Studio Carson Kelly’s Little James Proves Constraint Can Be the Best Design Brief.Studio Carson Kelly's Little James treats constraint not as a problem to solve but as the condition that sharpens every move. A dog-legged stair integrates the laundry and eliminates redundant corridors. A floating stone slab serves as...
Quality Over Impulse: Why the Space Sale Deserves a Visit.Serious design lovers exercise a particular kind of restraint all year — passing on the impulse buys, holding out for the right piece, waiting until the stars align on quality, availability, and price. If that sounds familiar, the Space...
Alan Prekop Turns a Bratislava Heritage Space Into an Imagined Italian Terrace.This restaurant in Bratislava doesn't try to look Italian—it tries to feel Italian. Alan Prekop's concept inverts the spatial logic of the interior entirely, transforming the dining room into an imagined terrace in the narrow streets of...
This Five-storey Office Features a Suspended Conference Capsule, Prototype Workshop and Raised R&D Lab.Designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group, MAX Zone Ningbo pairs a five-storey show office with a sales centre that draws on the elegance of traditional Chinese courtyards. The show office makes a statement from the start—a suspended conference...
Order Matter Architects Turn a Tiny Seoul Showroom Into an Urban Archive for Stone.The ST01 flagship in Seoul reframes how architectural stone is experienced in a retail setting. Rather than displaying samples under artificial light, Order Matter Architects drew inspiration from museum storage systems—suspending...
Double’s Washable Natural Jute Rug Collection Rewrites the Rules.Jute is one of those materials interior designers reach for instinctively, but traditional jute rugs have always been notoriously precious to live with. Australian brand Double has cracked the code with its new Washable Natural Jute...
Inside the Tile Pop-Up Where Architecture Makes You Feel the Material.A retail pop-up for tile and surface brand in New Delhi, this booth reimagines the exhibition format as a spatial installation—choreographing visitor movement through angled portals, curved mosaic walls, and a lenticular art niche where...
Ceramic Tiles, Izakaya Bars & Onsen Energy: Valencia Workspace Transformed Through the Lens of Tokyo.At 21 Sornells Street in Valencia's Ruzafa neighbourhood, Paloma Bau and T.O.T Studio have transformed a former commercial unit into a 170sqm shared workspace. The collaboration developed organically—T.O.T's speculative creative...
Studio Karhard Takes Club Culture to the Swiss Alps with Play at Chalet African, Gstaad.Studio Karhard has taken its club DNA—honed across decades of nightlife design, including Berlin's legendary Berghain—and transported it to the Swiss Alps. Play at Chalet African is a nocturnal laboratory where architecture, light, and...
