Palazzo Litta - Metamorphosis in Motion
Baroque palace courtyard, its stone columns restaged each design week by contemporary installations.
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This guide to Palazzo Litta's courtyard in Milan sets a hot-pink installation against a palace built between 1642 and 1648 for Count Bartolomeo Arese, tracing its history through the Litta family, archduchesses, an empress and Napoleon. It turns to Lina Ghotmeh, the Paris-based architect behind Metamorphosis in Motion for Milan Design Week, and what she says she means by transformation. Notice how the pink structures sit against the seventeenth-century stone columns around you.
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