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The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses

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The Touch presents five essential building blocks of human-centric design—light, materiality, color, nature and community—and welcomes you into over 25 spaces that exemplify how haptic design elements can provide a richer quality of living. This collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects offers a wealth of inspiration through stunning photography, philosophical essays, and practical tips from the minds of design industry leaders.

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The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses

Author

Kinfolk, Norm Architects

Publisher

Gestalten

Format

Hardcover

Pages

288

Size

12 x 9.5 Inches

ISBN

978-3967041842

About the author

Nathan Williams is the co-founder of Kinfolk, a magazine based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 2011, Kinfolk has become a leading lifestyle authority connecting a global community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo. Williams is the author of The Kinfolk Table, The Kinfolk Home, The Kinfolk Entrepreneur and The Eye.

Norm Architects is a Copenhagen-based practice founded in 2008 working within architecture, interiors, design and photography. Norm’s sensory yet simple work aims to balance richness with restraint and order with complexity. Building on centuries of cultural exchange between Japan and Scandinavia, Norm Architects’ years of close collaboration with Japanese designers has shaped their design philosophy.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 2 reviews)

Sofia ★★★★★

The section on materiality completely changed how I think about the wood and stone surfaces in my own home. I've already dog-eared the pages on light and community to revisit, and the photography of the 25 spaces is genuinely gorgeous.

Christopher F. ★★★★★

I was worried a book about "touch" would feel academic, but the way it breaks design into light, materiality, color, nature, and community made me see my own home differently. Flipping through the 25 spaces, I kept stopping to reread how each haptic detail works in real life—it's the kind of book I'