Interiors
Interiors
Ola Mexicola carries the spirit of Mexico City’s art-filled neighbourhoods and San Miguel de Allende’s technicolour streets into everyday moments. Expressive textiles, vibrant tableware and playful furniture and lighting from the boutique Melbourne homewares brand’s new collection celebrate rhythm, artistry and sun-soaked joy. Arriving in time for the Australian summer, Ola Mexicola is designed to […]
Blending quiet elegance with outdoor resilience, Zaneti’s new collection arrives with versatility at its core. What does it take to inspire colourful outdoor living? Zaneti answers that question with the introduction of three new timber and aluminium chairs designed for settings that demand beauty and endurance in equal measure. The Catania, Greta and Sauvage chairs […]
Minotti’s latest collection hits Australian shores, featuring a range of pieces informed by the creative visions of a truly global selection of designers. “The 2025 Collection marks a new chapter in Minotti’s design journey, offering fresh perspectives while remaining rooted in its signature elegance,” says Tim Engelen, founder of dedece, the retailer that is featuring […]
Guided by an ethos of ‘the evolution of possible’, Axolotl is a premium surfaces provider that sees every space as an inviting blank canvas. The brand is also renowned for its artistic collaborations, including with the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) on its coveted trophies. Launched in 1995 to deliver high-quality surfaces to artists, architects […]
Showcasing an elegant, respectful balance between sustainable design practices and connection to Country, global flooring solutions company Interface has partnered with construction firm Sheldon to create a new kind of future-facing office space. In a bold approach to traditional office design, Interface’s creative input for the look and feel of the Sheldon head office at […]
About Time is a monochromatic addition to Victoria’s bathhouse boom, softened by curves and Torquay’s natural landscape. The contemporary Australian bathhouse feels as though it’s still finding its identity. In the absence of a strong local precedent in our built environment, a new wave of wellness ventures dips its toes into the ancient rituals and […]
Tucked into the corner of Manchester and Flinders lanes, Elio’s Place is an all-day trattoria that channels Southern Italian warmth with an unmistakable Melbourne flair. Designed by Studio Co & Co, Elio’s Place is as much a tribute to memory as it is a statement of contemporary hospitality design. Rich, confident and full of character, […]
During a recent field trip to Japan with Brahman Perera, Australian Design Review witnessed the creative inspiration behind LANDMARK by Lexus – a hospitality pavilion he has designed for this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival, writes Jane Rocca. A new three-level architectural building within the glamorous Birdcage enclosure at Flemington Racecourse will see LANDMARK by Lexus […]
Cristina Napoleone was among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 cohort in 2024/2025. Below, we get to know how the young founder spearheaded Terrain, an experimental community space in Fitzroy, Melbourne, where ecology, design, technology and culture intersect. Australian Design Review: What is Terrain? Cristina Napoleone: Terrain is an initiative that creates playful physical and digital spaces […]
There’s an old adage that ‘the key to success is sincerity… and if you can fake that you’ve got it made’. Was it Groucho Marx who said it? George Burns? French playwright Jean Giraudoux? The gloriously acerbic character actor Celeste Holm? The notoriously tongue twisted Hollywood producer Samuel (‘Gentlemen, include me out’) Goldwyn? The truth […]
On a cold mid-winter day, Australian Design Review ventured into Rydges Melbourne to experience Spectra, a temporary immersive project by award-winning artists Rowena Martinich and Geoffrey Carran. In the second instalment of our feature series exploring site-specific art and its power to shape place and experience, we discover that when artists are given creative free […]
One of Australia’s most admired and prominent contemporary designers, Ross Gardam‘s practice merges traditional craft with modern know-how. A natural collaborator who believes that designing in a vacuum should be discouraged, he explains why he’s excited to join the panel of esteemed mentors for the 2025/2026 30UNDER30 program. Australian Design Review: Why did you want […]
ABI Interiors is a multiple-award-winning global leader in premium architectural fixtures and fittings, celebrated for shaping Australia’s interior design and renovation landscape. Widely acknowledged for offering the best tapware, ABI Interiors also provides tiles, showers, basins, wastes, bathroom vanities and hardware amongst their comprehensive range of bathroom, kitchen, laundry, and outdoor fixtures. Every piece reflects […]
Noosa-based creative Nicholas Gilbert has accomplished the impressive feat of becoming director of his own interior design practice at just 25. The ambitious designer has long held a passion for visual flair, rooted in his earlier fashion studies. With a bachelor’s degree in interior architecture, combined with a worldview informed by extensive overseas travel, Studio […]
COX Architecture director Brooke Lloyd credits her early-career accomplishments to a willingness to say yes and figure things out later – a lesson she is eager to impart as a mentor to the next cohort of Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30. Australian Design Review (ADR)’s 30UNDER30 program provides mentorship and career development in the architecture […]
Sophie Kebbell is an interior designer from Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 cohort of 2024/2025, and also a senior interior designer for Melbourne-based design practice Hassell. We speak with the future-focused creative to learn more about their artistic inspirations and how it feels to be among ADR‘s select group of 30UNDER30 members. Australian Design Review: How […]
London-based designer and studio Doshi Levien co-founder Nipa Doshi presents a lively new work A Room of My Own at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Doshi is the fourth female artist to have her work presented in the gallery’s Collection of Contemporary Design and Architecture. Joining Tatiana Bilbao, Bethan Laura Wood and Christien Meinderstma, […]
Australian architectural firm Cox has identified an increasingly common duality facing the workplace design sector, writes director and interior designer Brooke Lloyd. Macquarie Group’s global headquarters by Cox. Photo: Brett Boardman. Workplace design for professional services has always carried symbolic weight. More than places of work, offices are also instruments of reputation, carefully calibrated to […]
The leading designers partnering with Designer Rugs as jurors for the premier rug brand’s Evolve competition say they are excited to see what Australia’s designers will come up with in 2025. The 2025 Evolve jury. Designer Rugs’ senior designer Lia Pielli is on the judging panel, and she explains the history of the prize. “This […]
Adelaide-based Aranda artist Alfred Lowe has taken out the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)’s 2025 Rigg Design Prize for his ambitious ceramic vessels titled ‘You and me, us never part’. Now in its tenth edition, the triennial prize is Australia’s highest national accolade for contemporary design bestowed by an Australian public gallery and seeks to […]
Now in its fourth year, Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program has established itself as the leading mentorship and career development program in the architecture and design industry. The unique program brings together game changers, industry leaders, practice founders, product manufacturers, suppliers and sponsors to celebrate and empower young architects, and interior and product designers of the future. […]
A highly regarded accolade in contemporary Australian design, the Rigg Design Prize celebrates its landmark 10th anniversary in 2025 with a grand prize of $40,000. Among its decorated assembly of 35 finalists are three of Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 program alumni. Presented at the Ian Potter Centre in Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, the exhibition […]
One woman and her growing community of protégés are leading a renaissance of architectural glass design in Melbourne. Architectural glass design was an endangered sector in Australia after the turn of the century. Veteran Melbourne-based practitioners Donna Kennedy and Dr Bronwyn Hughes conducted a survey on leadlighters in 2012 that revealed an ageing workforce. “The […]
Flack Studio celebrates a bold and prosperous first decade as a practice with a new coffee table book featuring well-known and as-yet unpublished projects. Out now through Rizzoli, Flack Studio: Interiors captures the meteoric rise of one of Australia’s most-admired interior design studios, which was founded in Melbourne in 2014 by David Flack. Thirteen projects […]
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