{"id":29706,"date":"2026-10-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archieinteriors.com\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:58:39","slug":"antonio-de-antonis-aipi-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archieinteriors.com\/en\/antonio-de-antonis-aipi-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Interior Designer Beyond Furnishing. Antonio De Antonis, AIPI: \u201cBeauty, Inclusion and Safety Are Not Alternative Values\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the publication of the Italian standard UNI 12001:2026 on 29 January 2026, designers, and interior designers with them, finally have a shared framework describing their knowledge, skills, autonomy and responsibilities. This milestone, together with Law 4\/2013 and the ATECO code 74.13 dedicated to interior designers, is the starting point of our conversation with Antonio De Antonis, President of AIPI<\/strong>, the Italian Association of Professional Interior Designers founded in Milan in 1969. De Antonis is also Executive Vice President of EIDD Design for All, the network that brings together organisations, universities and institutions around inclusive design.<\/p>\n

The conversation stems from the partnership between AIPI and Archi&Interiors<\/a> and covers professional qualification, continuing education, Design for All and safety in interior spaces, the very themes the association brought to Milan Design Week 2026 with Responsible Interiors.<\/p>\n

Profession, standards and responsibility: our interview with AIPI President Antonio De Antonis<\/h2>\n

What does it mean today to lead an association founded in 1969?<\/h3>\n

Leading AIPI means taking on a twofold responsibility: safeguarding a history that began in 1969 and turning it into a contemporary vision of the profession. Over more than fifty years, AIPI has accompanied the evolution of the interior designer, working to ensure that this figure is recognised not as someone generically linked to furnishing (even though our first deed of incorporation bears the acronym O.N.A., Ordine Nazionale Arredatori, the National Order of Furnishers), but as a design professional<\/strong> with skills, method and precise responsibilities towards clients and the community.<\/p>\n

A fundamental step was Law no. 4 of 14 January 2013<\/strong>, which regulates professions not organised into professional orders or colleges and under which AIPI obtained recognition in 2023. AIPI is listed in Section II of the register kept under this law by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. This gives us a concrete role in qualifying professionals, in lifelong training, in ethical oversight and in consumer protection, and allows us to issue the Certificate of Quality and Professional Qualification to members who meet the requirements.<\/p>\n

We have become an authoritative professional community that makes competence, integrity and continuous updating recognisable, and which since 2025 has also had its own dedicated ATECO code, 74.13 Interior Designer<\/strong>, in Italy\u2019s classification of economic activities. Today, leading AIPI above all means preparing interior designers for the great transformations in the way we live, embracing Design for All as an essential principle. I am convinced that our profession is destined to become ever more structured, necessary and recognised for its value.<\/p>\n

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Antonio De Antonis, President of AIPI and Executive Vice President of EIDD Design for All.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How has the role of the interior designer changed, and which aspects of the profession are still poorly understood?<\/h3>\n

The interior designer has become an increasingly cross-disciplinary professional. They must interpret social change, population ageing, new family models, hybrid working, technological transformation and the growing attention to psychophysical well-being. They must also coordinate functional, perceptual, technical, economic and relational aspects.<\/p>\n

Today there are inevitably areas of contiguity and, in some cases, of overlap with other professions, starting with architects, who increasingly carry out part of their work in the fields of design and interior design. This should be read as the sign of a professional world that, in Europe and internationally, is becoming ever more open, multidisciplinary and interconnected. Professional identities are not erased: they are strengthened by clarity of competences.<\/p>\n

What the public does not always understand is that interior design is not the same as choosing a piece of furniture, a colour or a finish<\/strong>. The interior designer analyses people and their behaviour, organises flows and functions, and studies light, ergonomics, acoustics, materials, accessibility and safety. In short, they design the overall experience of a space.<\/p>\n

