Category: Interiors
On a night for which the phrase ‘raining cats and dogs’ could have been coined, an impressive number of Australia’s designers and architects braved the downpour and headed to Cult’s huge multi-roomed space in the inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford for the 2026 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Designer of the Year presentations. Following on […]
Titled ‘Too Connected to Concentrate: 2026 Workplace Futures Survey’, the report is based on a survey of 2500 knowledge workers across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US. The report’s central argument is that workplaces are changing at two speeds: the physical workplace is gradually recovering from the pandemic shift, while AI is […]
For ADR’s first Pineapple Soup event in Adelaide, Design by WBL and Designer Rugs collaborated to present a beautifully curated experience that was totally tactile, vividly visual… and even edible. Design by WBL (Williams Burton Leopardi’s new name following its rebrand last year) has been in its studio in Adelaide’s heritage-listed Darling Building for a […]
Cortisol has somehow found its way into the interior design presentation. We now hear about spaces ‘regulating the nervous system’, wall colours influencing dopamine, curves reducing stress and finishes described in language that sometimes sounds closer to a prescription than a specification. In this article for The Podium, Australian Design Review‘s new thought leadership series, Cocoplum […]
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