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Expressive Elegance
What, you might be asking, is Expressive Elegance? Well, we think it’s the design trend you’ll be seeing a lot of in 2024, a name we’ve coined for a series of ideas that all seem to be coming together right now, creating spaces that you can relax in,
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Expressive Elegance
If you see people on the pages of Livingetc, they’re usually one of two things. Either a homeowner, posing nonchalantly in their kitchen as we tell the world about how fabulous their house is; or a designer we like and want to introduce you to. We’d
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Forward Thinking
I find immense excitement in envisioning the future of design, where technology continues to open limitless avenues for further integrating sustainable practices and recycled materials into our projects. I’m drawn to the allure of eco-conscious mater
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News & Views
In recent years, designers have used lighting techniques for much more than functionality. The latest illumination trends draw our attention towards sculptural shapes, varied materials and the use of colour in playful ways. But it’s the light sculptu
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Raising The Bar
The dramatic beauty of Tatjana von Stein’s debut furniture collection, Mise en Scène, has turned the heads of figures in the luxury design world and the bar is a show-stopping highlight. Inspired by dance, the pieces in the collection mimic the movem
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Making Waves
The Medusa mirror by Brera Studio is part of a wider collection inspired by organic shapes found within natural ecosystems – the mirror alludes to the curves and colours of the Medusa jellyfish and the border is done in a tufted wool that is gorgeous
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Textured Wallpaper
Plaster has had its moment in the spotlight – the latest way to bring all-important texture to your walls is with wallcoverings that just beg you to touch them. So we were delighted to see Mark Alexander’s new collection of handcrafted wallcoverings
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Design Rewind
We’re heading back to the 70s and 80s with Ikea’s latest product drop, part of its Nytillverkad range – a reimagining of its most iconic pieces from the last 80 years to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Swedish design giant. Patterns and product
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Chic Dreams
Including a hemp bed skirt and headboard slip cover – plus crisp white linen sheets – the timeless, well-crafted pieces from Ilse Crawford’s Being collection for Hästens guarantee a stylish night’s sleep. From £190
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Bolshy Brights
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Talking Sense
norm Architects is one of a select few practices making the case for truly people-led design with its work, which is grounded in a soft, pared-back aesthetic and an effort to appeal to the senses. Its ongoing collaboration with Italian furniture comp
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24 for 2024
1 As we get ready for the design happenings, new collections and exciting openings to come in 2024, we’re starting things off with a look at a designer who has always been ahead of the curve – or at least, was one of the first names in recent times t
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Photo Finish
interior designer Jo leGleud is one half of the London-based design duo Maddux Creative, alongside her business partner Scott Maddux. They met while clubbing 20 years ago, and while their rooms have a refined elegance there is also a sense of joyful
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Houses
Long gone are the days where a kitchen was the mere workhorse of the home: now we want to feel as though we can relax, celebrate and simply live in this room, as well as make our meals. Of course, achieving this feeling is about materials – warm wood
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Heart Of Glass
‘You could say it’s quite a change,’ says Bill Caleo, speaking of the move from a four-storey Brooklyn brownstone full of historic features and masses of stairs to a minimal, new-build, high-rise apartment, where the floor-to-ceiling windows are the
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Back To the Future
Old meets new’ would be an inadequate summary of the reimagining of this Sydney home, located right on the landmark harbour. In fact, rarely has there been a more striking contrast between the familiarity of a modest-looking Victorian Gothic facade a
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Play It Smart
When she discovered this townhouse in Hoboken, New Jersey – just across the Hudson River from Manhattan – Marissa Corvino immediately knew it was perfect for her family. ‘We wanted to be near a large city but with more tranquil surroundings,’ she rem
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Applied Arts
Once separated into two apartments, this classically styled 1920s San Francisco house – located in the charming Pacific Heights neighbourhood, between Fillmore District, with its many restaurants and boutiques, and lively Presidio Heights – was first
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A quiet Place
there is no trace of Lorenzo and Simona’s house on Google Maps. It is hidden among the trees and rocks of the glacial lake landscape on the Italian shore of Lake Lugano, a stone’s throw from the Swiss border. ‘We like the quietness of this place,’ sa
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Rock The classics
if there were an interior design rule book, lesson one might read ‘make the most of what you’ve got’. In this case, designer Kate Imogen Wood was working with a compact 85 sq m blank canvas. But the small apartment is elevated – in every sense – by i
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Decorating
Over the page, we’re celebrating the return of jacquards and weaves in the AW collections of our favourite fabric brands. Taking a maximalist approach to texture, these designs are everything we want our homes to be in 2024: cosy, layered, bold and,
