It all started with the wallpaper. After an architect performed a full-scale overhaul of their apartment, a Milanese couple decided the home still lacked texture. “She was very good with the restructuring and renovation, but very austere in her colors,” explains one of the homeowners, a 48-year-old marketing executive who shares the apartment with her 55-year-old financier husband and their two daughters, ages 5 and 7. (The family has asked to remain anonymous.) “After three months, I felt the need for color and inspiration,” she says. “We wanted color, but we needed guidance,” the client says. “Ilaria showed us how to balance everything.” But finding that equilibrium took time. “They were hesitant at the beginning to embrace so many colors and patterns. It’s not a very Italian thing to do,” says Ferraro, 42, who almost 10 years ago founded Ted Suite—a hybrid interior-design, event-production, and public-relations studio—in a 1936 rationalist..
