Casa Formentini

Casa Formentini stands at number 1 Via Formentini, in the heart of Milan's Brera district. It is an eighteenth-century Baroque house, its facade a composition of stone, wrought iron and stucco.

The main entrance is a mistilinear stone portal crowned by a cartouche, a decorative plaque. A richly adorned balcony follows, its wrought iron worked into intricate patterns. Stucco window frames and small balconies carry the ornament across the upper floors. Together the elements make one continuous, harmonious front. Restoration work in 2016 and 2017, led by Enrico M. Colosimo and his team, renewed the outer and inner facades.

The historian Marco Formentini once lived in this house. In 1911, the centenary of his birth, the street and the building took his name. Before that renaming, the address was number 1924 of the contrada de tett. The contrada de tett reads two ways: street of roofs, or street of breasts.