Intimate, Exacting, Subversive: Studio Plenty Reimagines Fine Jewellery Retail for Lindelli.Studio Plenty's debut interior for Sydney fine jewellery brand Lindelli strips retail convention bare. Compressed into just 17 square metres, the design replaces the traditional glass vitrine with something closer to a private salon. A...
Studio Doherty’s VRG GRL Bondi Store Balances Elevated Energy with Accessibility.Studio Doherty's design for VRG GRL Bondi Beach knows exactly when to whisper and when to shout. Mostly, it whispers — and then drops the carpet. Boom! Rather than a typical linear retail layout, the interior is designed as a sequence of...
Studio Carson Kelly’s Little James Proves Constraint Can Be the Best Design Brief.Studio Carson Kelly's Little James treats constraint not as a problem to solve but as the condition that sharpens every move. A dog-legged stair integrates the laundry and eliminates redundant corridors. A floating stone slab serves as...
Structure Meets Spontaneity : Decus Transforms a Dover Heights Kit Home into a Party House.Perched atop the cliffs of Dover Heights in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Dancing on the Ceiling is a project that refuses to take itself too seriously—a former kit home overhauled by interior design studio Decus into a vivacious,...
Arent&Pyke’s Golden Light Proves That Great Colour Is Never Just Decoration.At the centre of this Sydney home by Arent&Pyke sits a chromatic palette of extraordinary depth—marigold, forest green, dusty mauve—that gives each room its own distinct emotional register. Working across both levels, the Sydney studio...
A Lounge-like Jewellery Concept Store Where Fine Pieces are Served Like Drinks.For this concept jewellery store in Manly, Coffeyhallett looked to the neighbourhood bar as a spatial model. It's retail that doesn't feel like retail. A central bar, rich two-tone joinery, vintage lighting, and jewellery presented through...
Sightline 2026: What Happened When We Asked the Design Industry to Be Honest With Itself.Across two sold-out sessions in Sydney and Melbourne, Sightline delivered a clear-eyed diagnosis of the forces flattening design culture—and mapped six territories where the most compelling work is pushing back. The response was unlike...
Old Bones, New Metal: Retallack Thompson Makes the Case for Galvanised Steel in Heritage Homes.What if the most appropriate material for a traditional terrace house isn’t the traditional one? That’s the central question behind Surry Hills renovation by Retallack Thompson that introduces galvanised steel—in plate and sectional...
A Restrained Interior With Plenty to Say: Homer Rogue Taverna by AP Design House.There's nothing more satisfying than a space that’s not overdesigned and generally doesn't try too hard. Homer Rogue Taverna gets this. Conceived by AP Design House for brothers Harry and Mario Kapoulas, this 100-seat Greek restaurant on...
