Compact Luxury: AXOR

What does the term ‘luxury’ mean in an increasingly urbanised world? Is luxury something tangible? Is it measured in the number of square metres or abstract financial equivalents? These questions form the basis of a whitepaper titled ‘Compact Luxury’, which was produced by AXOR in cooperation with London-based consultancy The Future Laboratory.

With the approximately 30-page document, AXOR ventures a look into the future of urban life. Its relevance can be seen in the population forecast by the United Nations for the year 2050: in all likelihood, two-thirds of the world’s population will by then live in cities, many of them in megacities, and the currently observable trend towards more compact living spaces has been forecasted to increase even more dramatically.

Making cities livable is just one important challenge facing us in the coming decades. Equally important for us to consider is the concept of the home as both a social space as well as an individual sanctuary that puts personal well-being sharply into focus. What can architects and interior designers do to optimise and enhance living spaces – in particular, the bathroom as a realm for revitalisation?

The Compact Luxury whitepaper provides clues to this, formulating three clear trends: flexible living, immaterial luxury and conscious well-being. It describes how the desire for holistic and harmonious living is reflected in archetypal designs, why co-living has a great future ahead of it and how younger generations are becoming the drivers of a new minimalism.

Download the Compact Luxury whitepaper free of charge and draw inspiration from its numerous real-world case studies and examples.

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