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Interior and architectural design trends for 2025
What does 2025 hold for the world of interior and architectural design? Through inspiring conversations with leading designers like Bob Manders, Eric Kuster, and Studio Piet Boon, combined with research into international trends, we’ve compiled an overview of seven key themes. These trends showcase how design is evolving to meet our changing lifestyles, with a strong emphasis on flexibility, sustainability, and personal expression.
Is there an important development we’ve missed? Let us know—we’re always eager to discuss how design continues to evolve.
1. Layered, Personality-Driven Spaces: Designs with Depth and Character
In 2025, interior design will increasingly focus on creating spaces that tell a personal story. While flexibility addresses practical functions, this trend emphasizes layering in design—a blend of colors, textures, styles, and materials—to make interiors unique and meaningful.
Bob Manders highlights the importance of authenticity: “It either suits you or it doesn’t. People need to think beyond their comfort zones and follow trends less.” By focusing on personal preferences and values, spaces become an extension of their users rather than trend-driven creations.
At Studio Piet Boon, this layering takes shape through the combination of timeless elements with contextual choices. Materials like aged wood and rich textures are carefully selected to create a harmonious whole that reflects the identity of the homeowner.
Eric Kuster adds a playful touch by using contrasting colors and bold textures: “Layering is about combining different materials that enhance each other without one element overpowering the rest.” This dynamic approach makes spaces both unique and inviting.
Globally, there’s a growing preference for this approach. By combining natural materials, personal art pieces, and even high-tech accents, interiors transcend mere style combinations—they become authentic expressions of the people who inhabit them.
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2. Flexibility and Hybrid Spaces: Adapting to Changing Needs
In 2025, interiors will be designed to fulfill hybrid functions, responding to the ever-evolving needs of users. According to the Gensler Research Institute’s Workplace Survey, modern office environments in 2025 must support hybrid lifestyles, seamlessly blending work, relaxation, and wellness: “In 2025, interiors will support hybrid lifestyles, integrating functions for work, leisure, and wellbeing.”
This trend is embraced by leading designers and applies to residential projects, offices, hospitality, and public spaces. The Rockwell Group emphasizes creating flexible, personalized spaces that stimulate multi-sensory engagement. Studio Piet Boon integrates functionality and aesthetics into timeless designs, while Bob Manders adopts a human-centered approach focused on wellbeing and connection.
3. Nature as Inspiration: Natural Materials, Earthy Tones, and Biophilic Design
The power of natural materials and earthy tones remains essential. David Rockwell predicts that biophilic elements such as wood, stone, and greenery will play a prominent role in interiors, fostering calm and productivity. This trend reflects a growing desire for a connection to nature, echoed by other designers.
High-quality natural materials, often combined with innovative structures and artisanal details, result in designs that radiate warmth, tranquility, and timelessness while maintaining a sustainable and unique character. These elements fit seamlessly into both modern and traditional interiors.
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4. Sustainability as a Core Value: A Circular Approach
Sustainability takes center stage in design, with recycled materials now a standard practice. In 2025, however, the focus shifts to bolder steps, such as the visions of Gensler and David Rockwell. Sustainability evolves from intention to action.
According to Gensler’s Sustainability Report, circularity becomes the norm, with designs prioritizing reuse and easy disassembly. David Rockwell highlights material transparency and carbon-neutral alternatives, while Studio Piet Boon experiments with innovative techniques, recycled materials, and local craftsmanship.
Though challenges remain, this movement offers opportunities for innovative solutions that are both functional and visually appealing. Sustainable design in 2025 is about harmony—combining ideals, practicality, and lasting aesthetic value.
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5. Timeless Design: Unique, Personal, and Full of Character
Timeless design in 2025 gains a fresh perspective through a blend of modern accents and subtle nods to the past. Studio Piet Boon merges natural materials like aged wood and stone with contextual design, resulting in interiors that feel both powerful and enduring.
Rolan Cornelissen notes the return of flowing, organic shapes from the ’60s and ’70s, reimagined for today’s aesthetic. Bob Manders emphasizes that timelessness lies in designs that are both authentic and seamlessly aligned with the user’s lifestyle and needs, ensuring lasting relevance.
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6. Minimalism vs. Maximalism: Opposites in Harmony
An intriguing balance between minimalism and maximalism emerges in 2025. Minimalist designs focus on simplicity, calm, and functional beauty, while maximalism celebrates bold colors, rich textures, and playful patterns.
As Eric Kuster explains: “It’s all about the right balance of textures so that no single element dominates.” At Studio Piet Boon, minimalism is kept warm and timeless, with refined details that surprise and create a sense of natural harmony.
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7. Technology in Service of Comfort
Technology plays a crucial role in 2025’s interior design but is subtly integrated to enhance comfort and functionality. David Rockwell views technology as essential for creating flexible, multi-sensory spaces. Studio Piet Boon incorporates technological innovations in ways that elevate aesthetics, while Bob Manders acknowledges the tension between craftsmanship and technology, noting how smart solutions increasingly harmonize with design.
Technology also contributes to sustainability. Gensler emphasizes energy optimization and smart systems as pillars of eco-friendly design, ensuring functionality and style coexist seamlessly. In 2025, technology transforms interiors into spaces that are not only functional but also visually inspiring.
Conclusion: Trends for a Meaningful Future
The trends of 2025 demonstrate how interior and architectural design continues to evolve, focusing on flexibility, sustainability, and personal expression. Whether integrating technology, using natural materials, or creating timeless designs, the goal remains the same: to design spaces that are both aesthetically and functionally outstanding.
Are you inspired by these trends? Or is there an important development you see for 2025 that we missed? Let us know—we’d love to keep the conversation about the future of design going!