After much deliberation and more than 500 entries, the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) shortlist is unveiled below.

IDEA is Australia’s premier and longest-running interior design and architecture award. Since 2003, the program has shone a light on the nation’s very best interior and product design.

While this year’s shortlisted projects and practices span the entire country, new and established talent and all architectural typologies, they all share a distinctly Australian design aesthetic and a commitment to innovation, beauty and human-centred design. We thank all those studios who entered IDEA 2024.

Find out if your practice is listed by checking the IDEA 2024 shortlist here.

To view the IDEA 2024 shortlist for each category, please check the links below:

Colour
Designer of the Year
Emerging Designer of the Year
Event
Hospitality
Institutional
Mark Robinson Community Award
Object, Furniture & Lighting – Professional
Object, Furniture & Lighting – Rising
Outdoor Design
Public Space
Residential Interior Curation
Residential Multi
Residential Single
Retail
Sustainability 
Workplace Over 1000sqm
Workplace Under 1000sqm

All the IDEA 2024 shortlisted projects will feature in print in inside magazine issue 119, which will soon be available to order here.

What’s next?

Following the announcement of the IDEA 2024 shortlist, our jury – Manuela Millan,  Brooke Lloyd, Melissa Bright, Davina Bester, Michael Alvisse and Graham Charbonneau – chaired by Clare Cousins, will come together at the Living Edge Perth showroom to select the winners for all 15 categories and six special awards. Special awards include the Overall Project of the Year, Designer of the Year, Emerging Designer of the Year, the IDEA Gold Medal, the Sustainability category and the new Mark Robinson Community Award.

Come along to watch the live judging of two special awards at:

• IDEA 2024 Emerging Designer of the Year presentation, Thursday 8 August, ForestOne Melbourne showroom – RSVP
• IDEA 2024 Designer of the Year presentation, Thursday 22 August, Cult Perth showroom – RSVP

All winners of IDEA 2024 will be announced at our annual gala party, held for the first time at the iconic Forum Melbourne on Friday 29 November – buy your tickets here.

We look forward to raising a glass to the very best in Australian architecture and design with you later this year!

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IDEA 2024 is proudly bought to you by our overall sponsor Miele and sponsors Cult, Neolith, Halliday + Baillie, Crafted Hardwoods, Krost, ForestOne, MillerKnoll, Laufen and Zenith.

Featured image of Hopper Joint, designed by Brahman Perera, photographed by Annika Kafcaloudis, shortlisted for the Hospitality category at IDEA 2024.