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He had ventured into just about the entire spectrum of Industrial Design but watch design was new to IWC's...

For designer Osiris Hertman, the most important thing is that your home should be a place to relax. In this day and age, more than ever. A Home Gym is also ideal then. So his latest project became a collaboration with Technogym to create a place that breathes more 'home' than gym. With a leather floor: "Because you can walk on it so wonderfully with your bare feet."

After years of working in Haute Horlogerie, Alexander Wijt's entrepreneurial fire was ignited. Timepieces are not just watches, time can be read in different ways. Thus was born Hourlux, the company in niche timepiece products and design objects that he set up with his wife. With eyes set on growth, inspired by a quote from his grandmother: "Those who cannot share will never be able to multiply."

Shoes make the man - or woman - and in the case of Hermans Schoenen, this has been true since 1906. In that year, the Hermans sisters started their own shoe shop on Lange Jansstraat in Utrecht.

We all love it. Romania it. Feast on it. Admire it. Imitate it. But what exactly is it, that legendary Italian style, that sense of design that seems unique in the world. And perhaps more interestingly, where does it come from?