Around the World with Neo-Folklore: New AI-Driven Imaginaries

A wealth of inspiration for design, hospitality and retail projects alike.

In this travel diary, each destination reveals its own aesthetic culture, a constellation of possibilities, each rooted in a singular heritage. How can the soul of a territory become the starting point for a dreamed-up narrative, one that looks to the future?

Discover a pragmatic yet poetic moodboard, a symphony of materials, lights and colours tailored to every decorative scenario.

Solstice Glow — Icelandic Folklore

No time to waste: dive headfirst into the Nordic summer, with its endless daylight and serene interiors that breathe in the northern sun.
This opening chapter by MC&Co Trend is an ode to clarity, an invitation to embrace this luminous landscape.

Here, décor is ritual. Craftsmanship reigns again. The language of design is light and tactile, rounded silhouettes, pale stone, woven wool, frosted glass, linen, bleached oak...
Pure tones shape a cocoon sheltered from the noise of the world. The light does the rest.

Solar Alloy — Aztec Folklore 

Where Aztec symbolism meets metallic futurism, craftsmanship and technology engage in a dazzling dialogue.
How to translate this conversation into today’s interiors? Through matter itself: polished steel, burnished brass, blackened nickel and smoked glass compose a bold, geometric vocabulary.
Lighting is sculptural, dramatic, deliberate. Furniture follows suit, an uncompromising buffet clad in radical relief, tables etched with fine geometry. A new brutalist elegance emerges.

Brutalist Tide — Pacific Folklore 

In design, the Pacific spirit is an oceanic minimalism on a monumental scale.
It takes shape through sculpted materials and enduring surfaces, deconstructing one mythology to invent another. Texture becomes memory, design pares back to the essential, a setting both massive and meditative.
Volcanic stone, cast concrete, sandblasted steel and coral-textured resin define a discreet, grounded sense of luxury. Essentials for a rhythm set by the ocean itself.

Shadowcraft — Transylvanian and Javanese Folklore

Dare to mix and match cultures. Shadowcraft weaves an intercultural tapestry between European gothic mysticism and Javanese craftsmanship, bridging continents in a mood both ancestral and contemporary.
It’s a dialogue of contrasts: European romanticism meets equatorial ritual, each object imbued with spirit.
Sculpted wood, handwoven textiles and patinated brass form the material palette, while patterns echo Transylvanian embroidery and Javanese batik, reinterpreted through the refined geometry of mid-century modernism.

Future Dynasty — Chinese Folklore

Imagine a futuristic Chinese dynasty, a reinvented folklore where craftsmanship evolves into intelligent design, and tradition is transformed through technology without losing its spiritual essence.
Ancient motifs morph into digital calligraphy; materials include blackened bronze, jade resin, lacquer gloss and engraved porcelain composites.
Each surface becomes sacred, tactile, enlightened, tradition reborn through innovation.

Synthetic Imprint — Folklore of the Future

What does folklore mean to Generation Alpha?
A story told in pixels, code, and colour. The digital becomes emotion; technology, ritual.
Project yourself into a futuristic interior, playful, hyper-real, borderless. Screens become canvases; design speaks the language of pixel grids, gradients and modularity.
Acrylic, holographic films, resin, neon plexiglass and chrome steel define this hyper-synthetic aesthetic. Patterns draw from emoji glyphs, AI-generated textiles and liquid geometries flowing with the data stream.

Boarding now for the future of design.