No Design Week? No Worries. Hōlus-bōlus Blurs Art and Design in a Sydney Loft.Sydney still has no dedicated citywide design week, so during Sydney Contemporary, curators Emma Elizabeth and Cassandra Bird took design somewhere else entirely. Hōlus-bōlus brought contemporary art, collectible design, furniture,...
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...
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...
NAU Makes a European Debut at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen.NAU's European debut showcased the best of contemporary Australian design with Tom Fereday's elegant Cove collection and hand-cast Nola lights. The curated exhibition at Galerie Mikael Andersen featured established pieces by Adam Goodrum,...
Hecker Guthrie’s Triumphant Return at The StandardX Melbourne.Set to bring a new level of cool to Fitzroy's already impressive scene, The StandardX debut is anything but standard. This 125-room hotel embodies The Standard's rebellious spirit while celebrating local design. From its dramatic Corten...
From Unique Objects to Thought-provoking Ideas: Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2023.Melbourne Design Week 2023 is over for another year but not without igniting curiosity, discovery and pride in our Australian design community. With the event’s enduring theme ‘Design The World You Want’ feeling increasingly more...
Curves and Quartzite: Gildas Surry Hills by Atoma Design.Atoma Design has unveiled Gildas, a light and feminine restaurant & bar in Sydney’s Surry Hills for Firedoor chef Lennox Hastie. Inspired by Rita Hayworth’s character in the 1946 film noir of the same name, the studio utilised strong...
Australian Designers & Artists Transform Broken Design Objects Into Future Heirlooms.In Transformative Repair, leading Australian designers transform the broken design objects of celebrated creatives and climate change activists into future heirlooms. This important initiative aims to generate discussion around the...
Dream Weaver: A Spanish-style Casita in Darlinghurst by YSG Studio.Perhaps it was the pandemic-induced isolation, or their newly minted status as empty nesters, but when one Sydney couple acquired a penthouse overlooking Rushcutters Bay, they were mainly enthusiastic about one thing—dialling up the...
