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Why Scale Matters More Than Style
The proportions between furniture, architecture and empty space often determine whether a room feels right long before colour or style enters the conversation.
Podcast · The Design Index
Welcome to The Design Index: Why I Built It
How losing files, digging through emails and wasting hours on project admin turned into an idea for a new kind of interior design platform.
▶Guide · Styling
How to Choose the Right Rug Size for Every Room
Rug sizing is one of the easiest details to get almost right. Here is how to size the rug around the furniture arrangement rather than the empty floor.
Article · Acoustics
The Interior Design Problem We Rarely See: Sound
Hard surfaces, large volumes and open plans can create beautiful interiors that sound surprisingly uncomfortable. Good design considers what a room does to sound as well as light.
The Edit · Materials
A Material Palette for the Transition Into Autumn
Warm timber, muted stone, deep glass and tactile textiles for the quieter season ahead.
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Why Scale Matters More Than Style
Podcast · The Design Index
Welcome to The Design Index: Why I Built It
▶Guide · Styling
How to Choose the Right Rug Size for Every Room
Article · Acoustics
The Interior Design Problem We Rarely See: Sound
The Edit · Materials
A Material Palette for the Transition Into Autumn
From The Index
Coffee Tables Beyond the Rectangle
Ten low tables that bring shape, weight and movement to the centre of a seating arrangement.
The Soft Lighting Edit
Ten lamps that bring light closer to where life actually happens.
Sculptural Lounge Chairs That Can Carry a Room
From low, rounded upholstery to expressive modernist forms, ten lounge chairs that do more than fill an empty corner. There are lounge chairs that complete a furniture arrangement, and there are lounge chairs that establish the entire mood of a room. The latter do not necessarily rely on bright colour or exaggerated scale. Their presence can come from an unusual silhouette, the tension between structure and softness, or simply a form that remains recognisable from every angle.
