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From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale

Australian curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin has been in attendance at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and reports back on some of the highlights.
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The layout at Camo is a canvas for interaction

This fine-dining restaurant by Studio Dashline comprises a fluid layout that improves social interaction and the overall dining experience.
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F3 Studio “delve into the needs and wants of each client”

F3 Studio is making its mark on residential design, creating spaces and places that are client specific to transcend the every day.
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A history of Saturday Indesign: More than two decades of bringing designers and showrooms together

Saturday Indesign is one of the standout fixtures on the Asia-Pacific design calendar – but how exactly did it start, and when did it become so big?

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From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale

Australian curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin has been in attendance at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and reports back on some of the highlights.

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A design finesse

As a Luminary this year, Joyce Wang is the epitome of someone who leads by example and creates her own pathway of design.

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A cultural canvas, turned hospitality precinct

Terrai by Sona Reddy Studio translates the cultural identity of Telangana into a dining experience through regional materials, craftsmanship and contemporary design.

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There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail

Mountain Soil reimagines retail as an immersive, context-driven experience.

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The layout at Camo is a canvas for interaction

This fine-dining restaurant by Studio Dashline comprises a fluid layout that improves social interaction and the overall dining experience.

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F3 Studio “delve into the needs and wants of each client”

F3 Studio is making its mark on residential design, creating spaces and places that are client specific to transcend the every day.

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Powerful presence, silent service: Gaggenau’s Dishwasher 400 Series

In design, the concept of absence is particularly powerful – it’s the abundant potential of deliberate non-presence that amplifies the impact of what is. And it is this realm of sophisticated subtraction that Gaggenau’s Dishwasher 400 Series so generously – and quietly – occupies.

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Cooking from the heart, designing with precision: Chef James Won and Gaggenau’s culinary partnership

To honour Chef James Won’s appointment as Gaggenau’s first Malaysian Culinary Partner, we asked the gastronomic luminaire about parallels between Gaggenau’s ethos and his own practice, his multidimensional vision of Modern Malaysian – and how his early experiences of KFC’s accessible, bold flavours influenced his concept of fine dining.

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This new range of premium switches and sockets are slim, sleek, and sophisticated

Schneider Electric’s new range are making bulky outlets a thing of the past with the new UNICA X collection.

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Small spaces, big flavours: Gaggenau’s culinary drawer enriches compact living

Within the intimate confines of compact living, where space is at a premium, efficiency is critical and dining out often trumps home cooking, Gaggenau’s 400 Series Culinary Drawer proves that limited space can, in fact, unlock unlimited culinary possibilities.

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AHEC spotlights underused American hardwoods at Clerkenwell Design Week 2024

The debut of ‘in-between’ furniture system created by Foster + Partners Industrial Design x Benchmark and Kingston University student creations give underused hardwoods a fresh perspective.

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When activism and creativity combine for a better future

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The case for design freedom in bathroom spaces

The most important things for great bathroom design are those you can’t see.

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Inside Hafary House: A new shopping destination for materials and design ideas

Designed by FARM, the newly opened Hafary House prioritises customer engagement through an immersive and sensory shopping experience. Here’s what you can expect.

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From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale

Australian curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin has been in attendance at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and reports back on some of the highlights.

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A history of Saturday Indesign: More than two decades of bringing designers and showrooms together

Saturday Indesign is one of the standout fixtures on the Asia-Pacific design calendar – but how exactly did it start, and when did it become so big?

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Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week

What a week! With so many events still to come, Jan Henderson gives us a taste of what the 2025 edition has been like so far.

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Saturday Indesign is one of the standout fixtures on the Asia-Pacific design calendar – but how exactly did it start, and when did it become so big?

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Statement stone: At home with Quartzite’s unimposing opulence

Emerging from millennia of geological force, each exquisite slab tells a singular narrative etched by time and tectonic power. And this luxurious dwelling serves as a masterful recontextualisation of this enduring beauty, highlighting the extraordinary aesthetic and uncompromising strength as the ultimate expressions of residential grandeur.

