FLORENTINE BRILLIANCE
egularly seen as the flooring of choice for public buildings and high-traffic areas, linoleum is a surface not typically associated with luxury. So it was with scepticism that architect Massimo Adario approached the material he had first encountered years earlier on the renovation of an apartment that had originally been built and occupied by a wealthy family. “I had always recognised linoleum in hospitals but never saw it as particularly beautiful,” says the Rome-based architect of
