Frame is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the design of interiors and products. It offers a stunning, global selection of shops, hospitality venues, workplaces, exhibitions and residences on more than 224 pages. Well-written articles accompanied by a wealth of high-quality photographs, sketches and drawings make the magazine an indispensable source of inspiration for designers as well as for all those involved in other creative disciplines.
Frame
design after disaster
AMS TER DAM • Floor Kuitert, who saw her Amsterdam apartment transform into a Michelin-starred-restaurant while social distancing, witnesses a promising (make)shift in the takeaway and delivery-driven hospitality market.
WAREA • Having left Amsterdam on a working holiday right before shelter-in-place orders were issued, Tracey Ingram has had to hunker down in rural New Zealand – a location that puts the isolation in self-isolation.
in practice
Amandas Ong Portrait Olivier Hero • The cofounders of Shanghai-based SÒ STUDIO explain the connection between their ‘innovation architecture’ practice and contemporary art, why they’re deciding to stay small, and how they fit into China’s shifting visual vernacular.
What I’ve Learned • KONSTANTIN GRCIC talks about how his early encounters with the old made him look towards the future, what he thinks about being called the ‘chair man’, and why predicting the post-Covid landscape is a form of design process.
Influencer • Having spent the last 20 years traversing the globe, Australian artist and director ANITA FONTAINE has landed in New Zealand, from where she discusses her work in emerging technologies, the link between wellness and VR, and why spaces should have sentience.
The Client • Stijn Geeraets and Maarten Van Gool, cofounders of Belgian co-working company FOSBURY & SONS, discuss their service-led and peoplecentric brand, what a valuable worklife environment should look like today, and why it’s more important than ever for workspaces to support business flexibility.
memory serves • Though the eyes of its design partners and craftspeople, Axor shows that luxury today is about experience and individualization – not products.
spaces
hospitality noir • In each issue we identify a key aesthetic trend evident in our archive of recent projects and challenge semiotics agency Axis Mundi to unpack its design codes. Here, we look at how hospitality spaces are starting to reference the enigmatic atmosphere of clandestine environments.
connect/divide • As more and more families are sharing the load through shared living, designers can look to Japan’s nisetai jutaku – or ‘multifamily homes’ – for spatial arrangements that support social and solo time. Nendo’s Stairway House in Japan highlights how one spatial element can act as a literal and metaphorical bridge between generations.
inner workings • Remote working is changing the way creatives – particularly the younger generation – access resources. Taking note, Thai building-material supplier Boonthavorn saw a gap in the market for designers without a centralized materials library. Its solution? Combine one with a co-working space. In the Netherlands, on the other hand, interior-materials brand Baars & Bloemhoff teamed its HQ with a training centre for knowledge exchange among architects, makers, designers and students.
enterth rough the basement • Multitasking was once considered the mark of ultimate output, but research suggests it can actually reduce productivity by as much as 40 per cent. Many start-ups and efficiency-driven companies are now basing their working methods on the idea that task-shifting takes the brain time to refocus, and that it’s better to concentrate on one thing at a time. The idea is moving beyond office walls to other typologies, too, as illustrated by...