The interior design magazines are an indispensable tool to enrich the thirst for information and keep us up to date with the trends, products and interior design protagonists.

The review that follows, represents an editorial mapping about this issue.

The five best magazines have been chosen placing the focus on those of interior design and in the category of those had a significant impact in the development of the sector, in Italy and worldwide.

CASABELLA

Founded in Milan in 1828, among the major interior design magazine, it has been at the heart of the international debate about the contemporary architectural issues, dedicating enough space to the design and insights into the interior design.

Nowadays it is a universal and prestigious reference point about the architectural culture indeed, it hosts reviews and analysis of the most important international artists.

Among the architects whose works were published in the «Casabella» magazine there are names like: Alvar Aalto, Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, Santiago Calatrava, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Louis I. Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano, Aldo Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, Rudolf Schwarz, Álvaro Siza, Kenzo Tange, Frank Lloyd Wright, giusto per citarne alcuni.

ABITARE

Founded in 1861 by Piera Peroni “Abitare”has been through the story of the costume, architecture and international design, following in its pages the evolution of the our life styles and how we live the spaces.

It is an historic Milanese magazine aimed at a planning and designers.

It has a full and complete approach that provides to the readers an overview on the architecture world.

Exteriors, interiors, design and art dialogue through the projects, realizations, photographs and special inserts.

INTERNI

It is the first italian magazine of interiors.

Interni was published in 1954, in the economic boom that made people become interested in design for the first time.

As in the magazines I have already presented, every article is drawn up in Italian and English.

Besides the news from the design world, it is related by in-depht analysis on innovations, events, exhibitions, works of the biggest designers and guides containing contacts of the greatest brands.

AD

It is the younger magazine of the selection.

Born in the USA in 1920 it has been successfully imported in Italy in 1981.

It has published by Conte Nast, the editorial colossus that publishes famous magazines like GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair and it is headed by the architect and designer Ettore Mochetti.

AD explores the most beautiful house all over the world thanks to the various vip that open their houses to the photographs and show their style and choices.

We find “author houses” where is on stage the combination between art and design. And then, furniture of artist, artisanal manufactures, textiles from tha fashion system, renovations and iconic pieces.

The magazine comes out with many inserts: AD Yachts, AD bathrooms, AD kitchens, AD watchs to testify the medium-high target of the magazine. Furthermore, there are a series of interviews to the owners of the Italian holdings that identify prospectives and dynamics of a sector on the move.

ELLE DECOR

Elle Decor Italia supports the original design and the most beautiful interiors of the world.

We can find exclusive photos of the city apartments, urban lofts, houses and skyline residences, in addition to dossier, reportages, events and the first online press release of the author pieces.

And besides, furniture, objects, accessories to furnish your places with style and to be up to date with all latest news in the field of house.

From the rooms of the house for the place for vacations: resorts, hotels, restaurants, shops, Elle Décor tells the stories of the contemporary interiors designed by the interior decorators of the hour and emerging talents.

-Laura Murru