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CPD
Rugs & Axminster Carpet for Commercial Applications – A Guide for Specifiers
Presented by Designer Rugs
CPD
Rugs & Axminster Carpet for Commercial Applications: A CPD Live presentation
Presented by Designer Rugs
People
25 years of Greg Natale: Beyond the decorative
This November marks 25 years since Greg Natale opened his Sydney studio. In the decades since, he has built one of Australia’s most recognisable design practices, defined by pattern and decorative conviction.
News
A night of design: Greg Natale unveils Cruda and Bosco in Sydney
Tongue & Groove hosted a lively gathering to celebrate two new collections by Greg Natale, bringing together designers and industry peers.
Project
Enter Projects Asia and SOM Win The Influencer at the INDE.Awards 2025
Recognised as winners at the INDE.Awards 2025, Enter Projects Asia in collaboration with SOM have received The Influencer award. Their work on Terminal 2 Kempegowda International Airport Interiors redefines the aesthetics of airport design through a monumental expression of biophilia, sustainability and craftsmanship.
Articles
Raw softness: Cruda by Greg Natale and Designer Rugs
In the latest collaboration between Designer Rugs and Greg Natale, the raw rigour of modernist geometries finds its most comforting articulation in the inherent softness of floor coverings.
Events
Richmond comes alive: Saturday Indesign 2025
Richmond came alive for Saturday Indesign 2025 as showrooms, rooftops and laneways transformed into a celebration of design, creativity and connection.
Events
Over $55,000 worth of prizes to be won with the Design Passport at Saturday Indesign 2025
Explore the prizes up for grabs at Saturday Indesign this year when you register and check into 10+ showrooms on the day.
Articles
Palpable paradise, found: The Tappeti Elysium Rug Collection
In this mesmerising collection of hand-tufted rugs and carpets, Tappeti masterfully articulates the ephemeral feeling of inner bliss through a woven cartography of bespoke landscapes that unfurl into an idyllic underfoot paradise.
Events
What a night at the 2025 INDE.Awards Gala! Connection, community and celebration!
The 2025 INDE.Awards winners were celebrated at the annual Gala in Sydney on 31st July.
Events
A second look: More exhibitors set to shape Saturday Indesign 2025
Following the first release of exhibitors, this second instalment brings together another set of brands spanning furniture, finishes, lighting and flooring, confirmed to take part in Melbourne this September.
Articles
Shaping spatial identity through custom flooring with Designer Rugs
In commercial interiors, flooring needs to do more than ground a space, it should tell a story. Through collaboration with the industry’s leading lights, Designer Rugs creates custom rugs & bespoke carpet solutions, finding ways to elevate commercial environments with material nuance and design integrity.
Events
The 2025 INDE.Awards Shortlist has been announced!
The 2025 INDE.Awards Shortlist showcases the very best architecture and design in our Indo-Pacific region.
People
Trent Jansen: Designing of Culture, Collaboration and Spirit
Trent Jansen shares his collaborative philosophy and passion for culturally connected design, speaking to the importance of storytelling, heritage and co-creation in his practice and award-winning project.
News
Designing connections: How the Industry on Arthur event inspires community
This event talked to (literally) innovative design and reaffirmed Designer Rugs’ commitment to building a thriving community within the architecture and design landscape, where guests heard from the likes of the revered Anna-Carin.
Products
From Andalucia with love: Designer Rugs launch collection by House of Heras
Designer Rugs proudly presents the ‘Gardens of Andalucia’ collection, a new range crafted by the revered boutique design studio, House of Heras.
Products
Time woven into art: Gavin Harris’ new Circadian collection of rugs
Inspired by the flow of time and its profound impact on our surroundings, interior and product designer Gavin Harris unveils his latest collection — Circadian with Designer Rugs.
Articles
Communication, collaboration, and respect
Whilst unauthorised and inappropriate use of Indigenous designs and cultural appropriation are real and on-going problems, this white paper explains how reputable manufacturers, such as Designer Rugs, are addressing them.
Project
This hotel is an ode to maximalist bohemian luxury
Designer Rugs joined a team of creatives to transform a heritage Edwardian building into a whimsical paradise.
Articles
Design, durability, and pulling power in retail design
In collaboration with Designer Rugs, this whitepaper explores how high-quality, well-designed rugs and carpeting are helping bring the shoppers back.
Events
Lights and glamour: Catherine Martin’s new collection revealed in theatrical fashion
In the most glamorous of celebrations, famed film, stage and interior designer, Catherine Martin revealed her magnificent rug and textile collections with Designer Rugs and Mokum.
Articles
Read and learn: rugs for libraries and education settings
In collaboration with Designer Rugs, we explore the role of flooring in well designed educational projects and the benefits of specifying rugs in school, library or university projects.
