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Delighting in details: What the trendjournal can do for Australian design
Marylou Cafaro’s first trendjournal sparked a powerful, decades-long movement in joinery designs and finishes which eventually saw Australian design develop its independence and characteristic style. Now, polytec offers all-new insights into the future of Australian design.
Events
Workspace and polytec’s latest launch: The Forza Collection
During a marvellous event, celebrating the return of in-person activities, Workspace revealed their latest product collection Forza, in collaboration with polytec.
Events
Saturday Indesign is set for Melbourne in 2023
Saturday Indesign returns to Melbourne in 2023, register your interest to exhibit, collaborate or attend today!
Events
Scroll the highlights! Saturday Indesign’s most memorable moments
For those with major FOMO! Here we relive the highlights of Saturday Indesign and share all the moments you may have missed from that memorable May day in Sydney.
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Devote your Saturday to mastering workplace design
This Saturday in Sydney, leading workplace brands bring you the latest design intel on the rapidly changing workplace sector.
Events
What not to miss in Waterloo at Saturday Indesign
Waterloo: an intimate precinct for the latest in design
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The who’s who: Saturday Indesign’s exhibitor meetup
With a month to go until Saturday Indesign 2022, our famous exhibitor meetup returned for a warm up before the real thing!
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The wait is over! Saturday Indesign 2022 exhibitors announced
Saturday Indesign is back for 2022 with a lineup of exhibitors opening the doors to Sydney’s best showrooms
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Cheers to Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020, and many more industry events to come!
The eve of Thursday 20 February 2020 was one of conviviality, celebration, and friendly competition, courtesy of Polytec and friends.
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More Than Just A Party
Inspired by Valentines Day just passed, Bowled Over: Love Fest 2020 is a chance for the architecture and design community to come together while the weather is still warm and reconnect before the year takes off.
Articles
Announcing the 2019 Workspace Awards winners!
Going from strength to strength, the 2019 Workspace Awards saw the most exciting submissions in the history of the program, and here’s who took home gold…
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Creating impact: Maxton Fox at FRONT.design 2019
With two days of product showcases, endless networking opportunities and learning, FRONT.design 2019 proved to be a success. We look back at some of the key showcases by our esteemed exhibitor brand, Maxton Fox.
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Meet the exhibitors at FRONT.design
It all begins with innovation and connection at FRONT.design. It might start at the stands, but it concludes with catch-ups and productive conversations. Here are the leading brands you can connect with this year.
Dissections
Microsoft Technology Centre, by Tom Mark Henry
How to make a global tech giant with a transient workforce feel at home? Find out with Sydney’s new Microsoft Technology Centre.
Events
Joint Forces: The Collabs And Latest Releases At Saturday Indesign Melbourne
Collaboration is perhaps one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s and supplier’s arsenal. And where better to release the full power of collaborative creative vision than Saturday in Design? Here we revisit 10 top collaborations from this year’s event.
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Joint forces: The collabs and latest releases as seen at Saturday Indesign
Collaboration is perhaps one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s and supplier’s arsenal. And where better to release the full power of collaborative creative vision than Saturday in Design? Here we revisit 10 top collaborations from this year’s event.
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Playfully Serious: ownworld, Dowel Jones & polytec collaborate on workplace design
See what happens when ownworld, Dowel Jones and polytec put minds and materials together in Collingwood for Saturday Indesign…
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Get ready! Announcing our first exhibitors for Saturday Indesign
We are pumped to announce our first group of exhibitors (with more to come) for Saturday Indesign.
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Red Energy Melbourne
Pavilions, hubs, neighbourhoods, precincts and the like are fast becoming a popular staple in the agile workplace diet – but why? In their latest project for Red Energy Melbourne, iconic studio Carr sees the significance of these spaces as allowing users to claw back some personal ownership of their working environment.
Articles
Steccawood and the warmth of timber
With STECCAWOOD, Polytec shows that the warmth of a natural wood-style finish is never going out of style.
