The summer blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is celebrating the work of two globally celebrated designers and mavericks – Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Gommes des Garçons in Westwood | Kawakubo. The two designers were born a year apart (Westwood in 1941 and Kawakubo 1942), but only the latter is […]
Celebrating a notable milestone in Australian design, Designer Rugs and Tongue & Groove co-hosted a recent event in the latter’s impressive showroom. The evening brought together industry leaders, design enthusiasts and creatives to honour the launch of two new collections by Greg Natale: the Cruda rug collection for Designer Rugs and the Bosco timber flooring […]
What does the term ‘Swissness’ bring to mind? Legendary precision? Exquisite design? Highest quality? All these adjectives and more can be applied to the sanitaryware designed and manufactured by Laufen, which has been utilising the oldest malleable material available to make its products for over 125 years. At a recent intimate dinner, a group of […]
Laufen continues to breathe new life into one of its longest-running and most successful collaborations with Alessi. ILBAGNOALESSI finds poetry in an unlikely place. When visionary Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni first designed the collection in 2002, he reinterpreted classic bathroom archetypes, giving them an organic, almost sculptural character. His award-winning collection for Swiss bathroom specialist […]
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