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After a Year Living Without Furniture, This Designer Created Her Own
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
In Hong Kong, Mandarin Oriental’s New Design Marries the City’s Mixed Cultural Heritage and its Contemporary Pulse
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
Design Anthology Awards 2026: Announcing the Finalists
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
This Kuala Lumpur Home Was Designed as a Place to Switch Off
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
The Urban Landscaping Changing Asian Cities
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
A Chongqing Family Home Whose Reinvention Launched a Young Designer’s Studio
At This Jakarta Studio, the Workday Sometimes Ends in the Pool
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
In Suzhou, a Contemporary European Interior Built Around a Traditional Garden
Zhang Haihua of Z+H Renhai Design brought a Ming dynasty-style garden and an Italian-influenced interior together through a painterly view
Future Resonance Brings Thoughtfully Designed Wellness to Singapore
Singapore-based practice Open Studio has transformed a former school laboratory in lifestyle complex New Bahru into a striking sound healing studio
Do Not Disturb: The Luxury of Being Left Alone
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
Paris’s Decadent Hotel Sinner is Reborn as Experimental Marais, Realised by its Original Designer
Tristan Auer was given the unusual opportunity to revisit his own work and to reimagine the narrative behind the space
André Fu’s New Monograph Offers a Window into His Vision
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
Why Bali’s Jia Curated Works — and What It Means for the Region
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 List: Our Editors’ Guide to Design-Focused Destinations and Products in August and Beyond
The monthly briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and products to know
Architecture Brio Has Created a Home Among the Trees in Ahmedabad
A multigenerational Gujarati family finds refuge from the city in an open home enveloped by a mini forest, embracing the rawness of exposed materials and open sightlines
A New Book Foregrounds Melbourne’s Crucible of Modernist Residential Architecture
Riverside Modern shines a light on the homes of Studley Park, a small enclave where Australia’s architectural luminaries expressed the country’s own form of modernism
Is This the End of the Aman Escape? Its Latest Urban Experiment Lands in Bangkok
In Bangkok, long-time Aman architect Jean-Michel Gathy reveals how Vladislav Doronin’s vision is reshaping the cult hotel brand, as Aman’s ongoing urban experiment trades pure escapism for a more social, city-driven energy within seven acres of Nai Lert Park
Across River Valleys and Mountain Passes, Sā Ladakh Biennale Proposes a New Model to the Art Show
More than most, the event is deeply rooted in local traditions both tangible and intangible, and grapples with the question of what it leaves behind
What Can Japan’s Bureaucracy Teach the Design Industry?
As Japan modernises its national identification card, Design Anthology’s editor-in-chief Jeremy Smart argues that public services and digital infrastructure are among the most important design challenges of our time
A Taiwan Apartment that Embeds Memory into a New Space
HHH Design Lab worked with its clients to create a home that eschews the tropes of both newer and compact apartments in favour of a space that feels comforting and lived-in