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...
Tom Fereday’s New Sydney Studio Gallery Brings a Decade of Australian Furniture Design Under One Roof.Tom Fereday's new studio is where ten years of work comes together under one roof. The space operates as both working practice and curated exhibition—brand pieces sit next to studio editions and custom furniture for clients like the Art...
Volker Haug Studio’s 20-Year Journey from Melbourne Workshop to Global Practice.From post-wall Berlin to Melbourne, Volker Haug's 20-year journey has shaped Australia's design landscape. His studio balances precision machining with hand-finishing, creating forged line-work with clarity and personality. The success...
Natural Order Explores What Happens When Landscape Design Embraces the Long Game.William Dangar and partners Naomi Barin and Tom Smith have spent decades mastering landscape design that allows nature to unfold while elevating the experience of place. Natural Order, published by Formist Editions, is a 336-page monograph...
Roy Grounds’ Timeless Vision Lives On: Furniture Collection and Book Launch Celebrate Australian Architectural Legacy.Melbourne's architecture and design community gathered at K5 to celebrate Roy Grounds furniture collection launch alongside Tony Lee's book. The evening brought together respected voices including Dana Tomić Hughes, Clare Cousins, Peter...
Night Palm’s Tiffany Howell and Ellison Studios Unveil Sofa Collab Blending 70s Sensuality with 80s Decadence.Hot off the heels of their Sydney flagship opening, Ellison Studios unveils Poet—a statement sofa designed in collaboration with Night Palm's Tiffany Howell. This clever fusion of 80s decadence and 70s sensuality emerged from a creative...
Discover the Magic of Métiers d’art at Design Parade Toulon 2024.In parallel to the 18th edition of the Design Parade Hyères, the 8th edition of the Design Parade Toulon lit up the French Riviera from 27th to 30th June, 2024. Find out why this international festival continues to be a boon for emerging...
Milan Unpacked, Volumes 2&3: Group Shows, Materials, Products, Brands & Australian Designers.Dana Tomic Hughes explores the charm and complexity of Milan Design Week via the three-part treasure trove of insight and visual inspiration from the world’s biggest design event. Milan Unpacked 2024, in partnership with Space Furniture,...
Milan Unpacked: Exploring the Heart of Design Week with Dana Tomić Hughes.Explore the charm and complexity of Milan Design Week through Dana Tomic Hughes’ comprehensive report, Milan Unpacked 2024 in partnership with Space. Focusing on installations, experiences, heritage brands, fashion houses, group shows,...
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...
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...
Touched With the Eyes: SensiTerre Surface Collection by Matteo Thun for Florim.The latest chapter in Florim and Matteo Thun's long collaboration, SensiTerre reimagines the world of clays as warm, tactile porcelain. Born from the tenth anniversary of the handcrafted Venere Bianca vases, it offers six earthy colours...
Design By Them Returned to Copenhagen With Five New Australian Collections.Twelve months after their Copenhagen debut, Design By Them was back at 3daysofdesign—and the encore was anything but a victory lap. The Sydney studio took over Dronningens Tværgade 19 with five new releases from a stellar cohort: Adam...
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...
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...
Ninety Years In, Bonaldo’s Latest Collection Asks What Furniture Can Do to a Room.Founded in 1936 as a small metalworking workshop in the Veneto, Bonaldo has spent nine decades building furniture that treats objects as active participants in shaping how a space feels and functions. Now in its ninetieth year under...
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...
