Design Anthology, Asia Pacific Edition

Design Anthology, Asia Edition is a luxury interiors, design, art and architecture magazine, with a strong focus on Asia and it's burgeoning creative scene. Aimed at a sophisticated, well-travelled audience, we aim to provide a reading experience that will transport and inspire you.

Quiet Strength • The editors-in-chief consider how certain materials reflect the enduring allure of mass, texture and permanence

Design Anthology, Asia Pacific Edition

OUR WORLD

Dossier • People, products and places to know

Take Note • The biannual briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and books to read

Concrete Plans • Korean designers Hyunseog Oh and Sangmyeong Yoo of Niceworkshop experiment with construction and building waste to create new forms.

In Praise of Permanence • While Tokyo embraces constant change, designer Shinichiro Ogata has kept his restaurant Higashi-Yama unchanged for 27 years. From this singular vision emerged Simplicity, a design agency championing contemporary Japanese culture, and each project advances his philosophies around food, culture and thoughtful design.

Material Alchemy • Experimental studio Other Matter is shifting the way we think about materials and design — and the environmental consequences of both — through a captivating, sensory new material.

Timeless Elegance • The redesign of the Marina Bay Sands guestrooms and suites is marked by attention to the smallest detail.

Style • Fashion for the design-conscious

Hidden Seams • Bustling Ho Chi Minh City has become home to fashion brand Kaarem, which defines itself by its slow approach.

Vacation Mode • Whether you’re packing for an energetic city sojourn or languid days by the water, our edit of vacation essentials will see you through the next holiday season.

Wanderlust • Designer destinations

Top of the World • Master planned by Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai and opened in late 2022, the mountain resort of Amaya now has a series of new villas by Voon Wong of London’s Viewport Studio that complement the property’s idyllic, enduring character.

Checking In • Our pick of the latest design-forward lodgings from around the world

New Heritage

Vernissage • Perspectives from the art world

Chromatic Journey

New Terrain • From Bangkok’s industrial bones to Beijing’s quiet courtyards, a new generation of cultural spaces is reimaging the rules of artistic engagement.

Home

Natural Wonder

Life Cycle

Suburban Sanctuary

Higher Life

Architectonics • Surveying the built environment

Spirit of Place • Since establishing Shisuo Design Office in 2023, Sanif and Changshan have transformed their early collaborations into a broader vision of architecture as conversation between past and future, nature and structure, material and meaning.

Concrete Sanctuary • Legendary architect Tadao Ando unveils his tenth project on Japan’s art island of Naoshima, a museum that burrows into the forested hillside while opening to sea views. The concrete master reflects on three decades transforming the island into the destination it has become, where contemporary art and architecture revitalise ageing communities and indelibly mark those who make the pilgrimage from far places.

Southern Comfort

INTRODUCTION

Dining by Design • In Jakarta’s evolving culinary landscape, a new wave of design-led spaces is redefining the experience, blending local context with global sensibility to reveal a maturing design language.

The Weave of Time • Indonesian weaving atelier BYO Living works at the intersection of design, craft and engineering to bring the heritage craft to contemporary...