Decodes, interiors, palettes.
A new article every day. The Scan, the Workshop, Open House, Decode, the Notebook, Mood Board — six sections that break down what makes the difference in an interior.
The Wassily Chair (Breuer B3): Knoll vs Reissue vs Dupe
The first tubular-steel chair, 1925. Telling a real Knoll Wassily — tube, leather, marking — from the copies.
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Their homes.
Open House14 JulyVilla Malaparte, Capri: Red on the Cliff
A red house set on a rock above the sea, immortalised by Godard in 'Le Mépris'. Architecture as pure gesture.
Open House4 JulyVilla Necchi Campiglio, Milan: Rationalist Luxury
Portaluppi's Milanese house (1930s), star of the film “Io sono l'amore”. Marble, precious woods, a pool — Italian rationalism at its peak.
Open House25 JunePierre Chareau's Maison de Verre, 1932
Behind a courtyard in the 7th arrondissement, an entire house of glass brick and steel. The manifesto that brought clear glass and industrial materials into the home.
Open House16 JuneThe Houses of Luis Barragán in Mexico City: Colour as Architecture
Casa Barragán, Casa Gilardi and its pink wall on water, the stables of Cuadra San Cristóbal. Three places where colour became building matter.
Open House5 JuneThe age of the collected interior
The opposite of the decorated interior. A deliberate mix of periods, prices and cultures that ends up speaking together. Darré, Vervoordt, Coppola.
Open House20 MayThe desk as a world, with an illustrator in the eleventh
A desk is not a piece of furniture. It is a portal into the imagination of whoever sits there — and the place that makes the work possible.
Open House13 MayA bookseller from rue de Bretagne, in ten objects
Thirty-five square metres, no big-name brands, and three Mathieu Matégot pieces found at Emmaüs.
The scan.
The Scan13 JulyPanton Chair: the £33 copy versus the Vitra
The first single-piece plastic chair. How to tell a real Panton (Vitra) — material, finish, marking — from the £33 dupes.
The Scan9 JulyReading a Maker's Mark: Knoll, Thonet, Cassina
Where to look, what to decode. A guide to the stamps, labels and numbers that separate a true edition from a copy.
The Scan8 JulyPipistrello Lamp (Gae Aulenti): The Real Thing vs. the Replicas
The 1965 telescopic lamp by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce. Spotting a real one — base, diffuser, markings — against the dupes.
The Scan3 JulyThe Arco Lamp (Flos): the original, the vintage piece, and the imitation to avoid
The most copied arched floor lamp in the world. How to spot a real Flos Arco — the marble, the steel, the hole — against the replicas.
The Scan30 JuneMaisons du Monde: the 'educational dupes' worth buying
The chain copies design icons on the cheap. Which are honest gateways to real taste — and which to avoid.
The Scan28 JuneThe LC4 Chaise Longue: the Cassina original versus its imitations
The 1928 “adjustable chaise longue” is copied everywhere. How to spot a real LC4 — the stamp, the chrome, the cradle.
The Scan26 JuneHow to Spot a Real Murano in 30 Seconds
The weight, the bubble, the pontil. Five reflexes to tell authentic Murano from an industrial copy — in a shop, at a flea market, or in a photo.
The Scan22 JuneIKEA Kallax: the design alternative once you've outgrown the Kallax
Europe's best-selling square cube. When to replace it, how to upgrade it, and six storage systems that outclass it.
The Scan20 JuneWestwing: 8 Alternatives, Category by Category
The flash-sale décor club has a very recognisable taste. Category by category, here is where to find the same look — often cheaper, sometimes better.
The Scan15 JuneUSM Haller: How to Spot the Real Thing, and 5 Alternatives That Hold Up
Europe's most copied modular furniture. How to tell a genuine USM Haller from a fake — and five systems worth the detour, from budget to design.
The Scan11 JuneCamaleonda: why it's everywhere
400,000 Pinterest saves. 72 Instagram posts a day. Eleven reissues and copies. Mario Bellini's 1970 sofa is the most reproduced object of contemporary furniture.
The Scan10 JuneThe Most Searched Furniture Styles — June 2026
Mediterranean Brutalism +340%, Italian Modernism Warm +280%, Memphis Revival +180%. And japandi down 40%. The ten styles climbing this month.
The Scan2 JuneSeen Everywhere: the opaline-glass mushroom lamp
Sixty-three interiors out of two hundred published in AD, Cabana and The World of Interiors between January and May 2026. But which mushroom, exactly — and how to tell them apart.
