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The New Bahru lifestyle precinct is housed in a former high school built around a shaded lawn.

Singapore layover? Check out New Bahru

This well-designed collection of creative businesses – from food to wellness and retail – will easily account for a day.

  • Stephen Todd
One of artist Callum Morton’s ‘In Through the Out Door’ mosaics in an inner-Sydney laneway.

Good old tiles are making a comeback

Ugly public structures are being transformed with bold and intricately patterned mosaic works of art. The trend is in play in fashionable houses, too.

  • Stephen Todd
Cartier Love bracelet.

The stories behind the world’s top-selling jewellery

Symbols of luck and love, empowerment and experimentation, these pieces have endured across generations.

  • Hannah Tattersall

Homewares that last forever? How is that good business?

The CEO of one of Europe’s oldest companies says sustainability and recycling are the key to its vintage brands’ survival.

  • Glynis Traill-Nash

October

An atrium inside 1 Elizabeth, the new headquarters for Macquarie.

Macquarie’s new home is one to admire for its smarts

The investment banking and trading giant’s new office at 1 Elizabeth Street in Sydney brings building materials, and a metro station, to the fore.

  • Matthew Drummond
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Dragon Ball

Japan’s unlikely export success

The surging global popularity of anime has lifted the industry’s value to the likes of semiconductors or steel.

  • The Economist

Outback-inspired pieces set to go on show at Design Miami fair

Trent Jansen explores Australia’s cross-cultural history through his furniture collaborations with Indigenous artisans.

  • Stephen Todd
Denver & Liely marlo wine glass

An Australian’s revolutionary wine glass has floored French experts

It looks intriguing and glassware designer Denver Cramer says it can “age” its contents by four to five years.

  • Paul Best
Luca Guadagnino.

Hit films and now a hit hotel: The design genius of Luca Guadagnino

The director behind Challengers and Call Me By Your Name has a new movie, a new five-star hotel in Rome and a just-opened craft festival.

  • Maria Shollenbarger
Both the 31-year-old drop and the André Saraiva-designed box it comes in are collectibles.

A collector’s guide to unconventional art investments

Art is an entry point into different worlds, and the way we consume it is as varied as its many movements and styles.

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