Though a retail space, Jardan Byron Bay feels like home, with thoughtfully layered spaces that intimately reflect the local context.
June 19th, 2025
Byron Bay has, in recent years, cemented its status as a design destination. Beyond its well-documented surf culture and hinterland retreats, the township has become an enclave for design studios, architects and furniture brands operating with a heightened understanding to context, material and light. It is fitting, then, that Jardan has opened a showroom here – its laidback modernism finding a natural cadence in the region’s provisional, sunlit landscape.
Designed by IF Architecture, Jardan’s Byron Bay outpost is an articulation of the brand’s affinity with the Australian coastal vernacular. Rather than defaulting to pastiche or nostalgia, the showroom draws on compression and release as its organising principle. Visitors move from a low-ceilinged, grounded entry zone into a soaring double-height volume. A central skylight void introduces illumination with a controlled intensity, anchoring the space around a monolithic bench clad in warm, softly textured finishes. Angled surfaces improve the diurnal shifts in light, while operable timber shutters, woven in a natural texture, filter easterly sun. The point of sale and kitchen areas serve as programmatic anchors, where architectural elements are elevated as design features. These volumes are clad in a topographical amalgamated stone, with its intricate pattern mirrored to create a striking visual continuity.
Materiality is site-responsive without overstatement. Rough-textured travertine, handmade ceramic tiles and paint finishes embedded with sand evoke the shifting topography of beach and dune. Recycled native timbers reference the forestry past while anchoring the showroom in its geographic lineage.
Spatial devices, such as sunken floors, layered joiner, and cantilevered display forms, extend the theme of tension. Display units appear as suspended volumes, creating rhythm and hierarchy while maintaining a cohesive visual flow. Programmatic elements such as the kitchen and point of sale become sculptural insertions, clad in a topographical amalgamated stone whose mirrored surfaces register movement and form with geological precision.
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