DESIGN MINI-SERIES: this is the third in the series about “Comfort Country”, one of the apartments the interiors of which I designed and saw to completion together with the owners. In this article I want to tell you how I conceived the master bedroom and bathroom.

How to realise the expectations, requests and demands of those who'll be living in the house and how does that incredible journey that links architect and final user from the initial design to “keys in hand” actually work? Here's the second in the series to get you excited about interior design and architecture!

Look to the past to understand the future: this is a synthesis of the thinking of Toshiyuli Kita, advocate of a return to nature filtered by technology, given that you can't in this new millenium without intelligently using high-tech. His dream? To create a utopia where nature, technology, art and beauty melt into one.

It's now reached its 51^th birthday and this year the famous Furniture Show will be showcasing trends and directions for furnishings for the next next year. Before it starts, let's go rummaging around for new things for 2012/13.