Foolscap Studio elevates the cultural currency of ANZ Gothic Bank, one of Melbourne’s architectural gems, in a remarkable restoration, writes Kiri Sawtell for inside. ‘A museum where you can bank’ was the brief given to Melbourne-based practice Foolscap Studio tasked with reviving ANZ’s historic Gothic Bank. The newly restored space, which reopened in May, showcases […]
Cera Stribley’s new Melbourne headquarters punctuates its personality within the heritage confounds of a former textile factory, writes Kiri Sawtell. In the heart of Richmond, on the top floor of an old textile warehouse, Cera Stribley is right at home in its new Melbourne headquarters. The 1000 square-metre empty shell offered the architecture and interior […]
Kiri Sawtell explores how a trailblazing furniture designer’s reckoning with sustainability became his magnum opus. Michael Alvisse, an interior designer and one-half of sustainable furniture pioneers Schamburg + Alvisse, is a true Renaissance man of Australian design. When he’s not crafting furniture for Zenith Interiors, he shares his knowledge as a lecturer of interior architecture […]