Casa Celesia

Casa Celesia stands on Via Dante in Milan as an example of late nineteenth-century architecture. Architect Antonio Comini designed Casa Celesia for Milan’s Via Dante. Its construction belongs to the final decade of the 1890s, when Via Dante was opening. A city competition sought the strongest architectural design for the new street.

Casa Celesia matched neighbouring buildings in height and arranged its façade across three vertical sections. Four flat pilasters mark the building’s central section. A first-floor balcony carries Lombard bifora windows, whose paired arches identify a regional architectural form. Side sections use balcony windows and triangular pediments. On the second and third floors, simple linear mouldings rest on brackets around the windows. The structure also includes a ground floor, mezzanine, and four main floors.

Together, these details show how the façade balances repeated decoration with distinct central and side treatments. The balcony remains a central visual feature. Its pilasters, paired arches, pediments, mouldings, and brackets create the building’s documented architectural vocabulary.