Against Cultural Flattening: Inside Sancal’s Spatial Manifesto at Salone del Mobile.Sancal's Experimentarium at Salone del Mobile was a thesis argued in three dimensions. Conceived as "an antidote to cultural flattening," the stand challenged algorithmic homogenisation through bold spatial storytelling: orange portico to...
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...
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...
