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Ross Gardam unveils Dwell, a refined modular collection
Where style and substance truly dwell, Gardam’s latest modular collection – available through Stylecraft – balances elegance and versatility.
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Harbro: A Family Legacy of Melbourne-Made Furniture
Harbro has it all – beautiful furniture designs that add a sophisticated touch to any room.
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Space Furniture unveils world’s first B&B Italia Outdoor store
Space Furniture has opened the world’s first standalone B&B Italia Outdoor showroom, a landmark space celebrating an enduring partnership of over 30 years with B&B Italia.
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Zenith’s Teddy Collection: A cohesive system for the modern workplace
Teddy, a new collection from Zenith, offers a cohesive design language that extends across a versatile suite of tables and workstations, catering to the dynamic realities of the modern workplace.
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Designing for success
Two designers from Aotearoa/New Zealand are making a splash in the world of furniture design, creating objects of desire while carving their individual pathways to success.
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From indoors to outdoors with Poliform’s signature elegance
Renowned for its unparalleled craftsmanship and revered design, Poliform has released its first-ever outdoor furniture collection. Tailored for the discerning needs of commercial and residential environments, the range promises to reshape luxury in the great outdoors.
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This outdoor campaign is infused with a Mediterranean summer spirit
Pedrali’s latest #PEDRALITALES series features some of their newest outdoor ranges to inspire endless al-fresco living
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Icons of excellence: Four pieces of design history on show
Step inside the legacy of Motelni&C, with four pieces elevated to iconic status
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Ben McCarthy and gohome: The collaboration behind a “tool for life” and a new showroom opening
With gohome’s Sydney showroom opening set to light up Saturday Indesign, we find out more about the furniture brand’s collaboration with Ben McCarthy.
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From the design archives: Herman Miller re-releases two pieces of iconic modernist furniture
After 80 years, the Rohde Collection puts two pieces of Herman Miller history back into circulation.
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“It’s a bit like writing a little song or a Japanese haiku:” Patrick Jouin on design, collaboration, and a partnership for the ages
Pedrali and Patrick Jouin celebrate more than ten years of collaboration with new evolutions to their iconic designs
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Stylecraft and Akaba are celebrating 30 years of iconic collaboration
This Spanish furniture brand creates functional pieces inspired by art.
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When activism and creativity combine for a better future
How five friends created employment and economic security for their region.
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Be the first to see the new modernist furniture collection inspired by Sir Roy Grounds
Melbourne Design Week will play host to a furniture launch that reimagines the moderne movement.
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Herman Miller revisits the playful roots of iconic Eames designs
In a gesture that honours the Eames’ distinct creative sensibility, Herman Miller unearths the design duo’s unseen colourways, bringing a playful new energy to some of their most iconic pieces.
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KingTrade: Exclusive benefits for project success
With loyalty pricing, access to exclusive textiles, end-to-end service, and a dedicated commercial and contracts team, the new King Living membership reinforces the brand’s commitment to empowering the design community.
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How new voluntary requirements are paving the way for increased Indigenous engagement in the built environment
GBCA and Winya are leading the way for better consultation and cooperation with Australia’s First Peoples.
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The power of custom upholstered commercial furniture
Leading the field in terms of ergonomics, this high-end office furniture from Buro is also designed with the evolving needs of the modern workplace in mind.
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Celebrating Eileen Gray, a designer “too rich for the punditry to take”
Despite designing one of history’s most coveted side tables, Eileen Gray’s popularity faced significant gaps due to the challenges encountered by female designers in the early 20th century.
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Five iconic furniture brands championing sustainability in design
Some of your favourite names in design specification are leading the way in circularity and sustainable business practices.
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From Stockholm with love (and lots of design)
Stockholm Furniture Fair and Stockholm Design Week 2024 put on an extravanganza of design for four days in February.
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Natural inspiration: Exploring colours and textures for unique spaces
Office furniture brand Actiu explores the endless design possibilities of colours and handcrafted textures through textiles and upholstery.
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When De La Espada came to Winnings’ Sydney showroom
We revisit the event at Winnings’ Redfern showroom where De La Espada’s managing director Luis De Oliveira travelled from Europe to be in conversation with our editor.
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Natural Habitat: The biophilic office with Adam Cornish and District
Adam Cornish and District present Habitat, where nature and the indoors perfectly align for the workplace.
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Bridging the land and sea at Istanbul Modern
Pedrali contributes a thoughtful design synthesis between the land and the ocean in Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art.
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“I feel more musician than architect”: The mind-boggling work of Piero Lissoni
Architect, designer, art director: the Italian multi-disciplinary creative, Piero Lissoni, is what many of us would refer to as a living legend. His output is prodigious. Alice Blackwood absorbs some life lessons from this orchestrator of architecture and space.
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The young and upcoming Croatian brand with a sharp eye for commerciality
ducksnest. founder Susan Pehar takes pride in her Croatian heritage, celebrating and representing the best of the best from Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina. The visionary nunc design debuted in Germany 2019 at the Cologne furniture fair and since then has championed Croatian design across the world.
