Interiors
Interiors
In spearheading the bespoke interiors of Osteria Tedesca, COX director Patrick Ness proves you can teach an old practice a new tune. Ten years ago, Brigitte Hafner sat down and wrote a manifesto to one day cook somewhere that had heart, wine, music, nature, architecture, stories, theatre and joy. In a journey that took her […]
The winners of IDEA 2020 will be announced at a Gala party to be held in Melbourne on 19 February 2021. A couple of months ago, we made the decision, along with the support of our incredible IDEA sponsors, to postpone our annual awards gala until the Australian architecture and interior design community could come […]
The first two months of Melbourne’s MPavilion 2020 season feature an array of events exploring architecture and design culturally and aesthetically, but also politically and economically with a focus on urban planning, landscape and history. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, festival organisers made the decision not to commission a new pavilion, but to re-use […]
With two weeks left until DESIGN Canberra comes to an end, we’re looking at one of the festival’s upcoming highlights – an architectural stroll through some of the capital’s most iconic mid-century homes, including the little known Munns House. I caught up with the home’s owner, Amy Wilson, recently to chat about the property, which […]
CAMILLA AND MARC has teamed up with long-time collaborator Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier to design its new flagship store in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale. “As the neighbourhood flagship, we designed CAMILLA AND MARC Armadale as an ode to community and a celebration of the human touch,” explains Ho. “We began to develop the […]
Affectionately called Khayalethu (‘our home’ in Ndebele), Church Point house by CHROFI and We Are Triibe combines a life lived in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. It’s the board-formed concrete walls of Khayalethu Residence that stay in your mind long after you’ve turned the page and moved onto the next project. They’re what drew […]
Over cheese in the library and finishes room, Flack Studio presented the design for this two-storey Edwardian family home in Melbourne. Created for two adults and two teenagers, Middle Park is a place dedicated to family, cooking and entertaining, and was designed as a forever home not just for its current inhabitants, but future generations […]
MPavilion kicks off in Melbourne on 12 November with festival goers set to enjoy the season on STOOL DOLLY by interior designer and architect Holly Board in partnership with Peter Grove. Designed in collaboration with Melbourne Fringe’s Fringe Furniture program, the MPavilion 2020 stool is part of the festival’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Responding […]
We catch up with Ricci Bloch, a finalist for the IDEA 2020 Emerging Designer of the Year award. The Sydney architect has four years under her belt in her own practice and and 13 years in the industry creating beautiful, holistic spaces that weave together elements of architecture, interiors and landscape. Her two shortlisted IDEA […]
Melbourne architect Roger Nelson teamed up with industry newcomer Ben Shields of DREAMER to design his eucalypt-scented new home in the Victorian countryside. Artists through the ages have escaped to the country for quietude, praising the creative benefits of retreat. Describing his coastal property, Roger Nelson follows suit. “The idea of a retreat is really […]
Defining a new era of hospitality, Four Pillars from YSG design creates an unfolding experience of grown-up sophistication and cool as hell chic. Bringing to mind the most famous of gin bars, the fictitious Rick’s of Casablanca, and the celebrated Humphry Bogart delivered line: “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all […]
A retrofuturist slant articulated through bold curves in the vein of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is at the heart of the Sydney Tower redesign by loopcreative. The newly unveiled Bar 83 is at the centre of the multi-million refurbishment, which saw the Sydney practice overhaul three floors of one of the […]
Hitting shelves in November, Living Outside is a collection of residential gardens representing the most ambitious and inspiring contemporary interpretations of mid-century Australian design. Authors, landscape architect Sharon Mackay and Architecture Insights podcast host Diana Snape, trace the Australian garden back to its mid-20th century roots, when gardens became outdoor rooms for recreation and healthy living. Inaugural creative directors of […]
BTVV has designed a speculative interior as part of the NGV Triennial that pokes fun at Melbourne’s ubiquitous, low-quality property development, while also teasing our penchant for homogeneous, white on white interiors. The installation builds on the group’s Svizzera 240: House Tour exhibition, which took home the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale’s Golden Lion, and will […]
We catch up with Jo Lawless, one half of Lawless & Meyerson, a finalist for the IDEA 2020 Emerging Designer of the Year award. The Sydney interior design studio that started as a wing of Brian Meyerson’s architecture practice, MHNDU, blossomed into its own fully fledged brand in 2015. Today, it’s best known for its […]
Bates Smart has designed the Gandel Wing of the Cabrini Malvern private hospital with a focus on creating spaces that “encourage healing”. Unveiled in Melbourne late last year, the $120 million new wing combines state-of-the-art treatment and the latest technology, transforming the hospital into a welcoming and human centric environment. The new wing accommodates patients […]
The exploration of queer self-identity through the analogy of the bedroom is at the centre of the Design Institute of Australia’s Interior Design Graduate of the Year winning project by Ben Burrows. The Queensland of Technology student was also named the state’s Interior Design Graduate of the Year and Overall Graduate of the Year, taking […]
GOLDEN’s reductionist approach to expressive interiors demonstrates an intuitive understanding of the impact physical environments have on our well-being, earning the studio a much deserved spot as a finalist in the IDEA 2020 Designer of the Year category. Raised in the SJB school of interior design under the inimitable Andrew Parr, directors Kylie Dorotic and […]
The MPavilion 2020 season will be “dynamic and optimistic” in response to the year of challenge, say organisers. Australia’s leading architecture and design event will run from 12 November 2020 – 21 March 2021 in Melbourne and feature more than 500 artists and designers from Australia and overseas. This amplified number of guests is partly […]
Herman Miller’s Kirsten Brown on why businesses need to focus on flexibility and agility in the new normal. Workplace design for COVID and beyond will need to accommodate changes to the set-up of the office space and the people who utilise it. With restrictions easing all over Australia, organisations are now looking at the safest […]
Lawless & Meyerson stripped back to “reveal the beauty and scars” of the existing building fabric in its new office in Sydney. Located in the former Wilsons Steam Laundry in a Heritage-listed warehouse in the heart of Surry Hills, the space spans two levels and is shared by the studio and architecture firm MHNDU. When […]
Richards Stanisich has created bright and colourful spaces in this substantial Sydney renovation and addition to a single storey house designed by Harry Seidler. Dubbed ‘Private Residence’, the house was built in 1958 as a tribute to the modernism of the city. A self-confessed lover of the post-war era, the client purchased the home with […]
DESIGN Canberra returns to the nation’s capital in November with more than 200 events, talks, exhibitions and artist demonstrations. The annual design event will run from 9-29 November with plenty of online resources for those of us who can’t make it to the capital as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. Speaking to ADR, CEO of […]
PTID has given the new Stockland office in Melbourne’s Rialto Tower an open layout to better reflect the “egalitarian Australian urban community.” “The new workplace aptly branded ‘Evolve’ was an opportunity to reimagine a new way of working,” explains the practice. “The open layout without boundaries or borders provides a diverse landscape of activity settings […]
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