Rome asks something rare of interior design: the ability to inhabit history without becoming trapped by it. Every home, hotel, restaurant or private space is shaped within a city carrying an imposing memory: noble palaces, hidden courtyards, historic layers, archaeological traces, bourgeois apartments, rationalist buildings, rooftops open to the sky and neighbourhoods where the contemporary …
Rome asks something rare of interior design: the ability to inhabit history without becoming trapped by it. Every home, hotel, restaurant or private space is shaped within a city carrying an imposing memory: noble palaces, hidden courtyards, historic layers, archaeological traces, bourgeois apartments, rationalist buildings, rooftops open to the sky and neighbourhoods where the contemporary always has to measure itself against what came before.
For this reason, speaking about interior design in Rome means entering a complex culture of living, where decoration cannot be reduced to ornament and renovation cannot become a purely technical exercise. The most successful Roman interiors work through light, material, proportion and memory. They deal with ancient floors, boiserie, marble, plaster, vaults, views, restrictions and changes of scale. In many cases, the project has to intervene with almost sartorial precision, choosing what to preserve, what to lighten and what to transform.
The Roman tradition of interior design has deep roots. During the twentieth century, figures such as Luigi Moretti, Michele Busiri Vici and Paolo Portoghesi, together with many architects connected to rationalism, restoration and major private commissions, helped define an idea of space that was cultured, scenic and measured. Alongside architecture, Rome has always preserved a strong culture of craftsmanship: cabinetmakers, marble workshops, upholsterers, restorers, galleries, antique dealers and artisans able to give interiors a material depth that is difficult to reproduce elsewhere.
The contemporary scene gathers this legacy through different sensitivities. Some names work on highly refined private residences, others on hospitality, retail, commercial interiors, renovations of historic apartments or new forms of urban living. The result is a broad map where essential interiors, decorative rooms, material research, furniture culture, architectural rigour and a renewed attention to the home as a space of identity coexist.
This selection brings together 25 studios and names specialising in interior design in Rome. It is not a ranking and does not assign positions of merit. It is an editorial reading designed to tell the story of some of the most interesting, authoritative and recognisable practices in the city: interior designers, interior architects, designers and studios for whom the interior space is not a secondary field, but the centre of continuous research.
The Criteria Behind This Selection of Interior Designers in Rome
This selection is based on a precise editorial criterion: identifying studios and designers with a real connection to Rome and a significant body of work in the fields of interior design, interior architecture, décor, hospitality, retail and the transformation of lived spaces.
The quality of the portfolio, the coherence of the design language, the recognisability of the style, the presence of residential or contract projects, the ability to work within historic and contemporary contexts, the attention to custom-made furniture, the research into materials, publications in sector magazines, professional reputation and continuity of activity were all considered.
The list includes interior designers in the strict sense and architects who have developed a strong, recognisable approach to interiors. In Rome, as often happens in Italy, the boundary between architecture and interior design is subtle: many relevant projects are created by figures capable of working across space, furniture, material, light, colour and detail.
Studios mainly focused on large-scale architecture, urban planning or formal research were not prioritised when interiors did not appear to be central to their work. The aim is not to replicate a map of the city’s architecture studios, but to highlight those who, in Rome, have turned interior design into a recognisable expressive, professional and cultural territory.
An interior project is not measured only by the beauty of the final image. It is measured by the consistency of the choices, the relationship with the place, the care for details and the ability to transform a client’s identity into a space that can truly be lived in.
Best Interior Designers in Rome: 25 Studios and Names Specialising in Interior Design
Achille Salvagni
In Achille Salvagni’s work, Rome becomes a silent grammar made of proportion, material, measure and classical memory. An architect and designer, Salvagni has built a recognisable language across private residences, yachts, bespoke furniture and collectible pieces, bringing the culture of Italian craftsmanship into an international dimension.
Bronze, marble, precious woods, soft surfaces and sculptural volumes define dense, calibrated interiors, conceived with the same attention usually reserved for architecture. His idea of luxury does not rely on immediate display. It comes from the control of form, the quality of detail and a classicism that never becomes quotation, but rather a cultural position.
Tommaso Ziffer
Tommaso Ziffer belongs to that Roman tradition in which the interior becomes direction, atmosphere and the construction of identity. His work crosses homes, hotels, representative spaces and hospitality venues with a compositional freedom supported by a strong architectural culture.
