10 Italian interior designers you absolutely must know

Italy is the home of good food, fashion, art, music and design. There are Italian Interior designers famous in the world for the brilliance and passion they put into their work.

Fabio Novembre

Fabio Novembre is a world-famous Italian architect and designer thanks to his anti-conventional style, rich in colors, volumes and sophisticated shapes. Novembre manages with great skill to combine architecture and interior design, creating spaces full of meaning and able to convey strong and unique emotions. After graduating in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, he opened his Studio in 1994, which became an international reference point for architecture. Over the years he has collaborated with the most important Italian design companies and his work has been recognized and published worldwide for its visionary approach. Since 2019, interior designer Novembre has been Artistic Director of the company Driade. Novembre is one of the most influential Italian interior designers in the design world.

Paola Navone

Paola Navone is an architect, interior designer, essayist, teacher and exhibition curator. She has taken an original path in the field of architecture and design: in fact, her passion for the Orient has led her to spend much of her life in countries such as India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, driven by a desire to explore exotic cultures and styles far from her own. And it is precisely this contact with the Orient that has made her trait absolutely unique and certainly unmistakable.

Ludovica and Roberto Palomba

Palomba Serafini Associati is a landmark in Milaner design that stems from the constant search for the perfect mix of innovation, tradition and functionality. Ludovica and Roberto Palomba are among the most prominent figures on the Italian interior design scene and have been able to take their inspiration all over the world, winning numerous international awards and recognition. Their creations are characterized by wide open spaces, intensity and synergy.

Luca Nichetto

Luca Nichetto has extensive experience in interior design behind him. His inspiration follows a harmonic trend, simple and efficient in its brilliance. Luca Nichetto during his career has received important international awards, such as the 2008 Gran Design Award, the Good Design Award from the Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture 2008, the IF Product Design Award 2008 and the Elle Decoration International Design Awards 2009 as Designer of the Year in the Young Designer Talent category. Today Luca Nichetto, among the most famous Italian Interior designers in the world, boasts important collaborations with numerous companies both nationally and internationally.

Matteo Thun

Matteo Thun is known in the contemporary world of interior design for his vocation for ecology, from which various sustainable architecture projects have been born. Thun has a particular talent for bringing to life environments that are at once essential and sophisticated. His projects with a minimalist spirit, present a focus on the well-being of human beings.

Achille Salvagni

Architect Achille Salvagni is characterised by his sophisticated Italian style. The controlled use of colour and a mix of avant-garde design and tradition make his projects unique. Achille Salvagni is a designer specialising in luxury residences, furniture and yacht interiors.

Michele De Lucchi

Michele De Lucchi is an Italian architect, designer and academic. Nationally and internationally acclaimed for his penchant for rural design, Michele De Lucchi is one of the most famous Italian interior designers in the world. One loves Michele De Lucchi’s timeless creativity and innovativeness.

Piero Lissoni

Piero Lissoni is an architect, designer and also an entrepreneur. Known around the world for his minimalist design and contemporary-style creations, many of his projects can be seen in Milan and are easily recognized by their unmistakable richness of detail and functional uniqueness. He has won numbers of important awards such as the “XXIII Compasso d’Oro,” ADI/Association for Industrial Design in 2014.

Luca Bombassei

The main characteristic of interior designer Luca Bombassei is undoubtedly his leaning toward eco-sustainability. Luca Bombassei creates intelligent and environmentally conscious spaces, and at the same time charged with expressiveness, dynamism and authenticity. This characteristic makes him one of the most famous Italian interior designers in the world. Luca Bombassei, in his projects tells a great passion for art and architecture: ideas, shapes and colors blend together according to a unique and personal taste.

Claudia Pelizzari

Claudia Pelizzari is one of the most famous Italian interior designers in the world. Through her work, she manages to convey great sensitivity and elegance without renouncing innovation and experimentation. Her unique style is known and acclaimed not only in Italy. Claudia Pelizzari thinks of every project in its entirety: from interior lighting to landscape and industrial design. During the design process, Pelizzari takes care of the choice of materials, furniture and lighting in the home because ‘for each of us this represents our refuge, the place where we project our personality and character’.