Laura May Todd

What do you do to an apartment in a building designed by Ada Bursi, one of Italy’s first female architects? Add color and texture, but not so much as to distract from its history.

The artist and architect Luigi Serafini uses his Milanese apartment to explore his whims and surreal fantasies.

The Hermès women’s wear artistic director Nadège Vanhée shares her creative touchstones.

The Italian architect and designer Roberto Gerosa has converted a disused wood shop into a live-work space where his imagination can run wild.

Six artists on the first steps of getting into character, or making a painting.

The designer shows off the mirrored installation and T-shaped desserts he dreamed up for the annual celebration.

To toast the Salone del Mobile and the 20th anniversary of T Magazine, the designer Ramdane Touhami transformed the Villa Necchi Campiglio into an ode to the letter T.

A collective called Dopo addresses the problem of high housing prices during Design Week and beyond.

A new generation of bars, restaurants and bakeries are reinvigorating the Italian city’s food scene.

Simone Bellotti, the creative director of Bally, shares his influences.

Sabato De Sarno, who showed his first collection for the Italian fashion house last year, discusses his creative touchstones.

From a reimagined centuries-old palazzo to a private apartment with a rooftop terrace, five new places to stay that offer a fresh vision of the city.

Bottega Veneta’s creative director Matthieu Blazy shares how he balances freedom and restraint.

Jordan Anderson, the founder of the MQBMBQ residency, hosted friends and collaborators to toast a fruitful summer in the Italian countryside.

Damir Doma toasted his latest collection with his creative friends and collaborators.

When the creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri threw the brand’s support behind Zadie Xa’s work, “I understood her immediately as another cultural worker,” Xa says. “She listens in a way that lots of people in positions of power don’t.”

By reimagining an apartment inside a storied palazzo, the designer Paola Moretti both preserved its history and gave it a bold new chapter.

The new creative director of Etro shares his favorite flea-market finds, and a few creations of his own.

The Italian designer reflects on his career, from “American Gigolo” to his latest, samurai-inspired collection.

The visual artist Nadia Lee Cohen hosted a candlelit gathering with eclectic floral arrangements and gelatin-bound table décor.