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New stories by Architonic

Editor’s Letter – April 2022 | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

Architects love themselves. And why shouldn't they? Of course, I'm being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but, certainly, if you've trained for all those years and are tasked with shaping in the most fundamental way possible our physical environment, our cities, our behaviours and our very daily experiences, you've got something to be proud of. So it's not often you hear an <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/accounts/architects/10005/1">architect</a> talk about what they can't – or rather, shouldn't – do. In conversation with <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/franklin-azzi-architecture/10003554">Franklin Azzi </a> a few weeks ago, the French architect and <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/maison-et-objet-printemps/5206604">Maison&Objet</a> Designer of the Year 2022 spoke of the need for greater collaboration, particularly in the age of sustainability: 'We are not God,' he explained to me when we met up at his special installation at the Paris fair. 'An archit…

'The best products use two materials, maximum': Monica Armani | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

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Four elements for all needs by cbdesign | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

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'You shouldn't socially engineer outdoor space too much': Christina Seilern of Studio Seilern Architects | News | Architonic

Posted: 26 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

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Shifting industry: moving towards full-service partners | Architecture | Architonic

Posted: 28 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

While Frankly Amsterdam is well-known for their high-end rug collection and single order custom rugs, the Dutch soft furnishing brand continues to broaden their collection to become the ideal partner for interior architects. Understanding the importance of versatility, the brand has recently launched a range of stylish curtain fabrics. In addition to their residential and soft contract collections, they have also added a full range of carpets, both wall-to-wall and finished rugs, especially designed for contract use. Offering both functionality and style, these new collections compliment Frankly's existing high-end rugs, luxury throws, and bespoke bed linen. The recently launched contract collection was a natural progression for the brand, co-founder Johan Beentjes said, "It made sense for us to move in this direction, offering our clients a contract option while respecting our philosophy. With a close-to-home production, our lead time is short, we are able to produce qualities within…

Five ways to customise surfaces with single-colour tiling | News | Architonic

Posted: 26 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

There's one element above all others that every specifier, from self-taught own-home designers to <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/accounts/interior-architects/5980004/1">professional interiors specialists</a> with years of experience, looks to bring to their projects. Originality. Bold colours, intricate patterns and more various textures have transformed every type of interior surface product. From the permanent: <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/products/relief/0/3249604/1">three-dimensional</a> or <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/products/luminescent/0/3249614/1">light-up wall panels</a>, to the semi-permanent: <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/products/relief/0/3249426/1">textured wallpapers</a> and <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/products/pattern-photographic/0/3249400/1">photographic coverings</a>, or even the temporary: re-<a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/products/seat-and-backrest-upholstered/0/3246565/1">upholstered furniture</a>, any ele…

Lincrusta: a sense of history | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

<a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/lincrusta/3102517">Lincrusta</a>, the 145-year-old embossed wall covering brand, is attracting fresh interest in this new age of tactility. Based around a product invention that transformed the decoration of stately houses and institutions, the flexible textural panels were the brainwave of Frederick Walton, who had previously invented Linoleum. It is made, today as then, from linseed oil, mixed to a paste and pressed between steel rollers, one side of which carries an embossing pattern. The invention was originally hailed for its ability to replace more time-consuming, less hardy and expensive relief made through plaster moulding. Originally named Linoleum Muralis, the brand Walton founded in Sunbury-on-Thames in 1877 to produce the covering, had opened a factory in France by 1880 and in Connecticut, USA, by 1883. It lined walls in palaces, in the White House and on the Titanic and has featured in films such as the 2012 version of An…

Feeling good: Lincrusta has customisation covered | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

<a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/lincrusta/3102517">Lincrusta</a> began its life on the walls of stately buildings around the world, and in more recent times has found its niche in hospitality venues, where sculptural Georgian panelling and embossed patterns bring a sense of history and grandeur to venues. But the appeal has started to broaden with the new yearning for both pattern and tactility wherever we seek to shelter. Reports from the latest design shows seem to bolster the new trend for texture – a trend that like so many recent interior evolutions may have been happening anyway, but has been expedited by the sensorial deprivations and increased demand for comfort and cosseting during lockdowns. 'It is very evident that after two years of not being allowed to touch anything, the world is after tactility and warmth,' says Amy Heffernan, Creative Consultant at StudioHeff. 'In Paris, texture was everywhere – walls and surfaces were decorated with patterned relie…

Lincrusta: more than a wall covering | News | Architonic

Posted: 27 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

While interior walls are typically the place we find <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/lincrusta/3102517">Lincrusta</a>'s historical embossed coverings, increasingly it is being used to bring textural pattern to other surfaces, too. In the spirit of free-thinking that Lincrusta's founder Frederick Walton brought to the invention of the linseed oil-based panels, interior professionals are finding new places to employ it as a textural accent. The resurgence of tactility in our interiors is bringing back texture not only to our vertical walls but to the architectural fifth wall – or ceiling – too. Where once it might have been chosen to help disguise structural defects, it is now being seen as a lesser-exploited resource for creative expression. It's an opportunity that wasn't missed by William Morris, or more recently, by contemporary promoters of pattern House of Hackney. Where four or five walls of texture might be deemed overwhelming, <a href="https://www.architonic…

Tala: turning a light-bulb moment into a lighting revolution | News | Architonic

Posted: 26 Apr 2022 03:00 PM PDT

Sometimes in this business called design, you just need one smart idea to set you off. A light-bulb moment, if you will. A product that does something novel and timely, offering customers something they didn't know they needed, but most definitely now want. This, however, is just the start of a journey. Once the noise dies down, how does your hit item evolve into a rounded, sustainable business with impact beyond its initial revolution? It's the question that <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/tala/3104645">Tala</a> faced after it launched <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/product/tala-voronoi-i-pendant-light/20232993">Voronoi</a> in 2016, a potentially game-changing piece of lighting design that made the bulb the protagonist. Freshly possible because of advances in LED technology, the statement bulb was the brainwave of three friends who had met and evolved the idea at Edinburgh University. They imagined a way for a climate-conscious light source to be independently…
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