ARCHIVE DIVE

Welcome to Archive Dive—my new excuse to obsess over the absolute treasures hiding in House Beautiful's 130-year-old archives.

Color confidence is not a modern movement. Here's proof: Our April 1989 feature on Villa Eva—home to Angela and Marco Maccapani, which sits right next door to Angela's parents, Missoni founders Ottavio and Rosita—is a master class in hue rule-breaking. The result isn't chaos—it's artistry. What makes it feel so relevant now is the intention behind the playfulness: rooms built around real life, real collections, and real family moments.

Today we talk about personality-driven design and decorating without fear, but Villa Eva was doing it decades ago. It reminds us that color isn't a trend—it's a point of view, and the most memorable homes fully commit.

JO SALTZ

Editor-in-Chief

House Beautiful

TAKE A PEEK INSIDE

"There is a common note: confidence."

Before Angela and Marco Maccapani moved into Villa Eva, their house outside Milan, they added a story, put on a new roof, installed countless windows and rearranged the interior. Then they covered all the walls, inside and out, with what Angela calls "pale beige-gray" stucco—which is about the only thing beige or gray about the Maccapanis' home.