Colour, artworks, fabrics, furniture and decorative details coexist in rooms full of character, where every space has a precise tone and a recognisable presence. In his projects, decoration does not arrive as a final gesture. It participates in the structure of the space, transforming living into visual experience, private memory and personal narrative.
Ilaria Miani
Ilaria Miani’s interiors seem to belong to their places even before the intervention takes place. Her work proceeds with restraint, listens to the existing architecture, preserves what has value and lightens what feels heavy, creating spaces where time remains visible.
Stone, wood, natural fabrics, carefully selected furniture and handcrafted details define warm, essential and deeply liveable interiors. In Rome, where the relationship with the past can easily become rhetorical, Miani works with a more intimate sensitivity. Her projects express a private elegance made of light, material, proportion and respect for what already exists.
Massimo Adario
Massimo Adario’s work is recognised for its ability to give interiors a precise visual and cultural density. In his projects, the home is not a neutral container, but a sequence of rooms, materials, artworks, lights and details constructed through rigorous direction.
Ancient surfaces and contemporary interventions, designed furniture, deep colours, custom-made elements and artistic presences compose elegant spaces rich in references, always controlled in their composition. Adario represents a sophisticated, domestic and intellectual Rome, where living is born from the relationship between the memory of places and contemporary sensitivity.
Carola Vannini
Carola Vannini works on clear, contemporary interior design, deeply connected to the everyday life of spaces. Her Roman renovations show attention to light, layout, materials and the possibility of making living more fluid inside homes that are often complex and marked by time.
Her language is measured, clean and recognisable. Spaces are not weighed down by unnecessary signs, but built through order, balance and functionality. In a city where many interiors have to deal with difficult layouts and important existing elements, Vannini brings a controlled design approach, capable of making daily life more elegant without turning it into a stage.
Fabio Mazzeo Architects
Fabio Mazzeo Architects brings to interior design a sartorial, scenic vision deeply linked to the culture of detail. The studio works across residences, hospitality, custom furniture, surfaces, art and decoration, creating interiors where every choice contributes to defining a precise identity.
Its headquarters in Via Giulia, in the historic heart of Rome, clearly reflects the relationship between the studio’s language and the city: memory, craftsmanship, material and contemporaneity meet in spaces conceived as complete experiences. In these interiors, luxury does not coincide with accumulation. It lies in the quality of design control, from the first intuition to the final definition of the environment.
Daniela Colli / COLLIDANIELARCHITETTO
With COLLIDANIELARCHITETTO, Daniela Colli has built a Roman studio where interior design meets above all the world of hospitality. Hotels, restaurants, cafés, spas and public spaces become places to inhabit temporarily, but intensely: environments able to welcome, remain in the memory and build a relationship with those who pass through them.
Her work moves between memory, function and character, using material, colour, light and decorative details as narrative tools. In a city where hospitality often lives inside buildings loaded with history, Colli works on a delicate balance: giving spaces new energy without erasing where they come from.
Giorgia Dennerlein / Loto AD Project
Giorgia Dennerlein, founder of Loto AD Project, interprets interior design as a field where architecture, furniture, colour and decoration build the identity of a space together. The studio works across residential, hospitality and luxury retail projects, with a cultured yet vibrant approach able to combine technical expertise and aesthetic sensitivity.
In her projects, colour is never a simple accent. It defines rhythm, temperature, depth and the way spaces are perceived. In Rome, Loto AD Project represents an eclectic and welcoming line of interior design, where homes, hotels and commercial spaces become places inhabited by materials, proportions, objects and relationships.
02A Studio
02A Studio tells a concrete and contemporary part of Roman living: homes to be rethought, apartments to be reconnected, domestic spaces asking for more light, more order and more identity. The studio works on interior design, renovations and design with an approach close to people’s daily lives.
Homes are freed from uncertain divisions, rebalanced in their proportions and built through materials, colours and furniture able to give continuity to the rooms. In a city made of difficult floor plans, twentieth-century buildings and interiors often made heavy by time, 02A brings precise, readable design, capable of transforming the home without distorting it.
