Photographer Matthieu Salvaing’s new book 'Interior Voyages,' published later this month by Rizzoli, more than lives up to its title.
’s triumphant Arango Residence in Acapulco—a curvaceous, cantilevered concrete structure completed in 1973 that appears on the brink of tipping into the Pacific Ocean. Page after page reveals a different design philosophy in a new location with little text other than the names of the architects, the owners, the location, and a brief description of the property.
Maximalist interior designer Dorothy Draper brought her Hollywood Regency flair to Brazil for the Palácio Quitandinha hotel in Rio.It’s the culmination of many years of photographing by Salvaing who, at the ripe age of 18, left Southern France’s Camargue region for Rio de Janeiro. There, he would meet architect Oscar Niemeyer, the man responsible for the mid-century swagger ofA curvaceous canopy by the pool of Casa das Canoas—architect Oscar Niemeyer's home in Rio.
The book's cover features a living space at Villa Planchart, the color-filled home in Caracas, Venezuela that owners Anala and Armando Planchart commissioned from architect Gio Ponti.The comparison to cinema is an apt one. One of the properties featured is just that—a set for, for which the exacting Hong Kong director crafted a series of sumptuous ‘60s-inspired interiors.
and more. It’s a voyeuristic journey across the interiors of today’s most discerning individuals, and their private spaces not otherwise seen—a practice popularized by Slim Aarons and Horst P. Horst. The latter was first sent to photograph homes by the legendaryeditor Diana Vreeland; to prompt his first interiors assignment, she mentioned his fashion photographs had become “too fashionable,” and it "might do him good.
Her instincts were in the right place: Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Horst would give the world the ability to venture into homes out of their reach, long before the internet and Instagram. Decades later, when vacationing is almost an impossibility,allows the eye to travel while the feet remain safely planted where you are—meaning a flip through the book’s lavishly illustrated pages may well be the most exotic trip you can take right now, wherever you might be.
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