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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.
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
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
On Milan: The good, the bad and the trendy from Salone del Mobile 2026
Salone del Mobile and the wider Milan Design Week again provided plenty of food for thought this year. Here, we reflect on some design ‘trends’ as well as taking a more critical view of the annual gathering.
Events
Apartments on show during Milan Design Week
From Muuto’s softly lived-in Brera apartment to Artemest’s palazzo-scale grandeur and Studiopepe’s introspective project apartment, these Milan Design Week interiors use the home as a stage for design, feeling and identity.
Articles
A force for good
MillerKnoll releases the 2025 Better World Report showcasing how design can drive meaningful change through measurable progress across social, environmental and governance initiatives
Products
The neuroaesthetics of Muuto’s designs
Whilst in Australia with Living Edge, Muuto CEO, Anders Cleeman, spoke on the five principles that shape Muuto’s neuroaesthetic approach to product design, and creating humanistic spaces.
Events
Exhibitions and installations galore from Milan
Milan Design Week amounts to so much more than product launches, so here are a few installation and exhibition highlights that we stumbled across in 2025.
Workplace
Highlights from ORGATEC 2024
The reimagined format of ORGATEC for 2024 has reinvigorated the world’s leading trade fair for workplace design, resulting in the most successful edition to date. Read on to discover highlights and new trends from ORGATEC 2024.
Articles
Scandinavia to Singapore: Muuto joins XTRA
By adding Muuto to its roster as Singapore’s only retailer, XTRA not only celebrates the enduring appeal of Scandinavian design – it heralds a whole new perspective on its universally appealing legacy.
Ideas
The latest ‘Whole Of Lifecycle Furniture’ initiatives: In review
In Australia alone, 6.4 per cent of all waste generated comes from furniture and furnishings. In this article, we review today’s most impactful Whole Of Lifecycle Furniture practices.
People
Thomas Bentzen shares his designs and visions at Orgatec
Thomas Bentzen presents a friendly and warm character, thoughtful in his responses, intuitive and just a little nostalgic in his approach to furniture solutions for modern working modes. Alice Blackwood meets Thomas at the Muuto stand, at Orgatec.
People
To know the future you must create it, Thomas Bentzen at Orgatec
Thomas Bentzen presents a friendly and warm character, thoughtful in his responses, intuitive and just a little nostalgic in his approach to furniture solutions for modern working modes. Alice Blackwood meets Thomas at the Muuto stand, at Orgatec.
Events
3 stand designs that stopped us in our tracks at Orgatec 2022
We’ve just arrived back from the Orgatec fair where the world of workplace was on show. Here are three inspiring brands whose product showcases invited us to experience and learn.
Products
The stand designs that stopped us in our tracks at Orgatec
We’ve just arrived back from the Orgatec fair where the world of workplace was on show. Here are three inspiring brands whose product showcases invited us to experience and learn.
Project
Flexible, Creative, Diverse – the new Living Office
In Living Edge’s new Sydney Living Office, work is sensitively blended into the beautiful furniture showcases. It’s a dynamic destination that serves as a specification hub, and the central headquarters for the Living Edge team.
People
How BIG-GAME design studio got its name
They might go by the name BIG-GAME, but Elric Petit, Grégoire Jeanmonod, and Augustin Scott de Martinville of BIG-GAME design studio are about as humble as they come.
Products
World Leading Designers Available Locally
Recently released new designs from Bassam Fellows, Muuto and Established & Sons have officially landed in store and online at Living Edge.
News
Leaders of the pack, Living Edge, opens in Melbourne
Thursday 27th February was a big night in Melbourne for the architecture and design community, not least because Living Edge Melbourne threw open its doors to their long-awaited new showroom in Richmond.
Products
A Year-End Sale Is Just One More Reason To Visit Grafunkt Design District
Grafunkt is marking its tenth anniversary of quality and style, and its spanking new Funan showroom, with a year-end sale. Don’t miss it!
Project
Gabriel Tan On Longevity In Design At The Grange Garden Apartment
Every aspect of the Grange Garden Apartment – down to the furniture – has been crafted by multidisciplinary designer Gabriel Tan to prioritise light, storage and the occupants’ way of living.
Ideas
Material Culture: Bio Composites, Softness And Sustainability At Orgatec 2018
What kinds of new materials will find their home in the ‘softer’ workspaces that are emerging today? We look at the latest innovations from Orgatec 2018.
Ideas
Materiality At Work: Insights From Orgatec 2018
The rise of ‘softer’ workplace designs and blurred typologies leaves an opening for a new kind of materiality. We look at how this area was explored at Orgatec 2018. Hint: it’s about the convergence of technology and materials.
Ideas
Materiality at work: An insight from Orgatec 2018
The rise of ‘softer’ workplace designs and blurred typologies leaves an opening for a new kind of materiality. We take a look at how this area is being explored at Orgatec 2018. Hint: it’s about the convergence of technology and materials.
Articles
Living Edge announces launch of The Learning Portfolio
Ahead of mass changes in education, Living Edge announce the launch of its proprietary education sector collection: The Learning Portfolio By Living Edge
Products
Grafunkt Welcomes Muuto To Its Catalogue
The Scandinavian brand joins Grafunkt’s strong portfolio of forward-looking furniture and lighting.
People
Slow design with Thomas Bentzen x Muuto
The softly spoken and eloquent Danish designer Thomas Bentzen shares his slow and meticulous approach to design with IndesignLive on the Muuto stand during Salone del Mobile Milan.
Dissections
Suncorp
Sometimes the most highly evolved designs are incomplete. When conceptualising the new Suncorp headquarters in Sydney, the interiors team at Geyer worked to the idea of ‘designing to 80%’. The result is a radical take on the oft-used idea of workplace flexibility. While the building caters to the needs of its residents in the present, it comprehensively avoids dictating what these needs will be in the future.
Ideas
Welcome To The New Nordic : Indesign Celebrates MUUTO in Australia
So it’s official! There’s a new wave in Scandinavian design, and it’s JUST hit our shores. Say hello to the New Nordic with MUUTO!
Products
How To Design A Space Where One Size Fits All
Designing a space that hundreds of individuals can enjoy simultaneously is no easy feat. Especially when today’s social spaces have come so far in creating heightened immersive experiences.
Project
The Semi-open Workplace
Linehouse designs a semi-open enclosure that imparts transparency, privacy and flexibility to the creative office of Chinese electric car brand NIO.