The Scan27 MayInternet's Favourite Chair — May 2026: Marcel Breuer's Cesca
Three hundred and ninety-two thousand pins this month, seventy-eight posts a day. May 2026's chair is the Cesca — drawn in 1928, copied since 1932.
The Scan18 MayPeter Krauskopf's Studio, Berlin
The studio of a German painter who redefined monochrome colour — decoded in twelve pigments.
The Scan11 MayCasa de Vidro, Lina Bo Bardi
Living inside a tropical glass cube in São Paulo since 1951. A reading in twelve objects.
The notebook.
The Notebook11 JulyMilan Beyond the Salone: Dimore, Nilufar, the Addresses No One Shows You
Beyond April's fair, Milan rewards the year-round visitor: collectible design galleries, discreet showrooms, manifesto flats.
The Notebook1 JulyMarrakech, Capital of Mediterranean Brutalism
Raw earth, tinted concrete, bare lines: the Marrakech design scene has become the reference for warm brutalism. Studio KO, reinvented riads, artisans.
The Notebook21 JuneMexico City, Beyond Barragán: The New Guard
Pedro Reyes, Carla Fernández, a scene of galleries and workshops between Roma and Juárez. Mexico City has become a design capital.
The Notebook7 JuneBeyit Selection — Issue #1, June 2026
Ten pieces hand-picked this month, vintage or new, with the exact price and the case for buying now. Theme: insider objects.
The Notebook29 MayDavid Zwirner, the Bernstein Collection
The private collection of Joel and Carole Bernstein — fifty years of postwar American art, never shown, open to the public in New York until 21 June.
The Notebook22 MayOfficine Universelle Buly, rue Bonaparte
A perfumery opened in 1803, closed in 1956, brought back in 2014. How Ramdane Touhami rebuilt the most truthful apothecary in Paris.
The Notebook15 MayGalerie Patrick Seguin, rue de Charonne
How to read a genuine Prouvé in thirty seconds.
Reading design.
Decode10 JulySelency: How to Buy Without Getting It Wrong
Europe's largest online flea market. How to hunt smart, vet a seller, haggle, and spot the real find.
Decode7 JulyYanagi's Butterfly Stool: the West folded the Japanese way
Two sheets of plywood, one brass rod, 1954. How Sori Yanagi reconciled Japanese craft with industrial production.
Decode5 JulyMadeleine Castaing: The Antique Dealer Who Invented a Style
Castaing blue, leopard, neo-Greek, painted climbing plants: the decorator who invented a grammar copied to this day.
Decode2 JulySaarinen's TWA Terminal: An Airport Turned Pilgrimage
1962, JFK. Eero Saarinen sculpts a terminal like a concrete bird. Sixty years on, it's a hotel — and a shrine to design.
Decode24 JuneThe Chandigarh Chair: How Jeanneret Furnished a City
Teak, cane, V-shaped legs. How chairs Pierre Jeanneret drew for an entire Indian city left the offices for Drouot — and how to spot a real one.
Decode23 JuneCharlotte Perriand: How to Recognise Her Pieces
Beyond the name: how to identify a true Perriand. The co-signed LC chairs, the Maison du Mexique bookcase, the Ombre chair, the Méribel pieces — and the stamps that authenticate.
Decode19 JuneThe Set Is a Character: Design in Four Films
Four interiors that share nothing in common, and the same lesson about what a room reveals.
Decode13 JuneThe future of interiors shopping begins with a screenshot
You see a living room in AD. You take a screenshot. Twenty seconds later, you know. You can buy. This is the future of interiors shopping — and the close of our twenty-day series.
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Decode9 JuneThe Gap Between Inspiration and Purchase
Pinterest 2026: the average interiors user hoards 4,230 pins for a 0.3% purchase rate. Three buys per thousand saves. That gap defines the market.
Decode8 JuneDecoration as Aesthetic Fantasy
38% of Beyit subscribers have never clicked a shopping link. Not out of thrift — by choice. Interiors are becoming what fashion became twenty years ago.
Decode6 JuneThe Return of the Ugly Object
March 2026, Drouot. A cracked, mended Chinese vase sells for €4,800 against a €600 estimate. A decorator's verdict: 'exactly what I needed — the ugly object'.
Decode3 JuneYou don't want vintage. You want proof of taste.
