The Bonobo Trades Coastal Cliché for Brazilian Modernism Inside a Brutalist Byron Bay Shell.Raes' first proper step into the centre of Byron Bay comes with architecture by Richards & Spence and interiors from Manifold that skip the coastal clichés entirely, pulling from Brazilian modernism instead. Lachlan Cooper and Morgan Novy...
Jardan’s Collection Built Around Australian Summers, Long Lunches and Evenings That Linger.Jardan has turned its attention outdoors with Shoreline, a new collection built around Australian summers, long lunches and evenings that linger. The modular Cosmo Sofa handles scale, while the Cecil Sunlounger brings colour and...
Wildcoast by Studio Kennon Builds for Bass Strait’s Wind, Rain and Salt.Positioned at the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula, where the land meets Bass Strait, Wildcoast sits in a landscape with real intensity—unbroken wind off the Southern Ocean, driving rain, salt-thick air. Studio Kennon has let...
Billy Maynard Architects Balance Precision & Romance in a 1930s Elizabeth Bay Apartment.Billy Maynard Architects have reworked a compromised plan of a top floor 1930s Elizabeth Bay apartment with sanded stainless steel, spotted gum plywood, sand-cast brass and restored tallowwood floors, drawing northern light through a new...
Kit of Parts: Bassike Byron Bay by Akin Atelier.Akin Atelier has been shaping Bassike's retail identity for over a decade. The brand's new Byron Bay store shows what that kind of continuity actually buys...
A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.Is this outer space or red earth Australia? Familiar or futuristic? At Mecca Coffee Foley Street, Matt Woods has made a room that declines to define itself. Part Coober Pedy dugout, part moon landing, entirely cocooned beneath...
A Private Family Office in East Melbourne by Studio May.Most workplaces are built to perform—a client to impress, talent to attract, a brand to broadcast behind reception. A family office carries none of those obligations. Studio May's East Melbourne project sits closer to a private members'...
Motel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.Some hotels are designed to be photographed. The Whale has been designed for the slower business of sitting still. Opened this June in Narooma on the NSW far South Coast, the boutique hotel pulls the spirit of 1970s Ibiza up against the...
Oscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age.Oscar Bravo's proposition is disarmingly simple—a tailored shirt should be worn on a Saturday morning as readily as in an office. March Studio's 70-square-metre flagship dismantles almost everything the category has trained us to expect,...
