Two satyrs guard the doors, the house numbers are still on their original enamel plaques, and nobody recorded who designed any of it.
At a glance
Casa Comolli occupies numbers 1 and 3 of Via Giulio Romano, a short street off Corso Lodi near Porta Romana. It was raised in 1910 and rises through five levels above ground. No designer is named in the available records — the regional heritage survey does not cover the building, and the local guides that describe it give the date but not the architect.
History
The southern quarters were the last part of central Milan to be built up in the Liberty years, and they were built for a different market: clerks, shopkeepers and skilled workers rather than the professional families of Porta Magenta or the industrialists of Porta Venezia. Buildings like this one went up quickly, to standard plans, with the money spent on the street front. Anonymity is part of the record: the great majority of Milanese Liberty was produced by builders and surveyors whose names were never attached to the work.
What you see
Fired brick and cement alternate across the front, a contrast of colour and texture that does much of the decorative work by itself. The strongest effect comes from the top: pilasters and the projection of small curved balconies give the upper storey a marked vertical drive. Garlands of flowers run across the surfaces, and the two large entrance portals carry masks of satyrs together with the original plaques bearing the house numbers.
Cultural significance
The house measures how far the style travelled down the social scale within ten years of its arrival. It also shows what survives when nothing is famous: no restoration campaign, no attribution, no guidebook page — and, for exactly that reason, an unusually complete set of original details, down to the number plaques.
Key facts
- Built: 1910
- Architect: not recorded in the available sources
- Five levels above ground; facade alternating fired brick and cement
- Decoration: floral garlands, satyr masks on the two portals, original house-number plaques
- Address: Via Giulio Romano 1–3, Milan
- Coordinates: 45.4488 N, 9.1980 E
Practical information & getting there
Metro M3 Porta Romana or Lodi T.I.B.B., about five minutes on foot. A private apartment building: the two portals and the top floor are what you come to see, and both read best from the opposite pavement. Casa Sartorio is a ten-minute walk away, through the same quarter.
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