AND 6 UNDULA
JANUS et Cie: Made for Both Worlds (to be updated)
BRAND SHOUT OUT
The New Romantic interior is never just about what you see. It’s about what you feel, the softness of light across a wall, the hush of a room at dusk, the way texture turns a space from styled to lived-in. Increasingly, that sensory story begins beneath our feet.
When we encountered the Harmonia collection by Parador, we recognised something rare: engineered wood that doesn’t present itself as a product, but as an atmosphere. Harmonia is built around natural textures, noticeable depth, and a quietly confident material presence, made to shape spaces that feel personal and emotionally resonant. The collection is also designed with creative freedom at its core, each surface conceived as a distinct tactile expression, yet cohesive enough to sit within the same romantic narrative.
AND 7 NEXUS
We were especially drawn to four surfaces, Favo, Nexus, Flexto, and Undula, each one like a different mood in the same love story. Favo feels like rhythm. There’s a refined geometry to it, a gentle structure that brings order without ever feeling cold. In romantic spaces, it acts as a stabiliser, the quietly architectural element that makes softer layers, sheer curtains, antique brass, rounded silhouettes, feel intentional rather than accidental.
FRANZISKA WAGNER, Product Designer
Nexus reads as movement held in restraint. Linear, elemental, almost meditative, it has a kind of forward pull, ideal in spaces where you want the eye to travel, where the room is designed to unfold slowly. It suits the New Romantic home that leans modern: sculptural furniture, calm walls, and a focus on proportion over ornament.
FLECTO
Flecto is where the collection begins to soften. It carries a structured flow, something subtly kinetic that catches light and gives the room a lived-in depth. This is the surface for interiors that shift throughout the day, where morning feels airy and evening feels warm, and the floor quietly participates in that transition.
And then there is Undula, the one that stayed with us. Silken in its effect, with a gentle, wave-like depth, it feels almost textile in spirit. Undula doesn’t shout, it moves. It brings a quiet romance to a space, like a softened edge, a lingering note, the kind of detail you notice most when everything else goes still.
Behind the collection is Parador’s in-house design team, led by Franziska Wagner, whose work helps translate nature’s tactile signatures into surfaces that feel contemporary, refined, and deeply human. It’s that combination, design intelligence and emotional intuition, that gives Harmonia its name in the first place: harmony as touch, as rhythm, as feeling.
FAVO
For us, Harmonia belongs in the New Romantic because it understands a truth we return to again and again: the most memorable interiors aren’t the most decorated. They’re the most felt. And sometimes, that feeling begins with a floor that looks like wood, but behaves like emotion, steady, grounding, and quietly transformative.
