Frame

FRAME is the first and leading global magazine fully dedicated to the design of interior spaces. Each themed issue explores a topic shaping the future of spatial design and features a stunning selection of retail and hospitality venues, workplaces, exhibitions, and residences. You'll also find insightful articles on sectors, inspiring people, new technologies, and more. Expect 144 pages of sharp writing and high-quality photography, making FRAME an indispensable source of inspiration and insight for professionals in the spatial design industry.

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room to breathe

MARKET • Modular furniture systems designed e for longevity. Textiles inspired by irregularity. Tables that invite touch. Seating that adapts to its users. Multifunctional devices built for maximum efficiency. We share the products shaping the market today.

FLEX FACTOR • Mara’s cross-sector evolution asserts that adaptability is the only way forward.

ones to watch • The three studios in this issue’s Ones to Watch explore design as therapy. Serina Tarkhanian rethinks medicine through the lens of microbes. White Mirror fuses tech, neuroscience and nature to soothe the nervous system. Alsar Atelier positions architecture as a catalyst for resilience and recovery.

Serina Tarkhanian • Rejecting healthcare’s cold, clinical past, Serina Tarkhanian has a fresh take on medicine as a warm, communal act. Through microbial bathhouses and soil steams, she’s crafting spaces where healing happens together

WHITE MIRROR • Sensory wellness agency White Mirror turns architecture inside out, using tech, neuroscience and nature to design spaces that restore the nervous system.

Alsar Atelier • From shaded commons to ephemeral chapels, Alsar Atelier frames architecture as a tool for recovery, resilience and shared experience.

‘Hotels offer what workplaces often lack: community and care

better days

insights • Workplaces where scent supports wellbeing. Buildings that cool the body without heating up the planet. Retail environments where the body takes the lead. Spaces rewritten with women at the centre. This issue’s Insights reveal design’s nurturing potential.

How fragrance is becoming the next frontier of work place wellness • Following trends in retail and hospitality, offices are now tuning into the potential of scent to boost our mood, create areas of sanctuary or promote a sense of belonging through a signature fragrance.

How passive strategies and ancestral techniques can offer a cooler path • The race to cool our buildings in an ever-warming world threatens to exacerbate the very crisis it seeks to solve. Yet emerging – and historical – strategies offer a pathway to thermal comfort that heals rather than harms.

Why somatic retail may be the reset we need in the age of digital saturation • As our days grow ever more screen-bound, how can stores be designed to help us slow down, switch off and reconnect with ourselves and others? Enter somatic retail: sensory, body-first spaces that offer something e-commerce can’t touch.

What happens when women (re)shape spaces • The built environment has long mirrored patriarchal priorities – often overlooking women’s health and wellbeing. Today, women designers and architects are challenging that legacy, advocating for buildings and infrastructure that support society as a whole.

communal care • While cities become more insular, Vinu Daniel of Wallmakers builds sustainable spaces that open outward: towards recovery of people, place and purpose.

take a ways

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