The publication of UNI 12001:2026<\/strong> \u201cDesigner: knowledge, skills and competence requirements\u201d on 29 January this year, so very recently, marks a historic step. After more than eight years of dialogue with the professional orders and the academic world, the standard finally offers a shared reference for describing the tasks, knowledge, skills, autonomy and responsibilities of the designer, including the field of interior design.<\/p>\n

It is an important cultural recognition: it confirms that our work is an intellectual and methodological process aimed at improving the quality of life and of the environment.<\/p>\n

Why is it important to distinguish interior designers from roles linked to furnishing and decoration?<\/h3>\n

It is essential, not to establish hierarchies, but to correctly recognise different competences and responsibilities. Furnishing and decoration are important components, but the interior designer works on the conception and organisation of space. They analyse needs, define layouts and circulation, study the interaction between people and their environment and coordinate, within the limits of their competences, materials, lighting, acoustics, technologies and furnishing components.<\/p>\n

Clarity does not limit the profession; it strengthens its credibility.<\/strong> A conscious interior designer is able to design spaces that are not only beautiful, but also accessible, understandable, safe and dignified for people with different needs.<\/p>\n

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Antonio De Antonis speaking at an AIPI event.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How does interior design contribute to people\u2019s quality of life?<\/h3>\n

Space is a kind of silent infrastructure of our lives<\/strong>. It can support us or hinder us, welcome us or exclude us. A well-designed environment encourages orientation, relationships, concentration, rest and a sense of belonging. It can reduce stress, increase autonomy and improve the perception of safety.<\/p>\n

The interior designer is the professional closest to the everyday experience of space. This is why their role is crucial: they must understand physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional needs and translate them into concrete design decisions.<\/p>\n

In my other role as Executive Vice President of EIDD Design for All, I work to ensure that Design for All<\/strong> is not seen as a niche reserved for a few categories of people, but becomes an ordinary design method. EIDD brings together organisations, universities, research centres, professionals and institutions worldwide with the aim of improving quality of life through design, valuing human diversity, social inclusion and equality.<\/p>\n

The key point is to involve people and listen to them from the very beginning. When this happens, accessible design does not appear as an afterthought and does not create stigmatising spaces: it becomes widespread quality. In my view, this is today one of the highest responsibilities of the interior designer, if not the most important.<\/p>\n

What does designing interiors responsibly mean for AIPI?<\/h3>\n

Designing responsibly means asking not only whether a space will be beautiful, but who will be able to use it, what risks it may present, how it will age and what impact it will have on people and the environment. Responsibility is not a statement to be added at the end of a project: it must guide every decision from the outset.<\/p>\n

We addressed this topic in a very concrete way during Milan Design Week 2026 with Responsible Interiors<\/strong>, the international event promoted by AIPI, ECIA and Fondazione Pio Manz\u00f9 at Casa Lombardia under the high patronage of the Lombardy Region. We brought together professionals, institutions, standards bodies, universities and industry to discuss the role of interior design between safety, inclusivity, beauty and new professional standards. The day closed with a talk by Karim Rashid on the future of design and interior design, alongside contributions from extraordinary figures such as Marco Piva and Rama Gheerawo.<\/p>\n

The discussion started from the Crans-Montana tragedy of 1 January 2026. We did so with deep respect for the victims and their families, without any intention of taking the place of the authorities responsible for establishing facts and responsibilities. That tragedy nevertheless reminded us, in the most painful way, that interior design cannot be separated from people\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n

Materials, escape routes, flows, crowding, signage, emergency lighting, accessibility and the legibility of routes are not secondary elements. Many of these aspects require specialist expertise and the involvement of architects, engineers, fire safety technicians, operators and the competent authorities. A responsible interior designer must know the limits of their role, work with the necessary professionals and never allow aesthetic ambition to prevail over safety.<\/p>\n

Our task is not only to formally comply with a standard, but to be able to recognise a risk, report it and help prevent it. Professional responsibility also means asking uncomfortable questions, checking the consistency of choices and rejecting solutions that could compromise the protection of users.<\/p>\n

