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...
Young French Duo Explore Spatial Memory Through Textiles in Design Parade Installation.Visual artist Lisa Bravi and scenographic designer Romain Joly return to Design Parade Toulon with their most ambitious project yet. "État des lieux" transforms the former bishop's palace through a collaboration with Chanel's Métiers...
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,...
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...
Quality Over Impulse: Why the Space Sale Deserves a Visit.Serious design lovers exercise a particular kind of restraint all year — passing on the impulse buys, holding out for the right piece, waiting until the stars align on quality, availability, and price. If that sounds familiar, the Space...
Double’s Washable Natural Jute Rug Collection Rewrites the Rules.Jute is one of those materials interior designers reach for instinctively, but traditional jute rugs have always been notoriously precious to live with. Australian brand Double has cracked the code with its new Washable Natural Jute...
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 the Tile Pop-Up Where Architecture Makes You Feel the Material.A retail pop-up for tile and surface brand in New Delhi, this booth reimagines the exhibition format as a spatial installation—choreographing visitor movement through angled portals, curved mosaic walls, and a lenticular art niche where...
Vintage Bed Linen and Raw Metal Collide in Radical Romance Lighting Collection.Radical Romance is a limited-edition collection of three handmade lighting pieces that draws on patchwork traditions, pairing handcrafted metal bodies with patina, scratches and traces of making with lampshades composed of vintage Austrian...
Streifen’s Sentimental Pull: A Tender Exhibition About the Objects We Can’t Let Go Of.Melbourne studio Streifen has never been interested in design for design's sake. Founded by Madeleine Murdoch and Frances Normoyle, the practice begins with feeling—and Sentimental Pull, their March exhibition was perhaps the clearest...
Armadillo’s Linea Collection Reimagines the Language of Pattern.From the warm hand-knotted depth of Allegra and the timeworn elegance of Adagio, to the architectural linen restraint of the new flat-weave Latitude—Armadillo's Linea collection brings quiet authority to the contemporary interior. Six...
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...
An Heirloom on Wheels: David/Nicolas Turn a 90s Porsche 964 Targa into “Shaha”.Founder of Porsche Centre Lebanon acquired a 1990 Porsche 964 Targa with one intention: to gift it to his daughter Shaha, a practising architect with a strong eye for craft and materials. What followed was an eight-year collaboration with...
