10 rustic interiors that integrate organic textures and elements

From a sand-loaded Portuguese seaside residence to a renovated farmer’s cottage in the vicinity of Beijing, our newest lookbook highlights rustic interiors from Dezeen’s archive that carry the countryside into the residence.


Rustic interiors typically attribute furniture created from natural elements, this kind of as wood and stone, and finishes that have been left normal and unadorned.

Exposing the rugged bones of a vernacular constructing and incorporating resources such as hemp, terracotta and bamboo can enable develop interiors that spend homage to their bucolic surroundings – or convey a pastoral atmosphere into a town condominium.

This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks series supplying visual inspiration for the dwelling. Past lookbooks shine a light on assertion tiling, broken-program layouts and lodge bedrooms.


Studio Cottage, China, by Sunlight Min and Christian Taeubert

Vogue designer Sun Min and architect Christian Taeubert teamed up to revive a neglected cottage in the countryside outside the house Beijing (top and over) in the hopes of counteracting China’s rural depopulation.

The challenge noticed the building’s first beams and mottled plaster walls retained, although a timber platform was inserted and embellished with artisanal textiles to make a raised lounge location.

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Kyiv apartment, Ukraine, by Olga Fradina

Kyiv condominium, Ukraine, by Olga Fradina

Interior designer Olga Fradina paired rustic components this kind of as rattan, bamboo and sisal with a darkish backdrop to produce a calming environment in this flat, found at the prime of a five-storey Soviet condominium constructing, which was built to host meditation and tea ceremonies.

Preserve for vintage Easy chairs by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, all the furnishings were being tailor made created by Fradina herself using straightforward, geometric sorts that recall mid-century layouts.

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Casa Areiam, Portugal, by Aires Mateus Architects from rustic interiors lookbook

Casa Areiam, Portugal, by Aires Mateus Architects

Powdery white sand, warmed by underfloor heating, spills into the living spaces of this resort in Comporta, creating a seamless connection to the beach past.

Showcased at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, the hotel types section of a complex of 4 structures with traditional timber frames and thatched walls and ceilings, which are remaining exposed to integrate community textures into the inside.

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Gallery House Stoke Newington by Neil Dusheiko Architects

Gallery Household, United kingdom, by Neil Dusheiko

Tough terracotta tiles and oak shelving crammed with art and ceramics assistance to generate a sensation of warmth in just this kitchen extension, which London architect Neil Dusheiko produced for his father-in-regulation.

The classic Victorian assets in Stoke Newington was renovated to consider it from “darkish and moist” to vivid and airy, with gabled skylights helping to funnel mild into the interior.

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Rural House in Portugal by HBG Architects from rustic interiors roundup

Rural Home, Portugal, by HBG Architects

When HBG Architects transformed this group oven in the Portuguese village of Aldeia de João Pires into a vacation residence, the studio determined to leave the building’s bush-hammered granite facade uncovered on the interior.

Here, the rugged edges of the stone contrast with the clean up traces of the wooden-panelled kitchen area and the tailor made staircase with its concrete actions, which lengthen to type a eating desk on a person facet and a hearth for the woodburning stove on the other.

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West Village apartment, USA, Olivier Garcé

West Village condominium, United states, Olivier Garcé

Collectible furniture with handcrafted details allows to enhance the rustic capabilities of this pre-war brownstone in the West Village, which inside designer Olivier Garcé turned into an artwork and design and style showroom in the course of lockdown.

In the dwelling area, a vintage Axel Einar Hjorth rocking chair flanks the fire alongside a carved-stone chair and a a few-legged coffee desk with a pink-glazed lava stone top, both of those produced especially for the project by designer Ian Felton.

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Returning Hut, China, by Xu Fu-Min from rustic interiors roundup

Returning Hut, China, by Xu Fu-Min

Created as a rural “paradise” for a client tired of city daily life, the Returning Hut in China’s Fujian province fosters connection to the surrounding surroundings via its substantial, double-peak windows.

Things of character have been allowed to seep into its interior. A significant rock pierces through the ground of the en-suite to body a sunken bathtub, whilst a cross-sectioned treetrunk serves as the dining table, paired with Hans Wegner’s classic PP68 chairs.

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Amagansett house, USA, by Athena Calderone

Amagansett home, United states, by Athena Calderone

Lengths of manila hemp rope are strung up concerning the picket beams of designer Athena Calderone’s Lengthy Island household, softening the building’s clean, modernist architecture even though keeping up a sculptural pendant light by Rogan Gregory in the eating area.

Right here, a homely farmhouse table is surrounded by 1960s Italian Sapporo chairs and a personalized walnut wooden console by Green River Undertaking is paired with two fluffy white stools courtesy of artist Ethan Prepare dinner.

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Country House in Empordà, Spain, by Arquitectura-G  from rustic interiors roundup

State House in Empordà, Spain, by Arquitectura-G 

Spanish studio Arquitectura-G uncovered the unique brick partitions of this farmhouse, composed of decades-well worth of variations and extensions distribute around 3 distinctive stages, in buy to make it feel like just one cohesive whole.

Developed-in home furnishings such as seating bays and hearth pits even more help to tie the distinct rooms alongside one another, when glossy brown tiles emphasise the texture of the authentic terracotta flooring.

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Holly Water, UK, by Out of the Valley

Holly Drinking water, Uk, by Out of the Valley

Sliding glass doors allows the indoor place of this cabin in Devon to be opened up onto a veranda with a copper tub, giving sights of the encompassing cornfields.

The patio is panelled in larch wooden and the kitchen area cabinetry in oak, aiding to make a seamless changeover involving the two areas, while a layer of clay render offers the inside partitions a tactile, organic end.

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This is the most up-to-date in our collection of lookbooks giving curated visible inspiration from Dezeen’s impression archive. For far more inspiration see previous lookbooks showcasing statement tiling, damaged-plan layouts and lodge bedrooms..