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RIP: The late Terence Conran’s once high-flying Habitat is no more

Inside Retail

Europe-based home furnishing chain Habitat has shut down all of its operations, just a month after collapsing into receivership. The company’s trustees have initiated a final liquidation due to the lack of cash flow and a recovery plan. Sainsbury’s now only sells a selection of interior products under the brand name.

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How Jim Thompson is spinning the new Thai silk road to Europe

Inside Retail

The multimillion-dollar project takes up 1400sqm, incorporating a ‘Museum About the Man’, a home furnishings exhibition, a cafe and a retail store selling apparel and homewares – all alongside the Jim Thompson Art Center, an art gallery that will host exhibitions.

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“Flexibility is the biggest benefit” says founder of Harth, the furniture rental platform

Design Wanted

We spoke to design editor Henrietta Thompson about Harth, a rental platform for furniture and art that’s aiming to bring a circular economy to the world of interiors. Keep it simple, start small, see what works, watch the market closely and be ready to go with the flow – when things start to move they can move very fast. ”.

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Orografie’s debut collection is designed for a device-driven world

Design Wanted

Behind a screen, we are instead alone and nothing more than our own gaze can keep the human being present to itself and consciously accompany it within the overflowing flow of data, information, and images in which more and more real and virtual, true and false they go smoothly mixing. Barbi / Brunone – M’AMA.

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Sustainability at the core!

Design Middleeast

More than 9,500 products ranging from furniture to home furnishing accessories, have been assessed for their circular capabilities. Examples of our innovative yet sustainable products are: Water-saving solutions: Around 10% of global freshwater is consumed in people’s homes, and that number is expected to increase across the world.

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