Social clubs have evolved: they are no longer just exclusive spaces for a few people, but rather living, open environments, carefully designed to promote community, creativity, and shared experiences. From private clubs connecting creative minds to speciality coffee shops reinventing everyday leisure, to coworking spaces that combine well-being and collaboration. These places are designed to foster unexpected encounters, new ideas, and real connections. Places where interior design and architecture become key tools to foster interaction.
Soho House: Connecting Creators
A home where you can gather and belong. A private club for inspiring communities. This is the idea behind Soho House. Over time, it has become more than just an exclusive club: it’s a space that connects creative people and those interested in design and art. A place to have fun and build a global network.
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It all started 30 years ago in London, when founder Nick Jones opened the first establishment in a Georgian house in the Soho neighbourhood. Today, Soho House is present in several cities around the world, such as London, Berlin, Barcelona, Istanbul, Bangkok, Paris, Mexico City or São Paulo.
Each of these homes is carefully designed to be comfortable and cosy. They have areas for eating, relaxing, working, exercising, or watching a movie in their screening rooms. Some have a pool, rooftop terrace or spa, and many have rooms. The brand has also developed Soho Home, a line of furniture and design objects born from members’ interest in replicating the club’s aesthetic in their homes.
Soho House’s interior design is characterised by an eclectic aesthetic, combining the charm of vintage European style with contemporary and local touches. Each house adapts to the cultural and architectural context of its city: in Barcelona, it occupies a restored 18th-century building, with high vaulted ceilings, a rooftop and a pool overlooking the sea, while in London, bohemian atmospheres abound with velvet sofas, art deco lamps and emerging British art.
The architecture emphasises the feeling of a home rather than a hotel, with areas divided into living rooms, dining rooms, terraces, and wellness studios where natural light and handcrafted furnishings invite you to linger. Rather than ostentatious luxury, the aim is to create an intimate and lived-in atmosphere, where design acts as a fabric that connects the global creative community.
Fora: the offices of the 21st century
Founded in London in 2017, Fora is a coworking network that is redesigning offices for the 21st century. Ideal places for those seeking tranquillity and a place to exchange ideas. In addition to meeting rooms, the coworking spaces feature a gym, cafeteria, collaborative workspaces, private phone booths, and terraces. Fora has over 70 locations across the UK and Germany, serving companies of all sizes, from emerging startups to global brands.
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One of its most emblematic examples is Fora Borough, located on Borough High Street. Designed by Hassell Studio, the building combines a traditional brick facade with a modern steel structure, offering seven floors of fluid, connected and bright spaces.
With 3,000 square meters, it includes meeting rooms, a library, rest areas and the Scandinavian restaurant Borealis, designed by JLK Design. The furniture combines Hans Wegner pieces with local art and custom-made rugs. Fora also promotes group activities such as creative breakfasts and urban running clubs, strengthening the sense of community through architecture and design.
Casa Bosques Chocolate: an ancestral pleasure
Located in Roma Norte, Mexico City, Casa Bosques Chocolate is much more than a chocolate shop. Founded by Rafael Prieto, creative director of Savvy Studio, this artistic creation space interweaves chocolate, art, literature and design to generate a unique sensorial and cultural experience.
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And chocolate is more than an ancestral food: it’s a medium of creativity that evolves over time. In fact, each artistic edition is an edible work. In the workshop, chocolate is made from beans sourced from small producers in Mexico, primarily from a ranch in the southern region of Pichucalco, Chiapas, and other locations in Latin America, and their process is closely monitored.
An example of what Casa Bosques does is a project that combines travel, chocolates, and poetry. Prieto uses photographs from his recent trips and, with the help of an artist, creates a poem for each chocolate. Each flavour represents a moment and a circumstance.
Casa Bosques also houses a bookstore focused on design, art, and fashion, with an atmosphere that seeks to emulate a living room: a relaxed and welcoming environment where you can pick up and read any of the books on display.
Above the bookstore and the chocolate-making workshop is Pension, a three-room guesthouse, an intimate accommodation for one or two people, furnished with objects and artwork by Savvy Studio. In collaboration with American curator Lola Kramer, Casa Bosques has invited prominent international artists to create works for the guesthouse. Among the artists who have participated to date are Loup Sarion, Charlotte Vander Borght and Megumi Arai.
Silent Green: Breaking Down Artistic Barriers
A space to think, research and experiment. With this purpose, this event venue was born in 2013, located in the historic facilities of the former Wedding crematorium built in 1911, in Berlin. Silent Green is a project committed to transversal work, transgressing the boundaries of individual artistic disciplines.
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In fact, the cultural centre brings together a hundred creative professionals in 6,000 square meters. These include institutions such as Music Board Berlin, the record label !K7, the Harun Institute Farocki and the publicly accessible film archive of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., all of them important Berlin players in the fields of music, moving image and visual arts.
MARS Restaurant, in addition to offering fresh food made with seasonal produce, provides a peaceful and quiet place for the exchange of ideas. Since 2015, the historic part of the building has hosted meetings, conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Silent Green features striking rooms such as the vaulted vestibule, the former burial chamber, and the underground concrete vestibule, which creates an architectural contrast. A concert in the vaulted hall creates an atmospheric intimacy, with visual and acoustic power.
Santanera: more than a cafeteria
Coffee, music and good vibes. Santanera is much more than a cafeteria. Located on Avenida de América in Madrid, this place offers fun coffee parties, parties where the main drink is not wine or beer, but speciality coffee. And non-alcoholic beverages are gaining ground all over the world.
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The space features large windows that flood the interior with natural light, creating a more spacious feel and an open, welcoming atmosphere. Its interior design combines sustainability, light, vegetation, and functional furniture, creating an organic environment that evolves with the daily schedule: from relaxed mornings of healthy cooking to vibrant coffee raves at sunset. Many days, starting at 5 p.m., the venue transforms into a party, with the café taking centre stage, with an afternoon enlivened by live music played by a DJ.
The trend of parties where coffee replaces alcohol has also grown strongly in cities like London, Montreal, and Mexico City. It seems that the proposal goes beyond having a good time; it is about creating a community around coffee.
