Also, ancient Rome Architecture has been at the center of the city’s tourism sector. However, the city is fast reinventing itself with modern architecture and interior design. Discover the best interior designers and architects in Italy, who have certainly granted a new meaning to Italian design and craftsmanship!
Italy is a magnetic point for designers, artists, photographers and models. Milan is the biggest industrial city of Italy with many different industrial sectors, has an ancient city center with high and interesting buildings and palazzos, which is why so many people from all over the world want to see the city of glamour.
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The 3MQ architecture studio was founded in 2007 thanks to the positive experience of teamwork and the sharing of the same guiding principles in work and life. 3mq architecture places the individual at the center of the space and aims to create places suitable for the lifestyle of those who live there. The studio’s philosophy is based on simplicity, linearity, plasticity, aesthetics, elegance, light, and color. Constant research that through the choice of natural materials and the use of artisanal technology leads to a correct harmony.
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Interior design studio, Salvagni Architetti is an architecture and design firm, based in Rome, specializing in luxury residential projects and interior yacht design.
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AD-MYRA is a luxury interior design studio that believes design should interpret our vision of the world and in every project evolved blends culture and style in an unexpected way. Founded in 2012, AD-MYRA works between Switzerland and Italy, and since the beginning strives to remain open and dynamic. The studio is always in constant research of high-end design through bespoke solutions.
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Aktme is a curator of design, taste, and style in the international luxury lifestyle market, realizing, customizing, and delivering furniture for interior and outdoor projects. Their Manifesto is “Furniture with Character,” since they believe that rather than a copy-and-paste technique, each furnishing project demands a unique strategy and specific solutions. They accompany their clients, both professionals, and private individuals, giving you the option of how we can help you with your projects.
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Architects Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto, founders of the studio, have repeatedly addressed the issue of urban regeneration in their work with Renzo Piano and the G124 team and projects completed in Italy and abroad, even setting up experimental research laboratories in retail centers designed for the outskirts of major Chinese cities such as Nanking and Shanghai.
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Alfonso Femia first created the 5+1 agency in 1995, a company which evolved into 5+1AA in 2005, and that would eventually be known as Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia. Having a business that has expanded to Genoa, Milan and Paris, Alfonso has been tackling his architectural projects with the aid of a multidisciplinary team, inspired by the main features of these three locations.This company’s architectural style is heavily driven by the “perception and the transformation of reality” which can be seen in the many projects that Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia have tackled in their projects such as the Dallara Academy at Varano de’ Melegari, Parma, Italy.
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Antonio Citterio is an Italian designer mostly known for his collaborations with Artwork Studio is an Interior Design studio based in Rome. Artwork Studio is always synonymous with quality, attention to detail, and professionalism, a studio with an eye to the future and which puts customer satisfaction at the center of the project.
Antonio Citterio is an Italian designer mostly known for his collaborations with prestige Italian brands, among them BB Italia. He has made several collections for the brand, most notably the Maxalto collection which was enrichened last year with some ore elegant chairs, and seating systems, featuring new range extensions and new finishes. Citterio was one of the designers who collaborated with Consentini with the project “Deep Words Light”, an installation featured at the University of Milan as part of the “Interni, Energy for Creativity 2015” event.
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Atelier Biagetti is a company that consists of the culmination of the work of both Alberto Biagetti and Laura Baldassari. Both Biagetti and Baldassari are currently living and working in Milan, having had an extensive career before fate eventually brought them together to create Atelier Biagetti. Laura Baldassari started her collaboration with Alberto Biagetti in 2013 with the exhibition “One Minute Ago” (curated by Gabi Scardi at Galleria Riccardo Crespi). These two are used to be challenged by the boundaries between disciplines, while at the same time they draw inspiration from the world around them. Through their work, they aim to construct an immersive environment filled with clues and hints in which the objects become characters in the amazing design scenes.
