The holiday retreat of Milan-based pilates teacher and design collector, Annamaria Enselmi, which she shares with her aerospace engineer-turnedfinancier husband Claudio and her two children, Pietro and Franco, is an ode to one of her favourite designers Ettore Sottsass. The use of colour as a means to conjure emotions and memories was central to Sottsass’s work. In the small seaside town of Castro Marina in Italy's Puglia region, Enselmi — with the help of Lella Valtorta, the founder of the Milan gallery Dilmos — has evoked the sensorial energy of her design hero in a rainbow of fresh, joy-inducing hues.
Here, we talk to Enselmi about the two-year renovation of her 350-square-metre, five-bedroom home away from home, which was built at the turn of the 20th century, and her newest…
