Our Hart Design Selection Expertise Guides
Welcome to the Resources section. Here you will find practical guides, historical factsheets, glossaries, and articles designed to help you better understand the styles, materials, and creators that shape high-end design. This Resources page is a tool for orientation, reference, and inspiration for anyone interested in luxury and high-end design and decoration.
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Discover the world of exceptional design through our exclusive expertise guides. Hart Design Selection deciphers the codes of contemporary luxury for you, from exceptional kitchens to sculptural bathrooms, including iconic furniture and emerging trends.
Each guide reveals the secrets of the biggest international brands, analyzes technical innovations, and supports you in your design investment choices. An expert and passionate approach to transform your home into a habitable work of art.
Guide to Designer Furniture
From Hermès creations to B&B Italia icons, explore the fascinating world of exceptional furniture. Revolutionary modularity, sensory materials, artisanal know-how: decipher the codes of contemporary luxury furniture.
Discover:
- The essentials, classics and trends in luxury and high-end furniture
- 2025 trends: organic shapes, sustainability, personalization
- Buying guide and investment strategies
- Maintenance and restoration by master artisans
Guide to Design Fabrics
The art of upholstery fabric transcends simple decoration to become a true artistic expression. In the hands of the greatest editors like Pierre Frey, Dedar, Larsen, Zinc Textile, Black Edition, Nobilis, Élitis, Osborne & Little, Misia and Rubelli, each fiber tells a story of excellence.
On the agenda:
- Iconic houses and their creative specialties
- Noble materials: silks, velvets, bouclé, precious linens
- Textile innovation and technical performance
- Selection guide by use and aesthetics
- Outdoor Polypropylene Fabrics guide
Guide to Design Wallpapers
The art of wallpaper is experiencing a spectacular renaissance thanks to creators who are transforming our walls into true works of art. From historic manufacturers like de Gournay and Zuber to contemporary workshops like Cole & Son and Farrow & Ball, discover a world where tradition and innovation create exceptional atmospheres.
On the agenda:
- Iconic houses: de Gournay, Zuber, Cole & Son, Farrow & Ball
- Artist wallpapers and limited collections
- Artisanal techniques: block printing, gold leaf gilding
- 2025 trends: organic patterns, sculptural textures
- Installation and maintenance guide by professionals
Guide to Luxury Kitchens
Dive into the world of exceptional kitchen designers where artisanal know-how and technical innovation meet. From Bulthaup to Boffi, including the French workshops Hardy Inside, discover the brands that sublimate the art of cooking.
You will find:
- The essential luxury and high-end kitchen brands
- Deciphering technical innovations and noble materials
- Analysis of contemporary design trends
- Expert advice on choosing your exceptional kitchen
Guide to Exceptional Bathrooms
Transform your bathroom into a sanctuary of well-being with our selection of the most beautiful creations. Sculptural faucets, designer bathtubs, noble materials: explore the world where functionality rhymes with poetry.
On the agenda:
- Iconic Brands: Agape, Boffi, Duravit, Zucchetti
- Wellness innovations and smart technologies
- Exceptional materials: rare marbles, precious woods, noble metals
- Custom creations and architectural projects
Guide to Design Trends
Anticipate tomorrow’s aesthetic changes with our international creative watch. Innovative materials, new creators, unique collaborations: stay at the forefront of avant-garde design.
Explore:
- Emerging designers and talents to follow
- Material innovations and disruptive technologies
- Exceptional art x design collaborations
- Prospective: trends for the next 5 years
Guide to Exceptional Lighting
Discover the art of sculptural light where functionality and poetry meet. From historic Arteluce creations to contemporary innovations from Flos and Artemide, explore the universe of lighting that transforms space into a luminous theater.
Discover:
- Iconic houses: Flos, Artemide, Foscarini, Louis Poulsen, Oluce
- LED technologies and lighting innovations
- Author creations and limited editions
- Architectural and decorative lighting guide
- Vintage and collectible lighting
- Layout advice and lighting scenarios
Guide to High-End Carpets and Rugs
Explore the art of contemporary carpets where millenary traditions meet modern creativity. From historic manufacturers to contemporary creators like CC-Tapis and Deirdre Dyson, discover how these textile works redefine our interiors.
On the program:
- Prestigious houses: CC-Tapis, Deirdre Dyson, The Rug Company, Tai Ping
- Weaving techniques: hand-knotted, tufted, contemporary kilim
- Noble materials: wool, silk, innovative fibers
- Artist rugs and creative collaborations
- Selection guide according to space and use
- Care and restoration by experts
Guide to Luxury & Design Brands
Navigate the complex ecosystem of high-end design brands. From the secular heritage of European manufacturers to the contemporary revolutions of young houses, decode the creative and commercial DNA of the players shaping today’s luxury.
Discover:
- Panorama of historic houses and their distinctive codes
- New players and emerging brands to follow
- Creative strategies and positioning in the luxury market
- Exclusive collaborations and limited editions
- Investment guide and heritage value of creations
- Distribution networks and exceptional points of sale
Design Fundamentals
History of Design
From Baroque salons to the radical lines of the 20th century, this chronological timeline highlights the aesthetic revolutions that have marked our daily environment.
History of Classic Styles
Empire, Regency, Louis XV, Art Deco… This guide synthesizes the decorative codes of each major European style.
Glossary of Design & Decor
Saber leg, patina, passementerie, caning… This glossary gives meaning to the technical and stylistic terms often used in the world of design.
Hart Dictionary of Essential Designers
This dictionary lists all the great names in design and decoration in alphabetical order.
Our Editorial Approach
Expertise • Passion • Independence
Our Hart Design Selection guides combine journalistic rigor with a passion for beauty. Each analysis is the result of in-depth investigation: meetings with creators, visits to workshops, testing innovations, and deciphering emerging trends.
Our promise: to offer you the keys to understanding a fascinating world where art, technique, and savoir-vivre converge towards excellence. These are reference guides for enlightened enthusiasts in search of authenticity and exception.
Hart Design Selection: your compass in the infinite world of exceptional design.
