The monthly briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and products to know

Reclaimed teak houses from Java, buried timber and jungle views that hypnotise — Ubud’s Hartland Estate is a home that ignites wonder

In rural Rambukkana, a nineteenth-century family residence has been restored as a six-suite retreat, with its climatic logic still determining how the house is experienced

Chang Architects has reworked a Singapore family home around the intimacy of single-storey living, using balau timber, stone and garden views to shape a sequence of interconnected spaces

Yasuharu Kuzaki treats a linen towel with the same seriousness he brings to a garment. From this conviction, Échapper was born.

The store, run by designer Amy Lim and photographer Marc Tan, is home to a thoughtfully selected range of objects

After stepping away from design for a year, Bali-based designer Eva Natasa began her own furniture practice, working with mature Indonesian teak and designing with the full life of an object in mind

Twenty‑one years after its opening, Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong unveils a new design that pays homage to the city’s storied colonial past, heritage crafts and contemporary culture

Out of the hundreds of submissions we’ve received from around the Asia Pacific region, we now reveal the finalists in each category of the Design Anthology Awards 2026

In the quiet suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, architect Shin Chang’s Lapan House balances raw concrete with lush greenery to create a soulful sanctuary defined by simplicity, restraint and functional beauty

In what is almost a return to first principles, a group of landscape and design firms across Asia are rethinking highly managed, human-centric urban spaces in favour of nature-led systems that often serve as civic infrastructure. As their projects take root, city logic shifts from control to coexistence

A Chongqing Family Home Whose Reinvention Launched a Young Designer’s Studio

At Aedi Design Bureau’s South Jakarta studio, rest and reflection are not viewed as disruptions, but essential practices that nurture the spaces and rituals anchoring their human-centred design process

Zhang Haihua of Z+H Renhai Design brought a Ming dynasty-style garden and an Italian-influenced interior together through a painterly view

Singapore-based practice Open Studio has transformed a former school laboratory in lifestyle complex New Bahru into a striking sound healing studio

As privacy becomes harder to find, editor-in-chief Jeremy Smart argues that designers, developers and operators need to put discretion back on the agenda

Tristan Auer was given the unusual opportunity to revisit his own work and to reimagine the narrative behind the space

For a quarter of a century, André Fu has brought a distinctive sense of cultural fluency to hospitality and residential interiors around the world. A new monograph from Assouline goes inside his influential practice

With the calibre of craft to represent the region and enough personality to claim a place on Asia’s design circuit, Bali’s Jia Curated is getting plenty right. The test may well be preserving its formula

The monthly briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and products to know