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inside Interior Design Review has revealed the winners of its prestigious 2016 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) at an event in Sydney on Friday 18 November. Now in its 14th year, IDEA showcases the best of Australian interior and product design, as well as the designers behind the work.
With the IDEA Gala Party just days away, ADR speaks to inside co-editor Jan Henderson about the judging process and how the night is a perfect opportunity to celebrate the year with friends, colleagues and peers.
A new cafe by Biasol, situated in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, uses an experimental approach to create a sleek space with bold colours.
In making this project, we were as much thinking about its suburban landscape as the building itself. We aimed to create the early beginnings of a meadow and a field that stitch into the suburban terrain and to make a building that belongs.
A muted palette of golden hues and dusky pinks; rough-hewn, exposed concrete columns paired with polished concrete floors. Blackwood Pantry by Luchetti Krelle draws inspiration from the beachy surrounds of Cronulla and the dramatic contrast of a sunset over the bay, and it is shortlisted in the Hospitality Category for IDEA 2016.
Through a collaborative design process, Gray Puksand has designed a new showroom, office space and warehouse for Shaw Contract Australia.
The Doctor's Studio is shortlisted in the Workplace Under 1000sqm Category for 2016 IDEA Awards. Rather than going down the traditional ‘clinical’ route for this small medical facility, Russell & George has created a space that is colourfully reviving while still being relaxed.
"Our client's determined vision drove the concept of the eyrie in a walled garden." Kennedy Nolan has revitalised a warehouse in Carlton, using its patchwork of industrial heritage to create a new home.
Two recent productions by the Melbourne Theatre Company, Skylight and Double Indemnity, had set designs that were enhanced by the words of the writers and the performances of the actors, as inside co-editor Jan Henderson discovers.
Credited with breathing fresh life into the Missoni brand, Wanda Jelmini, niece to Missoni founders Rosita and Ottavio Missoni, talks to inside co-editor Gillian Serisier about brand longevity, perpetual reinvention and that certain something that makes Missoni a perennial design favourite.
TANDEM Design Studio have taken 15m of woven rope to create an undulating shopfront for the Yellow Earth flagship store in Melbourne. A project that has been shortlisted in the retail category for IDEA 2016.
Kerstin Thompson Architects Cellar Door extension at the TarraWarra Estate is a shortlisted project in the 2016 IDEA Hospitality category.
Inside co-editor, Jan Henderson visits one of David Hicks' recently completed projects, the St Kilda Road Penthouse, and finds glamour in the clouds.
If mobile technology means we can work from anywhere, why bother going into an office? The modern workplace has evolved to provide the comfort of home and promote collegiate interaction as never before, as Susan Muldowney writes for inside.
For anyone looking to attend one of the biggest events on the interior design calendar, midnight this Friday is your last chance to purchase discounted early bird tickets.
Hecker Guthrie's latest project, shortlisted in the Workplace Under 1000 Square Metres category at this year's IDEA, provides a fresh, breezy office space for the digital agency within.
Sean Dix's latest fitout is seen by more people in a week than most projects will see in a lifetime. Asia correspondent Elizabeth Chu visits the IFC Mall to discover that public restrooms have just taken a giant leap into luxury.
ADR travels with inside co-editor Jan Henderson as she visits Cognac, taking us on a tour of the Martell estates, one of the area's most elegant sites.
With an unrivalled location that offers spectacular views of Sydney Harbour, this project by KPDO is the epitome of great design, leaving nothing to chance in the pursuit of perfection.
Luchetti Krelle's Park Street Office, shortlisted in this year's IDEA, creates a calm and sophisticated working environment that captures the bustling views of Hyde Park.
With a prolific output of 30 to 40 new prototypes ready for manufacture each and every year, Nick Rennie is a busy man at the vanguard of Australian product designers.
Working with no change to the existing footprint, ROAM Architect's rethinking of this interior is as much about optimising space as it is about realigning the interior to the client's idiosyncrasies, writes Adrienne Hughes for inside.
Michelle Bailey visits the robust interiors at the new University of Queensland Oral Health Centre for inside, and finds that a new benchmark in health centre design has been set by Cox Rayner Architects in association with Hames Sharley and Conrad Gargett Riddel.
Shortlisted in this year's IDEA Public Space Category, Geyer's tech-savvy interior for the University of Sydney delivers an open and collaborative experience to support the student lifestyle.
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