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An extraordinary architect: John Wardle named as a 2025 INDE.Awards Luminary

His name is revered and his work acclaimed, and John Wardle continues to make his presence felt on the built landscape of Australia like no other.

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Knoll’s material world: A legacy of excellence, a future of innovation

From the industry-defining impact of the humble fabric swatch to the resonant statement on relevance and innovation at this year’s Salone del Mobile, Knoll’s material excellence continues to shape the world of design. Here, we explore this extraordinary legacy and look at how it informs the brand’s contemporary expression and the future of design.

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Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week

What a week! With so many events still to come, Jan Henderson gives us a taste of what the 2025 edition has been like so far.

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Technology, AI and more with Gensler’s Robbie Robertson

The Asia Pacific and Middle East regional leader for Gensler’s Digital Experience Design (DXD) practice discusses technology, AI, Scotland and the meaning of human-centred design in this episode of Stories Indesign.

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UNSW housing analytics lab launches in Sydney

A new analytics lab led by UNSW researchers will draw on generative AI in an attempt to tackle Australia’s housing crisis, and has opened with an event attended by the NSW Premier in Eveleigh.

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The material and the maker: How the Indo Pacific’s best designers are using timber

What happens when the Southern Hemisphere’s best design talents meet the Northern Hemisphere’s best timbers?

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A stroll with Ross Gardam in his Milan exhibition

Ross Gardam’s installation, LUMINESCENT DUALITY, was a Milan 2025 standout. We took a tour of the space with the Australian designer to gain some deeper insights into the pieces on show.

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A luxury hotel refitted for contemporary use

Sofitel Sydney Wentworth gets a facelift, under the deft hand of FK.

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A new chapter: Buchan’s vision for community-centric design at Biyal-a Library

Buchan has rewritten the rules on how to design a library, overhauling the traditional interiors and meagre façade, with their iteration of the Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library.

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Volker Haug awarded Melbourne Design Week Prize

The announcement of Volker Haug as this year’s recipient of the Melbourne Design Week Prize starts the event on a high note.

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The cultural value of craft: How craft communities strengthen regional identity

As a UNESCO Creative City of Craft and Folk Art, Ballarat is hosting Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway this month. Nicole Durling, Executive Director at Craft Victoria, tells us more.

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Hints of New York in Hammond Studio’s Sydney office renewal

Global e-commerce tech company ROKT has a revitalised, art-filled workplace in Sydney thanks to Hammond Studio’s reuse-focused design.

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Riverside restaurant history in Singapore

Dinding Design Office has crafted Jiak Kim House, an Asian restaurant rich with layers of history set on the banks of the Singapore River.

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Small arm, big impact: Meet the unsung hero of ergonomic workspaces

Winner of the 2025 RedDot Design Awards, the newly relaunched Flo monitor arm by Colebrook Bosson Saunders (CBS) brings refined ergonomics and effortless movement to the forefront of modern workspaces – proving that comfort and performance start at the desk.

From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale

A cultural canvas, turned hospitality precinct

There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail

The layout at Camo is a canvas for interaction

F3 Studio “delve into the needs and wants of each client”

A history of Saturday Indesign: More than two decades of bringing designers and showrooms together

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From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale

A design finesse

A cultural canvas, turned hospitality precinct

There is NO SUCH THING as ordinary retail

The layout at Camo is a canvas for interaction

F3 Studio “delve into the needs and wants of each client”

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Powerful presence, silent service: Gaggenau’s Dishwasher 400 Series

Cooking from the heart, designing with precision: Chef James Won and Gaggenau’s culinary partnership

This new range of premium switches and sockets are slim, sleek, and sophisticated

Small spaces, big flavours: Gaggenau’s culinary drawer enriches compact living

AHEC spotlights underused American hardwoods at Clerkenwell Design Week 2024

When activism and creativity combine for a better future

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Inside Hafary House: A new shopping destination for materials and design ideas

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