Palazzo Cusini
Palazzo Cusini, built in 1928, was designed to be a family residence for the Cusinis, a Milanese family active in textile entrepreneurship. The project was drawn up by Adolfo and Aldo Zacchi, and the building rose on land that had already belonged to the neighbouring Palazzo Litta Cusini Modignani, once oriented toward what was then the parallel via Passarella. What you remember first is the façade’s deliberate monumentality, conceived in a Palladian revival interpreted through Novecento Italiano taste. It is rhythmically defined by colossal Ionic columns, crowned with statues representing the Arts, sculpted by Salvatore Saponaro. Saponaro is also linked to the interior’s five floors, where a frescoed staircase is thought to be his work. …
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