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...
Double’s Washable Natural Jute Rug Collection Rewrites the Rules.Jute is one of those materials interior designers reach for instinctively, but traditional jute rugs have always been notoriously precious to live with. Australian brand Double has cracked the code with its new Washable Natural Jute...
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,...
Streifen’s Sentimental Pull: A Tender Exhibition About the Objects We Can’t Let Go Of.Melbourne studio Streifen has never been interested in design for design's sake. Founded by Madeleine Murdoch and Frances Normoyle, the practice begins with feeling—and Sentimental Pull, their March exhibition was perhaps the clearest...
Dion Hall Strips the Coffee Ritual Back to Its Purest Form at Standing Room Coffee Carlton.Standing Room Coffee strips the ritual back to its purest form—no seats, no distractions, just coffee. The compact fitout by Dion Hall is anchored by sculptural timber poles, rotational shelves and a warm material palette drawn from...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
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...
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...
