Ross Gardam
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
Stylecraft opens new Collins Street showroom in Melbourne
Stylecraft opens its new Collins Street showroom, unveiling curated design spaces and Ross Gardam’s Dwell collection.
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.
Furniture
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.
Events
Milan reflections with DKO
DKO’s Koos de Keijzer and Michael Drescher bring us this personal report from Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan.
Events
A stroll with Ross Gardam in his Milan exhibition
Ross Gardam’s installation, LUMINESCENT DUALITY, was a Milan 2025 standout. We took a tour of the space with the Australian designer to gain some deeper insights into the pieces on show.
Events
Hundreds of events planned as Melbourne Design Week returns
Melbourne design Week is just around the corner and here’s a glimpse of what to expect!
Events
Euroluce Report: Your guide to the lights of Milan 2025
It was the year of Euroluce and all things lighting at Milan Design Week in 2025. Among a high-quality and extremely wide field, here are some of the highlights.
Products
Ross Gardam: Crafting Light Through Innovation and Tradition
Ross Gardam shares insights into his design philosophy, the making of his award-winning Méne light, and the evolving landscape of sustainable craftsmanship.
News
V-ZUG’s earthy, sumptuous Melbourne studio
V-ZUG opens its latest studio in Melbourne with a beautiful and locally specific space that has the wow factor in spades.
Project
Halls of power
Open, light-filled and speaking directly to contemporary Australian culture, the new Bates Smart-designed Australian Embassy in Washington DC is positioning Australia at the forefront of contemporary design.
Events
Map out your Melbourne Design Week with these 12 highlights
Melbourne’s epic Design Week is almost upon us. I put it out to my friends and colleagues, asking what they can’t wait to see, and have collated a top 12 program highlights list for you here.
Events
Celebrating a legacy: Stylecraft’s 70th birthday
This year marked Stylecraft’s 70th birthday – time to reflect on a rich history of raising the bar in Australian furniture, design and lighting.
Articles
Stylecraft’s education edit: 10 cutting-edge designs for modern learning spaces
Drawing on a remarkable 70-year legacy, Stylecraft’s passion for supporting Australian design sees it bring locally-designed solutions into today’s modern learning environments. Here’s a comprehensive break-down of furniture solutions that support new and evolving education environments.
Events
Méne by Ross Gardam wins The Object at 2023 INDE.Awards
The winner of The Object category at the 2023 INDE.Awards lights up our world and is certainly an object of desire.
Events
Latest Ross Gardam designs in the spotlight at Stylecraft
Designer Ross Gardam recently teamed up with Stylecraft to present a series of events that focused on select Ross Gardam designs and new releases, all available at Stylecraft.
Events
Ross Gardam’s Méne light named The Object of 2023 at INDEs
Ross Gardam wasn’t always intent on being an award winning furniture and lighting designer. However after his win at INDE.Awards this year, taking home The Object trophy for his Méne light, we’d say his destiny is pretty clear.
Events
Shortlist revealed – The Object
The shortlist for The Object at the 2023 INDE.Awards provides the opportunity to view the latest in furniture and lighting.
Events
12 things we’re excited for at Milan Design Week 2023
The Salone del Mobile is just around the corner. The schedule is jam-packed and it already seems as if there’s not enough hours in the week for all the design goodness! Here are 12 things to look out for.
Events
Elevated adaptations from the design world of Ross Gardam
Producing contemporary furniture, lighting and objects out of Melbourne, Ross Gardam is a team of designers, engineers and makers whose limited edition collections merge form with desire.
Articles
When the possibilities are endless…
Hearth, the new lounge collection by Ross Gardam, is in a league of its own when it comes to comfort and style.
Articles
Woods Bagot and local designers collaborate for Stylecraft
Stylecraft’s new Adelaide showroom, designed by Woods Bagot, brings a welcoming lightness to the mezzanine of 11 Waymouth Street.
Articles
Skip the lead times, shop StylecraftNOW
Stylecraft’s coveted collections of local and international designer furniture are now quicker and easier to acquire than ever before, thanks to StylecraftNOW.
Project
This store is the Girlboss of retail experiences
DesignOffice’s latest project, Mastani, is a retail experience that creates the perfect environment for the serious shopper.
Edit
The pursuit of refinement and evolving innovation through experiential design
A year in review: Melbourne-based industrial designer, Ross Gardam talks to us about his most recent collections and what the future has in store in this edition of the Indesign Edit.
