A Lounge-like Jewellery Concept Store Where Fine Pieces are Served Like Drinks.

A hairdresser. A restaurant. An office. And now a jewellery store. Is there anything Coffeyhallett can’t take on and absolutely nail? It’s a rhetorical question because the answer is evident.

Madeleine Coffey and Taylor Hallett are two of the most exciting young Sydney designers I’ve been keeping a close eye on, and this project in Manly further cements my fascination with their talent and vision. They are masters of refinement, but their interiors never feel overworked—there’s always an element of effortless ease that relaxes you, while keeping you quietly on your toes.

Love Isabelle is a fine jewellery brand, and the brief for their new Manly concept store was, in their own words, to imagine a favourite neighbourhood bar—except instead of wine, you’re served diamonds. That’s a directive that could go wrong in so many ways. In Coffeyhallett’s hands, it lands beautifully.

A Refined Sydney Office That Blurs the Line Between Workspace and Retreat.

Located within a historic Art Deco building, this private Sydney office trades corporate convention for something more interesting. Coffeyhallett stripped a generic tenancy back to its shell, reimagining spatial planning and materiality from the ground up.

A central bar anchors the plan, immediately reframing the retail encounter as something more akin to a considered hospitality experience. Rather than glass cabinets lined with pieces under harsh overhead light, jewellery is revealed gradually—through integrated drawers and curated displays that invite curiosity rather than demanding attention. The experience is deliberately slow. Tactile. Personal. Designed, as the studio puts it, to be savoured.

The material palette is rich without tipping into excess. Two-tone walnut and burl joinery, soft vintage lighting, and a grand feature mirror wall work together to create something that reads more private lounge than retail showroom.

A Jewel in Armadale's Crown: Sarah & Sebastian's Boutique Designed by Richards Stanisich.

Sarah & Sebastian's Armadale The boutique blends Victorian heritage with contemporary design, featuring monolithic display plinths, metallic surfaces, deep sepia linens, and ocean-inspired epoxy floors.

A Garbo R 300 ceiling lamp by Mariyo Yagi for Paradisoterrestre Edition adds sculptural softness overhead, while vintage Carlo Nason wall lights and a sourced Murano table lamp layer in warmth and quiet eclecticism. The Gervasoni Kira side tables and reupholstered vintage ottoman complete a scene that feels genuinely considered rather than assembled for effect.

What Coffeyhallett has achieved here is a shift in register. From transactional to relational. The store doesn’t shout. It draws you in, offers you a seat, and lets the pieces speak for themselves. It’s jewellery retail as it should be: relaxed yet elevated, playful yet considered, and entirely without pretension.

If you haven’t been paying attention to this studio, now is the time to start.

An Homage to Palladio: Parlor19 Jewellery Store by Say Architects.

Say Architects’ Parlor19 jewellery shop features a central Chamber, inspired by Palladio’s famed work of classical architecture Villa Rotunda.

[Images courtesy of Coffeyhallett. Photography by Cieran Murphy.]