FROM THE HEART

Writer turned designer J.J. Martin’s vibrant Milan apartment is the stuff dreams are made of

TEXT BY J.J. MARTIN

LAST YEAR, I FOUND MYSELF newly divorced, without much money and needing a new home. As I desperately scoured Milan’s rigid, ancient reale-state scene, the agents all insisted I would never find what I wanted for my budget. Finally I abandoned logic and put my energy practice to use. I drove over to my favorite street and began walking door to door, cheerfully interviewing every doorman personally, telling them how much I loved their building and wished to live there. “No, no, signora,” they all said, laughing at my American wackiness. Then the last one jumped up and down. His friend had just SMS’d an apartment available on the most beautiful street in all of Milan. “Vai! Vai!” Go now! Two days later, an apartment on the third floor of a…

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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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