Frame

FRAME is the first and leading global magazine fully dedicated to the design of interior spaces. Each themed issue explores a topic shaping the future of spatial design and features a stunning selection of retail and hospitality venues, workplaces, exhibitions, and residences. You'll also find insightful articles on sectors, inspiring people, new technologies, and more. Expect 144 pages of sharp writing and high-quality photography, making FRAME an indispensable source of inspiration and insight for professionals in the spatial design industry.

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Conflicting values?

market • Industry waste is reborn as chandeliers. Deadstock yarns become design assets. Thrift is dressed as luxury, and luxury dressed as thrift. Tiles and furniture respond to human behaviour. We share the products defining the market today.

TUNED TO TODAY • Modern minimalism meets modern music-making in Roland and Karimoku’s artisanal, handcrafted Kiyola series – now expanded with two new models.

THE IT-SOFA • Westwing’s Wolke sofa borrows from the idea of the it-bag – that iconic item which comes to define an era.

FROM THE GROUND UP • Rethinking carpet construction: Object Carpet builds another layer into its vision of circular innovation.

ones to watch • The three studios in this issue’s Ones to Watch question the inequalities and hierarchies shaping design as a discipline. Studio Furthermore encodes materials with new meaning – and thus value. H3o Architects believes generosity belongs in every housing typology. Al Borde creates architecture as a manifesto of its conditions.

STUDIO FURTHERMORE • Marina Dragomirova and Iain Howlett find value in the overlooked, constructing new material narratives that give their collectable objects emotional weight.

H3O ARCHITECTS • In Barcelona, where speculative construction has displaced communities and erased histories at pace, three architects built a practice on a single conviction: what people need and what they deserve are never in conflict.

AL BORDE • Necessity is often framed as a constraint – something to overcome. Al Borde, on the other hand, treats it as the spark that ignites each design.

The Conversation

The Value Shift • From bio-mined metals and fungal pigments to bronze-cast plastic chairs and algae-coated walls, the projects in this Look Book collapse the distance between the ordinary and the exalted. What do we mean when we call something precious? Was value always there, waiting to be noticed? Some elevate overlooked or surplus materials into objects of desire; others strip luxury back to its essentials and find necessity underneath. Together, they suggest that the boundary between the two could be more permeable than we think.

insights • Fragrance retail democratizes extravagance. Resorts practise restraint. Micro-living poses a moral paradox. Luxury turns to literature. Workspace wellness hits its pressure points. This issue’s Insights unpack the tension between aspiration and access, indulgence and necessity.

How dedicated fragrance shops are making a little luxury feel much bigger • Despite a luxury market that’s largely contracting, fragrance is booming. The spaces being built around it now reflect exactly what makes it irreplaceable.

How hospitality is standing out by blending in • High-end hospitality spaces are returning to architecture’s oldest instinct for new reasons. Rather than rising into the sky as symbols of status, they’re retreating into the earth, suggesting that the new luxury is more about absence than appearance.

Why ‘micro’ moved from austerity to haute experience • Historically a necessity, micro-living is being rebranded as a luxury in design. As architects perfect the art...