MILANESE BLEND

Giampiero Tagliaferri brews an homage to great Italian design with a shot of California

- MAYER RUS

The idiosyncratic duplex penthouse is chockablock with treasures by a pantheon of 20th-century design titans on the order of Mario Bellini, Osvaldo Borsani, Angelo Mangiarotti, Gae Aulenti, Gio Ponti, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Joe Colombo, Tito Agnoli, and others. Works by laudable but lesser-known talents—Pia Guidetti Crippa, Giovanni Travasa, Gigi Sabadin—pepper the heady mix. All those melodious names sound like toothsome items on an Italian menu: “I’ll have a plate of Mangiarotti with a glass of your best Gio Ponti.” Delicious.

A VANESSA BEECROFT SCULPTURE IS MOUNTED BESIDE A NEW STAIR OF ROSEWOOD AND LACQUER.