BLE LIVING


hin us for some time and a feeling exacerbated by events that forced us omething the design world had woken up to a long time before that which oice for customers Words | Domotex World staff Photography | Note Design Studio | IVC Commercial | Dezeen.com


Our biophilic approach to interiors


is key to this, given that we spend - hot summers aside - an estimated 80-90 per cent of our time indoors. Biophilia,


a Greek word that


translates into ‘the love of living things’, is based on an idea that we are all naturally drawn to make


connections with nature. Forty years ago, the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, described biophilia as “the passionate love of life and of all that is alive”. Another, more contemporary, academic view was voiced by Prof Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University in the UK, who said the concept was now key to all environments. “The idea of integrating nature through biophilic design is rarely seen as a luxury in modern workspaces, but rather as a sound


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