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.
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KYIV • Ukrainian Aleksey Nilov shares what life is like under incessant attacks, how the de-occupied territories are reawakening, and what the design community is doing to help his country rebuild.
OSLO • During a trip to the Norwegian capital, Tracey Ingram encounters a design scene stepping up to the sustainability plate.
business of design • What’s behind the trend of flagship factories. How hospitality design can become more inclusive. Will 3D printing reshape the future of housing? Workspaces head for the metaverse. The big potential of biomaterials in spatial design.
1 Why factories are getting a major reset
2 What does truly inclusive hospitality design look like?
3 Why 3D printing needs to redefine housing
4 What can we learn from the first metaverse workspaces?
5 How biofabricated materials can help address the energy crunch
in practice • Sara Ricciardi on why every interior should respond to its occupants’ needs. WORKac on why you can’t replace real space. Krista Kim on how NFTs can shape creative economies.
INTRODUCING • Benevento-born creative Sara Ricciardi, whose poetic and eclectic portfolio includes everything from products, performances and set designs to hospitality and retail interiors, believes homes should support the alternating screenplays of, and characters in, our lives.
WORK ac WHAT I’VE LEARNED • Beirut-born Amale Andraos and American Dan Wood believe buildings and architecture are ripe for reinvention. Originally inspired by innovations in the food space – the slow food movement, city farming and aquaponics, for example – the founders of New York City-based practice WORKac aim to create architecture that truly connects people and nature while straddling reality and utopia.
INFLUENCER • Krista Kim, contemporary artist and self-described explorer of the digital consciousness, discusses how creatives can harness the power of the NFT, what virtual instruments can mean for human wellbeing and why the metaverse should be co-created, not conquered.
THE COLOUR OUTSIDE LINES • Anger, calm, happiness: colour evokes strong emotions. Choosing a palette can be challenging – yet very rewarding – for an interior designer. Intuition is often the best guide, but colour psychology can provide the logic and rationale behind certain choices.
spaces • Why living spaces are exposing it all. Street culture moves from back alley to high street. Chinese hotels offer new perspectives on their neighbourhoods. Workplaces take biophilia beyond pot plants.
translucent living • 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 a typology of domestic spaces gently recalibrates the shifting boundaries between inside and out.
contextual hotels • Abandoning glitz and glamour, a number of new hotels in China are connecting to their context in thoughtful – and at times, philosophical – ways, unearthing history for a modern audience and offering new perspectives on their neighbourhoods.
office ecosystems • Companies are now prepared to go beyond the addition of a few plants to make truly biophilic workplaces – environments that behave like the living, breathing organisms they host.
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