JUDGE LUCA GUADAGNINO

FILMMAKER AND DESIGNER

With celebrated movies such as I Am Love and Call Me By Your Name, which indulge viewers in seductive fashion and architecture, Guadagnino has etched a unique mark on the public imagination. The Italian director, who grew up in Ethiopia and Sicily, has a polymath’s talent that has catapulted him into unexpected territories. In a move that is at once surprising for a renowned filmmaker, but also utterly logical for someone with his precise sense of the sublime, Guadagnino moonlights as an interior designer, a second career that began with the interiors of his own 17th-century home, which figured as a backdrop in Call Me By Your Name. That connection to the power of design drew him to the Space of Mind cabin (opposite): ‘It’s a beautiful and articulate idea – the perfect sanctuary,’ he says. He was also captivated by Objects of Common Interest (page 102), citing the duo’s intelligent approach to beauty, otherworldly creations, and ‘a way of placing objects in space without any need for function’. @studiolucaguadagnino