INVIDIABENEDETTOARCHITETTI
INVIDIABENEDETTOARCHITETTI works across architecture, interiors and design, with research built precisely on the boundary between built space and interior design. Founded in 2016 and active between Rome and Milan, the studio interprets interiors as places where technique, aesthetic sensitivity and listening to the client must find a concrete synthesis.
In its projects, homes and lived spaces are not treated as simple rooms to complete, but as organisms to be read, transformed and made more coherent with the life of those who move through them. Its presence in this selection is linked to this ability to combine design rigour and attention to the everyday experience of space, within a contemporary and measured vision of living.
MOB Architects
MOB Architects works on interiors designed to improve the quality of living, rather than simply produce a beautiful image. The Roman studio creates intimate, refined and functional spaces, where architecture and interior design proceed together with attention to light, materials, proportions and daily gestures.
Its work appears particularly focused on residential design: homes redesigned with care, more fluid interiors, custom details and material choices conceived to make spaces more welcoming and more exact. In Rome, where the home is often a complex organism, MOB Architects brings a measured design approach able to hold together comfort, rigour and real life.
Punto Zero Architetti
Punto Zero Architetti works within an everyday, inhabited Rome, made of apartments to transform, spaces to clarify and homes to bring back to a more personal measure. Based in the Rione Monti district, the studio develops interior projects, residential and commercial renovations, custom-made furniture and interventions where the relationship with the existing becomes part of the design language.
Colours, materials, preserved elements and new functional solutions coexist in its work without losing the domestic sense of the spaces. The home is read as a living system, where memory, use and desire have to find a concrete balance.
Mirta Ottaviani
Mirta Ottaviani brings to the Roman scene a free, personal sensitivity attentive to objects, custom-made furniture and details capable of giving character to interiors. An architect and interior designer based in Rome, she works on residential and commercial renovations with an approach that combines design, décor and atmosphere.
Her interiors often have a narrative quality: colour, fabrics, plants and selected or designed pieces enter the space as traces of a possible biography. It is a form of design that does not fear personality and gives the home a more intimate, lived and recognisable dimension.
Manuela Tognoli / Portuense201
With Manuela Tognoli, interior design takes on a domestic, artistic and deeply Roman character. Her work grows from a direct relationship with homes, objects, surfaces and that imperfect dimension of lived spaces that often makes an interior more interesting than an impeccable composition.
Through Portuense201, Tognoli creates environments where architecture, furniture, art and private memory meet naturally. Her presence in this selection adds a sensitive and concrete voice: less connected to the effect of representation, closer to the home as a place of identity, transformation and care.
Maria Adele Savioli / MAS Architettura
Maria Adele Savioli, with MAS Architettura, works on precise, measured interior design, particularly suited to the story of the contemporary Roman home. Her residential projects show attention to small spaces, the quality of light, the choice of materials and the possibility of making often complex environments more readable.
Her language avoids decorative excess and seeks a form of balance based on proportion, functionality and domestic warmth. In compact apartments or homes requiring radical rethinking, MAS works on the transformation of space with sober control, where every detail contributes to the quality of living.
MAMESTUDIO / Maria Elena Amori and Matteo Bernardi
MAMESTUDIO, founded by Maria Elena Amori and Matteo Bernardi, brings to this list a Roman perspective centred on renovation, interior design and the creation of residential spaces more coherent with contemporary life. The studio works on homes and private spaces where layout, materials, light and furniture are conceived as parts of a single process.
The quality of its interiors lies in the ability to create order without rigidity, making the home more functional without impoverishing its character. It is a concrete form of design, attentive to the construction site and to detail, interpreting living as a balance between real needs and the identity of the space.
Mariella Paciolla Architetto
Mariella Paciolla works on interior design with a measured, elegant approach, strongly connected to the quality of living. Her Roman studio deals with interiors, renovations and turnkey projects, with particular attention to the home as a place to make more functional, harmonious and personal.
In her projects, the transformation of space does not pass through excessive gestures, but through a careful reading of needs, light, materials and proportions. The result is a sober and welcoming idea of interior design, able to bring order to rooms without making them rigid, giving domestic life a clearer and more refined form.
Arabella Rocca
Arabella Rocca brings to the Roman scene a cultured and precise approach to interior design, capable of holding together architecture, furniture, graphic design and creative direction. Her studio works on private residences, commercial spaces, retail and interventions where the interior is conceived as an overall identity, rather than a simple sum of finishes and furnishings.
