Read Mix Interiors issue 235
Issue 235 of Mix is here, offering an insight into the design innovations of 2025 while celebrating the breakthroughs that defined 2024.
Dear readers,
This issue straddles both the close of 2024 and the start of 2025; a period then of looking ahead and new beginnings. There’s plenty of the latter this issue, as we explore the inaugural properties of two new hotel brands, Cardo Roma and Hyde London City; venture to an entirely new community-focused neighbourhood in London’s Wandsworth; and discover Adobe’s shiny new Shoreditch HQ.
For me, looking ahead speaks to innovation and big, bold ideas and there’s plenty of that too. Author and academic Des Fitzgerald discusses the city of the future; Dominic Lutyens charts the inherent tension in gentrification and asks what it means to meaningfully serve communities; and our Mix Roundtables, with Impact Acoustic and Interface, are a feast of novel thought.
As we close out the year, it’s also a time of reflection and, this issue, both A-nrd and IA Architects look back at immense legacies of ground-breaking work; Dr William Chizhovsky, founder and CEO of The Good Plastic Company, ponders when plastic lost its way and delivers an impassioned treatise in its defence; and we recount this year’s Mix Awards North, detailing the winners from one of commercial interior design’s biggest nights.
This issue our cover is designed by Conran and Partners, a play on the intersection of materials and the meeting of European and Asian design motifs; inspired by Specialist Group’s meticulous work with wood and metal.
Enjoy,
Harry McKinley
Managing Editor
Mix Interiors
The cover
Committed to creating timeless spaces that tell a story and evoke delight, London-based firm Conran and Partners have designed the cover for our latest issue 235. Focusing on two core materials from Specialist Group – timber and metal – the practice has explored how these materials join and interlock to create remarkable bespoke joinery. By blending European aesthetics with the Asian tradition of expressed joints, Conran and Partners sought to pay homage to both its London and Hong Kong offices.
In 2022, Specialist Joinery Group transitioned to Specialist Group, building upon its award-winning joinery work to develop equally proficient services for bespoke glass and metal manufacturing and installation. The company’s joinery, glass and metal packages can be delivered singularly or in any combination and, in every case, Specialist Group will strive to achieve the perfect dovetailing effect, as seen on the cover of the latest edition of Mix interiors.
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