Portaluppi Herbarium

The Portaluppi Herbarium, offered in different colours, is a quotation from the famous garden room by architect. Piero Portaluppi at the Casa degli Atellani in Corso Magenta in Milan.

The Casa degli Atellani represents an emblematic piece of Milanese history. It is located opposite the Last Supper in the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie and was a 15th-century Milanese residence that belonged to Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan.
In this splendid 15th-century palace, the architect. Portaluppi, the greatest protagonist of Milanese architecture in the early 20th century, represents in his restoration work a cultured example of the insertion of naturalistic elements into the architecture of domestic places.

Pictalab, a Milanese decoration workshop, in collaboration with Nicolò Castellini Bladissera, Portaluppi's nephew, have made a faithful reproduction of the decoration of the entrance to the family home based on an ad hoc photographic survey, with the aim of proposing the decoration printed in high quality on paper to enhance its beauty while respecting the pictorial details.

The project's ambition is to promote and spread the taste, style and flair of Milanese creativity, particularly linked to 'living in beauty', starting from the great classics and combining craftsmanship experience with the use of new technologies.

Pictalab was born 15 years ago from the passion for decoration of Orsola Clerici and Chiara Troglio. Since then Pictalab has grown to become an interior decoration workshop capable of covering a spectrum of interventions ranging from pictorial decoration on walls and paper, to special finishes even on furniture and interior design objects, and counting on the collaboration of about 20 professionals. Today, in a space of more than 250 square meters in the Officine de Rolandi a large team of decorators handcrafts hand-painted wallpapers using a variety of techniques: from fresco to trompe l'oeil, from coating to lacquer. 

Nicolò Castellini Baldissera was born in Milan in the family home, Casa degli Atellani, a fine example of Italian Renaissance excellence. He belongs to an illustrious Italian design dynasty and from an early age grew up surrounded by art and architecture: his great-grandfather was the famous architect Piero Portaluppi and his father was the prominent architect Piero Castellini Baldissera. In the late 1980s he moved to London to study Art History at Sotheby’s and has since lived nomadically between Italy, France, Britain, Switzerland, North America, and North Africa, cultures that have strongly inspired his work.