Industrial Romance: Why the Modern Home Deserves a Little Rebellion

Once upon a time, luxury interiors whispered in neutrals, their silence broken only by the perfection of symmetry. Today, luxury has found a new language — one that revels in color, celebrates eccentricity, and thrives on unexpected contrasts. Enter Silos, the striking collaboration between Milan’s fearless design voice, Carolina Castiglioni, and Belgian tastemakers Serax.

Carolina knows the rules of fashion, perhaps too well — her pedigree is Marni, her playground Milan. But like every modern man of taste understands, real elegance starts where rules break. With Silos, she shifts from the runway to the living room, and the result is refreshingly subversive: vases and candlesticks shaped like industrial storage tanks, reborn in porcelain and punchy color. Imagine placing one on your dining table: suddenly, your home isn’t just a space — it’s a statement.

We live in a world where masculinity is being redefined — not softer, but smarter. Not louder, but more intentional. The Silos collection mirrors this shift. Each piece is structured, geometric, unapologetically solid — yet it surprises with playful hues of brown, blue, and orange. They’re colors you wouldn’t expect in fine interiors, but that’s the point: modern masculinity is not about fitting in, it’s about owning contrast.

And then there are the scented candles — chunky handles, Memphis-inspired silhouettes, the kind of design that feels both vintage and futuristic. You light one, and when the wax has burned down, what remains isn’t waste. It’s a decorative object with character, a reminder that beauty should never be disposable.

The most interesting homes aren’t decorated to impress — they’re curated. They reveal a rhythm of objects collected with intention, each carrying a story, an attitude, a soul. That’s where Silos belongs: in the spaces of those who refuse the tired binaries of style, who see beauty as dialogue rather than display. Carolina Castiglioni frames it simply: “Each scented candle, vase, and candlestick is a small design manifesto.” And isn’t that the essence of a modern interior — not a mood board, but a manifesto?

The inspiration for Silos began in Iceland, with three water tanks and the strange poetry of their color combinations. It traveled through Carolina’s obsession with vintage design, her personal archives of bold experimentation, and finally landed in homes from New York’s SoHo lofts to Tokyo’s curated apartments. In that sense, Silos isn’t just interior design. It’s mobility of the imagination — a passport stamped in porcelain and scent.

To live well today is to live with edge. To choose a vase that makes you pause. To let a candle double as sculpture. To dare with color and geometry where others play safe. Because real taste isn’t about following — it’s about leading quietly, with confidence.

Silos doesn’t ask for permission. It invites you to reinvent your space the way the modern man reinvents himself: bold, intelligent, worldly — and always just a little rebellious.

Silos is available through Serax and select boutiques worldwide — from 10 Corso Como in Milan to La Garçonne in New York — as well as at Plan C’s flagship store in Tokyo.”