8 interiors ripe for discovery, straddling great classics and emerging studios

I'll be your mirror, 2021 - ph.Giorgio Possenti

A short excursus on interior design, from the rediscovery of Giacomo Balla’s home in Rome to Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colour blocks, with a rallying cry to Italian brands

Adam Nathaniel Furman

His passion is aesthetics, visual culture as related to design. His designs, messengers of joy and energy, draw on the past to become symbols of the present and reflections on the future.

Focus on Elisa Ossino

The Sicilian architect, whose studio is in Milan, works on commercial and residential interiors, product design, set design and art direction. Basically there’s no sphere that Elisa Ossino doesn’t pit her creative genius against. She pursues her projects fiercely and unstoppably yet delicately as she comes up with forms, colours and textures for her geometrical abstractions, monochrome interiors and metaphysical references

Focus on Vudafieri Saverino Partners

The two Milanese architects Tiziano Vudafieri and Claudio Saverino – partners in the Italy and China-based studio that bears their surnames – talk about themselves in a double interview that unveils powerful cultural references and naturalistic dreams, in contrast (on the surface) with their projects, which range from exclusive restaurants to glamorous hotels in the most fashionable cities in the world.

Milano Verticale Hotel, ph. Santi Caleca

Focus on Schemata Architects

With his studio Schemata Architects, the architect Jo Nagasaka designs projects for interiors that rarely go unnoticed. The spaces he carves out are a perfect blend of street culture-style contemporary aesthetics and Japan’s craft and spiritual tradition. The skill with which he gives shape to spaces is concealed behind an “almost unfinished” appearance which, on closer inspection betrays a deep respect for materials, functions and spaces, making for great freedom of use. Nagasaka’s method is to look at the existing situation, the context and the options and then take a bold approach, harnessing unexpected solutions, channelling contemporary spatial design trends with a skill that few other masters manage to achieve.

SENBAN, Alcova Milano 2021. Ph Courtesy Schemata Architects

Focus on Diego Grandi

The architect and interior designer, originally from Rimini (DOC), designs surfaces and installations as well as spaces and objects. He tells us about himself in an interview, in which his love for the city on the Adriatic coast shines through between the lines, and he cites two of the area’s best-loved 20th century authors.