Achille Salvagni

This work is the first monograph on the Romebased designer, who founded his studio in 2002 and has become known for luxurious interiors in Italy and abroad, as well as for his limited-edition furniture, lighting and interior objects.

The book is organised thematically rather than chronologically, each chapter covering aspects such as colour and craft as well as more abstract themes like ‘audacity’ and ‘narrative’. Chapters are short, leaving space for the photography that forms the heart of the 270-page work and showcases Salvagni’s masterful treatment of form, colour and materiality. The large-format imagery is uninterrupted by text, with explanatory captions tucked away in an appendix.

Salvagni’s always-striking work is unflinchingly modern but informed by history, which is well explicated by Pilar Viladas, a former design editor at The New York Times Magazine and T Magazine. A foreword by influential design gallerist Benoist Drut of Maison Gerard, who has collaborated with Salvagni since 2013, adds context.