Versace opens the doors to its original Milan home and design Atelier at Palazzo Versace, Via Gesù 12, to showcase the latest Versace Home collection during Salone del Mobile, Milan Design Week. The maison hopes to share some of the many rich cultural and design stories of the Palazzo via a bespoke audio experience titled, Versace Home: If These Walls Could Talk.
Entering Palazzo Versace is an immersion into the full Versace lifestyle. Rooms are curated into living, dining, and sleeping areas, each fully decorated in the Versace Home 2024 collection. This extends to the central courtyard where a glass house is erected with Versace Ceramics Gemstone flooring. The furniture collection, produced and distributed by Luxury Living Group, centres on Versace’s signature design codes.
Now iconic symbols of the House, the Medusa, Barocco, and Greca were all designed and developed within the studios of Palazzo Versace, and many seen for the first time at fashion shows taking place in the Palazzo’s central courtyard, and are presented here across furniture, lighting, textiles and more.
The Medusa ’95 and Greca feature on rounded chairs and deep, expansive sofas crafted in options of leather or chenille featuring the Barocco motif. The Barocco carries through across designs including tableware from the Rosenthal meets Versace collection.
Polished metal in the colour of Versace gold is treated to feel fluid as the backs and arms of chairs, or strong and solid as the bordering edge of coffee tables. The collection’s standout piece is the Medusa ’95 Conversation Sofa, a design that is unmistakably Versace in its exaggerated, lavish scale, and inviting comfort. Recalling a large bed, the sofa is an island of relaxation that features fine leather trim details, surrounding chenille Barocco reclining cushions, and options of indoor or outdoor leathers.
Guests are invited into the iconic stories of Versace’s Palazzo in Milan via an audio experience that takes place as they walk through the Versace Home display. Created in collaboration with Radio Raheem, Milan’s foremost independent radio station, a musical soundscape within the rooms is interspersed with voice snippets which tell some of the iconic stories to have taken place within the Palazzo walls – a place the Versace family and design Atelier have called home since the 1980s.
Stories of the Palazzo’s significance to fashion and wider culture are shared including the groundbreaking meeting of Fendi and Versace for the Fendace fashion show, the birth of the Supermodel during the Versace Fall-Winter 1991 fashion show which took place in the Palazzo’s courtyard, and recent after-show celebrations which bring together Versace’s family of creative talent, such as Anne Hathaway and Hyunjin following this year’s Fall-Winter 2024 fashion show.
Versace Home: If These Walls Could Talk runs from April 17 to 21 for Salone del Mobile and is open to the public through limited pre-registration.