Federica Colombo

I worked for eight years as a product designer for a furniture company in Brianza before I retrained as a guide. Milan is a city that hides its best rooms behind heavy doors, and that is what I like to open. My tours focus on art and design: the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Last Supper at Santa Maria delle Grazie, and a walk through the showrooms and courtyards of Brera and Porta Nuova. I explain why Milan became the capital of Italian design after the war, what the Compasso d'Oro is, and who Gio Ponti was, with stops at buildings he actually designed. I speak French because I studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris. I do not do shopping tours, although I will happily tell you where to find a good second-hand Magistretti lamp. My sessions now run live on video from Milan: I carry the phone, you watch from wherever you are and ask anything.