An imaginative midcentury makeover of this Palermo apartment mixes ‘Italian craziness and Scandi cool’
Capo is one of four historic quarters in Palermo and it’s famous for its boisterous street market. “It’s wonderfully analogue,” says design dealer Olivia Brittberg, who lives here with her partner in life and work, En Dolci. “It’s how I imagine life in the 1960s might have felt – everyone is friendly and genuine. When I leave the house, I’m greeted with shouts of, ‘Ciao, principessa!’ It’s easy to feel very at home here.”
Olivia and En moved to this Sicilian city 10 years ago having met in Sweden while working for the fashion house Acne Studios. Olivia is Swedish as is En’s mother, but his father was born in Palermo. “My father passed away when I was 18, so I had this longing to see if it made any sense to live here,” En explains.
