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Fleeting Moments in Enduring Designs: Elise Luttik for Newmor Wallcoverings
The summer of 2026 has seen the launch of The Reflection Room from Newmor. Created in collaboration with Dutch designer Elise Luttik, the collection explores themes of reflection and depth through a series of thoughtfully designed wallcoverings for hospitality interiors. In this Q&A, Elise shares the inspiration behind the collection and her approach to the… Read More >
Giving Waste a New Life: A Conversation with Designer Clara Chu
Somewhere in a factory bin is a scrap of leather nobody wanted. In six months, it might be on someone’s shoulder in London; structured, colourful, and worn as luxury. That is not a metaphor. That is Clara Chu’s business model. Born and raised in Hong Kong and now based in London, Clara has built her… Read More >
The Thinking Behind the Design: Rob Venice on Creating Lindus’ New Workplace
Great workplace design is about far more than creating an attractive office. It’s about understanding what makes a business unique and translating that into an environment people genuinely connect with. For Lindus’ new London headquarters, the challenge wasn’t to create a workplace about clinical research, but about the people transforming it. We spoke to Rob… Read More >
Column: Hotels as Civic Buildings – Why the UK Needs to Catch-Up
For all the talk of “experience-led” hospitality, many UK hotels still operate as closed worlds. You arrive, pass through a controlled threshold, and are deposited into a sequence of internalised spaces – lobby, bar, restaurant, lift, guestroom. Everything is designed for the guest, and only the guest. The city, more often than not, is kept… Read More >
Shida Salehi on Cinematic Hospitality, Cultural Memory and Designing for Feeling
Design Insider’s Editorial Director, Alys Bryan, met Shida Salehi, Founding Principal at Customs Bureau, for an exclusive interview at The Londoner, where the pair sat down in the hotel’s private bar. Plush, atmospheric and quietly welcoming, it was the kind of room you could imagine brimming with life in the evening, although on this occasion… Read More >
Nurturing Young Talent at Skopos
Looking back on a fabulous few years, the Skopos design team have been enriched each year by the presence of an additional team member, joining them on only a temporary basis from the Arts and Humanities department at Huddersfield Uni. Hitting the ground running, each student (BA Hons Textiles) has been given the responsibilities of… Read More >
Column: Why design studios should invest in their Material libraries.
I have a clear recollection of walking into the sample library at my first-ever design studio. A two-metre squared little room stacked with cardboard boxes filled to the brim with material samples, overflowing rails with compacted fabric hangers and little stacks of tiles lining the floor along the perimeter of the room. As an Architecture… Read More >
Exclusive Q&A: Tom Ailes on Umbrella+Friends MCR and the Future of Furniture Consultancy
As Umbrella Furniture expands its presence in the North with the opening of its Manchester office, it is also growing its collaborative approach through Umbrella+Friends – a carefully curated network of furniture brands brought together to support architects and designers with specification, product expertise and project delivery. In this exclusive Q&A, Tom Ailes, Regional Sales… Read More >
Exclusive Q&A: Helen Lloyd on the Design Thinking Behind Quiet Statement
In an exclusive interview with Design Insider, Milliken designer Helen Lloyd shares the thinking behind Quiet Statement, discussing the influence of Marrakesh, the value of restraint, and how the collection balances creative inspiration with commercial specification. Helen Lloyd, Milliken’s in-house Designer 1. Quiet Statement is inspired by your travels through Marrakesh, but this doesn’t feel… Read More >
Designing Beyond the Transaction: Tabitha Isobel on The Apartment for LESTRANGE
Great retail design isn’t just about creating a beautiful space. It’s about solving a challenge. For The Apartment, LESTRANGE‘s new concept store on Berwick Street, that challenge was to create somewhere customers would genuinely want to spend time in. We spoke to Founder Tabitha from Tabitha Isobel about the thinking behind the project, exploring how… Read More >
20 Questions for 20 Years: Clint Nagata on BLINK, Culture and What Comes Next
To celebrate BLINK Design Group’s 20th anniversary, we shot 20 quick-fire questions to Founder and Creative Partner Clint Nagata, giving us the chance to learn more about the man behind the studio, the company he has built and some of the smaller details you may never have had the opportunity to ask. Clint Nagata, Founder… Read More >
Building Better Partnerships: A Conversation with Ben Eastwood
Having recently joined Fellowes as Business Development Manager for the Contract Interiors division, Ben Eastwood is focused on building new relationships across the commercial interiors community and helping grow the company’s presence within the sector. With a career centred on partnership building, client development and workplace solutions, Ben brings a practical and people-focused perspective to… Read More >
Patrick Hastings, Associate Director at LOM architecture and design, on the Details That Make Architecture Work
Associate Director Patrick Hastings has helped to shape some of LOM’s most technically ambitious projects. Pat sat down to discuss materiality and problem-solving, from lessons learned on early residential projects to the value of time spent on site, and how the success of great architecture lies in the details. Associate Director Patrick Hastings What lessons… Read More >