Winter blues exist. But so do uplifting solutions. Designs crafted to titillate tired senses and instill joy time and time again. The Scandinavians know it. In fact they kind of pioneered it. And it’s in this same crusading spirit that we’ve curated our own shortlist of heartwarming styles. A mix of joyful, winter warmers that promises to wrap your home in warmth during this season and beyond.

This year, make home your harbour with a series of serene Japanese styles. Famed for their rich and soulful expression, they promise to turn down the volume on a noisy world, establishing home as a quiet modern sanctuary with which to deal with the world.

Every year, we make a couple of resolutions. And every December we come to evaluate them — often with varying degrees of success. But if there’s one desire that remains the same year in, year out, it’s to live better with those we most. We’ve travelled the world in search of such routines and rituals and found that no people know quite how to live la dolce vita like the Italians. It’s why this in mind that we caught up with a couple of designers and thinkers at Italian design house, Bonaldo, to find out how they plan on living life to the fullest in 2022 and beyond.

Every design has a story. That is until the moment that it’s purchased, where it is then free to take on its own meaning and significance. It’s one of the reasons we love visiting them in-situ, seeing how our designs have been woven into the fabric of someone else’s world. And so as another long year winds to a close, we’d like to invite you for a bit of armchair escapism, across the world and into five of our favourite homes from 2021.