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…

I am super excited to share with you this luxurious private office designed by Jessica Helgerson Interior Design (JHID), with Emily Knudsen Leland as lead designer and project manager in charge. Located in an 1870s historic gothic revival building in downtown Portland, this dark, rich, luscious and moody interior is an absolute fest for my design eagle-eye…

01 | ‘Le Sergent Recruteur’ Restaurant by Jaime Hayon | Paris, France. 02 | Sweet Alchemy by Kois Associated Architects | Athens, Greece. 03 | Konstam Restaurant by Heatherwick Studios | London. 04 | As Aperitivo by Nika Zupanc | Ljubljana, Slovenia. 05 | El Montero Restaurant by Anagrama | Saltillo Coahuila, Mexico. 06 | Deliciously Curvalicious. 07 | French Folds. 08 | Verner Panton Interiors | Restaurant Varna & Spiegel Verlagshaus…

This post has been sitting in my drafts for ages and ages and ages… and ages… You get the idea. I’ve been admiring this house ever since I found one of the photos on Tumblr almost two years ago. I guess it’s taken me this long to work out how to describe my feelings about it. The design of this home is meticulous, considered and executed with militant precision, so it made me feel like I ought to be describing it with perfectly constructed sentences and grown-up language to match. But that sort of talk just isn’t my style, so it almost made me nervous to write about it…

Let’s be honest – there is no shortage of blogs and websites these days that provide us with a window into the world of creative people and their spaces. Just think The Selby or Paul Barbera’s Where They Create to name just a couple of the big ones. Having said this, there will always be room on the internet for good quality sites which feature delicious photography and stories to match. Enter Coffeeklatch. Launched in September 2011, this site is dedicated to “creative chitchat” with inspiring personalities, featuring beautiful and emotive photography by Bart Kiggen and intriguing stories by Magali Elali…