Only 12% of vintage buyers cite sustainability. Sixty-seven percent want a piece no one else owns. Vintage is no longer green. It is status.
Decode1 JuneHow feeds rewired our sense of taste
74% of under-35s say their decor taste was shaped on Instagram and Pinterest. 11% credit their parents. For the first time, taste travels sideways.
Decode31 MayThe Beyit Index — Vol. 01
The first quarterly ranking of interiors online. The obsession of the quarter, the top 10 brands, the top 10 objects, and what's out. Q2 2026, seen from Beyit.
Decode28 MayThe end of the silent-luxury era
Five years of quiet luxury produced interchangeable interiors. What's coming back instead: saturated colour, the signed piece, the room that says its name.
Decode26 MayThe Italian Seventies: Chrome, Smoked Glass, Warm Light
Why the Sciolari, Aulenti, Scarpa and Mangiarotti moment is returning in 2026 — and how to tell real Murano from Chinese smoked glass at a glance.
Decode25 MayThe new luxury is no longer expensive. It is simply illegible.
The old luxury wore a logo and a price tag. The new one wears objects nobody can name — decoded in five pieces.
Decode21 MayInterior scents, the social marker of 2026 décor
Why the same living room no longer smells the same at the neighbour's. And who decides what is still acceptable.
Decode14 MaySmoked glass is dead. Clear glass is back.
What happened between the two. And who's benefiting.
Stroll
Stroll6 JulyThe Five Galleries That Make the French Design Market
Downtown, Jousse, Kreo, Chastel-Maréchal, Pascal Cuisinier: the Paris map where real design changes hands, with provenance.
Stroll27 JuneTongeren on a Sunday: Europe's Largest Antiques Market
Belgium's oldest town hides, every Sunday morning, the continent's biggest antiques market. Flemish, industrial and mid-century pieces, far from Paris prices.
Stroll18 JuneL'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, the Venice of Antique Dealers
Three hundred dealers, a river, and Europe's third antiques market after London and Paris. A guide to browsing the Vaucluse without losing your way.
Stroll24 MaySaint-Ouen flea market, allée Paul Bert
Three hours in the most honest aisle of the market. What to see, what to avoid, where to lunch.
Stroll17 MayVanves flea market, a Sunday morning
Five hundred sellers, two boulevards, six hours on foot. How to hunt without getting fleeced.
The board.
Mood Board12 JuneThe Memphis Revival: What Returns, What Stays
Sotheby's Paris, April 2026: a Sottsass Casablanca sideboard sells for €84,000 against a €22,000 estimate. The Memphis revival is official. But which Memphis?
Mood Board4 JuneMixing Materials & Textures — Why Interiors Copy Fashion
Fashion's four-material rule applied to interiors. Three combinations that work, three mistakes that kill a mix, and a fashion-to-decor lag shrinking from six seasons to two.
Mood Board30 MayBeyit Color of the Season — Spring 2026: Walnut Stain
Of the five thousand interiors scanned in April 2026, one shade appears eight times out of ten: walnut stain. Its formula, five wall variations, and where to buy it.
Mood Board23 MayThe artist's bouquet, Constance Spry's palette
Crimson roses, withered ivy, ruffled kale, faded mauve lilac. How the English florist of the 1930s still shapes the finest bouquets of 2026.
Mood Board16 MayThe Cy Twombly palette at Gaeta
Rust. Painter's grey. Sun-baked beige. Cement.
The hands.
Not the brand that weighs the most — the hand that counts. Here we follow the small workshops, the stubborn makers and the independent signatures: the ones who make eight pieces, never identical, rather than eight thousand all the same.
The Workshop12 JulyIn a Cabinetmaker's Workshop
Wood, grain, patience. A visit to a workshop where joints replace screws — and where you relearn what a real piece of furniture is worth.
The Workshop29 JuneIn the Studio of Yukiko Noritake
The Franco-Japanese illustrator, her Paris studio, her palette of earth and foliage. How she composes a drawn interior.
The Workshop17 JuneIn a Painter's Studio: Colour as Matter
Not a swatch chart — a substance. A visit to a studio where colour is ground, scratched, layered, and where one relearns how to look at a wall.
The Workshop19 MayAtelier Eric Schmitt: bronze as a living material
Sculptor and designer, for forty years he has been casting objects that resemble nothing — except themselves.
The Workshop12 MayAstier de Villatte's workshop, rue Saint-Honoré
How three thousand ceramic pieces come out of a Bastille workshop each month — and why they age white.