For AIPI, beauty, inclusion and safety are not alternative values<\/strong>: they are inseparable parts of quality. It is precisely this awareness that will make the interior designer an increasingly crucial, authoritative and recognised figure around the world.<\/p>\n

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In Tallinn, during the talk \u201cInclusive Spaces for HoReCa. A new necessary paradigm\u201d.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What skills should a well-prepared interior designer have today?<\/h3>\n

A well-prepared interior designer must have a design culture, the ability to listen and solid expertise in materials, lighting, colour, ergonomics, acoustics, sustainability, accessibility and technologies. They must be able to manage time, costs, suppliers and relationships with other professionals, communicating clearly the value and the limits of their work.<\/p>\n

To these abilities must be added autonomy, responsibility, ethics and continuous updating. These are precisely the aspects addressed by the recently published UNI standard for designers, to whose drafting AIPI contributed as a proposing body, taking part in a long, shared process with universities, training institutions and sector representatives.<\/p>\n

Having contributed to writing the standard, AIPI is now aligning its continuing education with the requirements it sets out and is promoting support tools and preparation pathways for professionals who intend to seek certification.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, we have just approved the new AIPI Continuing Education Credits Programme, the CFC. The programme requires at least 20 credits a year and 60 over three years<\/strong> and, from 1 January 2027, earning them will become mandatory within the association for the recognition and maintenance of the AIPI professional pathway and of the Certificate of Quality and Professional Qualification provided for by law.<\/p>\n

I do not see this commitment as a bureaucratic formality. It is a guarantee for clients and, at the same time, a form of protection for professionals. In a sector that changes so rapidly, there can be no qualification without constant, verifiable and transparent updating.<\/p>\n

A strategic role will be played by AroundDesign, AIPI\u2019s partner platform for online and on-demand training. Through AroundDesign we can offer selected content, specialist courses and pathways that count towards CFC credits, making training accessible to our members in every region and beyond national borders. It is a fundamental tool for turning the principle of Lifelong Learning into a concrete and continuous practice.<\/p>\n

AIPI is also among the first professional design associations to have adopted, as early as 2022, advanced digital tools to make the Lifelong Learning pathway recognisable and verifiable. Courses and credits earned can be documented through digital Open Badges<\/strong>, protected by blockchain technology, which guarantees the integrity, traceability and immutability of the recorded information.<\/p>\n

Lifelong learning and responsibility must go hand in hand. Only in this way can the interior designer fully take on their role: not a mere interpreter of products or trends, but a professional who is crucial to the quality, safety and well-being of the spaces people live in.<\/p>\n

How important is it to build a network between professionals, institutions, companies and schools?<\/h3>\n

Building a network is essential. Institutions must understand the public value of interior design; companies produce research, materials and innovation; schools train new generations; professionals translate all of this into real spaces. None of these players can tackle today\u2019s complexity alone.<\/p>\n

A particularly important step came in 2022, when the reform of the AIPI Statute allowed companies, universities, schools and publishers to join the Association as affiliate members. We thus moved beyond the logic of occasional sponsorship to build a more stable, responsible and participatory relationship.<\/p>\n

The AIPI Corporate Programme was created precisely with this goal: to involve selected organisations that share the Association\u2019s values and intend to actively support the world of interior design. Being an affiliate member does not mean buying visibility or receiving a commercial seal of approval, but joining a cultural and professional project and accepting its ethical principles, responsibilities and aims.<\/p>\n

The relationship with companies must be based on a genuine exchange of information. Professionals need to know about the research, performance, limits and methods of application of products; companies, in turn, must be able to listen to designers and understand people\u2019s emerging needs. From this dialogue can come materials, components, services and spaces that are ever more sustainable, safe, accessible and inclusive.<\/p>\n

The recent agreement with DFA Italia, Design for All Italia, AIPI\u2019s exclusive partner for developing specific initiatives dedicated to inclusivity, moves in the same direction. Together we are working on an awards programme able to recognise projects, products, services and corporate practices that concretely translate the values of Design for All.<\/p>\n

