Inside Singapore's design studios – Architology

Launching Singapore-based practice Architology at the end of 2010, co-founder Terrence Quah has ‘intensive architectural training balanced with an intentional stint in practical experience’. Here, More Space catches up with Quah to discuss projects including an academy for snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan and the renovation of a traditional shophouse, and winning two Tattler Design Awards.

Design Insiders x Leighton Clarke

For Design Insiders, our More Space series that introduces the creative thinkers behind the Space brand, we meet Space CEO, Leighton Clarke, whose early career as a watchmaker has helped develop a love for detail and craftsmanship, along with the belief that great design can elevate our day-to-day life. 

Design Insiders x Keith Chee

In our latest interview for the Design Insiders series we meet Keith Chee, whose love of art, design and architecture began at an early age, guided by friends, artists and designers, and a career that started in graphic design and music.

Design Insiders x Eileen Rickerby

In our latest interview for Design Insiders, a series that introduces the creative minds behind the Space brand, Eileen Rickerby discusses the early influence of the family furniture business that would begin her love of design from the age of seven. Joining the Space team 25 years ago, it was a visit to the Milan Furniture Fair in the mid-1990s, meeting designers Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola and Massimo Morozzi, and learning "something different and personal from each of them”, that began her passion for contemporary design. "There was furniture wall to wall, acres of it, and what struck me was that Space had the best brands in the world on offer, bar none." Hi Eileen, you joined Space in 1996 and rema

Design Insiders x Kriszta Gabor

Where practicality goes, good design follows, remarks designer Kriszta Gabor who joins us for Design Insiders. For Kriszta, it was growing up amongst Budapest's modernist architecture that sparked her fascination with design and the storied histories behind the objects around us.

Inside Singapore's design studios – Fahrenheit

Named after the book Fahrenheit 451, Mel Yeo launched the studio in the late 1990s with a friend from university and a passion for exploratory design projects. Today, Fahrenheit has a reputation for beautifully detailed residential interiors Yeo describes as “serene" with "a sense of inner peace".

The magic inside Jacopo Foggini's Milanese laboratory

Inside Singapore's design studios – Topic Design Studio

More Space meets Tan Sze Ling who founded Topic Design Studio on the success of two bungalows at Ocean Drive in Sentosa Cove and a swathe of new clients. Now a team of seven designers, the studio balances a range of residential projects for expats that "sometimes leads us to unexpected and exciting design results”, and clients whose homes are now places for corporate entertaining too.

Design Insiders x David Hartikainen

Visiting architect Moshe Safdie’s groundbreaking Habitat 67 building in Montreal had a big impact on David Hartikainen whose design career is richly layered. More Space meets David for Design Insiders, a series that introduces the creative thinkers behind the Space brand.

Design Insiders x Alexandra Charnock

This month we launch Design Insiders, a More Space series that introduces the creative thinkers behind the Space brand. Here we meet Alexandra Charnock, a graduate of interior architecture who is fascinated by design and the architects, buildings and furniture that define the industry.

Inside Singapore's design studios – Wolf

Wolf cofounder Brandon Liu was drawn to Singapore to explore workplace design in a city where established corporations rub shoulders with tech startups. In the following interview, More Space and Liu discuss Netflix, Uber, Toyota and Bytedance, and the cultural changes to the workplace status quo that are opening up new possibilities for design.

Inside Singapore's design studios – Ensemble

Founded by interior architect Leslie Seow, Ensemble was built on the design principle of making life better. Since its launch in 2016, the group has developed a reputation for evocative and sensorial spaces with a clear design language.