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...
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...
Art That Absorbs Sound: Ben Goss’ Acoustic Collection for Woven Image.There's a built-in tension in printing art onto an acoustic panel. The panel wants to recede; the artwork wants the opposite. Woven Image's new collection with Australian artist Ben Goss doesn't pretend that tension away. It begins with an...
Elton Group Launches the Think Good Micro-Grant, Backing the Ideas Behind Responsible Design.Design tends to get celebrated at the finish line, but the work that moves the industry forward happens long before that. Elton Group's new annual grant supports architects, interior designers, furniture designers, makers and students...
Studio Loho’s JonojĂ© is Strange, Sculptural & Impossible to Forget.Is it beautiful? Is it ugly? JonojĂ© refuses to settle the question — and that's what makes it so compelling. Studio Loho's new Bruges B&B runs on a push-pull between the simple and the sculptural: moments of quiet respite, then a hard...
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...
Order Matter Architects Turn a Tiny Seoul Showroom Into an Urban Archive for Stone.The ST01 flagship in Seoul reframes how architectural stone is experienced in a retail setting. Rather than displaying samples under artificial light, Order Matter Architects drew inspiration from museum storage systems—suspending...
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...