The relationship with companies is also linked to the AIPI Continuing Education Credits Programme. Through technical meetings, visits, workshops and courses approved within the CFC programme, we can explore in depth the specific technologies and products that an interior designer needs to know in order to design with real awareness.<\/p>\n

I am thinking above all of what I call invisible architecture<\/strong>: light, acoustics and sound, air quality, thermal comfort, safety, control systems and all those components that are often not immediately visible, yet profoundly determine the health, well-being and perceptual quality of an environment.<\/p>\n

The ability to work as a system is part of AIPI\u2019s very history. We are among the founding members of POLI.design, established in 1999 within the Politecnico di Milano as a meeting point between higher education, the profession and industry. Today I have the honour of representing AIPI in its Members\u2019 Assembly, confirming how strategic we consider the dialogue between academic culture and professional practice.<\/p>\n

The MID, Master in Interior Design, which has been running for more than twenty years, and the specialist master\u2019s programmes in Exhibition Design, atmospheres, sensory surfaces, light and new living experiences are shaping the interior designer of tomorrow. They train professionals capable of combining research, method, technology, sustainability and inclusion.<\/p>\n

At European and international level, AIPI enjoys well-established relationships and an authoritative presence. It is a founding and full member of ECIA, the European Council of Interior Architects, through which we contribute to the debate on professional standards, the quality of education, the mobility of skills and the international recognition of the interior designer.<\/p>\n

Since 1974, AIPI has also been a member of IFI, the International Federation of Interior Architects\/Designers, and today it sits on the Board of EIDD Design for All. At the same time, we have built ongoing relationships through MIA, Mediterranean Interior Architects\/Designers, the dialogue with ACIAD, the African Council of Interior Designers, and collaborations with organisations and partners in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

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Antonio De Antonis speaking for MIA, Mediterranean Interior Architects\/Designers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Networking, then, is not a complementary activity for AIPI. It is a strategic choice that brings together professionals, companies, education, institutions and culture around a common principle: building the future of interior design by always placing people, and never the product as an end in itself, at the centre of the project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What are the most important challenges today for those who design interior spaces?<\/h3>\n

We need to design more flexible spaces, able to accommodate different functions and to support people through the different stages of life. Homes have also become places for work, study, care and relationships; offices are changing; hospitality must respond to new sensibilities; public spaces require greater accessibility and safety.<\/p>\n

Added to all this are longevity, shrinking floor areas, the cost of housing, climate change, digital transformation and the need to protect psychological well-being. The real challenge will be to integrate these needs without producing cold, standardised or excessively technological environments.<\/p>\n

AIPI offers a very clear direction: designing intuitive, adaptable and welcoming spaces<\/strong> that work for people of different ages, cultures and abilities. Technology must help people, not force them to adapt. It is a transformation taking place on a global scale.<\/p>\n

What would you say to someone who wants to pursue a career in interior design today?<\/h3>\n

First of all, I would say not to chase only images or trends. A project does not begin with a photograph, but with an understanding of people, context and the problems to be solved. It takes curiosity, discipline, culture, the ability to listen and openness to dialogue.<\/p>\n

Preparation also comes from direct contact with the building site, from knowledge of materials and products, from dialogue with contractors and craftspeople and from the ability to understand time, costs and responsibilities. But above all, it comes from knowing people: their needs, their vulnerabilities, their habits and their aspirations. Products and spaces are tools; the human being remains the centre and the purpose of the project.<\/p>\n

I would advise choosing pathways where theory meets real projects. The experience of POLI.design, of which AIPI is a founding member, shows how specific master\u2019s programmes such as the MID can guide talent towards concrete skills, professional responsibility and an international outlook.<\/p>\n

I would also invite students to join the AIPI community free of charge. Student membership makes it possible to get to know the profession up close, take part in meetings and training activities, engage with professionals and companies and understand everything a project involves: listening to the client, method, the building site, coordination, safety, ethics and responsibility.<\/p>\n

