Why Green Returned to Italian Design
From Renaissance palaces to contemporary Milanese interiors, a colour rediscovers its architectural authority.
For centuries, deep green was a colour of Italian nobility. It appeared on the walls of Renaissance palaces and Venetian rooms, made from copper-based pigments and stabilised in lime, where it aged with dignity while cheaper greens turned muddy.
In recent years, interior architects have brought it back. The forest green wall, deep, matte and unadorned, has become a signal of confidence in contemporary interiors.
It is a colour that requires the right finish. Painted, it flattens. In Stucco Veneziano or Marmorino, the mineral pigment sits within translucent layers of lime and marble, and the green gains the depth it had in the palazzos: less a coat of colour than a material in its own right.
Considering one of these finishes for a project? We prepare samples in your tones before anything is quoted.