Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen channelled the aesthetic of a library inside the latest showroom of Danish textile company Kvadrat, which has opened in west London.
Kvadrat at Home is the company's inaugural "residential showroom", offering a selection of textiles suited to domestic furnishings like rugs, curtains and cushions.
The retail space is set within the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour and will accommodate collections by the company's home-focused brands, Sahco and Kinnasand, as well as fabrics that Kvardat has made in collaboration with fashion designer Raf Simons.

Antwerp-based Vincent Van Duysen ? who is also the creative director of Sahco ? was tasked with developing the interiors of the 140-square-metre showroom.
He decided to create a library-like setting where different swatches of fabrics are placed on shelves of the store like books.
"Libraries are the epicentres of my interior and architecture work and their rooms ? I'm a collector of books as well," Van Duysen told Dezeen. "So I said why not create a library of fabrics""

"You come into the showroom, away from the other shops, and you get an immediately residential feeling ? you come into a room within a room," he continued.
"It gives a kind of freedom where you can sit down, feel comfortable, convivial and discuss the fabrics within the library."

Floor-to-ceiling shelves made from larch wood have been built into the showroom's walls, all pain...