Academic training is essential, but it is not enough. Non-formal learning, acquired through courses, workshops, technical visits and association activities, should never be overlooked, nor should informal learning, which comes from everyday experience, observation, mistakes, exchanges with colleagues and work in the field. It is from the integration of formal, non-formal and informal learning that a truly complete professional emerges.<\/p>\n

To young people I say: have confidence. It is an extraordinary time to enter interior design: the profession will demand ever greater preparation, but it will offer previously unimaginable opportunities and growing international recognition. The world needs more human, inclusive and intelligent spaces and, precisely for this reason, it will increasingly need qualified interior designers.<\/p>\n

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Antonio De Antonis at an award ceremony in Bari.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What value can editorial storytelling that pays closer attention to the interior designer\u2019s role have?<\/h3>\n

Competent editorial storytelling can change the way the profession is perceived. It can show that behind a successful space there is not just an evocative image, but a process made of listening, research, responsibility, checks and coordination.<\/p>\n

Archi&Interiors can help tell the reasons behind a project: why a particular layout was chosen, how accessibility and safety were considered, how light, acoustics and materials affect well-being. It can also explain to the public the meaning of Law 4\/2013, of UNI 12001 and of professional qualification.<\/p>\n

The most precious heritage we can bring to the world is not only the Italian product, but the design thinking that gives it meaning<\/strong>. Authoritative editorial storytelling can make this value visible and restore to the interior designer the role they actually play.<\/p>\n

What role do you envisage for AIPI in the Italian and international debate?<\/h3>\n

I see AIPI as the Italian home of the interior designer and, at the same time, as an international bridge between professionals, institutions, education and design culture. We must continue to champion the issues of qualification, UNI 12001, continuing education, inclusivity and sustainability, bringing them with authority to national and international tables.<\/p>\n

Our international presence allows us to contribute to building shared standards and benchmarks for the profession. My role as Executive Vice President of EIDD Design for All strengthens this commitment, enabling us to promote inclusion not as a specialist sector, but as an ordinary design method.<\/p>\n

A founding value of our international vision is MIA, Mediterranean Interior Architects\/Designers<\/strong>. MIA aims to build a federation able to connect the design cultures of the Mediterranean, fostering education, research, professional exchanges and shared standards. It must not be a mere commercial showcase, but a space for dialogue between Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa. We are also in talks with MAECI, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, so that this project can take root in Italy and Rome can become the permanent seat of MIA. Rome has the historical, cultural and geographical value to naturally represent this bridge.<\/p>\n

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In Hammamet, Antonio De Antonis at work on the MIA project, Mediterranean Interior Architects\/Designers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the same time, we are looking very closely at China and the wider Asian region for our professionals and companies. The Chinese organisations we work with recognise AIPI as an authoritative partner for developing an inclusive design culture. We want this relationship not to be driven solely by commercial logic, but to generate education, exchange between professionals and projects founded on well-being, dignity and people\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n

I am deeply optimistic. The interior designer will become increasingly central because they will have to interpret a complex, multicultural, long-lived and technological society. The profession will become more structured, more responsible and increasingly recognised worldwide.<\/p>\n

Today AIPI is seen as one of the leading international associations and has every condition to be a protagonist of this future.<\/p>\n

Design as responsibility<\/h2>\n

Throughout De Antonis\u2019s answers we found a constant thread: qualification is not a formality, but a guarantee for those who live in and move through spaces. A technical standard, an ATECO code, a verifiable updating requirement and an international network describe a profession that asks to be recognised for what it actually does.<\/p>\n

We covered AIPI\u2019s presence at Milan Design Week 2026, Interzum Forum Bergamo and the Life Design Festival in Potenza in a dedicated feature<\/a>. On the role of professional associations, the conversation continues with the editorial partnership between AIDIA and Archi&Interiors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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