The rental market represents a substantial target market for designers, and creative minds are rising to the challenge
Gabrielle Greiss’s farmhouse in rural France creates the perfect backdrop for her fantastical pieces
A grand Georgian town house — The Spectator’s former offices — is a riot of bold-patterned wallpaper that calls to mind Arts and Crafts, the Bloomsbury Group and Wiener Werkstätte
She may be known for subtle shades, but her new paint range has surprisingly vibrant depths
An engine designing delftware from an online prompt is one way the technology can leverage the past to create the new
Natsai Audrey Chieza’s award-winning innovations harness biological processes to create alternatives to plastics, petrochemicals and other pollutants
There are design and behaviour-led ways to stay cool, too
The unique sensory bombardment it offers shows how magical immersive design can be
POoR Collective works with local communities to co-design spaces they actually want to use. They took us around some of their favourite spots in the capital
The festival will be taking over the city from September 14 to 22. From architecture cycling tours to open studios, there’s plenty to do
The London-based designer loves cycling, hand-shaped soap and the rules of a Japanese bath
As designers look to the past for inspiration, embracing more partitioned plans, could the vogue for exposed cooking spaces be turning a corner?
Designer Beata Heuman has brought sculptor Carl Eldh’s studio into the present
Matilda Goad wants to put the desirable in DIY
The self-taught maker uses nothing but her bare hands to wrestle bulrushes into everything from floor matting to suits of armour
The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains
A Swiss couple with an idiosyncratic approach to the built environment believe their new venture Poeticwalls will bring vim to the property world
Design’s hottest trend? Getting rough around the edges
Donald Judd strictly distinguished his sculptures from his furniture designs. The difference, now, is only in the price tag
Design is taking a geometry lesson
The antithesis of the WFH Modernist box, these retreats are a return to the wonkily handmade, the lyrical and the eccentric
The sci-fi show is deliciously dark, but its Japanese architecture and design are rays of inspiration
Could the ‘secondary master bedroom’, as it is called euphemistically, increase the value of your home – and help save your relationship?
‘Collecting Inspiration’ showcases objects which exemplify 19th-century taste at its most eclectic and opulent
In an age of housing shortages and environmental challenges, architects are turning to a radical mid-century housebuilding programme for inspiration