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Rich Pickings
The trend for patchwork is only going to grow, so interpret the look through your curtains with a fabric that layers up abstract shapes for a more modern, sophisticated approach. Depicting blooming flowers, Casamance’s Parade fabric uses two embroide
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Bring The Joy
Amechi Mandi has been busy. The London-based designer draws on his Cameroonian and Nigerian heritage for his work, which has (so far) encompassed a collection of cushions and a wallpaper collaboration with Dado Atelier. Now, he’s turned his hand to r
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Sourcebook
It’s at this time of year that the living room takes on a new importance – as the centre of the home while the nights are chilly, the place you curl up in with a book or settle down to binge a boxset. The thing in common for both of those activities,
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Secret Address Book: Forever Furniture
You’ve almost definitely heard of Californian upscale furniture brand RH – its Cloud sofa, a highly desirable piece owned by the likes of Kendall Jenner and Naomi Watts, now has a cult status – but until recently, it’s felt firmly American. With the
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Little Black Book: Rugs
We’re huge fans of Peter Page in Chelsea. Not only has he got some fantastic collections, he’s also just a total pleasure to deal with. We’ve recently revisited a house in Oxfordshire, which we designed 10 years ago, to do some tweaks now that the ki
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Global Outlook: Interiors Report
A reverence for crafts of the past is strong throughout Chilewich’s latest Overshot collection, named for the popular North American weaving method from the early to mid 19th century. Historic patterns were often deeply personal to their makers, freq
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The Spotlight: What To Buy Now
We’re utterly in love with this sofa, designed by Jonas Wagell for L.Ercolani. Balanced on a slim-profile, angular base that seems to defy the laws of physics, with a smooth but subtle curve to the arms, it’s an elegant, sophisticated and eye-catchin
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IN THE KNOW kitchens & bathrooms
We’re always on the hunt for beautiful bathroom lighting, and Crosswater has nailed the brief with its versatile new collection – and the brand’s first foray into the world of illumination. Tranquil features three designs – a pillar, a pendant and a
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ARCHITECTURE NEWS white houses
Jutting out from the face of the main house, the monolithic white marble of this extension is certainly dramatic – though softened by the sleek, chamfered edges of its frame. Look through the window and notice how the greyveined stone is carried thro
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DESIGN FEATURE OF THE MOMENT striking wood slats
Once you start noticing wood slats in modern interiors, you’re bound to see them everywhere. The narrow wooden planks (also referred to as wood laths) are so versatile, and so prone to DIY projects, you’ll spot them inside and outside the home, acros
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SMALL SPACES, BIG IDEAS elevated entryways
For a modern, minimalist scheme, an entryway is the perfect candidate for a bold colour-block look. ‘In this project, the entryway, the kitchen, the dining room and the living room are in the same space. That’s why it was very important to create zon
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ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE OF THE MOMENT natural pools
Why a natural pool? ‘The feeling of being immersed in nature brings a sense of calm to the garden and natural pools are delightful to experience at different times of the day: early morning when the air is cool, during the heat of the day, or in the
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BIG TICKET home saunas
The Nordic tradition of the home sauna has come a long way from the snow-clad pine forests of Finland, as UK homeowners are keen to explore holistic design in their living spaces. ‘When – more than 30 years ago – we began to imagine home spas, the se
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LIVE BETTER spa day
When we talk about turning our bathrooms into home spas, the focus is often on the materiality. Yet, there’s much more that goes into the best examples of spa bathrooms that can make it feel like you’re getting a full range of treatments in the sanct
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SECRET INGREDIENT video doorbells
Video doorbells can turn our front doors into the first aspect of our smart homes, either working alone to make fielding couriers and visitors easier or integrating with smart speakers, security cameras, and more to form part of a completely automate
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TRENDING INNOVATIONS smart homes 2.0
You only have to spend an hour scrolling on your phone to find a new way technology can be used in our homes to make them smarter, and our lives easier. However, there’s a difference between something that just has the potential to go viral and somet
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Lifestyle
Have you ventured to Elephant Park in Elephant and Castle, south London, yet? Anyone with eyes on the neighbourhood will have seen it has had a New York-style makeover, giving Greenwich vibes with buzzy restaurants, cafes and bars. Top of the really-
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See You In mexico City
The design energy. Mexico City is the destination of 2024, where creativity is buzzing and architects are building the new modern wonders of the world. Devotees of Luis Barragán’s brutalist vibe may already have the city on their radar, but it just r
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Architectural wonder
It might be a new build, set on a street in Clapham, London, among pattern-book brick houses, but this building feels somewhat more storied than its short history suggests. That’s thanks in part to architecture studio Bureau de Change’s borrowing of

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