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Proudly designed and made in New Zealand, these sliding locks by Halliday + Baillie combine the best of form and function. The collection includes a range of key and snib locking sets covering solid and framed timber and aluminium glazed exterior doors. With a 55mmm back set, the HB630 series is designed for solid or […]
The Fritz Hansen N02 Recycle chair by nendo is a new, all-purpose chair made of upcycled plastic household waste, available now from Cult. N02 is Fritz Hansen’s first chair produced in coloured, recycled Polypropylene. The strong, stackable chair is designed in collaboration with Japanese studio nendo and is inspired by a simple crease of paper […]
The People’s Choice competition for the Shaw Contract 2020 Design Awards is now open. Vote now and help showcase Australian design on the global stage. The 2020 Shaw Contract Design Awards recognise the creative vision of the architects and designers who inspire new ways of living, working, learning and healing. The awards place a spotlight […]
Workplaces as designed purely for function are long gone. This year, in their absence, the office has shown what it can offer that remote work never can: a space for community and collaboration. Luring employees back to the workplace is the promise of the comradery that can only take place face-to-face. In response to this […]
As working from home becomes a new normal, Cult considers fixtures and fittings with longevity and practical adaptability built-in. Longevity is an interesting concept in days like these. For many people the last few months have felt like years, while for others the same/same of day after day of restricted activities and lifestyles has actually […]
Haymes Colour Library Volume 14 Embrace is inspired by the concept of embracing the unexpected challenges of the current world to find solace within the home space through colour. The Australian paint brand‘s latest colour library explores how we can use colour to relieve stress and promote mental wellbeing within the environments we can control and have […]
16 lucky Australians are taking home an Aeron chair in our $30,000 ADR and Herman Miller competition. Earlier in the year, we challenged you to consider how a Herman Miller Aeron chair would improve ergonomics in your home office. To enter, all you had to do is answer this question in 50 words or less – How […]
Fresh from his win at the Australian Furniture Design Award, Sydney furniture and industrial designer James Walsh sits down with ADR editor Elisa Scarton to chat about his winning piece and his design journey to date. With just three years under his belt, the young designer has already exhibited at a satellite event at Milan’s Salone […]
Thomas Coward isn’t just a bathware designer. The Cornwall-born, Melbourne-based creative who grew up on a farm dreaming of being a tractor has spent years designing everything from interior fit-outs to furniture, tiles, and even the bathroom sink. He’s currently creative director at Artedomus, where he recently collaborated with IDEA 2020 judge and style maven Hana […]
Sydney furniture and industrial designer James Walsh took home this year’s Australian Furniture Design Award with a rammed earth and recycled glass filings bench that “reinvents ancient material tradition”. The terracotta toned piece, called Anthropic Bench, combines earth and glass to produce “a seductive, sustainable and hard wearing composite.” Walsh spent a month experimenting with […]
With an elegant, modern design, the Bellaire by King Living is the company’s latest and most anticipated sofa yet. It blends intuitive technology with unrivalled luxury. Featuring angular, sleek lines that are softened by cylindrical headrests in complementary colours, the Bellaire brings a modern feel to any space. It has been described as the ultimate […]
The Lapalma range has the natural world at its core and the ability to suit myriad applications. Great design today holds sensitivity to the natural world around us, through deep respect and reverence for the environment as well as nature’s shapes, materials and colours. This is the design ethos behind international brand Lapalma and its […]
There is not much time left to enter ADR and Herman Miller‘s $30,000 competition to win one of 16 Aeron chairs, valued at $1860 each. The contest is now closed. We’re challenging you to consider how a Herman Miller Aeron chair would improve ergonomics in your home office. To enter, all you have to do is answer this […]
The National Gallery of Victoria has launched a live in-studio series with Australian artists and designers, giving viewers an insight into their life and practice while in isolation. Artist and designers including Sydney artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, musician and artist Jon Campbell, iconic furniture designer Mary Featherston AM, and contemporary artist Yhonnie Scarce will invite viewers […]
Chatting to Christopher Boots is disarming. It might be a gloomy Melbourne afternoon, late in the week, when the working from home inertia has most definitely set in, but Boots has a cheerfulness that is impossible to ignore, even if he forgets you had an interview scheduled and calls back 45 minutes later. The Melbourne […]
For our latest competition, we’re offering readers the chance to win one of 16 Aeron chairs from Herman Miller valued at $1850 each. The contest is now closed. The competition challenges entrants to consider how a Herman Miller Aeron chair would improve ergonomics in their home office. You could be currently using an office chair […]
Sculptural lighting, Bauhaus-inspired seating and oak cabinets are among the latest collaboration between Australian designers and Stylecraft. The furniture and lighting company has teamed up with Ross Gardan, SKEEHAN, Neatt Design, acp atelier, Helen Kotouris, Keith Melbourne and James Howe to create the collection. Among Gardam’s contribution is the Ceto sculptural lighting collection with chandeliers, […]
When it comes to residential design, whether it be minimalist or maximalist, designers are creating unique personalised interiors as a reflection of the client, their needs and lifestyle choices. ADR looks back at Pacific Bondi with interior designer Yasmine Ghoniem, who designed the home with landscape architect Katy Svalbe when the duo were at Amber […]
In an Australian-first, King Living launched its virtual showroom today, making it easier for customers to explore and shop its full collection from the couch. The brand behind products like the Zaza sofa and Luna chair, which it designed together with Sydney furniture designer Charles Wilson, conceptualised the showroom in response to the coronavirus lockdown, […]
Look for the opportunities you weren’t open to or even aware of before because you were “blinkered” is Nicci Green’s advice to anyone running a business during the coronavirus pandemic. In another of our virtual fireside chat with Australian architects and designers about leadership in the time of COVID-19, the Melbourne-based lighting designer behind Articolo […]
Australian furniture designer King Living combines comfort, flexibility and storage into its new modular Hugo sofa. Designed for all interiors from compact apartments to large flowing living spaces, the Hugo can be reconfigured into a formal setting for entertaining, a cosy sofa for relaxing or even a luxurious bed for two King Living’s signature engineer […]
King Living introduces the Zaza sofa and Luna chair, two new outdoor pieces that can withstand the Australian sun without sacrificing the contemporary design of their indoor muses. Hot summers and beautiful furniture don’t go together. At least, that was the preconceived notion that King Living set out to defeat with its latest outdoor collection. […]
Melbourne design brand Dowel Jones is calling on Aussies to submit their designs for furniture, lighting or accessories to the Design from Home competition. Launched by the company’s brainchildren, Dale Hardiman and Adam Lynch, Design from Home is open to anyone – student, architect, ceramicist, jeweller, stylist or design enthusiast – with a $1000 prize […]
As the recently rebranded Design Nation expands its carefully curated local collection in support of the nation’s talented design community, ADR takes a look at some of the newly added Australian-designed products. The Moodlum collection Created by English-born, Melbourne-based designer Dean Norton, Moodlum is a timeless furniture collection composed of a leaning shelf, coffee table, […]
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