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Artedomus has launched Artesserae, a new range of mosaic tiles made in Elba stone, designed and curated by leading Melbourne-based product designer, Thomas Coward. The new range is a first for Artedomus, being exclusively design and developed by the Australian importer. Artesserae is available in eight different shapes crafted from extraordinary Elba stone, one of […]
Antonia Syme is a woman who has lived her life surrounded by art and beautiful objects. She shares a selection of some of her favourites.
"My outdoor sculptures are often large in scale to fit in with the environment - think medium sized tree in scale - and have a multitude of similar elements that move in relationship to each with a rhythmic motion. I try to build pattern and form as layers of elements that move in and out of phase with each other and I’m often trying to create a hypnotic or euphoric experience."
The sights and sounds of Milan can be overwhelming, but in amongst the noise was a stand with elegant and eye-catching product. ADR editor Aleesha Callahan chatted to the founder of LA-based lighting and furniture brand Atelier de Troupe, Gabriel Abrahams, to find out about the mid-century influences and how it all got started with Ace Hotels.
Taking inspiration from the well-known plastic shell chair, Schiavello has released its new MR Chair, designed by Mario Ruiz. Driven by concepts of timelessness and nostalgia, the MR Chair doesn’t shy away from its source of inspiration, giving it a contemporary update along with a range of customisations.
Italian creative Martina Mondadori, together with Airbnb, presented a new kind of experience at this year’s Milan design week, claiming that the Salone del Mobile has increasingly become more international. Titled Passeggiata, the interactive installation brought together a selection of objets and curiosities all carefully displayed in a private home, built in the 15th century. […]
Caldera by Rogerseller is a collection of sculptural washbasins, inspired by the irregular shapes that result from earth’s greatest enigmatic processes.
ADR looks back at the winning projects from IDEA’s Object: Furniture and Lighting category over the last five years. This retrospective provides some insight into the evolution of the typology and what has defined it over the past half-decade.
The NONOTO seating collection of chairs and bar stools, designed by Läufer + Keichel for Zeitraum, features perfectly balanced strength, weight and ultimate seating comfort. NONOTO has an unplugged design that is brought to life using cutting edge CNC technology. The unique junction between frame and backrest lends the NONOTO a sculptural character. A ring […]
Interstudio is excited to introduce the Skagerak furniture range to Australia. The Danish brand is synonymous with well-crafted furniture.
In 1991, ISM Objects design studio developed the Fab lamp; 25 years later it has released the Fab 25 lamp. The original Fab lamp, a flat-pack self-assembled table lamp, was an immediate success. It won an ‘Artist & Industry’ award for design and production, retailed in the MoMA gift shop in New York, and Country […]
The Igneous light by James Walsh and Ash Allen takes an iconic Melbourne material and reimagines it in a new way. Developed in collaboration between the two Australian designers, the wall sconce light uses the bluestone foundations of Melbourne as a driving concept. The inventive Igneous light will be shown as part of the Melbourne […]
Image above, custom wallpaper by de Gournay Rateau design. Photo by Natalie Dinham. Scratchy hard-edged lines through to soft delicate hand painting – there’s something to be said of the character that is imparted from a hand-drawn artefact. Even in architecture, the softness imbued in a hand-drawn architectural render doesn’t seem to translate when produced […]
'Featherston' is richly illustrated monograph on Grant Featherston, best known for his Contour chairs and creator of hundreds of mid-century designs.
Every week in our Q&ADR column, ADR interviews an architect, designer, object maker or industry person about who they are beyond the work – their life, inspiration, challenges and aspirations. This week we catch up with Anne-Claire Petre, a furniture designer and founder of anaca studio, to talk about the Australian furniture industry and taking the leap to […]
Inspired by the masters of Japanese minimalist architecture, the Unique tile collection by Feri & Masi offers a contemporary concrete aesthetic and feel.
Written by Annie Reid. Image above, Christopher Boots’ Nepenthes pendant light. Today’s designers are busy with tomorrow’s next lighting collections, and there’s plenty on offer for all things bright and sparkly. Annie Reid rounds up lighting’s best and brightest. One thing’s for sure: glamorous pendants for residential applications are now equally at home within commercial […]
When Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick designed Aeron, they combined a deep knowledge of human-centered design with innovative, never-before-seen technology to deliver a chair unlike any other. Now Aeron has been remastered—ergonomically, functionally, anthropometrically, and environmentally—for today’s work and workers. When Aeron debuted in 1994 it was a chair unlike any the world had ever […]
Celebrating the regional issue and supporting homelessness, Marcus Piper teamed up with furniture maker Chris Nicholson to create the Mezzanine stool.
REMO, designed by award-winning international designer Konstantin Grcic for Plank, is a versatile, stackable polypropylene chair for indoor or outdoor use. In stock now, the REMO chair features a T-shaped back that is available in 12 exciting colours, including: black, white, basalt grey, signal grey, green blue, yellow grey, avion blue, fern green, oxide red, […]
Say ‘Thonet’ and the refined elegance of the bentwood chair springs instantly to mind. Lauded for a simplicity of form that belies its strength, the Thonet Bentwood chair is as robust as it is graceful, classic and unabashedly a champion for the tactility and warmth of wood. It is not surprising then, that when Thonet […]
All photography by Martina Gemmola. The latest collection of furniture designed by Anaca Studio thoughtfully considers apartments and small spaces. Featuring sleek and modern pieces that take Scandinavian design cues, the range includes four key pieces. The Camille sofa has an elegant modernist aesthetic; the Edgar coffee table, a model of simplicity and lightness; the […]
Nest Collection, designed by Swedish brand Form US with Love, embodies the concept of giving humanity a chance to take a break.
In collaboration with Kvadrat, London-based wunderkinds Doshi Levien has designed a range of curtain textiles inspired by Le Corbusier, which use hi-tech fabrication methods.
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