Academy Award winner, Catherine Martin, steps off the red carpet and into the living room.
August 25th, 2008
Catherine Martin is renowned in the film design world, winning two Oscars for her work on the 2001 film Moulin Rouge as well as a number of Australian Film Industry awards, BAFTAs and a Tony Award. However, Martin is now stepping away from the film set and into the living room, welcoming her new range of homewares.
The Australian Production and Costume Designer has collaborated with Porter’s Paints and Designer Rugs to produce the first installment of her eponymous homewares range.
Martin developed the range while researching for the Baz Lhurmann epic, Australia. Her investigation of flora and fauna for the film has had a significant and obvious influence on the ‘Australiana’ suite, giving it a ‘strong but feminine element and a uniquely Australian angle.’
“We are emerging from a time where everything has been neutral in colour and as the wheels of fashion turn, we are ready for pattern to bring a wonderful joyfulness into our lives,” Martin says.
“I wanted to invoke the transforming power of pattern, which can change the mundane into the extraordinary merely by its application,” she says.
Martin has created eight rugs with Designer Rugs and eight wallpapers and corresponding paints with Porter’s Paints, all available from September 2008.
Images: Geoff Sumner Photography
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
Marylou Cafaro’s first trendjournal sparked a powerful, decades-long movement in joinery designs and finishes which eventually saw Australian design develop its independence and characteristic style. Now, polytec offers all-new insights into the future of Australian design.
Suitable for applications ranging from schools and retail outlets to computer rooms and X-ray suites, Palettone comes in two varieties and a choice of more than fifty colours.
In the pursuit of an uplifting synergy between the inner world and the surrounding environment, internationally acclaimed Interior Architect and Designer Lorena Gaxiola transform the vibration of the auspicious number ‘8’ into mesmerising artistry alongside the Feltex design team, brought to you by GH Commercial.
Jaime Hayon continues to play with our expectations with his collection Showtime, now available at Living Edge.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
An outstanding line-up of participants will contribute to a beautifully curated exhibition in Thailand that delves deep into the collective thinking of architecture in our region and helps set a progressive agenda for the future of design.
Adaptive reuse is all the rage across the design industry, and rightly so. Here, we present a selection of articles on this most effective approach to sustainability.