Historic building

Palazzo Bolchini

📍 Municipio 1, Milan🖊 Pier Giulio Magistretti🏛 Italian national heritage

Palazzo Bolchini, designed by Pier Giulio Magistretti, brings Art Deco to Milan with a deliberately classical temper. Construction ran from 1928 to 1930, and the result is an eight-storey building that blends modern geometry with details that echo the nearby Piazza Belgioioso. At the top, obelisks, statues, and balustrades work as decorative accents, translating older forms into a 20th-century language. On the ground floor you find a public portico faced in ceppo stone, and that same stone continues over the first floor, anchoring the façade in a distinctly Milanese material palette. Above, the upper level is finished in stucco, with the main decorative floor defined by windows framed by ornate pediments. …
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