Format’s Debut Rug Collection Turns the Humble Egg Into High Design.Format, a new rug label designed in Singapore and hand-knotted by master artisans in Nepal, has built its entire debut collection around a single motif: the egg. Named In The Beginning There Was An Egg, it treats the form as raw material...
Wildcoast by Studio Kennon Builds for Bass Strait’s Wind, Rain and Salt.Positioned at the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land meets Bass Strait, Wildcoast sits in a landscape with real intensity—unbroken wind off the Southern Ocean, driving rain, salt-thick air. Studio Kennon has let...
Craft x Tech Returns to the V&A with Six New Tokai Artisan Collaborations.Craft x Tech's Tokai Project lands at the V&A this London Design Festival, pairing six artisans from Japan's Tokai region with six designers from around the world. David Caon's collaboration with Gifu ceramicist Yohei Ito, Fushi, sits...
Shinji: A Toronto Steakhouse Built on Denim, Indigo Limewash & Restraint.Odami's Shinji is a Japanese steakhouse in Toronto's Financial District that reaches for cultural identity through material and atmosphere rather than motif—starting, unexpectedly, with...
Room by Room Through Bonaldo’s 26 Collection.A philosophy of furniture-as-architecture is easy to write and considerably harder to detail. Bonaldo's 26 Collection holds up under inspection: sofas that organise sightlines, tables built on asymmetry, beds where the headboard is the...
Billy Maynard Architects Balance Precision & Romance in a 1930s Elizabeth Bay Apartment.Billy Maynard Architects have reworked a compromised plan of a top floor 1930s Elizabeth Bay apartment with sanded stainless steel, spotted gum plywood, sand-cast brass and restored tallowwood floors, drawing northern light through a new...
Kit of Parts: Bassike Byron Bay by Akin Atelier.Akin Atelier has been shaping Bassike's retail identity for over a decade. The brand's new Byron Bay store shows what that kind of continuity actually buys...
A Private Family Office in East Melbourne by Studio May.Most workplaces are built to perform—a client to impress, talent to attract, a brand to broadcast behind reception. A family office carries none of those obligations. Studio May's East Melbourne project sits closer to a private members'...
Motel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.Some hotels are designed to be photographed. The Whale has been designed for the slower business of sitting still. Opened this June in Narooma on the NSW far South Coast, the boutique hotel pulls the spirit of 1970s Ibiza up against the...