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Spotlighting Scandinavian design with K5 Furniture
We explore eight stylish offerings from K5 Furniture’s longstanding partnership with David Design, celebrating Scandinavian design at its finest.
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In review: Spectra widens the lens on Queensland furniture design
‘Spectra – Contemporary Queensland Furniture’ recently opened at Artisan in Brisbane, greeted by a community of cross-industry creatives hungry for Queensland furniture design content, writes Nicky Lobo.
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Taking the fight to ‘fast furniture’ with Valiant’s Samuel Clarke
Meet Samuel Clarke, creative director at Valiant and one of the people behind a whole new sustainable furniture rental range created from post-consumer recycled and reformed plastics.
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Vale Rodolfo Dordoni 1954 – 2023
This week we say goodbye to renowned Italian designer Rodolfo Dordoni and reflect on the enormous influence he had on the design industry.
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Space completes the interiors at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium with functional poise
At Allianz Stadium, built on the site of the historic Sydney Football Stadium but with a whole new set of functional requirements, Space Furniture has completed a versatile furniture fit-out.
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Milan exclusive: Luca Nichetto on the value of being a generalist
Renowned designer Luca Nichetto says when it comes to his craft he is “100 per cent a generalist, because as a generalist you get to be a director of an orchestra”. Aleesha Callahan spoke with Luca during Salone del Mobile.
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Versatility with character: The sculptural and playful furniture of Fearon
Brothers Mark and Jack are spearheading Fearon, designing objects that range between furniture, sculpture and everything in between. This is one up-and-coming Australian design label to keep an eye on.
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The sustainable future of workplace furniture
K5 are shaking things up with a collection of pieces that celebrate circularity and prioritise wellbeing.
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Dean Norton delicately balances mood, material and form
Drawing on personal experience and finding inspiration in both form and materiality, Melbourne-based designer Dean Norton produces sculptural objects that merge into new spaces and create mood.
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Ross Didier blows us away with his new Puffalo campaign
Ross Didier brings his artistic inspiration to the fore with a new vision of photographic stills for the Puffalo and Fable collections.
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Functional art, or artful furniture? 8 sculptural creations
In a wide variety of shapes and lines, yet equal in their supreme craftsmanship, we look at eight pieces of sculptural furniture that turn your living and working spaces into an art gallery.
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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.
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Delicious design: Furnished Forever serves up Waffle
Emphasising the differences between hard and soft surfaces, the geometric planes of the Waffle’s upholstered grid offers a satisfying squish of comfort.
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Bachli Furniture brings its A game to the design game
Bachli Furniture, founded up by Nathan Bachli and Rebecca Pistilli, has opened its doors with a clutch of design brands that include the likes of MDF Italia, Lowe Furniture and Diesel Living with Lodes.
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Cult’s new deal with GUBI
Cult is now the exclusive B2B vendor for the Danish design brand GUBI, across key markets of Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
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It’s time to meet Jac
Introducing the people’s chair – Jac – Zenith’s latest collection of lifestyle and workplace chairs, designed by Schamburg + Alvisse.
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HAY’s Hee Welling on democratic design in the age of globalisation
In Australia to launch a new series of chairs for HAY, Hee Welling pauses to chat with us about evolution, democratic design and drawing classes.
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Fringe Furniture 33 continues to inspire
One of Australia’s longest-running platforms for furniture design, Fringe Furniture, returns for its 33rd year and continues to push the envelope.
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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.
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Honouring time-honoured materials: Brodie Neill
Since establishing his studio in London, Brodie Neill has worked with an impressive roster of clients and has founded a self-designed and self-produced furniture brand, Made in Ratio.
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Minimalist furniture: Tom Skeehan’s ‘Nave’
Tom Skeehan of SKEEHAN Studio brings forward a commercial range for Stylecraft Furniture exploring the material narrative within Australian manufacturing.
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The late bloomer: Jon Goulder
Jon Goulder has been a mainstay of the Australian design industry for 20 years, but it’s only now that he considers his career to be taking off. We look at the 2019 INDE Luminary nominees career trajectory.
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Finding freedom in simplicity – Billiani’s Layer chair
Defined by a continuity and linearity between design and material is the Layer chair by the award-winning German designer, Michael Geldmacher, for Billiani.
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Calling for experimental furniture: Fringe Furniture 32
For everything from the boundary-pushing to the market ready, the 32nd Fringe Furniture exhibition is calling for entries.
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What can design learn from Bowie Bonds?
For many furniture designers struggling to survive on two to five per cent royalties cheques, the recently departed David Bowie delivers a masterclass in ‘get rich or die at Salone’.
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Breaking the stereotype with Marcel Wanders
With a mind that zooms at a million miles a minute, Marcel Wanders keeps his team at Moooi on their toes. Taking time out to tour the Australian design circuit, we met with Wanders to talk the future of hospitality.
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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.