SavoirFaire 2025 *Fair for Interior Design

SavoirFaire 2025
*A Living Showcase of Architectural Precision and Material Beauty

written SARAH ARENDTS

From October 23 to 26, 2025, Knokke-Heist becomes a destination for design professionals and aesthetes. At the Grand Casino Knokke, the second edition of SavoirFaire brings together over fifty interior design studios, architectural producers, and emerging voices. The format honors built quality, refined material processes, and advanced craftsmanship.

LE MILE Magazine joins as a proud media partner of SavoirFaire 2025, reflecting the shared focus on form, process, and thoughtful execution. The fair takes place in a spatially curated format. Exhibitors receive individual attention, and each presentation serves as a standalone architectural fragment. The expanded format includes returning pioneers such as Inti, known for sculptural lighting that defines presence in space, and Lanssens, a heritage studio specializing in historically rooted window systems.

New exhibitors include Baswa, a Swiss acoustic expert working at the intersection of silence and surface, and DeltaLight, whose innovations in lighting explore scale and integrated architecture. These participants present material concepts that function as structural components. Antwerp-based Slag-werk offers dense, architectural furniture works that explore proportion and edge. Their output emphasizes surface depth and volume. Isabel Gomez Studio, active internationally, contributes interior environments defined by calm geometry and tonal precision.

RV ARCHITECTS
seen by Charlotte Lauwers

ISABEL GOMEZ Penthouse Office
seen by Ruth Maria

A curated shuttle service connects visitors to real-time reference projects throughout Knokke-Heist. Guests move from the Grand Casino into finished homes and architectural interiors that apply the materials, objects, and systems featured at the fair. This direct experience bridges concept with completed space. It introduces scale, light, and atmosphere in real-world contexts.

The exhibition inside the Casino is constructed with intention. Each participating brand or studio receives space to articulate its approach. Every contributor offers its own clarity. Architectural finishes, bespoke hardware, precision lighting, and handmade furniture create an environment shaped by integrity and transparency. SavoirFaire’s reach extends across multiple disciplines. Architects, interior designers, builders, gallerists, and collectors will engage directly with the exhibitors. Over 2,500 professionals and more than 7,000 design-conscious visitors are expected. Conversations emerge around longevity and sensory quality.

The fair presents design as spatial language. Shapes hold stillness. Textures communicate presence. Acoustic panels, limestone slabs, and engineered joinery appear in settings that allow material weight to settle. Furniture pieces align with structural grids and light plans. Each element integrates with the others. Across the event, visual cohesion plays a central role. Curators focus on slow design, architectural logic, and reduction without absence. Bold pieces exist in balance with quieter statements. Ceramic objects and large-format textiles extend the material range while preserving spatial discipline.

LE MILE Magazine’s partnership amplifies this narrative. With its emphasis on form, clarity, and atmosphere, the magazine contributes editorial presence during and after the fair. Photography and reports will follow the event, tracing its spatial insights and its material contributions to the international design landscape.

BOMAT
The ArchiScape Lina Burnt Brick

“At LE MILE, we look for vision and integrity in design. SavoirFaire gathers both. Collaborating with them allows us to deepen our commitment to spaces and objects that carry intention.”

Alban E. Smajli, Editor-in-Chief + Founder LE MILE Magazine

LES CONFIDENTS Invisible Collection

Mercedes Maybach Shuttle

ISABEL GOMEZ Penthouse Living
seen by Ruth Maria

Tickets are available via savoirfaire.be. The program includes guided visits, presentations, and architectural moments across Knokke-Heist. The fair opens daily during its run at the Grand Casino and includes reserved access for professionals and collectors. SavoirFaire 2025 offers a full encounter with space, object, and method. The material decisions on display affect surface, structure, light flow, and echo. These elements interact quietly, forming environments grounded in precision and discipline.

Each participating studio contributes work rooted in continuous refinement. The outcome serves residential, institutional, and cultural applications. Every item reflects advanced production and studied proportion.

This second edition affirms SavoirFaire’s intention: to gather voices across architecture, interiors, and object design under one roof, with attention to process, place, and depth. From custom flooring systems to marble detailing, from modular cabinetry to integrated fixtures, each decision adds to a larger architecture of clarity.

With the support of LE MILE Magazine, SavoirFaire continues to highlight designers and producers who work with care, scale, and awareness. October in Knokke-Heist brings these principles into view — through form, through presence, and through the lived experience of space.

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Aarke *Filter Coffee System

Ritual in Three Acts
*Aarke’s Filter Coffee System Arrives

written MONICA DE LUNA

Steam coils through the air. The slow bloom of ground coffee begins to rise. A gentle mechanical rhythm takes over. Aarke has entered the world of filter coffee, and the atmosphere around the process starts to feel different.

The Swedish design studio Aarke introduces its new Coffee System™—a three-part assembly of precision: the Aarke Coffee Maker, Coffee Grinder, and Thermal Jug. Each object holds its own purpose, with carefully tuned mechanics and an almost sculptural tactility.

This is a system designed for mornings. The Coffee Maker works with a built-in water sensor that calibrates brewing temperature. Its blooming stage wets the grounds before the full cycle begins, releasing full aroma and oil. The result is complete in under six minutes. The process holds its own pace.

(c) AARKE

(c) AARKE

Grind settings expand across a wide spectrum, with the Coffee Grinder accommodating moka pot to cold brew textures. A flat burr system measures out consistent grounds. Its motor speed holds steady. A dosing function lets the user set number of cups, or simply link it with the Coffee Maker. Once beans meet blade, the flow is uninterrupted, an anti-static ionizing chute guides the grinds directly into the holder.

The Thermal Jug finalizes the system with a quiet hold. It preserves heat for hours without any external heat plate. Stainless steel construction, vacuum-insulated walls, a drip-free spout, and a grip-stable handle. Each part designed to carry hot coffee from machine to table in one clean gesture. The valve at the top closes when the jug is lifted. There is no lid to twist. No buttons to push.

All three pieces connect in function and aesthetic: minimal forms, brushed finishes, a matte calmness. They work alone or in sequence. Together, they offer a rhythm (grind, brew, pour) without creating weight in the room.

Aarke’s approach to design shapes the daily without overstatement. Since 2013, co-founders Jonas Groth and Carl Ljungh have given elemental tools a new dimension. From water carbonation to filtration, their portfolio forms a coherent landscape of domestic precision.

“The most powerful design,” Groth notes, “sits quietly but asks to be used.” This idea threads through the Coffee System. Machines remain machines. But here, they speak with clarity. The sound of the grinder, the release of steam, the pause at the pour. These moments gain new character through material, proportion, but also control.

(c) AARKE

“A carefully engineered product shouldn’t be complicated to use.”

Carl Ljungh, Co-Founder and Chief Designer at Aarke

(c) AARKE

(c) AARKE

No display screens. No decorative clutter. Aarke's system favors real-time mechanics and intuitive use. There’s care in the spacing, in the push of each part, in how surfaces receive light. It is designed to be used again and again, without needing to be explained. The Coffee Maker, Thermal Jug and Grinder is available through aarke.com and selected partners.

In parallel, Aarke updates its classics. The Carbonator 3 now appears in a deep Burgundy, a tone between metal and fruit, sharp in daylight. And for travel days or studio shifts, the new to-go bottles extend Aarke’s design language beyond the kitchen. The Coffee System arrives as a shaping of a habit. It holds attention without asking for it. A new texture for early hours, repeated in warmth and steel.

discover more www.aarke.com