John Francis Saladino (July 23, 1939 – July 26, 2025) was an American interior designer, furniture designer and garden designer, based in New York City.
Background Saladino was born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 23, 1939. He graduated from Notre Dame and the Yale School of Art and Architecture.
Saladino died at his home in Montecito, California, on July 26, 2025, at the age of 86.
Career After graduation he worked with Italian architect Piero Sartogo in Rome.
Saladino established the Saladino Group, Inc. in 1972 in New York City.SaladinosStyle.com: Background of the Saladino Group
His practice has a staff of around 30 and has undertaken office and residential design projects.
The design studio has completed numerous residential and corporate interior design projects, most of which draw heavily from traditional European influences. As well as undertaking interior design projects his practice also designs furniture.
His designs have appeared in Dunbar, Bloomingdale's, and Baker Furniture.
Saladino purchased a historic 1920s stone villa and estate grounds, located in Montecito, California, in 2001. His restoration project there involved reconstruction, new construction, interior design, and landscape design. It was completed in 2004.SaladinoStyle.com: Restoration project SB Digs.com: Saladino Villa in MontecitoCurbed LA: "Did Ellen and Portia Just Buy a $26M Villa by John Saladino?" (2013) Villa is his well illustrated book about the project.Villa by John Saladino; .
Boards Saladino served as a board member for a number of organizations, including Parsons School of Design, New York School of Interior Design, Save Venice, and the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation in London.
Books Style by Saladino—by John Saladino, published by Frances Lincoln in October 2000. SaladinoStyle.com: Books Villa—by John Saladino, published by Frances Lincoln in March 2009. CoatsHomes.com: Design Book of the Week: Villa by John Saladino
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