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Writing as movement, drawing as gesture.

“Write Draw Think” transforms simple pencils into instruments that change how hands and minds connect. Each form encourages a different mark, a different rhythm, a new way to engage with the page.

Functional yet sculptural, the tools make the act of writing feel intentional and present. ✨

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Faceted methacrylate transforms artificial illumination into a sculptural study of color and material.

Designed by for , the Lucente collection relies on precise, crystal-like geometries that catch and diffuse internal LED light into a gradient spectrum. Tones of ruby, sapphire, and emerald imbue the volumes with warm luminosity, while structural metal chains and polished surfaces anchor each fixture in clean, architectural alignment.

The design shifts the role of a lighting element from a passive source to an active, space-defining form. An exploration of translucent materiality, geometric precision, and ambient color.

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A table that holds two worlds.

Polished aluminum shaped by hand, paired with a raw stone offcut, each piece a singular dialogue of balance.

Industrial precision meets natural imperfection. A limited object that carries weight, stillness, and quiet strength.

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An interior transformation defined by spatial efficiency, fluid circulation, and expressive material transitions.

Designed by BURR Studio, the María Guerrero project converts a former commercial space in Madrid into a flexible residential unit. Rather than relying on rigid perimeter walls, the intervention organizes the layout around a centralized, multifunctional service core that houses the bathroom, storage, and utility infrastructure.

Raw, exposed structural elements pair with polished finishes and industrial hardware, creating a stark visual contrast that defines distinct functional zones within the compact footprint.

A thoughtful investigation into adaptive reuse, compact living, and urban spatial reconfiguration.

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📸 Maru Serano + Jose Hevia

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A chicken house in the centre of Milland, near Brixen. Transformed into a room for reflection, meditation, rest, and dreaming.

Bergmeisterwolf Architekten approached this 15-square-metre conversion as an exercise in continuity: every new component handmade and designed to extend the logic of what was already there rather than contrast with it. The solid stone walls were cleaned, restored, and left tactile, completed only at the gaps and transitions. A black pigmented concrete staircase extends the wall into the landscape, inducing retreat in the open air. A concrete circle sits in the untreated nature outside as an island, a place to linger. The roof floats on the stone, creating a spatial interval between solid and light. Welded, untreated aluminium sheets form the skin above it as a handcrafted counterpoint.

Inside, an open OSB box painted light pink runs its sectional line through the entire room, becoming wall panelling, kitchen, and bathroom in a single continuous gesture. Green eaves, red colour drawn from the context, door and window frames that contrast the wall while creating unity with it.

Fifteen square metres that contain working, sleeping, and dreaming. Nothing more was needed.

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📸 Gustav Willeit

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Salt from the top. Pepper from the top. The side opens for refilling so dust stays out of the mechanism.

A one-hour sketch and 3D modelling exercise by that resolves a small but persistent problem in the design of salt and pepper grinders. The octagonal form is compact and direct. The silicone base is dark for pepper and light for salt, the distinction quiet and functional. The bodies come in colours that make the objects worth having on the table rather than hiding in a drawer.

A quick exercise that ended up with better answers than most finished products.

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A house that steps down the slope and opens to the forest.

Yoshi House by AR Arquitetos, completed in 2024 in Brazil, reorganizes a steep site into split levels of solid brick that host the social areas, then lets a slender engineered‑wood structure carry a light, continuous roof plane at street level.

Above the living room, a white masonry volume emerges from the earth, staying on a single level before pushing the master suite out as a cantilever that floats over the view.

Parallel to the double‑height living space, a generous central veranda ties the two volumes together, mediating between the grounded brick base and the hovering roof. This dual strategy, a solid block projecting from the ground and a redesigned terrain beneath a delicate timber frame, gives the house a calm tension between weight and lightness.

Privacy is kept from the street, while the rear dissolves into the trees, turning the forest into the main façade and the daily life of the family into a quiet dialogue with the landscape.

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A lamp that folds gentle form into quiet illumination.

The Paw table lamp by holds light with a tactile presence, its shape hinting at playful gestures and soft curves. Light pools around its base, creating warmth without demand, shaping corners into calm. A piece that feels simple but thoughtful, inviting attention without drawing it too tight, a companion in quiet moments at dusk and after.

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A 74-square-metre apartment in Warsaw shaped with artistic calm and functional clarity.

Designed by Dominika Strzałka-Rogal in collaboration with Emilia Grzesik from Lessness Studio, this interior balances artistic expressiveness and everyday comfort. The layout uses a mindful colour palette and clear divisions to organise space while maintaining softness and cohesion. Art and reproductions are treated as integral parts of the home’s composition rather than mere decoration. Built-in zones like the study float between utility and character, where subtle wallpapers and juxtaposed vintage pieces create quiet narrative tension.

Every detail has justification. This apartment lives and responds to its inhabitants with intention.

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The walls came down. The colours went up. In Casa Tahiti, pink, yellow, blue, and green do the work that partitions used to do.

Margine's renovation of a pre-war apartment in Rome's Torpignattara neighbourhood began with radical subtraction: almost every internal partition removed, dropped ceilings stripped back, decades of 1970s alterations undone. What remained was one continuous volume, floored entirely in white terrazzo, a quiet nod to Roman building tradition that gives every chromatic intervention the clearest possible ground to read against. A full-height pink kitchen unit defines the cooking zone without enclosing it. A yellow sofa marks the living area. The master bathroom commits entirely to yellow, no material break between shower and washbasin. The second bathroom shifts into deep green tile and matching grout.

Designed for a young creative who needed a fluid, open space rather than a series of cramped disconnected rooms. A domestic island where colour is the architecture.

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