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A beautifully designed Arts and Crafts living room featuring handcrafted furniture, stained glass, and natural light, showcasing the movement's influence on home decor.

What is the Arts and Crafts Movement's influence on home design?

Despite its reputation as a nostalgic rejection of industrialization, the Arts and Crafts Movement actually advocated for using machines to relieve tedious tasks, not to replace human joy in labor.

Ikaika Kalua·August 11, 2026

Modern Kerala summer home designed by Mindspark Architects, partially sunken into a cardamom plantation with timber decks and glass walls.

Hearth & Home

Mindspark Architects' Summer Home Integrated into Kerala Plantation

At the highest point of a Kerala cardamom plantation, a 360-square-metre home is partially sunken into the earth.

Jing Mei Lin·May 25, 2026