Last week, Ramón Esteve took part in Interiors & Projects Night, an evening dedicated to Spanish design held at the Instituto Cervantes in Frankfurt as part of the World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 programme.
The event brought together a curated selection of Spanish brands and professionals from the fields of furniture, lighting and ceramics, opening a dialogue around the role of materials, craftsmanship and design in the creation of contemporary spaces. Within this framework, Ramón Esteve gave the lecture "Design as a Sensory Experience: From the City to the Object."
The talk proposed a reflection on architecture and design understood as a continuous experience capable of connecting scales, materials and ways of inhabiting space. From the city to the object, from landscape to detail, the conference explored a selection of projects and collections developed by Ramón Esteve Estudio to explain how design can create atmospheres, organise daily life and establish relationships between people and their environment.
Throughout the lecture, Ramón Esteve presented projects of different scales and programmes — including urban planning, healthcare architecture, heritage rehabilitation, residential architecture and product design — revealing a transversal vision in which architecture, interiors and objects form part of the same creative ecosystem.
Among the featured works were the Jubail Port masterplan in Abu Dhabi, Viladecans General Hospital, the Rodes Industrial Complex in Alcoy, and residential projects such as Cottage in the Vineyard and Clos de la Vila. The lecture also reviewed several furniture collections designed for international brands including Vondom, RH and Bolia, highlighting how many of these pieces emerge directly from architecture and the experience of inhabiting space.
A central idea throughout the conference was the concept of an Integrated Design Experience, an approach in which every scale of the project remains connected: urbanism, architecture, interior space and object. A way of understanding design not as isolated disciplines, but as parts of a shared sensory and emotional experience.
The evening offered a space for exchange between different perspectives from the residential and contract sectors, consolidating a meeting point in Frankfurt around new ways of understanding interiors, materiality and the relationship between design, industry and craftsmanship.
To close the lecture, the idea of design as a continuous language was brought back to the centre: a language that moves from the urban scale to the object, from technical precision to sensory perception, and from material presence to the way spaces are ultimately lived.
