Perth High-Rise Office Reframed as a Gallery for Living Work.A workplace where art does the heavy lifting, and the design knows when to step back. A corporate high-rise tenancy isn't where most people would expect to find a workplace built around an art collection. State of Kin makes the case for...
William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner Bring Serious Design Cred to Swop South Melbourne.Forget what you think you know about second-hand shopping. Conceived in collaboration with designer William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner of Studio Gardner, Swop South Melbourne draws on New York warehouse energy and a furniture edit that...
Coffeyhallett Turns Love Isabelle’s Armadale Store Into a Domestic Retreat.Coffeyhallett's Love Isabelle Armadale resists everything the typical luxury jewellery store reaches for. No marble, glass cabinets, or formal geometry. Instead, the space is conceived as a living room — warm timber walls, generous...
Diagonal Thinking: Ba-rro Reinvents a Madrid Apartment.Ba-rro brings a striking conceptual clarity to this Madrid residential renovation. A diagonal move disrupts the original floor plan, redirecting circulation and softening hard boundaries into transitions. Mirrors are deployed to dissolve...
Intimate, Exacting, Subversive: Studio Plenty Reimagines Fine Jewellery Retail for Lindelli.Studio Plenty's debut interior for Sydney fine jewellery brand Lindelli strips retail convention bare. Compressed into just 17 square metres, the design replaces the traditional glass vitrine with something closer to a private salon. A...
Against Cultural Flattening: Inside Sancal’s Spatial Manifesto at Salone del Mobile.Sancal's Experimentarium at Salone del Mobile was a thesis argued in three dimensions. Conceived as "an antidote to cultural flattening," the stand challenged algorithmic homogenisation through bold spatial storytelling: orange portico to...
Studio Doherty’s VRG GRL Bondi Store Balances Elevated Energy with Accessibility.Studio Doherty's design for VRG GRL Bondi Beach knows exactly when to whisper and when to shout. Mostly, it whispers — and then drops the carpet. Boom! Rather than a typical linear retail layout, the interior is designed as a sequence of...
Studio Carson Kelly’s Little James Proves Constraint Can Be the Best Design Brief.Studio Carson Kelly's Little James treats constraint not as a problem to solve but as the condition that sharpens every move. A dog-legged stair integrates the laundry and eliminates redundant corridors. A floating stone slab serves as...
Quality Over Impulse: Why the Space Sale Deserves a Visit.Serious design lovers exercise a particular kind of restraint all year — passing on the impulse buys, holding out for the right piece, waiting until the stars align on quality, availability, and price. If that sounds familiar, the Space...
