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The Touch, Spaces Designed for the Senses - Original Edition

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Sale price$99.00 Regular price$149.00

Please note: this is the original edition, with the earlier cover. The redesigned 2025 edition of the same book is also available, at full price.

Beauty is not only something we see. It is something we feel.

The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses explores interiors and architecture through atmosphere, materiality and human experience. Created in collaboration with Kinfolk and Norm Architects, this hardback looks beyond surface styling to consider how spaces engage the senses through light, colour, texture, nature and proportion.

From a museum in Marrakech to a mid-century apartment in Berlin, a graveyard north of Venice and a range of deeply considered homes, The Touch offers a thoughtful alternative to purely visual design. It celebrates spaces that feel calm, tactile, grounded and emotionally resonant.

With inspiring photography, philosophical essays and practical insights from leading design voices, it is a coffee table book for anyone drawn to slow interiors, sensory design, natural materials and spaces that invite you to pause.

Why you'll love it

  • The original cover edition, reduced from full price
  • Explores interiors through the senses, not just visual style
  • Photography, essays and practical design insight together in one volume
  • Suits lovers of calm interiors, natural materials and thoughtful architecture
  • A considered gift for design lovers, architects, stylists and book collectors
  • Pairs with neutral interiors, ceramics, candles and natural textures

Details

  • Title: The Touch, Spaces Designed for the Senses
  • Contributors: Kinfolk and Norm Architects
  • Edition: Original cover
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • Dimensions: 245 x 330mm
  • ISBN: 9783899559781

Styling tips

  • Style on a coffee table with a candle, ceramic vessel or small tray for a calm, layered moment
  • Place on a console or sideboard with a sculptural object, lamp or fresh greenery
  • Use on a bedside table or in a reading nook for slow weekend inspiration
  • Stack with other design books to add height and texture to shelves and benches

FAQs

How is this different from the 2025 edition?
It is the same book by Kinfolk and Norm Architects. This listing is the original release with the earlier cover design, which is why it is priced below the current edition.

What is The Touch about?
It explores interiors and architecture through the senses, focusing on light, colour, texture, materials, nature and how spaces make us feel.

Is this a hardback?
Yes. It runs to 288 pages and measures approximately 245 x 330mm.

The takeaway

The original cover edition of The Touch, a 288-page hardback by Kinfolk and Norm Architects exploring interiors through the senses. With photography, essays and spaces shaped by light, colour, material and nature, it is a coffee table book for calm, tactile homes. Sold by Flux Boutique, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

The Touch by Kinfolk and Norm Architects front cover, older edition
The Touch, Spaces Designed for the Senses - Original Edition Sale price$99.00 Regular price$149.00

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