Green is good: luxury hospitality spaces with verdurous surfaces | | Green is the colour of life, but is it possible to combine its references to organic environments and rich luxury in high-end interior surfaces? These green-lit hospitality spaces show how it’s done. Read more | | | Photo: Valor Studio | | Hard to beat: concrete interiors | | Concrete packs a powerful architectural punch, not least when serving as a scene-setter in contemporary commercial spaces. Read more | | | Photo: Polina Parcevskya | | Dome House Terracota, Castilla La Mancha, Spain, by Puntofilipino | | Dome House Terracotta is designed to contrast with its urban environment. Raw materials and many natural elements help create a space that offers a calming respite from the world outside. Read more | | What you see at first, is often not what you get long term. And this difference between catalogue realism and real-life realism is especially true for interiors. Although insta-ready when shiny and new, that quickly changes when you allow life to happen. With 25 years of experience manufacturing smooth or textured non-woven wall coverings, ERFURT produces durable, breathable, moisture-regulating, non-plastic and environmentally friendly surfaces, suited to life in high-traffic areas. Easily re-paintable, the non-woven wall coverings can effortlessly transform a space without the need for re-applying the wallpaper. When a change of design is required, however, the ERFURT covering won’t put up a fight, with only the smooth, flat wall waiting underneath. Read more | | | Photo: David Franck | | With bases in both Hamburg in Stuttgart, Geplan Design is an international interdisciplinary design office led by brothers Cord and Rolf Glantz and specialising in the hotel, gastronomy and spa sectors. Read more | | | | | | |