From chairs to desk lamps to office tables, the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) has long celebrated the creativity and craftsmanship that goes in to designing furniture and lighting. With just a few weeks to go until entries close for 2018, ADR takes a look back at five of the previous winners from the Object- Furniture & Lighting category.

Entries into IDEA 2018 close on Saturday 28 April at 5pm. Get your entry in now.

 2013 Hoodie by Koskela

This desktop acoustic privacy booth is a portable, versatile screening device that’s easily moved around the workplace or home. A discrete space is created for the user with acoustic separation from other activities in the vicinity.

Made from plantation timber with low VOC and water-based glues and finishes, the booth is available in a range of upholstery fabrics and with options for lighting, power and data, shelving and storage.

2014 Bucket Coffee Table by Coco Flip

Taking inspiration from Melbourne’s architects of the 1950s – primarily Roy Grounds and Peter McIntyre – the table’s design takes the simple geometries of a triangle and rectangle as the point of departure from which to explore proportion and interplay of materials, concrete and brass, in a functionally aesthetic coffee table that celebrates each material’s raw aesthetic.

2015 A-Joint Stretch by Studio Henry Wilson

Expanding the A-joint range, the A-Joint Stretch is a component capable of supporting large work surfaces (up to 1500 millimetres across) for open plan offices. In doing so, it allows workplaces to be more domestic in look and feel. The A-Joint is designed to work with a variety of materials to suit any environment.

2016 Flex Barstool and Table by Ash Allen with Harry Zanios

The Flex range meets the demands for improved ergonomics that have seen a growing trend to make workstations higher in office spaces. Both the stool and table are fully customisable in terms of height and finish, while highlighting the inherent strength and beauty of veneered birch ply.

2017 Settlers chair by Jon Goulder

Part of the NGV collection, the Settlers chair embodies an investigation into material manipulation whereby a unique production process that requires no internal fibreglass frame was developed. Rather, large pieces of leather enclose structural wooden components prior to vacuum pressing in layers to achieve the large forms.

Entries into IDEA 2018 close on Saturday 28 April at 5pm. Get your entry in now.