Australia Is Designed Every Day. It’s Time We Counted the People Behind It.Design pumps an estimated $67.5 billion into the Australian economy every year, but nobody can tell you how many designers there actually are. This year, we finally get a receipt. For the first time, the 2026 Census will count design as...
Strength, Not Ornament: The Distinctly Female Presence Behind Coogee House III.In Coogee, Sydney architect Hannah Tribe and interior designer Genevieve Hromas shaped a family home around a distinctly female presence, expressed through strength rather than ornament. Brick detailing reads like stitches in a tapestry;...
You Can’t Fake Energy: Dana’s Notes from 3 Days of Design Copenhagen 2026.At 3 Days of Design, Dana Tomić Hughes went looking for the thing no budget or brand history can buy—the feeling that a space is actually alive. Across several shows and installations, including one chance encounter, she traces the gap...
A House That Doubles as a Museum: Lazzarini Pickering’s Casa Museo in Milan.Casa Museo is Lazzarini Pickering's latest: a Milan silversmiths' workshop reworked into a home that's also a gallery. Twin staircases, a conversation-pit-turned-cavea, a hidden vault and a dark pool—built for collectors Ettore Molinario...
Arent&Pyke Soften a Federation Home in Mosman with Curves, Colour and Slow-Crafted Stone.Few Australian studios have built a business as quietly assured as Arent&Pyke. At Bradleys Head House in Mosman, that same generosity of spirit fills every room—a Federation Arts and Crafts residence recast for a new generation, where...
Per Cent’Anni: Pattern Studio’s Restaurant Built for a Hundred Years of Happiness.Pattern Studio sits firmly in my pantheon of favourite Australian practices, and Moby's Whale Beach is exactly why. A 60-seat Italian restaurant and downstairs wedding venue inside the 1937 Whale Beach Surf Life Saving Club, this is design...
The Honest Conversations are Happening in DMs: Dana’s Notes from Milan Design Week 2026.Sixteen years on from her first Milan Design Week, Dana Tomić Hughes returned alone for the first time. What she found was a design industry that has engineered honesty out of itself, where the brand activation has overtaken the design...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
A Perfect Fit: Nau and Kvadrat Febrik Celebrate 10 Years With a Full-Circle Collaboration.Ten years in, Adam Goodrum's Fat Tulip remains one of Australian furniture design's most quietly compelling success stories. Not designed as a statement, but as a system—adaptable, reconfigurable, built for the long haul. To mark the...
