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Tzannes’ Amy Dowse on three golden rules for a viable practice
Tzannes Director Amy Dowse sets out a triangle of three golden rules for a successful practice: leadership, rigour and respect.
Furniture
Zenith: 70 years young!
Zenith marks the incredible milestone of seven decades, celebrating as well as looking to the future.
Workplace
The butterfly workplace
A new workplace by lyth Design for ChrysCapital in Mumbai is both creative and original and enhances the everyday working life through its innovative design.
Events
A rollicking good story with Richards Stanisich and Royal Oak Floors
Jonathan Richards and Kirsten Stanisich discussed practice, design process and the business of running a studio at a live audience event hosted by Royal Oak Floors in Sydney.
Events
Indesign x Wilkhahn: Melbourne, where are you working?
Our latest collaboration saw a range of designers come together at Wilkhahn’s Melbourne showroom for a discussion on the workplace dynamics specific to the Victorian capital.
Workplace
Per atria ad astra
In the very heart of Sydney’s CBD, 1 Elizabeth is a vast civic-scale project that integrates workplace design, transport infrastructure, event spaces, and hospitality around some dramatic void spaces.
Events
“A journey into a whole new material world”: Plant Life at the NGV
Curator Ewan McEoin tells us about the NGV’s new exhibition on plant-based materials as alternatives to plastics, synthetic materials and other non-renewable resources.
Workplace
Seidler, Nervi and fjcstudio walk into an office tower
Set within hallowed architectural surroundings amidst the ghosts of Harry Seidler and Pier Luigi Nervi, fjcstudio’s new Sydney home brings geometric clarity and a spirit of creative exchange to a challenging workplace fit-out.
Events
Nature Weave: Jia CURATED returns to Bali for a Southeast Asian design feast
Jia CURATED is happening once again in Bali and this extraordinary design festival is not to be missed!
Events
Saturday Indesign memories: Escaping the corporate catch-up trap
Cox Architecture’s Remy Chard reminisces about her interstate trip for Saturday Indesign two years ago, writing that such design events can act as catalysts for connection while countering the ‘catch-up trap’.
Events
INDE.Awards Gala marks ten years with truly regional scope
At a packed awards night in Melbourne, the design community from all corners of the Asia-Pacific region came together to celebrate an incredible range of winners.
Articles
Metallic magnificence revealed at Milan
When Italian furniture maker, Pedrali partnered with design studio, Formafantasma, the collaboration was always going to result in something both elevated and imbued with impeccable detail and flair.
Project
The showroom as home
Daniel Boddam’s new Bronte showroom is also his home. By inviting clients into the spaces where he actually lives with his furniture, the designer offers a more intimate way to experience design.
Events
Reporting back from a Scandinavian design odyssey
Following a design pilgrimage through Copenhagen, Stockholm and Finland, FK’s Nicky Drobis reflects on 3daysofdesign, the work of Aino and Alvar Aalto, and why great design begins and ends with people.
Events
Copenhagen special: 3daysofdesign roundtable podcast is here!
Claire Delmar, Eva-Marie Prineas, Jason Gibney and Anton Assaad join STORIESINDESIGN to discuss the charm of Denmark’s capital city and their takes on 3daysofdesign 2026.
Workplace
Adaptive reuse in WA turns teachers college into workplace
Spaceagency Architects complete executive offices for the Prendiville Group through the restoration and conversion of the State Heritage-listed former Fremantle Technical School Annex.
Project
A workplace that doubles as a design showroom
Designed with Made For, Wildflower’s Melbourne office uses a restrained material palette, bold colour and curated furniture to create a workplace that reflects the company’s approach to interiors.
Events
Finding quotidian design joy at Melbourne Design Week
Designed to be touched, picked up and played with, ‘New/Relic’ was a Melbourne Design Week exhibition of every fixture you’ve never thought about twice.
Events
3daysofdesign diaries with Jason Gibney
The Sydney-based director of Jason Gibney Design Workshop travelled to Copenhagen for this year’s Scandinavian festival of design, reflecting on what makes the event — and the city — so special.
Events
Much more than three days’ worth
Fast becoming the coolest global design event, Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign saw a number of standout product releases.
