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Ikea launches peer-to-peer marketplace for second-hand furniture

Ikea has launched Ikea Preowned, a peer-to-peer marketplace where customers sell their unwanted furniture directly to one another.

Retail : Sustainability : Society

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Barcelona’s Amiko Gelato elevates the ice cream experience with vibrant design

In Barcelona’s vibrant Eixample district, Amiko Gelato is redefining the ice cream experience through a unique blend of colour and design.

Design : Architecture : Ice Cream

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Luxury hotel group Aman launches Aman Interiors

Luxury hospitality and lifestyle brand Aman is bringing its hotels’ coveted design aesthetic into the home with the launch of an interior division.

Luxury : Home : Interior Design

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Ikea’s Life is not a Catalogue campaign is keeping it real

Ikea is showing life without a filter in a brutally honest series of commercials that aim to prove that good design can live outside of staged show...

Advertising : Society : Design

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Stat: Growing HNWI demand for home products hints at new opportunities for fashion and lifestyle brands

A recent report published by The Business of Fashion (BoF) Insights reveals that more than 70% of high-net-worth shoppers are more likely to look f...

Luxury : Fashion : Retail

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Contact Sports changes the sexual wellness retail landscape

SoHo’s newest sex shop, Contact Sports, is a far cry from the typical neon-signed, latex-adorned store front, instead resembling a luxury concept s...

Retail : Health & Wellness : Design

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Woodio’s toilet swaps porcelain for minimal wood material

Finnish interiors brand Woodio and agency Pentagon Design have joined forces to create Block, reportedly the first toilet made entirely from a pate...

Sustainability : Design : Technology

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Ecoalf opens 3D-printed clothing store made of 100% recycled plastic

Conscious fashion brand Ecoalf and Nagami, a design studio specialising in sustainable architecture, have opened a 90-square-metre store made entir...

Retail : Sustainability : Technology

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Future-ready Retail

Retail designer, futurist and author of Future Ready Retail, Ibrahim Ibrahim, is on a mission to reboot physical retail in the face of a ‘cost of d...

Retail : Design : Society

Micro Trends

Topline Tableware

Younger generations are dusting off tabletop heirlooms, from crystals to silver cutlery, and driving a revival of traditional arts de la table – wi...

Luxury : Food & Drink : Design

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Ikea’s latest designer partnership is inspired by warm lighting

Swedish furniture giant Ikea has teamed up with The Netherlands-based designer Sabine Marcelis to create a homewares collection.

Design : Retail : Architecture

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Charles de Gaulle airport refresh embraces opulence

For a refresh of its Terminal 1, the Parisian airport enlisted architects Hugo Toro and Maxime Liautard to create a new luxurious lounge, conducive...

Travel & Hospitality : Design : Architecture

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Yinka Ilori's East London pop-up store celebrates West African culture

Homeware designer Yinka Ilori has unveiled his first retail space, a dopamine-boosting and colourful pop-up shop inspired by the designer’s West Af...

Retail : Design : Interior Design

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Aman Resorts arrives in New York

Just off Fifth Avenue, near a street that's been dubbed 'billionaires row', luxury hospitality company Aman Resorts is opening a hotel that sets ne...

Modern Luxury : Hospitality : Interior Design

Micro Trends

Pet Hospitality

After the pandemic pet boom, new owners are ready to travel again and looking for animal-friendly spaces to ease their pet-ernal anxiety.

Pets : Hospitality : Retail

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This bird-shaped monitor measures indoor CO2

With indoor air quality increasingly front of mind for consumers, Danish designers Andreas Kofoed Sørensen and Hans Høite Augustenborg are proposin...

Health & Wellness : Design : Sustainability

Macro Trends

Hyperphysical Stores

In a post-Covid landscape, changing consumer needs are driving retailers to rethink bricks-and-mortar stores to be more engaging, sensorial and mem...

Retail : Bricks-and-mortar : Stores

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This cosmetics shop pays tribute to office nostalgia

Chinese cosmetics company Harmay is honouring the more mundane moments in life with its new store in Hangzhou.

Architecture : Beauty : Reatail

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This recycled chair is designed to be returned

Made from plastic from fishing nets, toothbrushes and industrial waste, the REX chair by Dutch furniture brand Circuform and designer Ineke Hans is...

Retail : Sustainability : Design

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Post Service offers supportive space for bereavement

The carefully calibrated clinic, designed by Danish studio Tableau, uses furniture, lighting and colour theory to help foster a sense of community ...

Health & Wellness : Design : Architecture

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Boosting psychological wellbeing via interior design

Design studio Covet & Noir has unveiled its latest project, designing comforting interiors for mental health clinic, The Soke.

Health : Clinic : Wellness

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Forti Goods takes homeware to new highs

Furniture brand Forti Goods creates sustainable furnishings designed to modernise cannabis storage.

Health & Wellness : Cannabis : Interior Design

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Casa Ferõz’s stylish home storage for pet owners

Luxury pet accessories brand Ferõz unveils Casa Ferõz, a homeware collection that aims to integrate sophisticated design with pet ownership.

Design : Luxury : Society

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Transforming cult food brands for global audiences

It’s no longer enough for food brands to have great tasting products. Now, they must build a personality that connects with audiences – anywhere in...

Food : Branding : Restaurants

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Stat: Home improvements are being motivated by video calls

New research by home improvement retailer Wickes has shown that over half (53%) of British employees working from home during the pandemic have imp...

Society : Workplace : Stat