Iconic Australian designer Grant Featherston has kicked off a new era of furniture designs, unveiling a new range at the gala launch of Featherston 2016.
The Featherston 2016 collection has been revised and relaunched for the 21st century at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne. This marks the first time that the ACCA central gallery has hosted a new product launch, showcasing the significance of Grant Featherston’s place in Australian design history.
While all the designs are still true to the original 1950s, 60s and 70s creations, the Featherston 2016 range, a collaboration by Gordon Mather, Mary Featherston and Grazia & Co, sees these classics revitalised in a contemporary, yet timeless manner – with fabric and colour curation carried out to ensure the pieces work in modern interiors and beyond.
The responsibility of maintaining Featherston’s original vision and updating it for the modern era falls to Gordon Mather, Australia’s only licensed Feathertson manufacturer since the 1980’s, and Grazia Materia, Grazie & Co founder – who’s handling distribution of the new collection.
“The task of updating Grant’s original furniture whilst maintaining the integrity of his vision has required great sensitivity and style,” says Grant’s design and life partner Mary Featherston “It has been wonderful to work with Gordon and Grazia who have demonstrated these characteristics in every aspect of this collection”
INDESIGN is on instagram
Follow @indesignlive
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
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.
Designed by DKO, the latest Ingenia Lifestyle Element resident clubhouses at Fullerton Cove and Natura at Port Stephens focus on the lifestyle needs of a changing over-55s demographic.
With the inaugural Glenn Murcutt Symposium set to take place in Sydney in September 2025, Pritzker Prize-winner Francis Kéré receives the Murcutt Pin.
Despite its long and rich history, signwriting is a profession in decline. Will Lynes’ new show, Oily Water at Canberra Glassworks, aims to showcase the techniques of the trade to highlight its potential in design.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
The INDE.Awards 2025 has named House on a Hill by Leeton Pointon Architects and Allison Pye Interiors as the winner of The Interior Space category, presented by Tongue & Groove. This multigenerational country home on Bunurong Country redefines residential architecture and design with its poetic balance of form, function, and sanctuary.
Mark Tuckey X Main Studio embrace the future with a new range of furniture that showcases the beauty of agroforestry timber.
The INDE.Awards 2025 has crowned Sirius Redevelopment by BVN as the winner of The Multi-Residential Building, sponsored by CULT. This ambitious project redefines urban living in Sydney’s historic Rocks precinct while preserving heritage, reducing embodied carbon, and elevating residential design.