Events
3days: Seven ways to get from more to meaningful
We round up the seven projects at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign that best reflected this year’s theme: Make This Moment Matter.
Workplace
The office as a stage: Wilkhahn x Indesign
A recent gathering hosted by Wilkhahn brought designers together to discuss flexibility, technology and the changing role of the workplace.
Products
Beyond new perspectives with Muuto
Twenty years after its founding, Muuto used 3daysofdesign to look beyond the idea of novelty and towards a more reflective future for Scandinavian design.
Events
“Renewable real estate”: Wrapping up Melbourne Design Week with FK
FK hosted a standout Melbourne Design Week event with a panel on adaptive reuse and renewable real estate at 500 Bourke, featuring previous contributor Nicky Drobis and our editor as moderator.
Articles
Comfort designed for the cycles of life
For nearly half a century, King Living has been designing and engineering furniture that exemplifies the principle of lasting quality.
Events
Powerhouse Parramatta announces a smorgasbord of Australian design
Powerhouse Parramatta has commissioned more than 50 leading designers from across Australia to shape the spaces and experiences of the new museum, including public, exhibition, restaurant and retail spaces.
Articles
What happens when a chair becomes the conversation?
At Machine Hall, Herman Miller gathered Sydney’s design community to consider performance seating as part of workplace strategy, not just workplace furniture.
Events
3daysofdesign promises a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’
After Milan Design Week’s ‘festival of consumption’, 3daysofdesign offers a much-needed reset, an opportunity to ‘make the world a better place’ and perhaps even a soft-launch of the future.
Events
“I’m not trying to design a shape, I’m trying to shape a feeling”: Eugeni Quitllet & Pedrali in Milan
At Salone del Mobile 2026, Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet launched Libre, a new seating collection with Pedrali that focuses on form, function and ergonomics.
Ideas
Comment: The design story behind storytelling spaces
What exactly does a theatre consultant do, and why are they an important part of designing the spaces in which we tell the most dramatic stories? Charcoalblue’s Erin Shepherd tells us more.
Articles
Embracing elegance
On the occasion of Salone del Mobile 2026, the Opale collection designed by Patrick Jouin for Pedrali expands with two new iterations: a chair and a barstool with armrests.
Events
Melbourne Design Week 2026: The Review
With a plethora of talks, installations, exhibitions and happenings responding to this year’s theme (Design The World You Want), the eleven-day festival was the largest to date and arguably the most accomplished since inception.
News
Adam Markowitz on craft, architecture and the art of making
Melbourne-based architect and object maker Adam Markowitz blurs the line between design and craft, bringing a deeply considered, material-led approach to his work. As both a practising architect and furniture designer, Markowitz explores how objects can respond to space, light and human use.
Events
Q&A: When Mim met Tim at Royal Oak Floors
A recent Design Talk Series event presented by Royal Oak Floors saw Melbourne-based interior designer, and founder and principal of Mim Design, Miriam Fanning in live conversation with our editor.
Events
Led by designers: Casting a curatorial eye across Melbourne Design Week
Curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin was in town for Melbourne Design Week. Here, she reflects on how light-touch organising and designer-led spaces created some of the most impactful, distinctive exhibitions.
Events
EOIs open for Adelaide Design Week 2026
Adelaide Design Week returns in October 2026 with the theme every*one, inviting designers, makers, studios, collectives and creative thinkers to submit expressions of interest.
Events
Six things we learned about exclusivity and accessibility at our latest editorial dinner
As part of our ongoing series of intimate editorial dinners with Signature Appliances, we recently gathered a group of architects, designers and industry voices in Sydney for a private conversation around one of design’s most persistent questions: can everyone have access to great design and beautiful spaces?
News
Ruth Allen and Nicole Lawrence bring shared material intelligence to Melbourne Design Week
At r.a.g.e Hot Glass Studio, the glass artist and furniture designer will trace the making of two sculptural wall sconces through live glassblowing, discussion and process-led collaboration.
Project
The domestic grind: How Foolscap turned a neighbourly bond into Allpress’ latest outpost
In Brisbane, Foolscap Studio continues a longstanding relationship with the coffeemakers at a new cafe-store featuring calm tones and coffee waste materials.
