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...
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...
The Honest Conversations are Happening in DMs: Dana’s Notes from Milan Design Week 2026.Sixteen years on from her first Milan Design Week, Dana Tomić Hughes returned alone for the first time. What she found was a design industry that has engineered honesty out of itself, where the brand activation has overtaken the design...
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...
Margesherwood’s Seoul Flagship Is Part Retail Space, Part Sculpture Garden.Margesherwood's first flagship in Seoul's Seongdong-gu district isn't really a shop in any conventional sense. Designed by Studio Uneg, the two-storey space translates the Korean accessories brand's archive-driven sensibility into spatial...
This Barcelona Apartment Proves You Don’t Need Much to Create a Feeling.Some interiors seduce through abundance—layered objects, curated collections, every surface doing something. And then there are spaces like Apt 21, a private residence in Barcelona's Sant Gervasi neighbourhood, that pull you in with...
