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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legacy vs. longevity
market • Lighting that could belong to any decade. Products that rework pre- and post-consumer waste. Furniture designed to adapt to changing needs. Design objects that consider their entire life cycle. We share the products defining the market today.
Mindful making • Andreu World looks back and celebrates its impact on the furniture design and manufacturing industry through its steadfast, value-driven approach.
Rethinking water, reshaping ceramics • Can a washbasin slow down water into a poetic stream while pointing towards a zero-emission ceramic future? Yves Behar’s Volta for Laufen shows us how.
Conscious ceramics • Thanks to their tactility and materiality, tiles can connect us to the Earth. But how can they be produced in a way that is also supportive of the Earth?
ones to watch
AMASA ESTUDIO • Instead of simply creating, Mexico City-based Amasa Estudio is re-creating: transforming disused and derelict buildings into ‘imperfect’, flexible spaces that will stand the test of time.
JUAN ALBERTO ANDRADE • Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade creates adaptable spaces with a strong cultural identity that prioritize longevity and lived experience over aesthetics and fixed form.
SHO OTA • Shaping from ‘flaws’, not templates, and embracing respect, not trends, Sho Ota brings users closer to the true nature – and timelessness – of timber.
‘We haven’t got time to get things wrong again’ • What if the simplest way to design for longevity and tackle the climate crisis was not to create new solutions but to revive or uphold traditional ones? Consider Indigenous nature-based technologies that view humans not as the most important beings but as custodians of life on Earth. How would this affect the way spaces and places are built? And how we address issues such as food and water scarcity and an increase in natural disasters? Nairobi-based architecture and research studio Cave_Bureau and JULIA WATSON, author of Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism and Lo—TEK Water, are working towards this. To learn what’s being done, what’s possible and what hurdles are in the way, FRAME’s contributing editor RIYA PATEL moderates a discussion between Watson and Cave_Bureau’s cofounders and directors KABAGE KARANJA and STELLA MUTEGI (Maaka).
Designed to last? • From shifting climates to shifting mindsets, the projects in this Look Book ask us to question our relationship with time and longevity – and mortality. Some are designed to last, some to evolve and others to disappear. There are projects that challenge the dominant narratives of control, consumption and extraction, expanding the design lens to include Indigenous knowledge, heritage techniques and multispecies perspectives. Reflecting on what it means to build for the present and beyond, they envision a future where architectural footprints are lighter, life is shared and longevity is redefined by empathy.
insights
How museums are adapting to stay relevant • Museums, by their very nature, are legacies of longevity – places for preservation and conservation. But that doesn’t mean they should be stuck in the past.
Why housing needs to catch up with an ageing population • When it comes to the global affordable housing...