Today’s post sings praises to mirrored interiors and art installations. I’m a huge fan of mirrors in interiors. Enormous, single piece mirrors that extend floor to ceiling. No joints please, thanks very much. Mirrors are the ultimate chameleons. They are slick, sharp, and they just work…

Located in an office tower building in Melbourne’s CBD, the design for the Slattery Australia office was inspired by the “innovation and luxury of the uniforms and vehicles of Tron Legacy.” This slick and sexy interior is a study in sophisticated and restrained materials palette and impeccable detailing. Now, before I get into this any further – for those of you who may not know of Slattery, they are a national Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering firm. I don’t know about you, but I’ve certainly never used words such as “slick” and “sexy” in the same sentence with QS and CE. You catching what I’m pitching…

Once again it’s Yellowtrace Spotlight time! In our April edition I’d like to share a whole bunch of design news including two new projects in Melbourne by Zwei Interior Architecture and Davidov Partners; exciting Dulux collaboration with L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival; new design exhibition by Broached Commissions amongst other things…

Mesmerising Mirrored Mood is dedicated to reflective buildings that seamlessly blend into their immediate surroundings. In doing so – they almost disappear, and their boundaries become infinite. Mirrors posses special magical powers. They can dramatically transform a built space, where a building or an interior takes on the characteristics of whatever is around – the space either expands or dissolves, and our experience and perception is shifted…

Given that we are hosting an unofficial “brick week” here on Yellowtrace, I though it would be quite fitting to wrap up with a project that takes the lil ol’ brick to a whole new level. Please make a warm welcome (back) to the supremely talented Melbourne architecture studio Elenberg Fraser. In designing the Move-in showroom in Melbourne, Elenberg Fraser worked that brick and made it their bitch, and I mean that in the nicest possible way of course…