Ross Didier Returns to Fine Art Roots with Gallium.Named after one of the world's most strategically critical minerals—essential to electronics, renewable energy and AI infrastructure—Ross Didier’s Gallium explores the tension between permanence and transformation, translating that...
Audo Turns the Volume Down with Quiet Grandeur at 3daysofdesign.Quiet Grandeur argues that grandeur and calm aren't opposites—that an enduring idea of contemporary living can be grounded, graceful and quietly self-assured. After Monuments, it's a clever next move from Audo: less spectacle, more...
Quiet Endurance: Vincent Van Duysen’s Cousy Turns Twenty.Vincent Van Duysen's Cousy for Arflex resolves a familiar tension with ease: architectural lines establish order while generous cushions soften every edge. Conceived in 2006 as a complete seating system—sofas, armchair, chaise lounge and...
A Sydney RSL Institution Reimagined Without Losing Its Soul.After more than 75 years of service to veterans and the Rose Bay community, Club Rose Bay has reopened following its first major transformation since 1979. Led by Merivale with architecture and interiors by Akin Atelier, the project...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
CiguĂ« Brings Its Material Mastery to Caudalie’s Ambitious New Paris Headquarters.For CiguĂ« co-founder Guillem Renard, the ambition at Rue PavĂ©e was clear: to make the everyday workplace a space of care. That conviction, shared with Caudalie founders, shaped every decision — from the geothermal heating system to the...
Meet the Melbourne-Born Lighting Range Built on Ideas.Melbourne-based Andro started with a sketch and a prototype—a humble track light, developed at the HQ of lighting consultants Ambience. A group of lighting, design, and product professionals set out to develop a range that was distinctly...
On the Edge of the Possible: Bokey Grant Architects’ EA House in NSW Southern Highlands.There are houses that solve problems, and then there are houses that re-frame the question. EA House by Bokey Grant Architects, perched on an "unbuildable" cliff-face escarpment in NSW's Southern Highlands, falls squarely in the second...
A Dual-Key Singapore Apartment Unified Into a Multigenerational Family Home.In Singapore's condominium stock, the dual-key apartment was conceived for landlords — a larger residence and a smaller studio sharing one front door, leased or occupied separately. Ascend Design was asked to reverse the logic. A...
