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3/13/2026 The Sound of the House: Acoustics, Silence and Absorbing Materials

Interior design has long favoured sight: colours, shapes, surfaces. Only recently have we started to talk about touch and smell. Hearing, by contrast, remains the most neglected sense at the design stage — yet it's the one we can't switch off. We live in homes that boom, reverberate, carry voices and noise from one room to another. The result is stress, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and resting.

3/06/2026 The House That Breathes: Seasonality and Natural Rhythms in Interiors

For decades interior design has chased the idea of a "perfect", unchanging space: same colours, same lights, same layout twelve months a year. The home as a photo set always ready, but often distant from the cycles that govern our body and our mood.Today a different idea is returning: the house as an organism that responds to the seasons. Not an aesthetic whim, but a response to the need to align the environments we live in with natural rhythms — light, temperature, colour, vegetation — with measurable benefits for sleep, concentration and wellbeing.March, with the equinox and the awakening of spring, is the ideal time to rethink interiors in a seasonal key.

2/27/2026 Honest Materials: The Aesthetics of Truth (and the End of “Fake Luxury”)

For years, interior design has lived with a contradiction: an obsession with effect.
Marble-effect. Wood-effect. Metal-effect. Stone-effect.
A home that looks like something, rather than truly being something.

2/20/2026 After White: The New Era of Shadows (and Imperfect Light)

For years, interior design chased a luminous ideal: bright spaces, white walls, clean surfaces, uniform light. The goal was clear — amplify, open up, “make it feel larger.”
Light became synonymous with modernity. And white became its official language.

2/13/2026 The Anti-Algorithm Home: Spaces That Aren’t Instagrammable (But Truly Livable)

For years, we designed homes as if they had to pass a constant visual exam: perfect light, perfect white, the right chair, the right vase. Interiors built to be photographed more than lived in.
Digital aesthetics — polished, minimal, hyper-ordered — entered interior design like an unspoken rule: if it isn’t “clean,” it isn’t beautiful; if it isn’t coherent, it isn’t successful; if it can’t be shown, it isn’t desirable.In 2026, this narrative is losing its power. Not because beauty matters less, but because beauty alone is no longer enough.
A new need is emerging: anti-algorithm interiors, spaces not designed for the shot, but for everyday life. Less performative homes, more real ones. Environments that don’t seek approval — they restore energy.This is not a return to chaos. It’s a return to meaning.

2/06/2026 Neuro-Interior Design: Designing for the Brain (Not for the Photo)

For a long time, interior design spoke mainly to the eye. Color palettes, shapes, surfaces, composition. A space was judged — and often rewarded — for how well it appeared: cleaner, more photogenic, more “resolved”.Today, that logic is starting to show its limits.
Because a home is not an image. It is an environment we inhabit for hours every day — a continuous system of stimuli that affects focus, energy, mood, and the quality of rest.

1/30/2026 The End of the Open Space: The Return of Thresholds

For years, open-plan living symbolized contemporary domestic design: fluid, bright, without barriers.
A response to the desire for freedom, openness, and visual continuity.Today, that promise is being reconsidered.
In 2026, many projects mark a shift — not a rejection of open space, but its critical evolution. The return of thresholds.

1/23/2026 Interiors That Age Well: Designing Spaces Beyond Trends

One of the most underestimated challenges in contemporary design is time.
Not the time required to design a space, but the time the space must endure: years of daily life, change, wear, and transformation.

1/16/2026 Post-Minimalism: After Emptiness, Presence

For over a decade, minimalism dominated interior design language. White spaces, smooth surfaces, carefully reduced objects.
An aesthetic born as a response to excess, bringing order, clarity, and visual discipline.