‘Chic but not snob’ – inside Dimorestudio’s Emiliano Salci’s private apartment

As I sit in a vintage Mies van der Rohe chair in Emiliano Salci’s flat in Milan, looking around at the fruits of a two-year renovation, all sorts of questions spring to mind. Have the grey stone columns separating the dining and sitting areas always been there or are they part of Salci’s intervention? What about the striking matching 19th-century divans in the enormous entrance corridor? And how did he arrive at that particular shade of high-gloss aubergine paint on the walls?

But the…