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The owner Italian architect and designer Paola Navone.

The Property A split-level apartment in Milan, located on the top floor and mezzanine of an industrial building. There’s a living room, kitchen, master bedroom with en suite and walk-in wardrobe and wc on the ground floor. housed in the mezzanine is a guest bedroom suite, dining room and library. Large terraces wrap around two sides of the apartment, while Paola’s design studio occupies the floor below.

LIVING ROOM

A large table made from recycled pallets becomes a platform for old cork-tree logs filled with plants. Some of Paola’s ceramic finds from around the world, see opposite, have been used to make an unusual wall feature.

Get the look For similar reclaimed-wood tables, try Retrouvius.