1st Edition

The New Luxury Individuality, quality and sustainability in interior design

By Dean Keyworth Copyright 2025
192 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

192 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

This book explores what 'luxury' in interior design means today and how to achieve it, and provides inspirational examples of projects from a range of designers that meet the parameters of quiet luxury. Like many other sectors, interior design can be polarised: the luxury, unattainable end, and the cheap and cheerful lower end. This book disregards this dichotomy and shows how designers can... Read more

Introduction

Changing perceptions of what luxury means

Sustainable materials Bespoke interiors

Wellness

Chapter 1: Perceptions of luxury through the ages

Chapter 2: 21st century luxury

Chapter 3: Luxurious materials

Chapter 4: Bespoke luxury

Chapter 5: Smart home luxury

Chapter 6: Wellness

Chapter 7: Achieving luxury on any budget

Biography

Dean Keyworth is a designer, running his own design practice, Armstrong Keyworth Ltd. Heis Past President of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) and received the BIID Merit Award for services to the profession in 2017. Dean’s work has been featured in House and Garden, Ideal Home, Home Magazine, The Daily Express, The Telegraph, 25 Beautiful Homes and on television. Dean is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines on design issues and trends. He is the author of the 2023 book The New Country (RIBA Publishing).