Australian furniture designer
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Khai Liew: The bespoke master
Khai Liew has literally designed an amazing life and career. He is the epitome of the quiet achiever who has reached the ultimate in his profession as an object maker and designer.
Furniture
The things that really matter, with Melinda Huuk
The Studio* Collaborative’s Melinda Huuk sums it up perfectly when she says, we can rationalise beauty to ourselves but it “needs to be underpinned by purpose and responsibility”. She highlights the Fleur Sofa by King for its responsible manufacture – a quality that takes its beauty beyond skin-deep.
Articles
Woods Bagot and local designers collaborate for Stylecraft
Stylecraft’s new Adelaide showroom, designed by Woods Bagot, brings a welcoming lightness to the mezzanine of 11 Waymouth Street.
Project
We highly recommend you keep watching this space
Bold and unexpected, Markian has recently burst onto our local design radar. And so far, we’re remarkably impressed by what the design brand has to offer.
Products
Smart and sustainable furniture with So Watt
Sydney-based design studio, So Watt, celebrates dynamic collaboration and enhances the workplace with the Rover Team Table.
Products
Art and design come together in Luxxbox’s GOMA Chair
Brisbane-based lighting and furniture studio Luxxbox has developed the GOMA chair, designed initially for the Gallery of Modern Art Restaurant, it’s the perfect chair for long lunches and deep conversation.
Products
Truly fantastic plastic
DesignByThem’s newest collection elevates 100 per cent recycled plastic to a covetable material palette in furniture pieces that are all about colour, form and functionality.
Products
Homegrown Heroes: Australian designers to keep your eye on
Practical, stylish, and transitioning easily between spaces, Australian furniture design is imbued with healthy doses of all the things that make our nation distinct: playfulness, a hardworking attitude, a diverse range of international influences, and a comfortable humility.
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Indesign Luminary: Caroline Casey
A meticulous and intuitive designer, Caroline Casey has a diverse range of outstanding products to her name.
People
Indesign Luminary: Helen Kontouris
One of Australia’s most successful product designers internationally, Helen Kontouris is a star whose career has taken a stellar trajectory.
Ideas
The Real vs Fake Debate
With the Productivity Commission’s final report on Intellectual Property Arrangements due to be handed to Government later this month, the discussion on copyright protection for designers has reached a crescendo.
Ideas
What’s in a name? King Furniture’s new identity
For Australian brand, King Living, which started out as King Furniture in 1977, it has been a journey of continual evolution. And while the word Furniture has simply replaced Living on the otherwise original logo, there’s a lot more to this soft rebrand story.
Furniture
Serif by Charles Wilson
A stool inspired by pouring aluminium is the newest design from Charles Wilson – the Serif stool.