La Casa del Olivo: interior designer Marga Lara’s most personal project in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
A small 51 m² apartment designed from the poetics of detail, turning everyday living into an experience full of meaning.
Lívia Rizzo Amaral: “I have learned with clay that I like what is strange, what asks for a second look; what remains in an almost unfinished state, as if it still held the possibility of transforming”
"In the midst of the bustle and concrete of São Paulo, my studio is a place of slow time, of listening and sensitivity, where I keep searching for a life in harmony with simplicity and the rhythm of nature, just as I would ideally like to live it."
The house that grew looking at the sea, facing the Rambla and the Paseo Marítimo of Badalona, by Alventosa Morell
A house between party walls that, despite its narrow limits, finds in light and air its true free space; turned toward the Rambla and its palm trees, it continuously receives the sea breeze.
This masía in the Ebro delta recovers its identity and visual dignity through the intervention of architects Carmen Basso and María de Ros
A thorough, detail-oriented full renovation of the masía, lasting one year, that brought to light unexpected discoveries not included in the plans.
Acebo x Alonso renovates a 1925house in Madrid, recovers its twocourtyards and turns one of theminto a multifunctional space,including a swimming pool
The architects understand conservation and updating as complementary processes, not opposing ones, and have sought for the complete biography of this architecture to remain legible in the present-day house.
Casa Ballenero: a seafaring house that is inhabited once again through its own structure, with the sea present in every room, thanks to the intervention of Extrarradio
What until then had been a structure hidden beneath layers of successive renovations becomes the very argument of the project.
Near Naples, this 19th-century duplex recovers memory through contemporary solutions, thanks to the intervention of In-Nova Studio
The architects restore the building by letting its memory —height, vaults, load-bearing walls— define the rules, and letting colour and contemporary furniture respond to them.
Auñón Cabrera builds a home in Moraira (Alicante) that now feels Mediterranean, without having lost its history
Clay floors, once again taking centre stage in interior design for their beauty and their natural, artisanal character, are the key to this house's new identity.
Mónica Diago shows us, in this home, how to live at the heart of Madrid from the heights of Torre de Valencia
A conversation between two eras: the legacy of a building that Madrid took decades to accept as its own, and a contemporary way of understanding space, light and domestic life.
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Marxe a+t restores the last mariñeira house in Corme-Porto, on the Costa da Morte, adding a new contemporary layer
The house is once again part of the village's life. Its rubble-stone walls, the red carpentry –memory of its seafaring origin– and an architecture that came close to disappearing, find in this new contemporary version, a reason to remain standing.
Based on the logic that for centuries shaped the Galician rural dwelling, Sinaldaba designs a very different house in Cambre (A Coruña)
Compactness, selective closure, the courtyard as the heart of domestic life and a scale that respects the landscape are translated here into a contemporary language.
Javier Zubiria reinterprets the architecture of the Basque caserío
An intervention that understands respect for heritage as something beyond immobility. "To pay homage to a building means giving new life to the space, capable of connecting with and inspiring the citizens of this particular moment in history." Zubiria comments.
Becoming: Barcelona rethinks architecture for a planet in transition
The UIA World Congress of Architects brings together 10,000 professionals and 30,000 attendees around heat, housing and the materials of the future. Photo: Arnau Rovira.
A house for Olga: living beside the Guadiana in a former smuggling watchtower
This project by Zurita Studio + Kalibra Arquitectura distils a chosen position on how to inhabit the south, as physical experience rather than image, as sincere acceptance of heat, shadow and matter that ages.
A house for piano and violin: A project by Endalt Arquitectes and Josep Eixerés that integrates family and professional life
The architects reinterpret, from the present, the vernacular architecture of the historic centre of Valencia.
On the Cádiz coast, Ábaton designs a house turned towards the landscape, conceived for rest and contemplation as a family
In Villa Arena, every space fosters intimacy and togetherness, with new solutions and materials native to the Mediterranean style, in pursuit of calm and enjoyment.
Shoreline Studio: a seaside workshop retreat on the Danish coast, designed by Norm Architects
On the Odsherred coast, this atelier brings together the Danish summer house tradition and Japanese spatial sensibility
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Casa Nido by Sigfrido Serra: a place to feel protected among art, architecture and nature
A house from the 80s turned into a contemporary nest designed to enjoy the small rituals of everyday life.
