The HART Design Selection Magazine gathers all our articles dedicated to design, creators, and exceptional craftsmanship. This category is the perfect gateway to explore the full richness of HART’s world: inspiring portraits, analyses of decorative styles, contemporary trends, and insights into iconic materials and objects. Here you will find all our publications, presented with an editorial tone that is both refined and insightful, reflecting HART’s premium vision of design and interiors.
1900 – “The fire ignites in the spirit” – Le Corbusier A creative fire indeed—one that swept across Europe, taking root in England as Modern Style, in France as Art Nouveau, in Germany as Jugendstil, and in Austria as Secessionsstil. While critics derided it as “noodle style,” “metro style,” or even “tapeworm style,” its legacy…
Design: Vico MagistrettiManufacturer: Cassina, 1973 The Softer Revolution Some designs don’t arrive with noise. They slip into the world quietly — intuitive, tactile, perfectly timed.The Maralunga sofa, designed by Vico Magistretti and produced by Cassina in 1973, is one of them. Softly shaped, surprisingly smart, and emotionally intelligent, it became an instant icon — and…
Wallpaper Backing Guide: Choosing Between Non-Woven, Vinyl and Paper Behind every wallpaper lies an invisible technical architecture that determines as much its beauty as its longevity. The backing, this hidden soul of wall covering, conditions the installation, maintenance and durability of your decorative investment. Since the advent of non-woven backing in the early 2000s, the…
while contemporary design embraces sleek curves and minimalism, a british house has perpetuated for over a century the forgotten art of victorian plumbing. lefroy brooks embodies this elegant resistance to soulless industrialization: an unwavering quest for authenticity in a world that long believed it had lost it. since its founding in 1890, this london manufacture…
Louis XVI Style: When France Triumphs over Antiquity The Apex of French Neoclassicism • 1774-1792 The Louis XVI style revolutionizes Western art by consecrating the definitive return to Antiquity and the apex of French neoclassicism. This aesthetic revolution reflects the intellectual evolution of French society in the late 18th century: from Enlightenment erudition to antique…
Eccentric Sofas: Extravagance, Boldness and High-End Craftsmanship In the world of high-end furniture, some sofas don’t seek to be discreet. Sculptural, playful, or radically conceptual, they embody an aesthetic of perfectly assumed excess. Halfway between art, design and exceptional craftsmanship, here is a selection of spectacular creations signed by great names in contemporary design. 1….
Do you know the Empire style? Do you know the Empire style? This French decorative style is historically situated after the Directoire style and before the Restauration style. It corresponds to the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) and marks the peak of French decorative art in the early 19th century. It should not be…
Do you know the Consulate style? Do you know the Consulate style? This crucial artistic period is historically situated between the Directoire and Empire. It marks the consolidation of Bonaparte’s power and the emergence of a renewed French decorative art. It should not be confused with the Directoire style that precedes it nor with the…
