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Tess Ritchie
Articles
Grounded Luxury: The role of rugs in hotel design
The modern hotel experience is not what it used to be. Design, ergonomics and lived experiences inform all aspects of hotels, with everything from check-in to the pillows you sleep on driving a human-centric model of hospitality. With the help of Designer Rugs, we find out more.
Articles
Modern solutions for a dynamic workplace
For over half a century, Accent Furniture has constantly transformed the everyday workplace into a space of comfort, versatility and purpose.
People
James Calder and ERA-co: Advancing humanity through place
Renowned workplace strategist James Calder is the Global Director of recently-launched consultancy ERA-co and part of the team putting people at the centre of our future workplaces and cities.
News
Who Is Collaborating @ SID17?
For almost a decade, The Project has been an integral part of Indesign: The Event – and it’s coming back this year to showcase the air of our industry’s top creatives at Sydney Indesign. By transforming our showrooms into interactive and immersive spaces, they will provide snapshot moments of laughter, wonder and surprise.
Ideas
Top three things you need to know about Zenith Interiors
For an Australian company that has been around since the early 1950s, you’d think you’d know all there is to know about them. But here’s three things you might be surprised to learn what the Zenith brand is all about…
Furniture
WHO IS WALTER KNOLL, AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Now at the ripe, bold age of 150, Walter Knoll is one of few design houses left who really understand what true design really is. And here’s why…
People
The Godfather of design… Giulio Cappellini.
Famed Milanese architect, Giulio Cappellini has been defining the industry since 1979 with an energetic spirit and refreshing goals. Through the years his work transformed into that of a designer’s, offering a personal approach to contemporary design. He has successfully established both his brand and his name and has worked as the art director for other key design brands. His most important project, the “company”, transformed Cappellini into one of the biggest trend-setters worldwide. His lectures at the Milan Architecture University always generate great interest around the world. Giulio Cappellini remains as the art director of the Italian design firm Cappellini based in Milan, which since 2004 has been part of the larger Poltrona Frau Group design family.
Furniture
Lars Beller Fjetland: “HUMANS BENEFIT FROM ORGANIC MATERIALS”
Touchwood, designed by Hem’s Lars Beller Fjetland, is a beautifully realised wooden stacking chair, crafted to connect us with natural materials.
Furniture
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP MEETS AVANT-GARDE TECHNOLOGY?
Fast S.p.A. demonstrates the unique blend between past and future in design
Fixed & Fitted
SPACE RECALIBRATED
As part of its 2015 Hong Kong Indesign exhibition, Woven Image launched SCALE: A radical partition solution that’s set to become a modern icon, thanks to its out-of-box approach to space and original design.
Furniture
IS BEING ‘ANTI-TREND’ ON TREND?
Danish design house, Normann Copenhagen is making and breaking all the rules.
People
5 MINS WITH… GAVIN HARRIS
Interior and product designer, Gavin Harris, shares his experience as a Woven Image Imagination Partner.
Finishes
BRINGING HOME INTO WORK
Commercial spaces are softening, but the line between residential and commercial is a very fine one. As part of their 2015 Spring release, Woven Image launches EchoPanel Hammock: A soft and dreamy element to a structured setting.
Finishes
MAKING TREND ACCESSIBLE
As part of their 2015 Spring release, Woven Image welcomes the addition of three new wallcoverings to their EchoPanel Mura collection, offering sustainable, budget-savvy alternatives to current trends in interior architecture.
Finishes
TRENDING TEXTILES JUST GOT SCIENTIFIC
Design chemists, Woven Image, introduce their 2015 Spring release, High Performance Upholstery: Park & Play. Bringing fashion and trend to function-based industries with the ultimate blend of science and design.
Fixed & Fitted
EASY AS ABC
Over 10 billion more combinations with Alphabeta. What will you design?
Furniture
MADE IN ITALY
Italian-based Mattiazzi is putting bespoke back into our industry.
Videos
THE MAKING OF 2TEC2
The 2TEC2 manufacturing story is the beautiful combination of technology and the bespoke traditions of weaving.
Finishes
FLOORING IS THE NEW FASHION
Belgian designers Limited Edition are challenging the idea of carpets as a project afterthought by crafting floors into fashion statements.
Ideas
IS SITTING ‘REALLY’ THE NEW SMOKING?
Commercial design house Wilkhahn, scientifically investigates why sitting alone might not entirely be the new smoking, and continue their 75-year long mission to design solutions for the human condition.