Events
Some special commercial pieces from Salone del Mobile
Milan Design Week means more than lounging in luxury and the latest in bathroom beauty. We pull out a handful of exciting commercial furniture highlights.
Products
Designing colour with intent: Inside the Breathe palette
Tamara Veltre, director at Breathe, reflects on the studio’s collaboration with Haymes Paint — a deliberately reduced, architect-designed palette that reframes colour as part of architecture, not an afterthought.
Articles
Re-editions: Eight Designs, A Cultural Dialogue across Continents
Craft, legacy, and American hardwoods converge in a collection that proves great design has no fixed address – one remarkable conversation across generations, geographies, and design traditions.
Products
Standout furniture launches from Milan Design Week 2026
From indoor-outdoor furniture systems and archival reissues to experimental lighting, circular materials and collectible surfaces, these launches captured Milan Design Week’s broader conversation around comfort, craft, longevity and atmosphere.
Events
Milan Design Week 2026: Standout exhibitions and installations
From Aesop’s light-filled installation by Australian architect Rodney Eggleston to Molteni&C’s immersive garden worlds, these are the exhibitions, launches and interventions shaping Milan Design Week so far — with more to come.
Workplace
Designing the daily rituals of work, hospitality and health
The Commons has recently opened two new sites in Melbourne designed by DesignOffice — and this time, they include comprehensive health amenities.
Workplace
A COX carnival of colour in the workplace
A bold approach to colour aims to balance flexible workspace functionality with convivial areas of connection in this Sydney office by COX Architecture.
Project
A new chapter for Melbourne’s North Wharf
Designed by FK alongside One Design Office, 1 Hotel & Homes Melbourne at Seafarers is part of Riverlee’s long-game regeneration of North Wharf and finds its footing in reuse, restraint and a refusal to start from scratch.
Project
A new hotel opens on Melbourne’s Western edge — with a bar to match
With design by SORA and LiFE, the opening of Mercure Melbourne La Trobe Street introduces a 195-room hotel to the CBD, alongside Foundry Bar and Kitchen — a rooftop-adjacent venue designed to draw both guests and locals.
Project
Wellbeing at its best
Éthos by Biasol in Brighton reimagines the wellness clinic with sculptural interiors, rich materials and a calm, immersive experience.
Articles
The sofa as landscape: How Groundpiece rewrote the rules
In 2001, Antonio Citterio designed a sofa that threw out the rulebook. A quarter-century later, Groundpiece remains Flexform’s longest-running bestseller – and it still looks like the future.
Events
Australian Design Centre set to cease all operations by mid-year
After 62 years dedicated to presenting the country’s best craft and design, Australian Design Centre is set to close permanently by 30th June, 2026.
Project
Shophouse-inspired Soori Penang is a personal tribute to home and place
Architect Soo K. Chan restores the shophouse typology, informed by the memory of growing up in one within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of George Town in Penang.
Project
All that glitters
Paying homage to tradition and culture while imbuing the design with a contemporary language, Sabari Gold and Diamonds store by Parinamah is authentic, innovative and incredibly beautiful.
Events
Will you be travelling to Milan Design Week 2026?
Salone del Mobile arrives in April and we’ll have our team over there as usual – get in touch if you’re heading over from Australia, New Zealand or the wider Asia-Pacific.
Events
Italian design icon Roberto Palomba joins the podcast during Australia trip
Italian architect and designer Roberto Palomba has been travelling across Australia in February 2026 for a series of talks, showroom events and product launches.
Project
Mim Design’s modernist interiors echo the coast
At Loller Street Apartments on Bunurong country, Mim Design’s interiors fuse with Telha Clarke’s modernist architecture, all while taking coastal cues from the bayside setting.
Articles
Fantastical flora: where artistry meets performance and pattern becomes narrative
Materialised’s new Magic Garden Collection with Kingdom Home brings expressive botanical design to Australian interiors through locally printed, performance-grade textiles.
Workplace
New FK-led research bolsters the importance of adaptive reuse in workplace design
FK’s Nicky Drobis takes us through a recent poll of 1,000 office workers across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that suggests a preference for reuse – despite an ‘awareness gap’.
