Designer Rugs, the Australian family-owned luxury rug house, celebrated its 40th anniversary last Thursday with an evening at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), quayside on Sydney Harbour. Founded by Eli and Nurit Tal and carried forward by their son Yosi Tal, the house has grown over four decades into one of Australia’s most distinguished […]
On a night for which the phrase ‘raining cats and dogs’ could have been coined, an impressive number of Australia’s designers and architects braved the downpour and headed to Cult’s huge multi-roomed space in the inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford for the 2026 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Designer of the Year presentations. Following on […]
Titled ‘Too Connected to Concentrate: 2026 Workplace Futures Survey’, the report is based on a survey of 2500 knowledge workers across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US. The report’s central argument is that workplaces are changing at two speeds: the physical workplace is gradually recovering from the pandemic shift, while AI is […]
The Spring-Summer 2026 collection from Roche Bobois rethinks outdoor spaces as fully realised living environments, pairing bold colour and generous forms with technical innovation, craftsmanship and enduring materials. For Roche Bobois, outdoor living is not an afterthought. Rather than treating terraces, gardens and balconies as secondary spaces – or simply extensions of the rooms inside […]
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