THE PAPER is an online publication for interior designers and architects. An inside view of the industry, from work and references to thinking and conversations rarely shared outside the studio.
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Conversation
When Taste Gets Complicated: With Gräfling
For collectors and designers Johanna and Friedrich Gräfling, art is more than something to display. A conversation about personal taste, unexpected contrasts and the art of knowing what to leave out.
Conversation
The Layer You Forgot to Add: With Jolie and L'Artisan Parfumeur
How scent is finding its place in interior design, with Franky Rousell of Jolie and Reyes Lezcano of L’Artisan Parfumeur exploring its relationship with materials, atmosphere and memory.
Conversation
Does Your Work Look Like Everyone Else's?
How Christine Gachot and Orit Elhanati find inspiration beyond their disciplines, exploring the influence of fashion, unexpected materials and personal references on the objects and interiors they create.
Conversation
Why Your Best Project Went Unnoticed
A beautiful project doesn't guarantee publication. Giovanna Dunmall and Olivia Lugarini explore what catches an editor's attention, why timing matters and how designers can get their work noticed.
Conversation
The Sound of Colour, with COAT Paints
What COAT Paints co-founder Rob Abrahams says about colour as instinct, memory and mood, and why naming a shade is about far more than finding the right words.
Conversation
Building Your Own Practice: In Conversation with Sophie Baker
Inside Sophie Baker’s approach to interiors, and what she says about building a studio, working with client references and designing spaces with a strong sense of identity.
Conversation
Where Ideas Really Begin
For this conversation, we asked three studios to reflect on how they present an idea, read a room, and build the kind of trust that lets the best decisions get made together.
Conversation
From Parti Pris to Presentation
Four studios on how they present a concept, read the room, and why the best client meetings leave space for trust, instinct and decisions made together.
References
Connection and Beauty at 3daysofdesign
Back from Copenhagen, where 3daysofdesign made a case for connection, beauty and the unplanned route.
Thought Pieces
Should Designers Still Go to Design Fairs?
Flying to Copenhagen for 3daysofdesign, and what years of design weeks have taught us about doing it all well.
Conversation
Hand, Pen and Paper: With Amanda Doll Charrin
A conversation with interior designer and architectural illustrator Amanda Doll Charrin.
References
When Taste Changes the Brief: Inside Villa Necchi Campiglio
Our visit to Villa Necchi Campiglio, and what happens when one design narrative is overwritten by another.
Conversation
Hotels That Tell Stories: A Conversation with Bill Bensley
A conversation with Bill Bensley on the art of storytelling, and why hospitality design should never feel bland.
Thought Pieces
Signature Style Isn't What You Think It Is
What we mean when we talk about a studio's signature, and why it has very little to do with a look.
References
Our Edit of Milan Design Week
Casa Ren's edit of Milan Design Week 2026. What we saw across the previews, private apartments and palazzos.
Thought Pieces
Do Designers Have It All Figured Out? Introducing The Paper
The next chapter for Casa Ren, sharing the work and references rarely seen outside the studio.