Casa Altea by Viruta Lab: an architecture of regulated views, where spaces separate without isolating and filter without enclosing
An architecture that engages conceptually with the exterior immensity of the Mascarat Canyon, developing the house as a sequence of filters between the body and the landscape.
Jallo e Blue: a small apartment designed by Paola Sola, where colour leads the conversation with the Neapolitan bay
The intervention takes the character of the place as its design material and turns it into a fresh, liveable space that is coherent with the surrounding landscape.
Exposed concrete sets the structural rhythm that defines the identity of this São Paulo apartment, designed by RAWI Arquitetura
The apartment explores spatial continuity, material rigour and the relationship between structure and contemporary living.
Bardo designs a home in Madrid’s Puerta del Ángel neighbourhood that refused to be open plan
In Casa Macedonia, Emiliano Domingo proposes an interior design with a theatrical character, where each element forms part of a set, designed to transform the domestic experience and give each room its
Elystan: the house designed by Samantha Leigh in Brisbane, imagined by its owners from the pavement opposite
A house conceived to inhabit calm, where sophistication lies in the accumulated process of decisions, materials, proportions, pieces, scale, and in how those decisions quietly step aside when the inhabitants arrive, making
Studio Lemon renovates a Madrid flat using solutions from 1960s California Modernism, a language that is very much back
The result is a home where every design decision strikes a balance between aesthetics and use. Light, materials and the new layout produce warm, comfortable and deeply liveable spaces.
Gon Architects transforms a compartmentalised flat in Madrid’s Argüelles neighbourhood into a single open space, dissolving the boundaries between rooms
A system of floor-to-ceiling sliding doors, executed in different materials, textures and colours, transforms the former corridor into an open, continuous sequence.
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Outdoor luminaires with decorative intent and technical rigour, capable of generating characterful atmospheres without compromising visual comfort or the nocturnal ecosystem.
Pepe Cruz Novillo: the man who designed Spain
There are people whose work becomes part of daily life so naturally that it ends up invisible — not through irrelevance, but because it has settled into the landscape so firmly that we no longer look at it: we inhabit it. Pepe Cruz Novillo was one of those creators.
Collectible design enters the Salone del Mobile through the grand entrance with Salone Raritas
Beyond a new section within the fair, Raritas signals a shift in perspective. Design is no longer defined solely by its capacity for production, but also by its ability to generate meaning.
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026. Matter, culture and new ways of thinking about design
An ecosystem where industrial research, formal experimentation and cultural debate around contemporary living coexist.
We speak with Patricia Boluda, marketing director of Vical and Kodu, who reveals the key ideas behind the new brand
Kodu is built on the intention of opening design to a freer, more emotional dimension. Its universe unfolds through a visual narrative that draws from the language of fashion, scenography, and a
Outdoor Market: a collection of essential objects for inhabiting the outdoors with simplicity, designed by Jasper Morrison
This series of objects offers a direct and functional approach to outdoor space, reaffirming the value of the essential.
Leku collection by Javier Pastor: a place for encounters between people, landscape and time
Inspired by the sculptural language of Eduardo Chillida, the new collection designed for Expormim explores the relationship between matter, void and landscape through a series of dining and coffee tables conceived as
Forma Design Fair Madrid: collectible design opens a new chapter within the Madrid Design Festival
Its aim is to structure an ecosystem where brands, emerging studios, galleries, publishers, artisans and agents connected to object design, lighting and new materials can coexist.
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The new Bossa Nova collection by Tres Tintas revives the tropical exuberance and sensuality of Roberto Burle Marx’s work
The new designs evoke this visual legacy and enter into dialogue with the music of Bossa Nova: strokes that suggest, patterns that slide like chords, vegetal waves that repeat visual cadences, colors
Coordonné: colour as a Mediterranean gesture
Coordonné presents its new collection of ecological paints—a chromatic manifesto infused with Mediterranean spirit, sustainability and timeless beauty.
The poetry of water: Andreína Raventós and Bathco at Casa Decor 2025
The space Bosque Kalasin is a sensory experience that invites reflection and wellbeing. It shows how design can transcend functionality and become a form of art that reconnects people with nature.
At Casa Decor, we discover the soul of nature: the rebirth of organic materials in interior design
Far from the artificial, today’s spaces embrace nature not just as an aesthetic, but as a philosophy of life.
The Mediterránea collection, designed by Todobarro, reinterprets the aesthetic language of the zellige to bring it back to the 21st century.
