Author: Madeleine Swain
Every year it just seems to get bigger and better! In 2026 the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) received a record-breaking number of entries, with around 300 of them making the shortlist across all categories. Established in 2002, IDEA is the longest-running and one of the most highly respected design awards programs in Australia. Now […]
The latest exhibition to open at Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art is a dreamy trip into a misty and magnificent Paris of yesteryear. No matter what the folks at the Parliament House end of Collins Street in Melbourne will tell you, there is another little spot not a million miles away from the city’s […]
How does someone go from making aeroplanes quieter to optimising the sound emanating from the finest speakers in the world? When an interior designer expands their fitout remit to specify high-end sound systems into a brief, they are perhaps unaware of the precision and acoustic skills that go into designing the equipment selected. Dr Veronique […]
Innovation in premium flooring has positioned Aloura Australiana Timber Flooring as a preferred choice for specifiers across Australia. “We identified a clear gap in the market,” says Sarah Risbey Rees, Brand Principal of the Flooring Division at George Fethers & Co. And it’s a gap that she says has been filled by a reinvention of […]
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