Inspiration

Industrial spaces are back — but the best designers aren't treating them as a backdrop. They're treating them as an argument. Here's what that distinction actually means in practice.

Removing a wall between kitchen and dining room is not the same as designing an open kitchen. One is demolition; the other is choreography. The difference is everything.

Terrazzo has been everywhere for the last decade — but its second life looks nothing like its first. A material that records time, not just surfaces.

The stores that are surviving aren't competing on product — they're competing on experience of time. Retail as hospitality is not a trend; it's the only viable alternative to a screen.

Zellige is over a thousand years old and suddenly everywhere. The question isn't whether it's beautiful — it is. The question is whether you're using it honestly.

The Baltic coast demands a specific kind of architecture — robust, climate-aware, and respectful of its landscape. On House Skarpa, we made building into the hill rather than on top of it.