Design 21: Social Design Network

Nineties' Minimalism gets an update this year as a deluge of products aimed at streamlining life breaks onto the sceme to enchance it. Like minimaliam, thsi design stance embraces simplicity. Thsi time around, the look is more sensual, with finishes such as timber and stone, and tactile finishes such as rubbed-back concrete walls and soap-finished wood grain defining the trend.