Project
The detail of design
After eight years at Cera Stribley, Jessica Ellis launches her own studio, bringing a refined, hands-on approach to residential, hospitality and lifestyle interiors, beginning with the quietly confident Brotherwolf flagship in South Melbourne.
Events
Casa Kartell is a home within a showroom as Roberto Palomba visits Australia
As Roberto Palomba visits Australia, Space Furniture unveils a 450-square-metre apartment installation that positions Kartell not as a collection of objects, but as a complete way of living.
Workplace
Designing your very own studio calls for only the highest standards
Hammond Studio has completed its own workplace in Sydney, placing great emphasis on collaborative technology, light and of course high-quality detailing.
Project
Copper-clad pavilion connects tennis court with Sydney home
With interiors by Mathieson and architecture by SJB, Avalon Tennis Pavilion connects the main house with a tennis court at this Sydney property.
Project
Keiji Ashizawa Design transforms historic Singapore restaurant
The Japanese firm brings elements of calm into Loca Niru, a fine-dining restaurant housed in a 146-year-old mansion in Singapore.
Project
Rag trade warehouse meets mid-century at AP Design House’s Henne store
Recalling the warehouses of yesteryear and reflecting the label’s own sense of restraint, Henne’s new retail outlet is turning heads in Melbourne.
People
Inside the workshop of Simeon Dux
Designer-maker Simeon Dux creates finely crafted timber furniture with longevity, precision and heritage at its core.
Events
GUBI CEO joins the podcast during a visit from Europe
Arranged with the assistance of Cult, Marie Kristine Schmidt joins Timothy Alouani-Roby at The Commons in Sydney.
Project
Inside the quiet beauty of Setouchi Retreat Aonagi on Shikoku
Tadao Ando’s Setouchi Retreat Aonagi conjures luxury through concrete, light, silence and a deeply immersive relationship with nature.
Project
Five conversations that shaped how we thought about design in 2025
From city-making to craft, design heritage to material innovation, these standout interviews offered rare insight into the people steering architecture and design forward.
Articles
Translating design intent with Klaro’s manufacturing-led approach
In an industry where design intent is often diluted by value management and procurement pressures, Klaro Industrial Design positions manufacturing as a creative ally – allowing commercial interior designers to deliver unique pieces aligned to the project’s original vision.
People
Designing for longevity: the product-led practice of Dirk du Toit
From furniture and homewares to lighting, Dirk du Toit’s Melbourne-based studio Dutoit is built on local manufacturing, material restraint and the belief that longevity is central to sustainable design.
Project
Boronia Apartments delivers affordable housing in Waterloo by TURNER
Boronia Apartments in Waterloo, designed by TURNER for City West Housing, delivers 74 affordable rental homes that combine sustainable design with long-term community-focused living.
Project
“A framework for continual transformation”: Studio Edwards creates retail apparatus with LOWF
Melbourne-based Studio Edwards has designed Shift+Space, a modular system under the banner of ‘adaptive retail architecture’. Ben Edwards tells us more.
Events
Welcome to the 2026 INDE.Awards – now open!
With the opening of the 2026 INDE.Awards program, now is the time to assess your projects, ensure photography is at hand and begin your submissions.
Articles
Design tricks that make recliners and sofas the star of your living room
Your main seating can be a stylish centrepiece, not just a functional chair.
Articles
What makes an outdoor space feel intentionally designed?
It’s designed for how you live, not just for how it looks.
Articles
Shaping the next generation of creators
From the spark of an idea on the page to the launch of new pieces in a showroom is a journey every aspiring industrial and furnishing designer imagines making.
Project
Requiem of Ruins: Multitude of Sins turns leftovers into living design
Bangalore studio Multitude of Sins elevates true leftovers — not surplus — into a richly layered workspace where waste materials become narrative, structure and sculptural expression.
News
Emerald Sound: A dialogue between architecture, design and craft
Tappeti’s latest rugs have been unveiled at one of Luigi Rosselli’s stunning Sydney coastal homes alongside furniture by Design Nation.
Project
Inside Precinct 75’s build-to-rent transformation
COX Architecture uses saturated colour and hotel-style amenity across the historic St Peters location, designed for Coronation Property.
Project
The calm space
Through expert architecture, EBD Architects has provided a human face to great design and created a project that enhances the lives of people and community.