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Biagio Forino, a Milanese by adoption who was born in Salerno, started his studio in 1987, dedicated himself totally to his work, in the constant search for beauty and meticulous attention to detail for a harmonious overall outcome. His accomplishments have been featured in AD as well as other national and international journals in the field. 10
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With offices in New York and Rome [Italy], Bluarch provides services in architecture, interior design, and lighting design with talent and expertise to a diverse international clientele. The office operates across scales and arenas, and a variety of programs [residential, commercial, mixed-use, entertainment, hospitality, naval, retail, product], and its expertise in lighting design seamlessly appoints each architectural project and each interior.
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BICUADRO is an International, award-winning firm, based in Rome. The team is involved in a variety of projects worldwide that go from small to large scale. BICUADRO’ s design is inspired by the context, both historic and environmental and aims to be the continuation of the Italian tradition in design excellence.
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The firm’s activity is mainly focused on residential architecture, but applies to all types of projects: from smaller residential and renovation works up to larger commercial and new-construction projects. The work developed in New York around the year 2000, mixed with a classical Italian cultural background, is giving life to a design that respects peculiar traditions and is open to new and innovative solutions.
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Born in Pordenone in 1980, Cristina Celestino worked in several areas of architecture, before finally focusing her attention to interior architecture and design. With that, she moved to Milan in 2009 where she created “Attico”, her own design brand which mainly focused on the conception of lamps and furnishings production. Among other relevant highlights of her career, she can point to her part in Salone Satellite in 2012 as well as her design of “The Happy Room” for Fendi in 2016. Her style is heavily based on observation and research, mixing in old and new and exploring many variations between scale and small inventions with the purpose of creating new messages and meanings.
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Silvio De Ponte, architect and lighting designer, is the founder of De Ponte Studio Architects. After graduating in architecture, the architects worked for several years in the theatre as a set designer, collaborating with various international companies and numerous directors, including Giorgio Strehler and Bob Wilson. During this 6-year experience, he acquired the knowledge and wise use of light which, in his current work as an architect and designer, he transfers to his architecture and interior projects.
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Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran invested in the fields of Design, Art and Fashion, and founded Dimore Studio in 2003. This duo of contemporary designers carried out every project with their own unique signature style: pieces created by historical design master artisans merged with domestic materials and other modified objects to forge a singular atmosphere. Dimore Studio interprets memories and creates dreams, crossing the boundaries between art and design, fashion and architecture.
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STUDIODIMORE17 18 DLArchitcture was founded by Architect Domitilla Lepri in 2006 in Shanghai. After a degree in architecture in 2000, Domitilla Lepri collaborated with various studios in Rome and carried out renovation projects and houses in Rome and Milan.
NOVEMBREFABIO19 Gabriele Salini, the famous name behind one of the major projects in Rome: G Rough Hotel. Beautiful in its historic dishevelment, and embellished with mid-century pieces to add a contrasting layer of cool, Rome’s G Rough is the latest hotel setting out to ‘redefine luxury’
Fabio Novembre earned his degree as an architect in 1992, the year in which one of the references of contemporary Italian design. Since he began his career he became notorious for his take on restaurants, dance clubs and shops either in Italy or abroad. He also manages to have a unique and provocative design in his furniture conceptions as we can see by unique looking pieces such as the Org table, the Adaptation sofas and armchairs, the And sofa, and the carpets Mino and Pure Italy. Above all Novembre is known for trying to make a statement with every piece he produces.
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From the collaboration between Gianni Puri and Enrica Siracusa in 2013, La Macchina Studio was born in Rome. La Macchina moves with agility from territories to objects, redefining their contours through its visionary approach.
Giulio Cappelini is often referred to as an emblematic figure in the design panorama as a whole. Born in 1954, he was deeply involved with design since childhood thanks to his family business. After graduating in Architecture, he immediately launched himself in the family business as well as other international prestige brands. He has had many cooperations with other prestige names such as Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, the Bouroullec and Nendo brothers. His design style is definitely fitting with the modern trends as we can see from products such as the Mill sofa (a chair inspired by the contemporary needs of the Millennials), the Bong and Gong tables as well as the Break table series.