Zellige is a type of handmade mosaic tile that is characteristic of Hispano-Arabic architecture and dates back to the 10th century in Fez (Morocco). These tiles are glazed by hand and cut
Álvaro Picardo creates Summerhouse for Gancedo, a collection of fabrics and papers designed and painted by hand.
With this collection, Gancedo joins the trend of designs based on artists' paintings or canvases, with handmade prints that bring individuality and texture to flat surfaces.
Morris &Friends a new collection of fabrics and wallpaper by Gancedo
The Morris & Friends collection celebrates the under-recognised work of 19th century women artists such as Kate Faulkner (1841-1898) May Morris (1862-1938) and Kathleen Kersey, active in the early 20th century.
Tere Pensel: «My respect for nature, my love for animals and my wonder at our ecosystem preexist my work»
"Although today my voice finds its channel in clay, that inner need to communicate has remained constant; the only thing that has transformed over the years is the medium."
Natalia Correa’s pieces carry a sculptural presence that transforms the spaces they inhabit
Born in Medellín, Colombia, and based in the United States, her work — vessels, wall pieces, and organic sculptures — occupies that diffuse territory where art and design meet without either one yielding ground.
The vessels that leave Maria Economides’s hands are silent containers of memory and emotion
They hold time in an almost physical way, preserving the imprint of the hands that built them. These are ceramic pieces made by hand, through slow techniques, in a small studio in the heart of Athens. Photo: Giorgos Vitsaropoulos
Malia Cerámica: Creating from the origin
To return to the origin is not to go back; it is to recover the pulse of what we are. These pieces are the result of that search: an attempt to capture the memory of the earth and turn it into an object. In them, the strata and the textures are not merely technique — they are the echo of the territory I inhabit, transformed by fire and time into a geology of its own.
Iko Ishihara, painting as a space of memory
Inspired by Japanese aesthetic concepts such as wabi-sabi, her painting proposes a quiet and restrained gaze in which texture, emptiness and gesture become tools for transforming personal experience into visual presence.
Pascale Zintzen and the silent language of earth
Beyond the logic of rapid production or the aesthetics of the perfect object, the work of Pascale, founder of Oikos Estudio, is the result of a slow and direct relationship with matter.
Aitor Martínez López de Arbina turns the living memory of wood into art
In Aitor’s work, matter is a living interlocutor. Each piece is born from a dialogue with wood — with its time and its tensions, with the memory the tree holds before becoming
Textile artist Koral Antolín takes an active role in Madrid Design Festival
Her work will be on view at Gancedo’s showroom — exhibition “In constant movement” — at Kutrix Gallery — the exhibition “enLANA2” — and at Fiesta Design, where she will participate in
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Ábbatte: the textile craft that flourishes beside a 13th-century monastery in Segovia
The Segovian firm creates artisanal textiles from first-quality natural fibres, woven on hand looms by skilled hands, one by one, with the conviction that well-made objects not only last, but transform, grow
Junto: a bespoke cabinet-making studio in Lisbon, where noble woods are worked with precision and a subtly expressive aesthetic
Oak, walnut, kambala or chestnut, each species is chosen for its behaviour, its visual presence and its capacity to endure. The Lisbon workshop works with traditional cabinetmaking techniques and Japanese joinery that
Virginia Torrego: “When I begin to work, nothing else exists, only the clay, the breath, and the moment that opens”
“Creating is not a quick or immediate act: it is a process that demands care, patience, and respect for the rhythms of the material.” This attitude runs through all of her work
The creative universe of ceramicist Cris Gago
Her ceramics do not seek the spectacular gesture or immediate affirmation. Each piece is made one by one, where the action upon the material is, above all, an act of listening. “When
Silvia Valentín writes, in irregular lines, a new page in contemporary ceramic art with ancestral echoes
Silvia’s pieces do not seek symmetry or geometric perfection; they reclaim the beauty of the living, the irregular, the things that seem freshly rescued from a remote time. Photo: Álvaro López del
Olivia Cognet, sculptor of light and form
Olivia Cognet reinvents the poetic experience of creation, shaping her vision through the purity of the material. This is the magic of the artisan, combined with the promise of a vibrant beauty
Through knowledge and research, ceramicist Malia transforms local clays into unique pieces
Each piece crafted by her hands is a tribute to the value of the local and the authentic—born from a dialogue between heritage and tradition and propelled by innovation toward the future.