The Productive Interior

The first five minutes decide everything.

Screens Off

What does a room feel like when it stops competing with a phone? Spaces designed for attention, analogue rituals and the growing market for disconnection.

Courtyards, terraces, loggias and gardens as fully designed interiors without ceilings.

Clinics, kindergartens, retirement living and everything between.

THE CARE

ECONOMY

clay, cork,

culture

A materials issue on the comeback of the pre-industrial palette — earth, bark, fibre — and the very industrial supply chains now forming behind it.

Earning the

Nobody has to come to the office any more, so the office has to be worth coming to.

Commute

Retail

Theatre

Stores that behave like stages.

Acoustic comfort is the amenity nobody photographs and everybody wants.

Rituals

Design for the repeated moment: morning coffee, evening light, the weekly market.

Reuse grows up: from salvage aesthetics to protocols, insurance and paperwork.

Dim is the new opulent.

DARK

LUXURY

learning

environments

Schools, campuses and the pedagogy of the floor plan.

The Hospitality

After the boom, the rethink.

Reset

Material

Futures

Mycelium, bio-cements, engineered fibres: the lab-to-living-room pipeline, and which of this year's wonder materials will actually survive procurement.

Benches, shade, water, toilets: the unglamorous interior of the city.

Living Small

Micro-apartments, co-living and the design intelligence of the tight plan.

Touch, scent, temperature, sound: the store as a full-body medium.

Beyond hybrid: offices built around gathering rather than attendance.

THE NEW

WORKPLACE

soft

power

Textiles take over: curtains as walls, upholstery as acoustics, fibre as structure.

Second

Adaptive reuse as the default, not the exception.

Lives

Night

Shift

Our centenary issue stays up late: bars, kitchens, clubs, night trains and the design of the city after dark — plus 100 objects that defined our first hundred issues.