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23 Laura Pozzi created Laura Pozzi Studio in 2003, a business-focused in styling, interior design, set design and photo production. Laura herself has the role of stylist, creative director and executive producer in an interior design firm currently located in Follina, Treviso and in Milan.Aside from being the author of two books about Finnish decorations, she has taken her 19-year-old career to the max, by mixing her visual moods of design, architecture and styling into each of her new projects. Her take on projects centres essentially around three main keywords: colours, emotions and simplicity.
The Locatelli Partners Studio has worked in every field of design and in a wide range of contexts since its inception. Private residences, showrooms, shops, and exhibitions are among them, with projects ranging from new construction to the restoration of enormous complexes and old dwellings, all of which combine a contemporary rationalist style vision with inspiration and respect for heritage. The spirit of Milan, the birthplace of Italian design excellence, is reinterpreted as a balance of beauty and rigor in an all-encompassing approach to thinking about the entire design project, from the direct relationship with the client to dialogue with spaces and materials that is always alive and unique, all in the name of art.
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25 Ludovica and Roberto Palomba are often referred to as “the golden couple of Italian design” and with a career such as theirs, it’s no wonder. After setting their own studio in Milan in 1994 their career has been through several stages, among them architectural planning, interior design, and partnerships as product designers and art directors. Their partnerships with Foscarini and Poltrona Frau are some of the highlights of their career, which has counted with prestige awards such as the Compasso D’Oro, the Red Dot Award, the Design Plus Award, as well as the Product Innovation Award. When they are taking on a new project, they aim to search for essence above all.They take a lot of inspiration from the concept of the balance of oriental heritage, as well as a little touch from the Nordic style, always striving to acquire an aesthetic result mixed with a space that allows for the well-being of clients.
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26 Marco Piva is another top reference when it comes to Milanese architecture, interior design and product conceptions. After leading the establishment of Studiodada Associates (one of the most representative companies of the period of Radical Design) the architect opened his studio during the 80s and since then, this firm has been known for handling projects mainly in the areas of architectural interior design, as well as industrial design. Seen as this is a company that has had many projects worldwide, Marco Piva has a careful approach to his design projects, by studying and creating design solutions defined as having compositional sobriety and stylistic freedom, adapting to the culture of the project at stake. Within Italy, he has known for his work in the Hotel Excelsior Gallia.
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28 Matteo Thun is a Milan based architect and designer who was born and raised in the bilingual German and Italian speaking region of South Tyrol, Italy. After studies with Oskar Kokoschka at the Architecture University of Florence, he co-founded the “Memphis” group in Milan in 1981 with Ettore Sottsass. In 1984, he opened his own studio in Milan and, in 2001, he founded Matteo Thun & Partners, where he worked in close collaboration with fellow design partner Antonio Rodriguez. They established an architecture, interior, styling, and product design firm, with offices in Milan and Shanghai, creating and developing specific Asian projects with Italian creativity. This duo’s constant research for simplicity and functionality generates a timeless and iconic design, away from being solely visual.
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27 Born in Bologna in 1972, he has currently considered one of the most influential designers and architects that this industry has ever seen. His career started in 2000 when he opened his own interior design studio in Milan and since then, in his projects, he has managed to project the excellence of the Made in Italy design. He sits on this style, and provides his clients with the best luxury furniture and finishes à l’Italiana. Matteo Nunziati has been handling Luxury hotels, Residences, Wellness Centres, and Spas. One of the main highlights of his career has to do with his take on the Trump Towers which earned him many compliments from the current POTUS himself
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29 Born in 1951 in Ferrara, Michele de Lucchi began taking his steps in the architecture area after his graduation in architecture in Florence. He has also known for being a weigh figure during the period of radical and experimental architecture, being the designer behind the conception of bespoke furniture pieces for many well known Italian and European companies. Aside from furniture conception, he was also credited for his restored buildings, as well as in the conception of many architectural projects for private and public clients. His architectural style, whether it’s a huge building or a simple wooden house, it definitely shows De Lucchi’s tendency in his work of finding what he calls the “essentiality of the architectural style”.
