Anyone who runs their own design business knows it’s not just about the drawing on paper (or render on a computer). There are client relations, balancing the books, seeking new business and managing workloads – all potential minefields for even the most acclaimed industry players. ADR asks six of the shortlisted emerging designers from IDEA […]
Flack Studio combines colours with its signature gleeful abandon in this recent interiors job for Italian vintage store Castorina & CO. The world of retail is fast and trepidatious, particularly when taking a mid-century Italian vintage store from a cosy and known location to the fast lane of high street. Granted, the vintage is more […]
A black ceiling, exposed beams and slim sandstone-coloured bricks provide a pared back palette for the furniture on display in the new Living Edge showroom. Having outgrown its original showroom space, Living Edge called on the Melbourne practice to transform a 1980s-building on Church Street in Richmond into its new flagship store. The new space […]
Melbourne-based interior designer Simone Haag has been revealed as the first jury member for IDEA 2020. Founder of her eponymous design studio, and with over a decade in the industry, Simone Haag sees herself as the mediator between her clients and the design world that she says she is “lucky enough to call home”. It’s […]
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