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Forma is a nomadic design gallery popping up around Berlin

August 8, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Contemporary German furniture designs are displayed alongside vintage pieces at this travelling gallery that multidisciplinary designer Vanessa Heepen has launched in Berlin. Rather than having a permanent home, Forma will take over different locations across the German capital. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled The Room I Walk the Line, was recently on show on the ground

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Note Design Studio enriches Stockholm apartment with “cloudy” ceiling stucco

July 19, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Note Design Studio has updated this formerly characterless apartment in Stockholm to feature bespoke Douglas fir joinery and curvy stucco ceilings designed to suggest cloud formations. Although the Cloudy Outlines apartment sits within a building dating back to 1842, Note Design Studio says the interior had been stripped of any historic charm and “traces of

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Wine-red kitchen forms centrepiece of Paris apartment by Hauvette & Madani

July 10, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Interior design studio Hauvette & Madani has made a sumptuous wine-red kitchen the focus of this otherwise neutral apartment in Paris. The Republique apartment is set within a typical Haussmann-era building in the French capital’s 11th arrondissement and belongs to a family with two children. From the outset of the renovation, the clients called for

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Trellick Tower apartment revamped in line with Japanese design principles

July 2, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

German interior designer Peter Heimer and joinery studio Buchholzberlin used a restrained material palette of concrete, oak and aluminium when renovating this flat inside London’s brutalist Trellick Tower. The Grade II-listed building, designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger, originally opened in 1972 to provide social housing for the neighbourhood of Kensal Rise but has since become

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Loewe ReCraft store in Osaka finds ways to let leather live on

June 27, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Fashion brand Loewe has opened a store in Osaka that, for the first time, is specifically dedicated to the repair and preservation of its leather goods. The opening of Loewe ReCraft continues the “obsessive focus” that the brand has had on leather since 1846, when it initially launched as a leather-making collective. The store is set

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Isern Serra turns renderings into reality to form pink Moco Concept Store in Barcelona

June 15, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Isern Serra has transformed a computer-generated image by digital artist Six N Five into a rose-coloured retail space for the Moco Museum in Barcelona. Situated in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood, the Moco Museum exclusively exhibits the work of modern artists such as Damien Hirst, Kaws, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons. The institution’s eponymous

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Isern Serra turns renderings into reality to form pink Moco Concept Store in Barcelona

June 15, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Isern Serra has transformed a computer-generated image by digital artist Six N Five into a rose-coloured retail space for the Moco Museum in Barcelona. Situated in Barcelona’s El Born neighbourhood, the Moco Museum exclusively exhibits the work of modern artists such as Damien Hirst, Kaws, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons. The institution’s eponymous

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India Mahdavi enlivens Rome’s Villa Medici with bold geometric furnishings

June 6, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Architect India Mahdavi has updated six rooms within Rome’s 16th-century Villa Medici to feature an array of contemporary and colourful furniture. The intervention comes as part of a three-year project called Re-enchanting Villa Medici, which was launched in 2022 to amplify the presence of contemporary design and craft within the Renaissance palace. While the first

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Raúl Sanchez Architects divides Barcelona apartment with 21-metre-long wooden wall

May 30, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

A lengthy walnut-panelled wall runs through the bright white living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, renovated by local studio Raúl Sanchez Architects. The Girona Street apartment is set within a 19th-century building in Barcelona’s affluent Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood and belongs to a design-savvy couple with two young children. Prior to the renovation, the apartment

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Birch Selsdon hotel takes over 19th-century mansion in Croydon

May 26, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

British hotel chain Birch has opened an outpost in south London, with grounds rewilded by designer Sebastian Cox and interiors conceived by local studios A-nrd and Sella Concept. Birch Selsdon is housed in a 19th-century mansion in the borough of Croydon and accommodates 181 rooms alongside a wellness space and lido, co-working facilities and a

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