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Located a few minutes’ walk from Milan’s docklands, the Darsena, behind a large, unassuming doorway onVia Scaldasole, SIX was conceived by entrepreneur Mauro Orlandelli as "a holistic container, where the result is superior to the sum of its parts". As lofty as this declaration sounds, the collective, which opened its doors on September 2017, more than lives up to its founder’s aspiration bringing together a design gallery, a green boutique and a bistro, as well an architecture studio and a design consultancy agency, in a multipurpose venue of timeless elegance. The project was developed in collaboration with architects David Lopez Quincoces and Fanny Bauer Grung, whose studio, Quincoces-Dragò & Partners, was relocated next to the gallery, and art directorSamuele Savio, who among other things coined the project’s name, six being “the smallest perfect number, a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper”. 
Photo by Alberto Strada. 
Photo by Alberto Strada. Housed in a renovated 16th century monastery, the various spaces are centred around an old Milanese courtyard that welcomes visitors with an earthy colour palette, wide arches and balconies, and a plethora of climbing plants and overgrown planters that harmoniously fuse a classical with a colonial aesthetic. As the architects succinctly describe their approach, "we wanted everything, from the furniture to the plants, to look like they had been here forever". 
Photo by Alberto Strada. The tropical vegetation continues inside, where the lush greenery growing out of reclaimed barrels, towers over visitors throughout the interiors, dominated by a large skylight at the entrance hall. The exotic accents are juxtaposed with exposed brick walls, painted a smoky grey, and the original floors of stone, decorative tiles and weathered parquet. Rounding up this sense of bohemian grandeur is the eclectic collection of both vintage and contemporary furniture, lighting and decorative objects on display. Ranging from collectors’ pieces to anonymous finds that cater to all budgets, the meticulously curated pieces of the Six Gallery include Vietnamese vases |
