Authorial images - photographic projects at the Salone del Mobile

Over the last few editions, in continuity with the legacy of masters of photography such as Gabriele Basilico, who harnessed his own profound, design-focused vision to tell the story of the most important week in design, the Salone del Mobile has invited the artists and photographers Delfino Sisto Legnani, Stefan Giftthaler and Gianluca Vassallo to turn their lenses on these intense days that provide a full immersion in the world of design. 

“It was a spontaneous process, in which I tried to capture the nuances and one-off moments at the Salone del Mobile," explained Delfino Sisto Legnani, a photographer who, amongst other things, founded the DSL studio in 2014, whose images feature in publications such as Domus, Abitare, Wallpaper, Flash Art, Frieze Magazine, L'Officiel, Kommersant, Icon, Elle Decor,  Apartamento and many more. "I let myself be guided by instinct and feelings, my gaze caught by geometries and chromatic details. The result is a series of shots informed by my photographic vision." 

“I took a rather open approach, letting the architecture of the place and what happened there (especially through the people who lived there) guide my eye," said Stefan Giftthaler, a photographer born in Trento, raised in the province of Treviso, now Milanese by adoption. His photos have been published in international magazines such as Vogue, AD Magazine, Wallpaper, Monocle, Zeit Magazin, Financial Times, L'Officiel, Apartamento, Les Inrockuptibles, Abitare and Icon. Giftthaler continued: "I liked to observe the effect that people produced within those places, I found the comparative proportions of people and architecture interesting, at times they gave the impression of being those sticky figurines that you see in architects' models.”