Peter Martin

United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief at Effect Magazine

Head of Editorial and Content at Effetto

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Climate and Democracy Are in Crisis. Get off Your Assets.

Oct 29, 2024 | tides.org | Peter Martin

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Interior designers De Rosee Sa on curating atmosphere | Effect Magazine

Aug 1, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

“We curate atmosphere,” says Max de Rosee – which is as good a description as you’ll ever come across for the ineffable nature of design. It’s also highly apt: while De Rosee Sa – the studio Max co-founded with his partner Claire Sá back in 2007 – have carved out a globally respected name for their refined, atmospheric interiors, they will soon be curating atmospheres in real-time when their own Portuguese quinta welcomes its first guests.
6 iconic modern and contemporary designs by Marc Newson

Jul 29, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

Marc Newson is one of the world’s most influential contemporary designers and creatives. He’s worked with brands such as Hermès, Nike, Ferrari, Apple and Montblanc; his work has broken world price records at auction, and he’s frequently placed with Sir Jonathan Ive – his partner in the creative collective LoveFrom – at the top of the pantheon of living designers who have shaped our lives.
20 incredible living rooms by top interior designers

Jul 14, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

If you think the living room – described by Sir Terence Conran as “the temple of the soul” – has been around forever, you’d be mistaken. “The most surprising thing,” says Bill Bryson in his book At Home, “is not how long it took us to reach the moon, but how long it took us to get comfortable.”Most early-medieval homes, including those of the aristocracy, involved a single room – the “hall” – in which people ate, slept, procreated and lived.
10 beautiful libraries by architectural photographer Thibaud Poirier

Jul 1, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

There is something almost transcendental about seeing a building through the lens of a skilled architectural photographer, as if glimpsing its soul through the mind’s eye of its architect, stripped of its daily penumbra and chaos. And there are few architectural photographers more skilled than Thibaud Poirier.
How David Collins Studio redefined the ocean liner

May 13, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

Back in the 1920s, Golden-Age ocean liners defined themselves by their speed and engineering. A hundred years later, it’s their interiors that reveal their ambition and soul. Aesthetics are today’s signifiers of an elevated entity, from hotels and restaurants to ships. And by this metric, Cunard has dug deep with their newest liner, the Queen Anne.
From curating Design Shanghai to creating for Nike, Chen Min is a global force in design

Apr 23, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

One of the strengths of leading design fairs such as Design Shanghai is their ability to project talent around the world. And at an event hosted in London earlier this year, Design Shanghai did just that by introducing the designer and founder of the Neooold studio, Chen Min. Min is no stranger to Europe, however, having worked and studied design in Cologne, Amsterdam and Milan.
How art consultant Judith Tatar defines narratives for the world’s leading hotels

Apr 18, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

If you’ve stayed at the Conrad Los Angeles recently, your eyes would certainly have been drawn to the extraordinary resin artworks – or perhaps to the saturated-yellow rope sculptures or the ceramic wall art. These works create an aesthetic thread that’s woven throughout the hotel, framing the narrative and creating a bond with all who pass through. But who curates them and where do they come from? Enter the great unsung hero of the design world – the art consultant.
How Design Museum Brussels is leading a reappraisal of vintage and contemporary plastic design

Apr 4, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

One of the jewels of Belgium’s capital city is the Design Museum Brussels, located near the foot of the Atomium – the iconic space-age structure built for the 1958 Brussels World Fair. The museum (formerly named the Art and Design Atomium Museum) was established in 2015, and it has already asserted itself as one of the world’s essential institutions for modern and contemporary design.
How AB Concept founder Ed Ng mastered the art of timeless spaces

Feb 23, 2024 | effectmagazine.effetto.com | Peter Martin

“It’s the sixth sense of the designer,” says Ed Ng, when asked how he anticipates the desires of guests at his landmark projects. “It’s not something you can put in a formula.