As part of Dezeen's yearly review, reporter Natasha Levy has picked out the biggest interior design trends of 2019, including colour-block cabinetry, cave-style spaces and multi-use showrooms.

Illusory interiors
This year saw a number of designers employ visual trickery and trompe l'oeil in their projects.
Studio 10 looked to puzzling illustrations by Dutch artist MC Escher to create a guesthouse in Guilin, China, which was highly commended in this year's Dezeen Awards. Inside, it features candy-coloured surfaces, a series of anti-gravitational staircases and a labyrinth of arched doorways.
Elsewhere in China, X+Living added mirrored ceilings to a Chongqing bookstore to create a maze of stairs and seemingly endless rows of novel-lined shelves. Architecture studio Renesa chose to incorporate huge vaulted openings and relief walls in an Indian games cafe to "transport visitors to an uncertain realm".

English charm
A growing number of designers in 2019 have leaned towards a quintessentially English aesthetic, creating interiors with an extra dash of chintz.
The most notable example was the inaugural London branch of women-focused co-working space The Wing, which opened in October. Almost every surface in its beauty room was upholstered in paisley-print fabric from British brand Soane, while its tea room was made to resemble an English country garden with trellis-like walls and wire-frame furniture.
Skincare brand Glossier then covered its London pop-up in floral ...