Los Angeles-based creative Elena Manferdini combines a maximalist aesthetic with architectural lines to create immersive art installations that fuse dense patterns, vibrant colours and decadent textures. The result? A magnificent visual and spatial narrative that’s a delight to discover.

Principal of Atelier Manferdini – her eponymous design studio that specialises in the cutting edge of computer-aided design of exotic forms – Manferdini draws from personal experience across a series of artistic practices to create her work. “From the beginning, crossing the fields of engineering, art and architecture was almost inevitable,” she says. “After ten years of training as an engineer and architect, I approached the problem of a canvas in space as it would be cladding for a building. The most important knowledge that helped me through the artistic process is the skill of form making and visualisation.”