Workplace
Stepping into Singapore: Humanscale HQ marks APAC expansion
Humanscale’s new showroom is about the modern workplace, with ergonomic excellence, sustainable design and architectural heritage in Singapore.
Events
Eames Demetrios on continuity and innovation as he visits Australia
He’s the Director of Eames Office and an all-round creative polymath – and Eames Demetrios has just been in our region with Living Edge.
Workplace
“We wanted the building to spark interest and character on the street”
Kiri Morgan, Director at Nightworks Studio, talks to us about the New Zealand practice’s very own new production space at Lawson St.
Project
Melbourne Walk opens as Bourke Street Mall’s first new development in 50 years
Buchan weaves heritage and contemporary retail across a 3,600sqm site featuring dual-branded hotels, arcades and revitalised laneways.
Ideas
In Addition on designing with intention and heart
Founded by Ana Ćalić McLean and Josh McLean, In Addition is a design studio creating thoughtful, client-focused architecture and interiors.
News
Lexus unveils reimagined Birdcage pavilion for Melbourne Cup Carnival
Melbourne interior designer Brahman Perera creates three-level trackside space exploring synthesis of craft and technology.
Project
The Moment Generator: Warren and Mahoney’s rethink of Beca’s Auckland HQ
Warren and Mahoney’s design for Beca’s Auckland headquarters turns the mechanics of engineering into poetry, rethinking how workplace design can reveal its own systems.
News
Australian Furniture Design Award 2026 registrations open
Stylecraft and NGV call for furniture and lighting designs addressing small-space living, with $20,000 prize and commercial development opportunity.
Project
Baker Bleu’s refined industrial space by IF Architecture
IF Architecture crafts Baker Bleu Cremorne into a refined, sustainable bakery and café where industrial design meets artisanal warmth.
News
Cosentino hosts VIP tour of The Block homes
Guests joined Cosentino for a behind-the-scenes look at The Block homes, discovering new materials and creative partnerships.
Workplace
The changing workplace and why it demands good design
With Steelcase having reopened its refreshed WorkLife Showroom in Singapore this year, we spoke to Navedita Shergill about some key workplace macro shifts identified in their research.
Project
Across waters: Anglo-Eastern Singapore by Bean Buro
Bean Buro’s Singapore office for Anglo-Eastern is a poetic continuation of their Hong Kong headquarters — a workplace that balances identity and calm.
Workplace
CIVILIAN and Bankston together again – in an NYC workplace
The New York headquarters of haircare brand, Amika, has been designed by Civilian as the antithesis of a standard business hub.
Products
Cosentino launches Éclos®: a new generation of mineral surfaces
Cosentino introduces Éclos®, a new mineral surface brand featuring zero crystalline silica, high recycled content and Inlayr® technology that brings 3D layered realism to design.
News
Call for entries: Melbourne Design Week 2026 marks a decade of design excellence
Celebrating ten years of creative impact, Melbourne Design Week 2026 invites designers, studios, and collectives to submit expressions of interest for its statewide program and the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
People
Studio Nicholas: Redefining Australia’s Interior Design Identity
With experience across fashion, styling and interiors, Nicholas Gilbert launches Studio Nicholas with a mission to elevate Australian design on the world stage — and to champion a more rigorous, professional future for the industry.
News
Armadillo unveils Gaia: a sculptural rug collection by Barcelona artist Carla Cascales Alimbau
Armadillo collaborates with Barcelona artist Carla Cascales Alimbau on Gaia, a sculptural rug collection that translates fine art into handwoven form.
Project
Rattan Reimagined: Enter Projects Asia for Massimo Dutti
Crafting form and creating function with rattan, Patrick Keane and Enter Projects Asia’s latest project is proving to be a draw card for shoppers at the dynamic fashion house Massimo Dutti.
News
Fletcher Arts October group show returns to Toorak
Held in a private Melbourne residence, Fletcher Arts’ annual exhibition unites over 30 Australian artists and designers in a setting where art meets architecture.
Workplace
A workplace designed for a rapidly changing profession
Law is one of the oldest professions in the world but Architectus’ new design for Ashurst Sydney’s workplace at 39 Martin Place reflects and responds to contemporary shifts.