Welcome to Foundations & Facades
Foundations & Facades is a blog and platform about how design shapes our lives, and how we, in turn, shape our spaces, sometimes beautifully, sometimes disastrously.
You’ll find essays here about architecture, interiors, heritage protection, urban planning and public space. Some are poetic. Some are provoking. Some examine the territorial madness of parking spaces and 15cm fences. All invite you to look closer.
I write about the peculiarities of Luxembourg where I currently live and which I call home after a decade of owning properties, renovating and observing cultural tendencies.
When not writing here, I help organisations navigate uncertainty through strategic foresight and scenario planning. That professional lens, always questioning assumptions, always searching for the patterns beneath the surface, shapes how I approach design critique as well.
This isn’t a lifestyle blog. It’s not about trends or Instagram interiors.
It’s about design as a language, one that reveals our values, our fears and sometimes, our failures.
If you’re someone who slows down at a beautifully proportioned window, who’s ever sighed at a poorly placed mailbox, or who’s quietly furious about beige tiles in a historic house, then welcome, you’re very much in the right place.
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