Curators of the modern workplace, Zenith examine the shortlist for the Workplace Under 1000sqm category at the 2025 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), identifying the key ingredients to success in this sector. Human creativity often emerges from constraints. Take the late French visual artist Henri Matisse. In his sixties, when ill health prevented Matisse from […]
Designer Rugs has launched the exquisite Opal collection, its latest collaboration with celebrated Australian designer Emma Elizabeth. The new series of handmade rugs draws its inspiration from the iridescent beauty and layered mystery of Australian opals, translating the gemstone’s shifting colours into four distinct, textural designs: Fire Sovereign, Celestine, Aurora Terra and Aqua Lumina. Emma […]
ForestOne, an innovative force in the timber and decorative solutions industries, thrives on the reciprocal energy of new design studios. Sometimes the most exciting interior design studios are the ones you haven’t heard of yet. The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) carves out space specifically to celebrate those burgeoning studios operating for five years or […]
Laufen continues to breathe new life into one of its longest-running and most successful collaborations with Alessi. ILBAGNOALESSI finds poetry in an unlikely place. When visionary Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni first designed the collection in 2002, he reinterpreted classic bathroom archetypes, giving them an organic, almost sculptural character. His award-winning collection for Swiss bathroom specialist […]
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