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Inside CDK Stone’s Selection Centre: a calm, curated way to choose stone
CDK Stone’s Natasha Stengos takes us through its Alexandria Selection Centre, where stone choice becomes a sensory experience – from curated spaces, crafted details and a colour-organised selection floor.
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A stone centrepiece – CDK Stone’s Selection Centre is a hub for designers
CDK Stone’s new Selection Centre is crafted specifically for the design community, providing a dedicated space for architects, designers and specifiers to explore, collaborate, and take clients on an immersive journey through premium natural stone.
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A New Generation in Surfacing: How to Specify Sustainable Sintered Surfaces
In this whitepaper, we take a closer look at sintered stone and its various aesthetic and performance attributes.
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Joint forces: The collabs and latest releases as seen at Saturday Indesign
Collaboration is perhaps one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s and supplier’s arsenal. And where better to release the full power of collaborative creative vision than Saturday in Design? Here we revisit 10 top collaborations from this year’s event.
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The lowdown on Richmond at Saturday Indesign
Get all the ins and outs for this super busy area of Saturday Indesign – from Church Street down to the Burnley end, there are plenty of design sights and sounds to take in. We explore them all.
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Get ready! Announcing our first exhibitors for Saturday Indesign
We are pumped to announce our first group of exhibitors (with more to come) for Saturday Indesign.
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Habitus House of the Year People’s Choice splashes onto Channel 7
The inaugural Habitus House of the Year 2018 was a great success, breaking new ground with an editors’ pick of the best homes from across the region. And now those stunning homes are making their way onto Channel 7 across Australia, debuting on air Sunday 3 March.
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Chin Chin
“We connect with the Chin Chin customer through materiality. You would expect to see the chipboard substrate cladding in a twenty-something’s apartment. It’s raw and youthful and in that sense makes a relationship with the Chin Chin majority diner” says George Livissianis.
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Takeaways from EuroBagno to elevate hotel bathroom design
From tiles and surface innovations to creating an integrated bathroom, here is some of the latest from EuroBagno at this year’s Salone del Mobile Milan.
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Collins Square Events Centre by Carr Design Group
Carr Design Group combines corporate, residential and hospitality design principles for a diverse and flexible function space at the Collins Square Events Centre. Have they created the ultimate new design typology for next-gen hospitality? We think yes…
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Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas by Mim Design
What defines the luxury resort of 2017? As the goalposts of modern travel continue to shift, Mim Design offers up a vision of post-millenium luxe with the news Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas. Welcome to resort living 2.0. Determined to balance the exoticism of 1980s glamour with time-honoured contemporary design, Mim Design lobbied for elements of the original hotel to be preserved and even reinstated.
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SID17: How We Learned To Live Better At LiveLife
We talked the talk at Sydney Indesign this year and boy did we walk the walk. This years’ Habitus, Design Hunter® Seminar Series was a succession of poignant discussions between well-researched and highly informed industry grandees. Here’s what you may have missed.
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SID17: What Did We Learn At WorkLife?
At this year’s CPD-Accredited WorkLife series sponsored by Flokk, we tackled some of the design industry’s most poignant and controversial topics. Here’s what we took away…
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2017 Was The Year Of The INDE.Awards : Share Our Journey
This year, the inaugural INDE.Awards celebrated the story of design in our region.
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Part #3: The After Party At The INDE.Awards Gala Night
The official INDE.Awards Gala night was capped off by an epic after party – one that hosted over 500 of the Asia Pacific’s design community, truly representing the unity of our industry across all countries across South-East Asia.
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Part #2: The Official Ceremony At The INDE.Awards Gala Night
The inaugural INDE.Awards ceremony was a wonderful celebration of our regions greatest design talent, only possible through the support of the official jury, entrants and event partners and sponsors.
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Throwaway Culture & The Appeal of the New : The Case For The Future-Proofed Object
Neolith, the Official Partner for the Object INDE.Award, teaches us a lesson or two about the importance of forward-thinking design to battle throwaway culture.
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Deloitte Perth, by Geyer
How does the world’s most influential auditing firm self-audit? Designed by Geyer, the new Deloitte Head Quarters in Perth is a stellar case study for self-analysis and designing for the (sometimes opposing) needs of many in a single space.
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Staple Cafe St Kilda by Samantha Eades
Charming and cute, we outline all the FF&E specified in Samantha Eades’ Staple Cafe in St Kilda.
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The Truth Behind Stain and Scratch Resistant Technology
So, what’s the deal with achieving stain and scratch resistant surfaces for the home? Trust me, there’s more to it than you might imagine!