Going for Baroque
William Sawaya, a leading light in the rarefied world of Milanese furniture design, turned his talent homeward to reinvent a 1920s apartment in a landmark building.
William Sawaya, co-principal of the design firm Sawaya & Moroni, a small but influential Italian furniture company, lived in a lovely apartment near the company's showroom on Via Manzoni in Milan, the heart of the city's posh shopping district. But after many years of residence there, he grew restless. "After all that time, you do not see the space anymore. It shrinks around you and becomes smaller and smaller -- especially because of everything that you have accumulated," he says, voicing an almost universal lament.
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