September
Why you should take a closer look at this Australian sculptor’s work
Morgan Shimeld’s angular bronze shapes appear brutalist, at first sight. Study them awhile, however, and you’ll see something quite different.
- Stephen Todd
Enough plastic. It’s fungi and algae for designs of the future
An Italian exhibition in Melbourne and creatives at Sydney Design Week explore the myriad ways designers will create lovely objects after the climate apocalypse.
- Stephen Todd
Manhattan’s private clubs thrive in a new Gilded Age
The pandemic is now past, but clubs seem to suit the newly flexible, remote-working world it left behind.
- Joshua Chaffin
‘We can build anything’: Microphone mogul donates $1m to design
Peter Freedman, Rich Lister and founder of audio equipment giant Rode, hopes his gift will help business design and build things locally and reignite “Factory Australia”.
- Patrick Durkin
August
‘Considered living’ is the new order in Melbourne’s Armadale
Jewellery and optical designer Şener Besim has teamed with Fitzroy’s Oigall Projects to create a boutique of edgy elegance.
- Stephen Todd
Why this sought-after Scandi design piece just got even more desirable
It used to be that the most natural parts of a tree never made the final cut when creating the Stool 60. But a new incarnation has changed that.
- Stephen Todd
- Exclusive
- Property development
Nightingale building gets $517,000 ‘social value’ boost
If a building makes residents feel safer, cuts out noise and increases social interaction, it’s better to live in – and worth more.
- Michael Bleby
July
Alessi reimagined corkscrews and kettles. Now it’s turning to chairs
Alberto Alessi lifts the lid on the storied design company’s move into furniture, its “most beautiful fiasco” and his unpublished murder mystery.
- Luke Slattery
Inside a modernist marvel - Barbie’s Dreamhouse
The new film about the children’s doll has a strong mid-century design aesthetic, but Barbie has lived in a variety of Dreamhouse styles.
- Michael Bleby
June
Let there be light: Mud Australia adds glow to its home decor range
From its staple of “desirable tableware”, the brand has evolved to offer a broad homewares collection, now including handmade porcelain lamps.
- Stephen Todd
May
‘Star of the everyday’ architect wins prestigious award
Kerstin Thompson, who aims to show her practice can tackle anything, is pleased. “But it’s a stark indication of how much we still have to do to attain equity.”
- Stephen Todd
Why the world has fallen for this Sydney-based homewares designer
Joie de vivre permeates the life of Maison Balzac founder Elise Pioch, an attitude that has won her a global presence and proves you can buy happiness.
- Eugenie Kelly
Architects nail time and place with Taipei arts centre’s ‘tolerance of the imperfect’
The geometric shapes conceived by OMA’s Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten are both a feast for the eye and in sync with their surrounds.
- Stephen Todd
- Exclusive
- Life & Leisure
Pritzker laureate Tadao Ando reveals his first Australian project
The Japanese architect, 82, says his MPavilion, to open in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens in November, “frames, mirrors and invites nature in”.
- Stephen Todd
How the kookaburra is hitting the design heights
A series of bold wall hangings titled “Native Deities” signals a new era for the flora-focused textiles brand Utopia Goods.
- Stephen Todd
April
This reimagined Porsche is yours for $1.2m-plus, excluding the car
Motorhead musician Rob Dickinson shows off the “restomod” 911 Turbo Study Down Under. He’s attracted 20 orders in Australasia already.
- Tony Davis
Book a table, escape the everyday
It seems we all want to be transported to more carefree times and places – diners, the hospitality industry and interior designers too.
- Paul Best
Your entrée to the impenetrable world of Kyoto
A tiny studio with a big ambition, POJ heroes lesser-known craftspeople whose work was in danger of disappearing – in its store and in its unique accommodation offerings.
- Stephen Todd
March
From the humblest to the unique, vessels reveal much about us
Melbourne-based ceramicist Zhu Ohmu is among 15 artists, craftspeople and designers in a first-time collaboration between the National Gallery of Victoria and Craft Victoria.
- Paul Best
How a mosaic floor in Paris inspired this businesswoman in Byron Bay
Danielle McEwan is the owner and creative director of Tigmi Trading, which specialises in exotic rugs and artefacts.
- Eugenie Kelly