Articles
Context and connection to land: Hot Black’s ANZ offices
There’s a great story behind the eye-popping 50-square-metre tufted rug which features in the magnificent atrium of ANZ Sydney. And it all comes back to people, culture and connection to land.
Articles
Spectacularly sui generis: Step into the rich world of Markian’s rug collection
An apt articulation of Markian’s bold design language, this striking range of hand-made and hand-tufted rugs intertwines the multidimensionality of VIEIRA, brand’s inaugural collection, with the refined materiality of wool, bamboo fibre and cashmere goat hair.
Articles
Tappeti marks 15 years of weaving future-forward art
For 15 years Tappeti has been giving interior designers and architects a medium to complete their beautification of space.
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.
Project
No longer memories past: Woods Bagot’s Next Hotel Melbourne
Woods Bagot serves up the nostalgia of ‘now’ at Melbourne’s new Next Hotel.
Articles
Circular Logic: Gavin Harris’s new collection for Designer Rugs
“I like the circular form – it’s soft but controlled.” In collaboration with Designer Rugs, Gavin Harris pushes the geometric and creative boundaries of a circle.
Ideas
We need to talk about delivering fit for purpose
The onus is on architects and designers to create places and spaces that are suitably fit for purpose, even if final say over a project’s FF&E schedule is not.
Articles
Grounded Luxury: The role of rugs in hotel design
The modern hotel experience is not what it used to be. Design, ergonomics and lived experiences inform all aspects of hotels, with everything from check-in to the pillows you sleep on driving a human-centric model of hospitality. With the help of Designer Rugs, we find out more.
Products
Infinite creativity with Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy
For over three decades, Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy of Dinosaur Designs are constantly celebrated as one of Australia’s most iconic design duo. In collaboration with Designer Rugs, they unveil the latest rug collection, ‘Olsen + Ormandy.’
Articles
2020 and the Future of Design and Architecture
With a new decade dawning, we caught up with Yosi Tal – Managing Director of Designer Rugs, to discuss where the industry has been, where it’s going and how Designer Rugs plans to stay in front of the pack.
Articles
Strategic Design and Creating a Sense of Arrival
If spaces are designed to tell a story – and form, fittings, fixtures and furnishings are the building blocks of its narrative – then the point of entrance is akin to “Once upon a time…”, setting the tone of the journey yet to come.
Articles
From Ice-Creams to Pixelated Sunsets: Evolve Awards 2019 Custom Rug Design Winners Announced
From the rich warmth of a pixelated sunset or ethereal otherworldly shapes, to designs inspired by the act of turning a page of a book or even an ice cream – this year’s Evolve Awards were all about patient craft, adventurous spirit, thoughtful geometry and finding inspiration in the most surprising places.
Furniture
A colour carnival: Carousel by Designer Rugs
An exploration of geometry and colour, the newest collection from Designer Rugs is reimagining the way we think about rugs.
News
A Nordic-themed party for Designer Rugs’ Norse collection launch
Take a look at some of the best moments from the scintillating launch party of Designer Rugs’ new collection – Norse by Anna-Carin McNamara.
Products
Indesign In Focus: Geometric Design
Adding geometry within an interior helps to create a modern and balanced environment, one that also adds an interesting feature to the room. This weeks’ Indesign In Focus brings various geometric patterns, colours and products into any residential, commercial and hospitality décor.
Products
How can design cater to the evolving nature of today’s working behaviours?
Working behaviours around the world have evolved to spur collaboration while improving employee happiness, productivity and wellbeing through innovative design.
News
Learning the ropes of designing rugs
Through specially curated workshops, guests and applicants for the Designer Rugs Evolve Awards gained insight into designing a commercially viable rug.
News
Designer Rugs Evolve Awards is here
Calling all designers! With $30,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, Designer Rugs wants to see your very best rug designs for its Evolve Awards. Entries open Thursday 14 March and workshops are kicking off across the region now.
Products
Collaboration at its core: Hare & Klein x Designer Rugs
Always collaborating with the best design minds from across Australia, Designer Rugs has revealed its latest range. This time in collaboration with renowned interiors firm Hare & Klein.
News
Are you in the running for this design super draw? Register for FRONT now to win. 48 hours left!
You may have already come across the new boutique specifier event, FRONT. And if you haven’t already registered, we want to lay out the top 5 reasons you should get yourself down to Carriageworks 9 – 10 August.
Products
A look at aged care: SummitCare Baulkam Hills with Designer Rugs
In CHADA’s recently completed SummitCare Baulkham Hills, custom designed rugs and carpet play a critical role in creating a beautiful yet high-tech aged care living environment.
