Frame Magazine Issue 167 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. What defines value today? Luxury is changing – and so is what we consider essential. This issue explores the shifting balance between excess and necessity, from bold, expressive interiors to stripped-back, purposeful design.
We’ve heard of time, comfort, privacy and access to nature all being labelled ‘the new luxury’, but what is the new-new luxury?
This issue delves into the links between luxury and necessity and maximalism and minimalism, asking how ethics, responsibility and aspiration can inform each other in shaping tomorrow’s retail, hospitality, living, work and brand presentation spaces.
Frame is the world’s leading interior design publication. Since its launch in 1997, the magazine has remained faithful to its mission: putting interior architecture on the map as a creative profession that’s equally important as design and architecture. In six issues per year, Frame publishes the world’s most inspiring interiors, spiced up with design, art and creative endeavours like window displays and stage sets. Sold in 77 countries, Frame is printed in English.
In this issue
We highlight the portfolios of progressive creatives that question the inequalities and hierarchies shaping design as a discipline. Studio Furthermore encodes materials with new meaning – and thus value. H3o Architects believes generosity belongs in every housing typology. Al Borde creates architecture as a manifesto of its conditions.
We unpack the tension between aspiration and access, indulgence and necessity. We explore how dedicated fragrance shops are making a little luxury feel much bigger, why ‘micro’ moved from austerity to haute experience in housing, why high-end hospitality spaces opt for absence over appearance, and why luxury brands are increasingly using literature as a cultural touchpoint.
We curate cross-disciplinary creative projects that collapse the distance between the ordinary and the exalted – from bio-mined metals and fungal pigments to bronze-cast plastic chairs and algae-coated walls.
We share the products defining the market today. Industry waste is reborn as chandeliers. Deadstock yarns become design assets. Thrift is dressed as luxury, and luxury dressed as thrift. Tiles and furniture respond to human behaviour.
Details: Frame Magazine – Issue 167
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