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Goodbye gloss: presenting Venette with polytec
Anti-fingerprint and anti-scuff decorative surfaces offer designers a balance of contemporary aesthetics with outstanding performance. Introducing Venette by polytec.
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Mirvac HQ
When builder/developer Mirvac decided half-way through the development process for the EY Centre at 200 George Street, Sydney to move their headquarters into six levels of the building, it was a vote of confidence in their own project.
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Improving on flawlessness – the growing Melamine range
Polytec’s Melamine range has been expanded with the introduction of the Avellino door profile, available in 14 stunning Woodmatt colours.
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Polytec’s Metallic Leaf
polytec’s standing in the decorative surfaces industry has grown with the launch of its latest range – Metallic Leaf.
Dissections
From Here On
Designed by Siren Design, From Here On provides the sophistication of a boutique hotel with the comfort of a luxury apartment in a highly functional and welcoming workplace environment.
Articles
The charm of metal
polytec’s prowess in the decorative surfaces industry is rising with the introduction of its newest board and laminate range – Metallic Leaf.
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Your Sydney Polytec Design Winners for 2017
As polytec’s Design Awards 2017 visited Sydney, the design lovers present were lucky enough to catch some of the finest recipients of the brand’s Residential, Commercial and Retail/Hospitality awards yet.
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Here are Victoria’s Polytec Design Winners 2017!
As polytec’s Design Awards 2017 visited Melbourne, those present were able to see some of the greatest Residential, Commercial and Retail/Hospitality projects awarded yet!
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Announcing Your Polytec 2017 Tasmanian Design Award Winners
The 28th of September saw another Polytec Design Awards Night come and go for 2017, with Tasmania showing it’s a force to be reckoned with in the design industry.
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polytec’s Chromaboard Brings Higher Ground to Life
DesignOffice has reimagined the former power station, Higher Ground, into an all-day hospitality destination in Melbourne’s CBD, complete with polytec finishes for that final touch.
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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.
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SID17: What Went Down At The Venue?
Global design fairs usually occupy dull exhibition halls, where besuited visitors trudge down rows of same-same stands. SO. BORING. This is why every year at Sydney Indesign, we turned things up a notch at The Venue: one location with one enormous lineup! And it was truly stellar…
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Polytec are Growing the Compact Range
As the consummate, long-lasting, low-maintenance, decorative panel, polytec’s Compact laminate is a go-to product for the most demanding professional environments– and its been expanded with four new colours.
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BEON Energy Solutions (Powercor CitiPower) by Siren Design
What are the principles and strategies behind designing for incidental staff collisions and chance encounters? Siren Design maps out its creative thinking and approach for Powercor CitiPower’s BEON Energy Solutions, Melbourne: a purpose built workplace which encourages its staff to ‘interact’ and ‘collide’.
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Announcing the Polytec 2017 QLD Design Award Winners!
Last month saw the launch of Polytec’s Design Week 2017 for Queensland, and a design awards night to match! Couldn’t make it? Don’t stress, we’ve got all the details right here…
Articles
Touch Wood! Exploring The New Woodmatt Laminate Range
Polytec’s designer-beloved palette collection has grown through the addition of the Woodmatt, a new range of 12 tactile woodgrain prints.
Articles
The New Kid On The Block: Mazda Macarthur
Mazda has opened an enormous showroom in Campbelltown NSW and no expense has been spared in creating a beautiful, comfortable experience for its customers.
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Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot
Integrated technology might be commonplace in the workplace, but in education spaces it’s still a fairly new phenomenon. At Western Sydney University, Woods Bagot’s vertical campus design raises the bar in more ways than one.
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KPMG Headquarters Barangaroo by Davenport Campbell
Workplaces are no longer just singular production hubs, but company showrooms used by and with clients. Designed by Davenport Campbell, the new KPMG headquaters in Barangaroo transforms the brave new world of agile working into a workplace to call home.
Products
Woodmatt – The New Go-To in Laminates
Polytec’s core palette collection has expanded with the addition of Woodmatt, a new range of 12 tactile woodgrain prints, setting a new benchmark for standard laminates and melamines.