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Paradis Apartment offers design-led stays in Belgian seaside town

July 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

The founders of design PR agency Club Paradis have transformed an apartment in Ostend, Belgium, into a design-led vacation home where almost everything is for sale. Available for holiday stays, meetings or photoshoots, Paradis Apartment is filled with furniture, accessories and artworks by the likes of Muller Van Severen, Destroyers Builders and Nathalie Du Pasquier.

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Archmongers celebrates “raw beauty of brutalist concrete” in Trellick apartment refresh

July 3, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Newly exposed concrete walls are paired with a matching terrazzo in this sensitive home renovation by London studio Archmongers in North Kensington’s Trellick Tower. Led by architects Margaret Bursa and Johan Hybschmann, Archmongers reworked a duplex apartment on the 23rd and 24th floors of the listed 31-storey tower block. The design stays true to the

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Objective Studies drops first equitable design collection with A Calm Place exhibition

June 21, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A tranquil exhibition during 3 Days of Design showcased the launch collection for Objective Studies, a digital platform that shares its profits with designers and makers. A Calm Place featured furniture and homeware from 10 designers and studios, all now being marketed and sold directly from Objective Studies. The objects were presented in a scenography

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Signe Hytte designs home of a poet for Enter the Salon show

June 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Danish designer Signe Hytte had Oscar Wilde in mind when designing this home for a fictional poet, presented during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen. Enter the Salon was an exhibition of furniture and homeware products from seven different brands, styled to feel more like a lived-in interior than a show space. The project was

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Jens Quistgaard Around The Table celebrates legacy of “world-famous unknown Dane”

June 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

An exhibition during 3 Days of Design showcased the vast archive of Jens Quistgaard, who is one of Denmark’s most successful designers, despite being relatively unknown. Quistgaard, who passed away in 2008, was responsible for bringing Scandinavian design to homes across America. As chief designer for US-based homeware manufacturer and retailer Dansk Designs for three

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NoDe exhibition presents 28 emerging designers from the Nordics

June 17, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Swirling metal lamps, stools made from old kitchen cabinets and a fur-covered desk were among objects on show at House of Nordic Design’s exhibition during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen. Titled NoDe, short for Nordic Design, the exhibition featured furniture, homeware and sculpture created by 28 up-and-coming designers and makers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway

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Crafting the Present reveals manufacturing techniques behind mid-century furniture classics

June 14, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

The 3 Days of Design exhibition from Danish furniture brand Fredericia reveals how iconic designs by Hans J Wegner and Børge Mogensen have been subtly adapted in line with today’s standards. On show at the Fredericia headquarters in Copenhagen, Crafting the Present showcases the craft processes, tools and makers behind the brand’s furniture. Curated by

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MAST to create stilt-house hotel in abandoned Portuguese salina

June 7, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has revealed plans to build a hotel formed of houses on stilts in a Portuguese lagoon formerly used for salt production. Located on the Sado Estuary near Setúbal, the overgrown salina will be transformed into an eco-conscious tourist destination that takes cues from the traditional fisherman’s huts and jetties common

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Inga Sempé celebrates the joyful mess of everyday life in The Imperfect Home

May 31, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A full-size home interior installed inside the Triennale Milano showcases furniture and homeware by French designer Inga Sempé alongside dirty dishes, hanging laundry and personal trinkets. The Imperfect Home is a retrospective exhibition showcasing over 100 objects developed by Sempé since she founded her Paris-based studio back in 2001. Designed with interiors office Studio A/C,

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Cutwork designs co-living developments for single-parent families

May 29, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Parisian architecture studio Cutwork has unveiled plans for housing designed to allow single parents and their children to live more closely together. Rental housing provider Commune commissioned Cutwork to design co-living specifically for single-parent families. The design includes private living spaces that cater to both adults and children, plus communal spaces where families can spend

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