Yellowtrace Spotlight // December 2013.

G’day and welcome to the December 2013 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight – the last one for the year! In this month’s design news you can read about the new Jac + Jack store by George Livissianis; Mr Miyagi in Melbourne by Eades & Bergman; Young Bloods Diner by March Studio; new lighting from RUBN, furniture by Ross Gardam, NOMI and Caon Studio for Anomaly; beautiful new scarves by Good&Co; and Behomm.com – a travel revolution for designers and visual artists. Boom!

New Projects.

Jac + Jack New Store in Sydney by George Livissianis.

Jac+ Jack is excited to announce the opening of it’s new store at The Strand Arcade, Sydney. Interior architect George Livissianis, who created the label’s award winning Intersection store at 126 Oxford Street Paddington, designed the Strand Arcade store. Livissianis worked with materials including Carrara marble, concrete, steel and Belgian cotton linen to create an environment of quiet luxury synonymous with the label.

Subtle detailing links existing Jac+ Jack stores to the new store including steel fixtures and a lightened palette. Cotton linen curtains add scale and soften the interior providing a sense calmness and ease. The cool, gallery like space works to highlight the tactile nature of Jac+ Jack collections by contrasting them against an interior of concrete, steel and marble.

Jac+ Jack Strand Arcade
Level 1/ Shop 74-78
412-414 George St, Sydney

Jac + Jack
Design: George Livissianis
Photography: Tom Ferguson

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Mr Miyagi, Melbourne by Eades & Bergman.

This new Chapel Street Restaurant in Melbourne was influenced by Japanese Street Hawker food and the Karate Kid Master Mr Miyagi. Lighting emulates street power lines. Furniture is casual, relaxed and encourages interaction. Bar is clad with recycled timber salvaged from ship wrecks! Entrance wall is made up of acoustic cardboard tiling panels derived from patchwork corrugated iron panels found in old Asian side alleys.

“All the challenges that cropped up actually worked to our favour – be it finding existing brick walls and undiscovered windows. The other usual challenges such as tight deadlines and budget forced us to think laterally, which lead to clever creative and effective solutions” explain Eades & Bergman. The general feel is urban yet warm and welcoming with an enlightening Japanese twist.

Mr Miyagi
99 Chapel St, Windsor

Mr Miyagi
Design: Eades & Bergman
Photography: Nicole England

Young Bloods Diner by March Studio.

The Young Bloods Diner captures the pioneering spirit of Fitzroy and in particular the history of the Rose Street Market site which has been home to fresh ideas, people and attitudes for over 10 years. Young Bloods Diner is a meeting place for the young and the young at heart who want to soak up views across the city while enjoying top notch food and drinks in this revitalised and ever evolving space on Rose Street.

Young Bloods Diner
60 Rose St, Fitzroy (Melbourne)
Wednesday to Sunday: 7am – 5pm

Young Bloods Diner
Design: March Studio
Photography: Peter Clarke

New Products.

New Lights from RUBN.

RUBN (est 1951) is a Swedish company designing and producing lights for everyday living and grand interiors. The lights are all handmade and designed by Niclas Hoflin, and all taking place in a factory placed in VITTSJÖ, Sweden. Hoflin has his origin and inspiration in both the Danish and Swedish design tradition.

All lights are new designs, adapting to today’s technology, style and needs, but solidly rooted in the past delight of materials and functionality. Each piece is made by hand with great care for every detail. New lights in the collection include Kavalier, Lektor (desk & floor), Miller (desk & floor) and Nimbus.

RUBN
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Tailored Collection by Ross Gardam.

Product designer Ross Gardam continues the ‘Tailored’ story with a new collection of large and small tables to compliment the existing side tables and lounge released in 2012. To coincide with Stylecraft turning 60 this year the new Tailored products are being launched individually in each state.

Tailored_45 Tall Tables and the Tailored_32 Coffee Tables are a collection of tables designed for commercial, residential and hospitality sectors. The oak leg with its geometric shape is a shared characteristic of the collection, providing a strong visual connection between the tables, lounge and side tables. The tables have a solid FSC oak legs, and tops are available in Carrara marble, Corian and Oak veneer. The new launch also includes copper or brass trays.

Ross Gardam
Photography: Haydn Cattach

David Caon for Anomaly.

Sydney designer David Caon launches a new range of products with new Australian brand Anomaly. The range combines both modern and traditional carpentry techniques with applied glass, metal and stone finishes to create effects of colour, transparency and shadow. The Ghillie range of chairs are available as plain timber pieces or with applied finishes to the seat. Current designs are the Camo, Skull and Vector and Caon’s intention is that the chair is treated as a blank canvas, with buyers able to dictate the application of their own unique designs in an range of finishes.

The Ghillie Camo is achieved using a thin layer of copper and concrete over the timber, the Skull is an application of brass as is the Vector design. All are textural, rising one to two millimeters off the surface. The Vignette Table and Mirror play with opacity to achieve a subtle gradient effect to the transparency or reflectivity of the individual pieces.

Anomaly
Caon Studio
Photography: Felix Forrest

New furniture concept NOMI.

Sydney locals Michael Grassi, Henry Gresson and Tomek Archer have collaborated to launch new furniture concept NOMI. By combining online technology, product design and efficient manufacturing processes, their aim is to provide affordable and accessible designer furniture that can be customised online.

Designed by award winning designer, Tomek Archer of Tomahawk Studios, the NOMI range has been designed with simplicity at its core. Clean lines and unassuming proportions make the NOMI range suitable for the home or office. The price point for NOMI’s designer furniture is accessible, with prices starting from $1,199 for dining tables, $319 for chairs and $240 for storage pieces.

NOMI

Good&Co New Season Scarves.

Good&Co is an NZ born woman’s accessory brand, based in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay. Our latest range, ‘On Repeat’, is a series of accidental patterns – slices from our urban environment, simplified into a collection of repeating shapes and colours. From ornate fountains in Italy to the Fitzroy flats in Melbourne – Good&Co turns its wearer into a walking artwork.

It’s this serendipitous collision of photography, travel, textiles and design that has seen their scarves fly off the shelves at top boutiques in seven countries across four continents – including their latest stockists WORLD NZ, and the Parisian cult store COLETTE.
This season Good&Co introduces two exciting new concepts in our product family: Head-square classic silk designs, and 100% Modal scarves, printed and hand made in Italy.

Good&Co

New Tech.

Behomm – A travel revolution for designers and visual artists.

Behomm.com, the first home exchange community just for design and art professionals, features a great diversity of tasteful homes in countries across the world only shortly after launching. As a platform that enables home exchange—you travel to stay in another’s house for free while they come stay in yours—Behomm stands out from the crowd of generic exchange sites by focusing on just designers and visual artists. Behomm members represent a wide range of artistic professionals, from architects to art directors, ceramic artists to fashion stylists; in locales from Amsterdam to Tokyo, San Francisco to Morocco and hundreds of places between.

Behomm membership is by subscription, €40 for 3 months or €95 per year. There’s a free 50-day trial that requires no credit card. Membership allows you to list your home, search for and view others’ homes, and contact members through a secure internal system that hides personal contact information. The site works as a secure introductory middleman. Members enjoy unlimited exchanges, with no extra/surprise fees.

Behomm.com