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The rise of public spaces – specifically stores, hotels, bars and restaurants – as the vanguard of new and exciting residential design ideas has never been stronger. Why are these public spaces so inspiring for our homes? It’s because all the fresh ideas (for shapes, colours and materials) appear there first.

Public spaces such as these generally have healthy big-launch budgets, which translate into top design teams, and the understanding that a hotel or bar is not anyone’s forever home and means that the designers, architects and stylists involved can go for gold and add some joy

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