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Carlo Donati Studio is mostly focused on luxury houses, shops and resorts throughout Italy and abroad.

After working as architect consultant of Gianni Versace, Aldo Coppola and Liberty of London fashion brands, the firm is currently responsible of the artistic direction of the Slowear fashion brand, developing the new retail concept and the design of several stores and showrooms in Italy and all over the world.

Carlo Donati Studio is also the project team in charge for the new image of Colefax and Fowler and Linea più, a well-known company in the sustainable power industry, working at the project of several customer service offices.

Most of the projects have been object of interest by international press and have been published in the most renowned and influent interior design magazines and several books of architecture both in Italy and all over the world.

Carlo Donati was born in Zibello (Parma) in 1965 but he was raised, he trained and worked in Milan. In 1978 he was given the album Some Girls by the Rolling Stones: meeting Mick Jagger would change his worldview forever.

He studied architecture at the Politecnico of Milan where he graduated in 1992. He worked at the renovation of Sant’Eustorgio Cloister and of Palazzo Reale, both in Milan. From 1993 to 1995 he worked at the Gregotti Associati International firm for the implementation of the masterplan of Turin and Livorno.

In 1995 he lives in New York where, as a consultant architect of Versace Group, he renovates Gianni Versace’s townhouse and the historical Vanderbilt Mansion, the main flagship store on the Fifth Avenue. This prepared Carlo to start his own firm “Carlo Donati Studio” in 1996 when he also founded the “Farnese Contract” with Adriano Donati and Massimo Avanzini, that operates as a general contractor, working with the most successful design studios.

In 1999 he married Silvia in Las Vegas. Alessandro was born in 2005.

Address
Viale Monte Grappa, 6
Zipcode
20124 Milan
Qualifications

First place awards:

Slowear Concept Store
P19 Residence in via Palermo 19, Milan
Residential neighborhood project: Chateau Villa + Delta River Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Masterplan Segrate Village

Services Provided
Interior design, planning for shops, resorts and one-of-a-kind residences
Areas Served

Worldwide

Black and Blue

Residential

Black and Blue
Rome, Italy
450 qm
2010

The apartment is located in a building from the late 1960s in Rome’s Fleming district. The former layout was completely overhauled so that now the top floor hosts the lounge and the sleeping area, while the penthouse floor hosts the kitchen and the dining area, both of which open up onto a terrific terrace. The strong image typical of the 1960s is still present thanks to the curved volumes covered with travertine marble, rounded floors and new counterceilings. The kitchen is closed inside a transparent glass box designed by the Studio.The materials chosen for the new project fit in perfectly with the existing reality. The ebony covered furniture and panelling were designed by the Studio, while the classic and modern design pieces all insist on black and blue colours, interrupted by a few metallic brass elements like the floor lamp from the 1940s and the Copper Shade lamp by Tom Dixon.

Photos
Giorgio Possenti