One Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali.Jia Curated is hard to describe, which is the first good sign. Not a fair, not a festival—250-odd brands, five days, a talks programme and a beach in Sanur. Dana Tomić Hughes went to Bali for the fifth edition, and came home convinced...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Madrid Exhibition Transforms Museo de San Isidro Into a Living Room for Design.What will the archaeologists of the future make of the objects we surround ourselves with today? That was the premise behind Domus Nova at Madrid Design Festival 2026, where 44 pieces by 33 designers occupied the Renaissance patio of the...
Obery: A New Trade Atelier for Designers Focused on Craft, Material and Detail.Obery is making its Australian debut with a new trade showroom in Melbourne's Cremorne. Representing The Rug Company, Artemest and an exclusive sculptural ceramic tiles collection by Studio Lucy McMillan, the space promises an...
Francesca Anfossi’s Ceramic Lamps Bring a Painter’s Eye to Lighting Design.London artist Francesca Anfossi has unveiled three ceramic lamps that blur the line between sculpture and functional lighting. The series pairs ceramic with handblown glass, shaped by Anfossi's training as a painter and her Italian craft...
