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Nature’s palette: transforming bathroom retreats with colour and texture

Villeroy & Boch teams up with Gesa Hansen to break clichés – shaping bathrooms into timeless escapes where daily routines become meaningful rituals.

The doors of perception: this company is open to aspiration

What happens when you combine a future-gazing congress, a networking event and a product exhibition, along with training courses and keynote speeches? Welcome to Arbonia Next25.

Hanging tough: when linoleum doors go next level

High architectural standards demand high-performance products. Arbonia's Premium Edge linoleum-doors collection answered the call.

Rights of passage: the correct way to do doors

Arbonia's aspirational approach to connecting spaces bears rich creative fruit in a host of enviable architectural-project collaborations.

The waiting game: Alberto Lievore and Aurélien Hary are slowing down

Pausit, the design duo’s new seating system for Arper, transforms transitional areas into desirable spaces of pause, focus and renewal.

Divinity is in the detail: meet the fair that makes it all happen

interzum forum italy – the show for the furniture supplier industry and beyond – is gearing up for its second edition in Bergamo from 4–5 June, 2026.

How to size the optimal kitchen island

Five comprehensive tips to arrive at the ideal dimensions for a workable – and aesthetically harmonious – culinary architecture.

Take five: inside the Minotti Pavilion in Milan

Visitors entering the Minotti Pavilion at this year’s Salone del Mobile were treated to five contemporary living concepts that draw equally on tradition and innovation.

Meet the design talent at the heart of Minotti’s global perspective

The Minotti 2025 Collection sees furnishing pieces from its enviable stable of celebrated design collaborators: Marcio Kogan / Studio MK27, Nendo, GamFratesi, Hannes Peer and Giampiero Tagliaferri.

Clothes make the furniture: Minotti’s sartorial approach to design

Minotti’s sartorial level of craftsmanship, combined with forward-facing design thinking, make for spaces that fit their users like a glove.

ICFF 2025 brings global design community together in New York

With a balance of emerging talent and established brands, this year’s edition of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair fostered meaningful connections, commercial momentum and critical dialogue across the global design community.

Celebrating a design evolution in style

B&T's new Clerkenwell showroom marks three decades of the brand and its commitment to combining design with emotion and culture.

Editor's Letter: Architonic. Reimagined.

It’s a new Architonic. With an old promise. We’re here to serve you.

My Space: Färg & Blanche invite you into their Stockholm studio

In the first in a new Architonic series of atelier visits, we go knocking at the door of Swedish-French designers Färg & Blanche’s subterranean studio.

Mute launches Modular Pods: the world’s largest and first adaptable collection of office pods

Mute, a pioneer in adaptable office architecture, has launched Modular Pods — the largest pod collection on the market. With dozens of sizes and advanced configuration options, this new collection sets a new benchmark for office pod versatility.

Boss by name and nature: boardroom seating gets a promotion

British manufacturing excellence enters the executive fray in the form of Boss Design's Uma chair – sculpture meets ultra-comfort.

How to maximise residential space with built-in structures

Space-saving heroes of the interior universe, built-ins epitomise the fusion of practicality and style. But what are some of the ways to integrate them into residential projects? These examples boost storage while keeping an eye on aesthetic compatibility.

Where furniture makes waves: design in motion

Brunner's new table series, in collaboration with design studio jehs + laub, shapes spaces through optimised form, adaptable function and a high degree of personalisation.

Residential courtyards that invite nature inside through glass

By employing glass doors, skylights and frameless windows, these four projects dissolve the boundary between indoor and outdoor spaces and allow the visual beauty of their courtyards to radiate throughout the home.

The right stuff: How materials are transforming spaces

Italian furniture brand Edra is on a mission to recast interiors through its research-rich, quality-always material choices.

Six evergreen design elements that define contemporary interiors

Adaptability and timelessness are key factors in contemporary interior design. From floor-to-ceiling glass to statement lighting, we take a look at six of the style's defining elements.

Can you hear the design? When silence speaks volumes in Copenhagen

As 3daysofdesign 2025 beats with creativity, Rockfon is setting the tone for spaces that balance comfort and acoustic harmony.

The comfort of strangers (or how the Greeks do it better)

This year’s edition of the Architect Show in Athens doubles down on its winning formula of content, curation and conviviality.

Light, modular, made to move

Inspired by traditional Japanese roof tiles, Pedrali’s Kawara lighting collection by Yusuke Kawai combines minimalist design and modular versatility, illuminating spaces with an elegant interplay of light and shadow...

Istanbul-on-Thames: London just got more global

This month’s edition of Clerkenwell Design Week sees the Istanbul-born brand B&T Design mark its 30th anniversary with the opening of a permanent showroom space in the UK capital’s architect-soaked neighbourhood.

Harmony, global voices and material futures at ICFF 2025

ICFF 2025 gears up for a future-facing event around sustainable innovation, emerging talent and curated experiences that explore balance across culture, craft and material.

How a few millimetres of tray can maximise space in compact bathrooms

Who knew a shower tray could hold such power? In the intricate flow of plumbing and design, slim solutions like those from Bette enhance every millimetre of a bathroom’s potential.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2025: Local fabric, global questions

As the design world grapples with questions of purpose, process and place, the event's 2025 edition is larger than ever — and gearing up to find answers.

'The body doesn't change': Patrick Jouin gets comfortable

The Compasso-d'Oro-winning Parisian on his latest collaboration with PEDRALI, when waiters get too close, and how the Egyptians had it right.

Building with sunbeams: When architecture learns from nature

By harnessing sunlight and air, window and facade concepts from Solarlux invite nature inside – utilising its full potential to create a space where the building breathes in harmony with its surroundings.