Observations: drawing inward in nature and designed spaces

With early autumn, leaves begin to draw inward. Their edges curl towards the centre, and each leaf folds into a smaller, closer version of itself. People do the same at this time of the year, gravitating towards window seats, enveloping chairs, corners that invite the body to curl the way leaves do.
Attuned interiors recognize this seasonal instinct and offer a spatial response to it, with alcoves and nooks that welcome the human body while marking the beginning of a new season in the natural world.

The Observations grow from a daily habit of noticing details in nature and drawing design insights from them. They’re collected in a monthly digest as part of anooi’s newsletter, which gathers the studio’s world and explores the idea of nourishing spaces. The same attunement shapes the studio’s work, lives in A Biophilic Year – a book-object and online archive on people, nature, and design – and becomes a sensory practice with In Season, a seasonal physical letter.