first time. Designed by Osvaldo Borsani in the late 1940s, the residence becomes the setting for Interno Italiano, an installation by Interni Venosta, the design venture founded by Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran in 2024.

Rather than imposing a contemporary layer onto a historic interior, the project unfolds as a subtle conversation with Borsani’s architecture. The apartment’s sculptural walls, refined woodwork, leather-clad furnishings, and monumental fireplace remain the protagonists. Against this backdrop, Interni Venosta introduces a new collection of furniture and objects whose materials and forms echo the character of the space: burnished brass, polished steel, lacquered wood, and upholstery in muted leather and champagne tones.

The pieces are carefully positioned to engage with the apartment’s architecture, drawing attention to details both grand and discreet. The result is less an exhibition than an inhabitation—an environment in which contemporary design and postwar modernism coexist with remarkable ease.

Set within one of Milan’s most storied palazzi, once frequented by figures including Alessandro Manzoni and Giuseppe Verdi, Interno Italiano invites visitors to experience the apartment as a living museum, where history is not preserved behind glass but reanimated through design.