Journal
Materials18 Jun 20266 min read
Guides4 Jun 20268 min read
150 mm or 250 mm? Solid, hollow, or perforated? A working guide to reading slat profiles the way a joiner does — and knowing when acoustics should drive the choice.
Trends21 May 20265 min read
The grey decade is closing. Clay, rust and bone are doing what concrete palettes couldn't — making minimal rooms feel inhabited. Where the terracotta wall works, and where it doesn't.
Materials7 May 20265 min read
Foam tiles solved sound and created an aesthetic problem. Perforated slat systems solve both — the maths of NRC ratings, explained without the lab coat.
Guides16 Apr 20267 min read
Recladding a shopfront in slab means cranes, anchors and a closed street. At 3 kg per square metre, weather-rated flexible stone rewrites the logistics of small façades.
Projects28 Mar 20266 min read
Reception, corridor, suite headboard: the walls that carry a hotel's identity are the ones guests photograph. Five finishes that survive both the moodboard and the maintenance schedule.
Sustainability10 Mar 20264 min read
Formaldehyde classes read like alphabet soup — E1, E0, ENF. A four-minute translation of the labels, and why the strictest class is becoming the hospitality default.
Guides24 Feb 20267 min read
Both give you a real mineral wall. They part ways on weight, curves, install time and cost. A side-by-side to settle the specification before the sample arrives.
Guides5 Feb 20266 min read
No crane, no substrate, no wet trade. The full sequence for mounting a 2–5 mm mineral skin on a flat wall or wrapping it around a column — with the three mistakes that cause 90% of callbacks.
Projects20 Jan 20266 min read
Commercial interiors ask a wall to do three jobs at once — look considered, tame the noise, and survive daily use. Why bamboo-wood slat has become the default for restaurants, offices and lobbies.
