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Ola Moszumanska is a creative writer who seeks to bring a sense of synesthetic poetry into the world of architecture and design. Inquisitive and perceptive by nature, Ola takes great joy in writing evocative stories about the industry’s most captivating projects, creators and products, while her affinity for visual arts gives her craft a vivid and emotive quality. Through her multidisciplinary practice spanning linguistics, journalism, marketing and communications, Ola has produced a wonderfully diverse range of stories for clients and publications across architecture, design and construction, as well as real estate and hospitality. When she’s not writing, Ola doubles as a photographer, working with a number of businesses on the South Coast of NSW.

Stories

Alex Bain on finding his anchor in Herman Miller’s Aeron Chair

Alex Bain on finding his anchor in Herman Miller’s Aeron Chair

In the last instalment of our three-part performance seating series, Alex Bain from Architectus explains why sitting well shouldn’t feel like sitting at all and explores an unexpected success metric of the hybrid workplace: the grounding power of emotional support.

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

In the second instalment of our performance seating three-parter, we turn to DKO’s Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen to peek behind Sayl’s confident architectural form and explore the ideas of inclusivity, adaptability and freedom to move as hallmarks of what sitting your best actually means.

A collective vision: The whimsical workplace with Intuit, COX and MillerKnoll

A collective vision: The whimsical workplace with Intuit, COX and MillerKnoll

Stepping into Intuit’s Sydney workplace certainly doesn’t feel like walking into an office. Why? In this film, we discover that, when joy takes precedence as a design driver, even a high-performing commercial CBD headquarters can feel like an intuitive wonderland that invites employees to choose their own adventure.

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

In the first instalment of our three-part series exploring what it means to sit your best, we pose the question to Gray Puksand’s Dale O’Brien, who discusses the importance of ease and majority rule when it comes to sitting and reveals why specifying a task chair is not unlike choosing a Volvo.

Degrees of separation: Exploring the common ground of 31 Degrees Design’s new releases

Degrees of separation: Exploring the common ground of 31 Degrees Design’s new releases

Designed for two distinct contemporary planes, DuO Too and CoALL find common ground in their purposeful, considered articulations, profoundly rooted in the dynamics between humans and the spaces they interact with.

Raw softness: Cruda by Greg Natale and Designer Rugs

Raw softness: Cruda by Greg Natale and Designer Rugs

In the latest collaboration between Designer Rugs and Greg Natale, the raw rigour of modernist geometries finds its most comforting articulation in the inherent softness of floor coverings.

Anything but standard: Kaya reimagines izakaya through organic modernity

Anything but standard: Kaya reimagines izakaya through organic modernity

Grounded by the rich warmth of American white oak, The Standard’s newly opened restaurant, Kaya, redefines the classic dining convention through a tasteful fusion of biophilic design, mid-century modern sensibility and elevated whimsy.

Conversations shape design, connection transforms the world: MillerKnoll leads the collective dialogue

Conversations shape design, connection transforms the world: MillerKnoll leads the collective dialogue

MillerKnoll reimagines the convention of dinner table interactions by plating up a future-forward menu of sustainable design conversation starters as part of the inspiring “Conversations for a Better World” event series.

Liberating efficiency, effortless cooking: Bosch’s Series 8 Ovens

Liberating efficiency, effortless cooking: Bosch’s Series 8 Ovens

With its new Series 8 Ovens, Bosch leverages the intuitive appeal of quiet efficiency to address the most pressing challenge of a modern home chef: making healthy cooking not only delicious but quick, effortless and inspired.

Inside MillerKnoll’s Archives: Where decades fuse, design unites, and legacy unfolds

Inside MillerKnoll’s Archives: Where decades fuse, design unites, and legacy unfolds

The undeniable thread connecting Herman Miller and Knoll’s design legacies across the decades now finds its profound physical embodiment at MillerKnoll’s new Design Yard Archives.

Palpable paradise, found: The Tappeti Elysium Rug Collection

Palpable paradise, found: The Tappeti Elysium Rug Collection

In this mesmerising collection of hand-tufted rugs and carpets, Tappeti masterfully articulates the ephemeral feeling of inner bliss through a woven cartography of bespoke landscapes that unfurl into an idyllic underfoot paradise.

The mould everyone fits: 75 years of the Eames Shell Chair

The mould everyone fits: 75 years of the Eames Shell Chair

For three-quarters of a century, the iconic Eames Shell Chair has redefined the very act of sitting with its groundbreaking form, proving that, rather than restrict, the right mould can embrace every space, need and individual aspiration.

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