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Fall’s sweetest shades and coziest materials take over the new display at Finnish Design Shop’s showroom
Caramel, toffee, dark chocolate… The season’s freshest interiors pair mouthwatering shades with playful animal prints, clean-lined forms, and timeless natural materials. Here are our team’s picks for a fall home!
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Karena Ng’s Shanghai sanctuary
Step inside Hong Kong actor Karena Ng’s peaceful Shanghai home, where a lush garden and timeless GUBI designs create a sanctuary shaped by light, nature, and unhurried living.
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At home with Nuura: Julie Brandhøj’s restored family home in Denmark
In the small harbor town of Hjarbæk, Denmark, content creator Julie Brandhøj has renovated and extended her family’s 1926 house overlooking the Limfjord. The home has kept its original character and is completed with Nuura lighting.
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Laura and Arthur Franck’s charming wooden house in Helsinki
The Francks’ home in Helsinki has a creaky staircase and floorboards that slope just a little, but that only adds to the atmosphere of the 1920s house. The rooms are full of books and art, and the family’s beloved Aalto pieces have survived years of play by three children.
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At karaoke bar Åke, disco meets the Tokyo night
Just off Erottaja in central Helsinki hides a place that passersby only ever glimpse. Tucked into the ground floor of an Art Nouveau building, this karaoke bar borrows equally from disco culture and the nightlife of Tokyo. Step in from the street and you enter a dim, private world where there’s no reason to be shy.
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Max Lamb lets the Min Chair do the talking
Designer Max Lamb admits he doesn’t love discussing his work. He would rather make another chair. In his London studio, he shows how the new Min Chair for Hem comes together: a clever, near-zero-waste design in pine that grew out of a lockdown experiment and years of refinement.
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Emma Ranne and Iida Laiho’s Kuore brings food creatives together under one roof
Kuore Kitchen is a new coworking space for Helsinki’s food creatives – a place to cook, shoot, brainstorm and hang out together. Read the interview with Emma and Iida, and save their fall recipe for plum and bay jam!
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An old house with an old soul – visiting Marie Michielssen and Axel Van Den Bossche
Step inside a 16th-century castle in Antwerp, home to designer Marie Michielssen and Serax co-founder Axel Van Den Bossche, where art fills every room.
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Kuusijärvi smoke saunas win Finlandia Prize for Architecture
A public smoke sauna development at the Lake Kuusijärvi recreation area in Vantaa has been chosen by Dr Timo Miettinen as the winner of Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2026 – the most prestigious architecture award in Finland.
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