Essastone Launch

On Friday 28 May The Laminex Group celebrated the launch of the new essastone range, the pinnacle of engineered stone. Hosting 255 guests,
the event was held at Carousel, Albert Park Lake in Melbourne. Entertainment included a three-piece Jazz band and a speed painter painting famous icons for guests to keep.

Filtration Fields

An exhibition as interested in you as you in it, Filtration Fields responds to the daily movement of people in the UTS Design, Architecture and Building Courtyard.

Two smart-skin surfaces made of laser-cut Perspex and robotically controlled by servo motors and sensors, will line up either side of university traffic creating a hyperspace of live particle-flow patterns.

Filtration Fields draws on PHD research conducted by Architecture academics Joanne Jakovch and Jason McDermott as well as design led research taught in the Master of Architecture Design studio Computational Environments.

You can see it and be seen by it, between April 30 – May 22 at the DAB LAB research gallery located on the Level 4 Courtyard, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo.

SAM – art, architecture, people and place

As a precursor to a more in-depth article in the next issue of Indesign, Jan Henderson ventured to Shepparton to discover SAM and enjoyed every moment.

Mayze by Jonathan Prestwich

The new soft seating by Jonathan Prestwich uses the beauty of overlapping transparencies to create a range that is stylish and intimate

Perth origins: Artedomus’ new showroom is open

Artedomus has opened a new showroom in Perth, marking a return to the city where the company was founded in 1982.

An untethered design for a fluid workplace: Joel Sampson discusses the Bay Work Pod

How can design empower the individual in a workplace transforming from a place to an activity? Here, Design Director Joel Sampson reveals how prioritising human needs – including agency, privacy, pause and connection – and leveraging responsive spatial solutions like the Herman Miller Bay Work Pod is key to crafting engaging and radically inclusive hybrid environments.

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.

#PedraliShiftingPerspectives – Salone del Mobile 2025

In this edition of The Edit, take a closer look at Pedrali’s 36th showing at Salone, where spatial choreography, and new ideas in form, function and material come into view.