Alison Pickett, a Curator and Art Consultant based in Hong Kong, specialises in curating site-specific commissioned collections of sculptures for corporate, commercial and retail development clients all over the world. Alison’s recent commission was for The Austin Road residential development, a condominium complex comprising two sites – The Austin and The Grand Austin – which features Sculptor Jonathan Loxley’s ‘Yong’ sculpture.

KOLARZ was founded as a small lampshade factory in Vienna in 1918 by Hanns Kolarz, the great-grandfather of today’s KOLARZ generation. The company has since been creating beautifully designed, exquisitely crafted lighting for residential and commercial interiors for nearly 100 years. Today, the company creates lights for some of the world’s most famous brands, including retailers, hotel groups, restaurants, embassies, Government buildings, world-renowned heritage sites and private clients.

At the heart of the home lies the kitchen, which today is predominantly an open-plan space with blurred boundaries between the kitchen and cooking areas and the living and dining space, says the UK’s Kitchen Retailer of the Year 2016, Kitchens International.

The open-plan office apparently seems to cater for all. Extroverts and sociable personalities enjoy a space to collaborate, brainstorm and ‘air’ their ideas. Extroverts are categorised as those who become energised from collaborative experiences, and therefore, somewhere along the way, the fundamental needs of introverts have been forgotten.

Established over 25 years ago, Lancashire-based North Valley Forge is proud to be at the forefront as a world-leader of wrought iron design and manufacturing. One of the company’s latest projects, based in Surrey, involved the most unique balustrading design the company has designed and installed yet.

acoustic panel was recently approached by HMKM, designer of Yas Island Mall, to produce a wallcovering for Yas Island Mall’s concept centred around the theme ‘The Garden of Imagination’ – where each of the mall’s floors has its own aesthetic based on the seasons. Giles Miller was selected to create the bespoke surfaces for the bag area of the store, which is represented by ‘spring flowers’.

An overwhelming majority of the harsh noise experienced in a room is the result of sound bouncing off ceilings, floors and other hard surfaces. As a result, reverberant sound mixes with direct sound and causes an acoustic muddle that makes listening and communication difficult. In learning spaces, ensuring a high degree of speech intelligibility is critical, but it’s not just educational facilities that are in need of sound quality and reverberation control.

Anouska Lancaster, Founder of interior design firm Noushka Design, originally trained and qualified to be an artist. Ever since she was a child, drawing and painting was where her passion fell; she would eat, sleep, paint and repeat. Her career as an interior designer came about after she had a family, where she began to design her husband’s nightclub schemes. Following nominations and prestigious awards, her business built from there.

Art Buro, a bespoke interior design company, is releasing its new project – Notting Hill Mezzanine. The concept has been designed for a young couple, both working in the creative industries, who have recently purchased a mezzanine apartment in the renowned Notting Hill London spot.

Patricia Fox, Founder of award-winning landscape architecture practice, Aralia, talks Inex through which elements to consider to make the most of a winter roof terrace.