Category: Art
For Kate Stokes, one half of Melbourne-based furniture and lighting design studio Coco Flip, the best design objects are those that tell stories. As a design studio, Coco Flip’s process is anything but hurried. The studio emphasises letting ideas unfold over time and allowing inspiration from its travels, community and the artisan makers it collaborates […]
The ability to bring memories to the surface is a defining characteristic of what it is to be human. A fragment of a song; the scent of lemons fermenting under a tree; the recollection of a Barbie-pink-tiled bathroom. It’s these fragments that make up the narrative of us. In the hands of a designer or […]
Kith and kin. Friends and neighbours. Yet so much more. Infinitely deeper. When an artist and an architect come together to collaborate on the design of a home for an artwork, the possibilities are endless. When the artwork itself charts thousands of years of familial and Indigenous cultural history, the home the work will reside […]
A collaboration between industrial designer and artist, A Heritage Reclaimed is a functional cabinet that uses wood marquetry to tell of a history that heritage guidelines failed to acknowledge. With the right tools, craftspeople and context, a cabinet can be a conversation starter. A Heritage Reclaimed is one example, representing multiple timelines and perspectives, and […]
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