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Cometa Architects designs Barcelona apartment with “hand fan” layout

October 22, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Cometa Architects has added a custom-made central staircase and created circular cutouts to showcase a historic brick ceiling at Éventail, a Barcelona home filled with tactile details. The project takes its name from the layout of the 162-square-metre apartment, which resembles a traditional handheld ribbed fan. “The project unfolds around the metaphor of

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Eight hair salons that are a cut above

October 19, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a “dripping shampoo” ceiling. Located all over the world, from Stockholm to Beijing, these salons have all been decorated in striking colours or materials. Their designs range

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Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as “weird underwater world”

October 17, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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Flooat and Fredericia design Tokyo showroom as “quiet, plain canvas”

October 15, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Danish furniture brand Fredericia worked with local studio Flooat for the launch of its first showroom in Tokyo, which has a minimalist interior that nods to its location in an industrial concrete building. Fredericia and Flooat designed the showroom, which is located in Tokyo’s central Omotesando area, to combine the aesthetics of Denmark and Japan.

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This week we revealed the Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlists

October 11, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we showcased the world’s best architecture, interiors, design and sustainability projects along with announcing the nominees for Designers of the Year in our Dezeen Awards 2025 shortlist reveal. This year’s Dezeen Awards architecture shortlist was announced on Monday and included projects such as House for Julia, a children’s hospice designed as

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Frama designs first international store in Tokyo to “reflect the architecture of wellbeing”

September 25, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays the brand’s Care collection of fragrances and beauty products on stainless-steel shelves that cover three of its four walls. Walls

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Ciguë designs art-filled Ace Hotel in brutalist building on Athens Riviera

November 11, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

French studio Ciguë drew on Greek modernism when creating the interior of Ace Hotel and Swim Club Athens, which features vintage furniture and specially commissioned artworks by local artists. Located in the old Fenix Hotel, a brutalist building notable for its jagged facade composed of multiple small balconies, the latest Ace Hotel has a pool and

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Eight homes where plywood panelling creates warm interiors

November 10, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

We’ve gathered interior projects that feature tactile plywood panelling for our latest lookbook, from a Swedish summer house to a London micro apartment. Plywood, which is made from glued-together layers of thin wood veneers, is often used for structural applications but has also become popular as a choice for decorative wall panels. Using it throughout

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Atelier Heyman Hamilton revives 1970s summer house in the Swedish archipelago

November 8, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Atelier Heyman Hamilton has renovated and expanded Torö, a holiday home on an island with the same name in Sweden, focusing on “the meeting between the building and the site”. The careful renovation aimed to honour the house’s 1970s Folkhem architecture, a Swedish movement that combined modern materials and mass production systems with

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