Articles
Designer Rugs and Mr Fräg
The team at Designer Rugs has unveiled and launched an exciting new range with an all-new collaborator – meet Mr Fräg.
Articles
A world of customisation with Designer Rugs
Whether it’s a change in the colour palette, a specific size or unexpected angles – designers can create the perfect accompaniment to a commercial project with Designer Rugs.
Articles
Rugs of Transient Beauty
From Designer Rugs creative designers Christine McDonald, Lia Pielli and Phillipa Cowdrey, comes the new collection – Transient; a journey through time, materials, pattern and emotion.
Dissections
Gilbert + Tobin Barangaroo by Woods Bagot
Design that reflects its local environment is a huge focus for practising architects and designers, and Sydney’s Barangaroo development is a hotbed for this kind of thinking. Gilbert + Tobin’s new Barangaroo workplace, designed by Woods Bagot, draws inspiration from the rich history and landscape of the site, while nestling nicely into Sydney’s new commercial identity.
Dissections
PwC Melbourne by Futurespace
The old-school ‘client showroom’ is in desperate need of a shake-up – but where to start? Designed by Futurespace, PwC’s new Melbourne headquaters is purpose-built to break down traditional barriers between staff and clients. The results are extraordinary.
Articles
Chatting With Futurespace’s Gavin Harris on Designer Rugs, Futurespace’s PwC Fitout, and His Creative Process
As Design Director of Futurespace, Gavin Harris is one of Australia’s most in demand and renowned creative designer minds. We caught up with him following his Designer Rugs Mindscape collection, and his work on Sydney’s PwC Barangaroo office project…
Articles
Designer Rugs Introduces Menswear-inspired Carpet by Axminster
Borrowing the aesthetic finesse and precise tailoring of modern menswear, Axminster carpets supplied through Australia by Designer Rugs offers a stylish addition for a multitude of design applications.
News
Indigenous Art Meets Designer Rugs With Yulparitja
Designers and design lovers alike were out in full force at Mossgreen Gallery, Woollhara to celebrate the launch of Yulparitja, a Designer Rugs range designed by the Indigenous Bidyadanga people of Western Australia.
Articles
Three Decades of Design With Designer Rugs
Now in their 30th year of industry success, the family-owned and operated Designer Rugs reflects on three decades of collaborations, creativity and innovation.
Articles
MINDSCAPE: Rugs to Keep in Mind
Designer Rugs’ latest collection MINDSCAPE by Gavin Harris is a daring exploration of shape, colour and texture.
Ideas
Up Close with Yarn and Textiles
How well do you know your yarns? Carpets and rugs add a beautiful finish to an interior, but before they become the final product, they start off as millions of strands of differing yarns before being woven into a cohesive whole. We sat down with Tappeti Director, Karinna Gobbo, to talk about yarn.
Events
Celebrating the New Again Range
Designer Rugs has celebrated the launch of the New Again rug range, a collection of four hand-tufted rugs referencing family memories, designed in partnership with Petrina Turner Design
Project
How is Medibank Place Designed for Wellness?
Melbourne’s Medibank Place is an architectural delight that aims to provide an innovative workplace environment that promotes healthy living. With a large and spacious interior layout, the colourful interior fit out is a playful and collaborative environment for Medibank’s customers, staff and the Melbourne community.
Articles
New Again: a handcrafted collection from Designer Rugs
Designed in partnership with Petrina Turner Design, New Again is a collection of four hand-tufted rugs referencing family memories.
Project
Inside the Glimmering Prima Pearl Tower
This attention to detail permeates every element of the Prima Pearl Tower, creating a cultivated environment designed to emulate the grandeur of luxury hotels.
Magazine
Indesign magazine #62 dissections directory
A full directory of the contact information for every company referred to in the project dissections of Indesign Magazine #62.
Articles
Designer Rugs at the Art Gallery
Designer Rugs joins The Art Gallery of NSW in the new Chiswicks restaurant.
Events
DESIGNER RUGS ANNA CARIN COLLECTION LAUNCH AT FUNKIS
A festive crowd of friends, family and industry faces gathered to celebrate the launch of Anna Carin’s collection for Designer Rugs at Funkis – a truly Swedish evening!
Articles
BLEUX FOR DESIGNER RUGS: ‘NEIGHBOURHOOD’ COLLECTION LAUNCH
At a glamorous launch party held in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Designer Rugs unveiled “Neighbourhood” by Bleux, a collection of six hand-tufted rugs that reflect, charmingly, on the essence of community with a true sense of place.
Articles
Journey into complete customisation with Designer Rugs
Designer Rugs allows the ultimate in flexibility and customisation for your commercial projects.