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The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses, 2025 Edition

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The Touch presents five essential building blocks of human-centric design, light, materiality, colour, nature and community, and welcomes you into more than 25 spaces that show how tactile design can bring a richer quality of living. This is the newly redesigned 2025 edition, with an updated cover.

A collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects, it offers a wealth of inspiration through stunning photography, philosophical essays and practical tips from leading voices in design. It is as rewarding to read slowly as it is beautiful to leave on the coffee table. Browse more titles in our books collection.

How is this edition different from the earlier version?

This is the newly redesigned 2025 edition from gestalten, with an updated cover. We also still have a copy of the original edition with the earlier cover, at a reduced price, if you would rather have that one.

What are the five building blocks explored?

Light, materiality, colour, nature and community, each explored through more than 25 real interiors and architectural spaces.

Who created this book?

Kinfolk and Norm Architects, with contributions from Nathan Williams and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, published by gestalten.

Why You'll Love It

  • More than 25 spaces exploring human-centric, sensory design
  • A collaboration between Kinfolk's Nathan Williams and Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen
  • Stunning photography paired with philosophical essays and practical insight
  • The newly redesigned 2025 edition with an updated cover
  • A beautiful gift for architects, stylists and lovers of sensory design

Product Details

  • Authors: Kinfolk and Norm Architects
  • Publisher: gestalten
  • Edition: redesigned edition, February 2025
  • Format: hardcover, stitch bound, full colour, 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 24.5 x 30cm
  • ISBN: 9783967041842

Styling Tips

Style it on a coffee table with a candle or a ceramic vessel for a calm, layered moment, or stack it with other Kinfolk titles for a considered design library. Our coffee table styling edit has pieces to build around it.

Shelve it alongside Get It Together for a fuller run on the same theme.

The Takeaway

The Touch by Kinfolk and Norm Architects is the redesigned 2025 edition of this 288-page, 24.5 x 30cm hardcover from gestalten, exploring human-centric design through light, materiality, colour, nature and community across more than 25 spaces. A thoughtful gift for design lovers.

The Touch 2025 edition front cover
The Touch: Spaces Designed for the Senses, 2025 Edition Sale price$159.00

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