Scandinavian design has endured for a century because it was built on ideas, not trends. Here is what the style gets right, and how a colour-led Sydney studio interprets its principles for real homes.

Terracotta is one of the oldest materials we bring indoors, and one of the easiest to overdo. Here is how to use it with warmth, restraint and a considered palette, so it reads as designed rather than decorative.

Burr, birdseye, quilted, pommele, mottled and flame. A guide to the figured woods that give bespoke joinery and furniture their character, and how Kaiko Design specifies them within warm, considered interiors.