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30 Founded in 1997 by Michele Molè and directed since 2008 in collaboration with Susanna Tradati, Nemesi is one of the most innovative Italian design studios in the field of urban architecture and design. His original design research on contemporary languages is supported by solid technical know-how.
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Palazzo Morelli is an Italian surface, furniture, and interior design finishing firm. Palazzo Morelli, founded in 2006 by Alessandro Ortenzi in the Italian medieval town of Todi, represents the highest quality, attention to detail, and innovative professional services for architects, interior designers, and real estate developers in Italy. Palazzo Morelli is a sophisticated, multinational company that provides turn-key solutions as well as a comprehensive catalog of Italian-made surfaces. The workforce is motivated by a customer-tailored approach: unique solutions, custom-made surfaces, and finishings. Palazzo Morelli pursued the building of sensitive and spectacular locations to live, work, and stay all over the world with passion.
31 Nobili Design team of talented architects and designers provide interior design projects all over the world and gathered in a decade a well-worthed experience based on creativity, innovation, and originality. The interior design brand offers interior design services and provide concepts for your home interior at convenient prices.
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33 Park Associatti is an architecture firm created in Milan in 2000 by Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi. Since its creation, this firm has been focusing on giving each of their architectural projects a whole new shape either being a remodeling or a completely new concept. Whenever they tackle a new project they focus on the creation of geometrical constructions, improving the conditions (especially when it comes to illumination and energy saving) and adapting the project to its surrounding area. Amongst the most famous projects Park Associatti has done, they can definitely point to the redesign of the Engie Headquarters building in the Bicocca district which turned the building and its surrounding area into one of the most attractive for new service industries and offices of major corporations.
34 Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo and currently lives in Milan. Between 1990 and 1996 she worked for the development office of new products of “De Padova” and signed with Vico Magistretti the following products: “Flower”, “Loom sofa”, “Chaise” and “Chaise Longue”. Patricia won many design awards, such as Antares-Flos, Artelano, Boffi, Cappellini, Cassina, Kartell and has been an active collaborator for brands such as B&B, Bosa, De Vecchi, Fasem, Kartell, Liv’it, MDF Italy, Molteni & C., Moroso, and Tronconi. She is a top contemporary designer who currently conducts her professional career at her own craftsmanship studio in Milan in the fields of design, exhibitions, art direction and architecture.
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35 Born in 1943 and raised in the town of Cassano Magnago, about 25 miles northwest of Milan, Rossana Orlandi had an education that was simple and quiet. With 20 years of experience in fashion, in 2002 she decided to transfer her passion for design as a private collector into an innovative gallery, a platform where she could showcase her personal idea of design and lifestyle. She has been working as a curator for several exhibitions in Italy and abroad, having the chance to collaborate with high-end brands in fashion, luxury, and lifestyle. Very quickly, Orlandi gained a reputation for selecting works by young and unsung artists and designers, as well as for working with (then) rising stars like Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, and Studio Job.
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36 Studio Peregalli consists of a design company made by a famous duo of interior designers. Roberto Peregalli Peregalli and Laura Sartori Rimini are the creative geniuses behind the success of the Studio Peregalli. Both of them have worked under the tutelage of the legendary Italian decorator Renzo Mongiardino until his death in 1998. This pair’s design work consists of a reinterpretation of classical Italian design forms, adapting them towards the future. One of the most impactful works they tackled was redecorating an amazing apartment in the heart of Milan, which was coincidentally the home of their former master.
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