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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.

1/09/2026 Living as a Cultural Act: When the Home Becomes a Position

In recent years, the home has stopped being a simple functional container.
It has become an extension of how we think, how we experience time, and how we relate to the world. Living today is a cultural act — a conscious choice that reflects values, priorities, and pace of life. It’s no longer just about aesthetics. It’s about position.