Category Inspiration & styles

Invisible blond, very wide planks, the return of patterns, total matteness: what we see in projects — and what will last.

One house, three moods: the floor that suits the living room is not necessarily the bedroom's. A room-by-room tour.

The floor is a third of what the eye sees in a room. It had better play on the same team as the rest — the style-by-style guide.

It is the most trodden and least considered room in the house. A few good decisions and the entrance becomes a real room.

Frank knots, hand-planed surfaces, total matteness: why the sharpest interiors are returning to wood that looks like wood.

Dark floors scare people — wrongly. Well dosed, they are the surest tool for an enveloping, warm, slightly hotel-bar room.

People think a small living room calls for small boards. It is the opposite: fewer joints, more calm — the room breathes.

Four centuries after the Hall of Mirrors, the French panel finds its place again — in interiors that look nothing like a château.

Less solemn than chevron, more alive than a straight plank: herringbone is the perfect compromise for today's interiors.

The floor of Parisian apartments moves into contemporary interiors — why it fascinates, how to choose it, what to pair it with.