In her projects, the home maintains a strong relationship with those who live in it. Materials, colours, layout, light and details are orchestrated to build personal, contemporary spaces that never feel anonymous. Her presence in this selection is linked precisely to this ability to read interior design as a complete project, where space and image engage in a measured dialogue.
Martina Stancati
Martina Stancati works across interior architecture, residential projects, hospitality and commercial spaces, with research that combines spatial design, furniture selection, materials and product design. Her training and professional path allow her to move naturally between private interiors and public spaces, always keeping the relationship between function, atmosphere and the client’s identity at the centre.
In her projects, the interior is not treated as a simple aesthetic composition, but as a space to be interpreted and transformed. Circulation, light, proportions, finishes and details all contribute to creating recognisable environments designed to accompany everyday experience. Her collaboration with Black Tie confirms this attention to furniture design and the quality of detail, adding to her profile a broader dimension in which interior design and product enter into dialogue within the same idea of contemporary elegance.
Eleonora Giacopetti
Eleonora Giacopetti works on interior design and interior architecture for private residences in Rome, with an approach that combines design, renovation, custom-made furniture and the careful management of supplies. Her work focuses on transforming the home into a place that is more coherent, more ordered and closer to the way its inhabitants live.
The redefinition of spaces, the study of layout, the choice of materials and the coordination of the implementation phases become parts of a single process, designed to give continuity to the interiors. In this selection, she represents a concrete and curated form of interior design, capable of accompanying the client from the initial vision to the final quality of the home.
Francesca Delicato
Francesca Delicato specialises in the design and renovation of interiors in Rome, with work clearly centred on the home and on the daily wellbeing of those who live there. Her idea of design starts from listening to habits, needs and desires, translating them into spaces that are more functional, luminous and ordered.
In her approach, interior design is not an image exercise, but a tool to improve domestic life: connecting rooms, materials, colours, furniture and paths in a more conscious way. Her presence in the list helps tell a very real dimension of Roman design: homes to be rethought with care, precision and attention to everyday life.
BB1 Architettura & Design / Chiara Tiberti
With BB1 Architettura & Design, Chiara Tiberti works on a very concrete dimension of Roman interior design: transforming private spaces into places that are more functional, harmonious and close to those who inhabit them. The studio works on renovations, technical consultancy, interior design and turnkey projects, following the project in its entirety.
The home is read as a system to be recomposed with care. Layout, light, materials, furniture and details have to build a recognisable balance without losing the relationship with daily life. In this selection, BB1 represents an operational and well-curated form of interior design, capable of guiding the client from the initial vision to the final realization.
LD Arch & Design
LD Arch & Design is a Roman studio with a clear vocation for interior design, renovations, restyling and consultancy. Its work moves mainly within apartments, public venues and spaces that need to become more functional, welcoming and personal.
The approach starts from listening to needs and translating them into interiors that are more readable, more comfortable and more coherent with the way people live and move through them. In a city where many homes require precise interventions, construction-site management and practical yet considered choices, LD Arch & Design tells an accessible and everyday side of interior design: the one that improves space without turning it into a purely image-based exercise.
ZeumaDesign
ZeumaDesign works on interior design in Rome with an approach centred on the relationship between space, wellbeing and perception. The studio presents itself as an architecture and interior design practice, but its language finds particular strength in the creation of environments designed around people, their habits, their emotional states and the desire to inhabit more balanced places.
Materials, light, proportions and details are used to shape welcoming, measured interiors able to generate a feeling of order and continuity. In this selection, ZeumaDesign adds a contemporary and sensory voice, closer to the home as an everyday experience than to the final image alone.
Archifacturing
Archifacturing was born in Rome from the professional meeting between Sara Cimarelli and Giorgio Opolka. The studio works across architecture, interior design and turnkey projects, with strong attention to the transformation of residential spaces.
Its portfolio tells the story of many Roman homes: apartments to rethink, spaces to open to light, interiors to make more fluid, contemporary and personal. Its design approach combines material research, functional solutions, furniture and process management, with the aim of creating coherent environments from concept to delivery. In a map of interior design in Rome, Archifacturing represents well the work carried out on the city’s apartments: real, often complex spaces that, through design, find new energy, order and identity.
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