Workplace psychology and office design| Celebrating layers of history in a 500-year old building| Technology-aided baby monitoring for new parents| and more

A hearty “Thank you” to you for the overwhelming response to our year’s first Special Issue – Looking Back – Looking Forward that briefly traced trends gone by and those upcoming for the year 2020. What a way to begin the year, with so much love and encouragement. Thank you yet again. You help us continuously raise the bar.

Keeping pace with our reader’s habits and giving you ample time to soak in the Special issue, we bring you only three new features this week – a boutique hotel in Spain, a restaurant in Vietnam and a progressive office in Germany. Quite uncannily, the underlying common thread is celebratory – just as the mood you’ve induced in our office this last week.

While the Vietnamese restaurant celebrates the aesthetic of an all-encompassing natural material – wood, and the traditional ethos of Vietnam and neighbouring Japan, the hotel in Mallorca revisits several layers of history in a 500-year old building, carefully assimilating and restoring influences and amalgamating them with contemporary ones.

The office design on the other hand – also our cover story – nurtures hope of more sustainable and humane environs by celebrating greenery in the workplace. Using the psychology of creativity to design the interiors has its fair share of impact and one hopes the design-creativity nexus will offer a long-term insight into even more progressive workplace design.

Enjoy the issue.

Warmly,

Savitha Hira

Editor

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