Today
Architects are turning to the past to design the buildings of the future
The marriage of craft and technology is upending building conventions in intriguing ways.
Is this going to revolutionise the Friday night takeaway?
Industrial designer Charles Wilson is on a mission to change how we consume restaurant meals at home.
This Month
When contemporary design and millennia-old ice sheets collide
Designer Brodie Neill has found inspiration on the front lines of the climate crisis – the iceberg strewn waters of Antarctica.
The luxury packaging founder on a mission to change the world
Robert Lockyer risked it all to start his own eco-minded packaging brand – now he’s working with the world’s top fashion houses.
May
Australia’s architectural titan takes Venice by storm
The late Harry Seidler’s wife, Penelope, reflects on his contribution to the built environment at a major retrospective.
Meet the Melbourne-based master of lighting design
Lighting maestro Volker Haug is celebrating two decades of business with an exhibition as part of Melbourne Design Week.
When modern furniture meets medieval armour-making
Australian designer Ella Saddington’s new collection employs the smithing processes used in historical warfare to create glam lamps and tables.
Forget flowers – how about a bouquet of mushrooms?
The textures, colours and shapes of fungi are being used for mycelium arrangements – that can be dished up for dinner later.
April
An icon of mid-century design is back in business
The furniture of acclaimed Australian designer and artist Clement Meadmore has gone back into production, thanks to the efforts of his son and granddaughter.
March
The designer reinventing bourgeois-chic interiors in Europe
In his latest hospitality foray, Paris-based, Milan-born Fabrizio Casiraghi has lent his restrained but opulent aesthetic to a new members’ club in Milan.
February
One couple’s decades-long devotion to Australian art has a new home
The Eva and Marc Besen Centre is a state-of-the-art gallery and storage space where back-of-house and front-of-house are one and the same.
When nature and design converge
It’s not just our iconic buildings that take their cues from nature.
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January
The architect inspired by shearing sheds and tents
Mudgee-based Cameron Anderson honours the beauty of humble rural structures and rustic materials in his designs.
How design studio Festen is redefining Parisian elegance
Interior power duo Charlotte de Tonnac and Hugo Sauzay are shaping the look and feel of the city’s hotels
This star British gardener has big plans for Melbourne
Horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett is about to embark on his first project outside Britain – the Laak Boorndap garden in the new Melbourne Arts Precinct.
Meet Japan’s original decluttering guru (no, not that one)
Hideko Yamashita pushes her clients to examine what overabundance and obsession do to their emotional states.
December 2024
Stuck for ideas? Two top Australian designers share their wish lists
You’re bound to be inspired once you read what designer Blainey North and architect William Smart have chosen.
Inside Melbourne’s latest luxury hotel
This CBD new-build is avowedly local, and intrinsically sophisticated. The essence of Victoria’s capital, really.
Hip industrial designer Henry Wilson has a brilliant new store
One of Australia’s most esteemed creatives now has a shopfront for his instantly recognisable pieces.
These award-winning restaurants and bars are designed to take you away
At the recent Eat Drink Design awards, judges noted a refreshing shift towards “otherworldly design” in hospitality venues.
November 2024
In Pictures: The restoration of a 10th-century chapel in Provence
Photographer Alex Roxburgh Reyto spent a weekend with an Australian family who have restored a 400 year old chapel in Saignon, a tiny hilltop town in Provence.
The 70s furniture trend making an unlikely (but welcome) comeback
This humble yet sustainable material is getting a high-end makeover.
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.
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.
The stories behind the world’s top-selling jewellery
Symbols of luck and love, empowerment and experimentation, these pieces have endured across generations.