Articles
Introducing StylecraftNOW – the new online store from Stylecraft
The design community of Australia has a new reason to rejoice with the launch of StylecraftNOW – the best new online space to secure new and almost-new designer furniture and lighting.
Products
Designed to intrigue: Breeze embodies monolithic ambiguity
Australian designer, Ross Gardam presents the new table collection of Breeze: where light and design interplay to create an extraordinary furniture experience.
Project
Leading lights of the region
To position today’s design innovations within the longer-term trajectories that shape our region, look no further than the INDE.Awards Luminaries.
Articles
Meeting the new needs of our workplaces with Stylecraft
Now is the time for workplaces and commercial venues to showcase the flexibility and agility of office furniture we’ve known and loved all along.
People
Rigour, Refinement And Value: INDE. Luminary, Ross Gardam
Leading a studio of designers, engineers and makers in Melbourne, Ross Gardam is the author of rigorously considered objects that bring value to people in a noise-filled world.
People
Rigour, Refinement And Value: INDE. Luminary, Ross Gardam
Leading a studio of designers, engineers and makers in Melbourne, Ross Gardam is the author of rigorously considered objects that bring value to people in a noise-filled world.
Lighting
Ceto: A moment of nostalgia, illuminated
Australian lighting and furniture designer, Ross Gardam unveils the Ceto collection – the brand’s biggest luminaire range to date.
News
Introducing The INDE.Awards Luminaries Of 2020
They’ve spent years practicing architecture or design with a consistently bold and fearless approach. They inspire others with their skill, insight and foresight. We are honoured to reveal our Luminaries of 2020.
People
Introducing The INDE.Awards Luminaries Of 2020
They’ve spent years practicing architecture or design with a consistently bold and fearless approach. They inspire others with their skill, insight and foresight. We are honoured to reveal our Luminaries of 2020.
Products
The Place of togetherness and intuitive creativity
Balanced and a natural problem-solver, Place is a new type of lounge – one that is smart, intuitive and brings people together. Australian designer, Ross Gardam invites you to experience a refreshed way of working with the Place collection.
Furniture
The Place of togetherness and intuitive creativity
Balanced and a natural problem-solver, Place is a new type of lounge – one that is smart, intuitive and brings people together. Australian designer, Ross Gardam invites you to experience a refreshed way of working with the Place collection.
People
Ross Gardam: Emotion by Design
He is a mid-career designer, but retains the fresh vision of someone just starting out. Meet Ross Gardam, one of the great success stories of Australian design.
People
Ross Gardam: Emotion by Design
He is a mid-career designer, but retains the fresh vision of someone just starting out. Meet Ross Gardam, one of the great success stories of Australian design.
Articles
New space, new identity for Stylecraft Singapore
Stylecraft and HASSELL’s collaborative legacy of awe-inspiring showroom interiors has breached new frontiers with the new Stylecraft Singapore showroom.
Project
No place like home: Elka Collective by Aplin Creative
Word on the street is that independent fashion brands are investing in bricks and mortar once again. A tour through Elka Collective’s new store by Aplin Creative is visually compelling proof that the reports are true.
Dissections
Elka Collective, from Aplin Creative
Aplin Creative’s visually compelling design for Australian fashion label Elka Collective’s first flagship store raises the subject of why independent brands are investing in bricks and mortar once again.
Products
Indesign In Focus: Minimal ambient lighting
Whether it’s a commercial interior or a hospitality setting, lighting can create a mood, evoke emotions and entice users to engage with the space. Our Indesign In Focus this week brings to you the best minimal but ambient fixtures.
News
What’s on at City Central for Saturday Indesign
With Saturday Indesign only a week or so away (yay!), find out all the things happening in the City Central district. It’ll come in handy, especially if you’re looking to plan your travel for the day.
News
The latest releases from ICFF 2019
The ICFF in New York has just wrapped, we take a look at some of the latest noteworthy releases.
News
“The industry comes together as one” at Saturday Indesign
As long-time collaborators and supporters, Stylecraft has joined a growing list of design suppliers that will be opening up their showrooms for Saturday Indesign, 22 June.
News
“Innovative and awe-inducing” – Announcing INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist
The results are out! We’re excited to introduce you to your INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist. Read on to find out which entries made the final cut.
Events
Announcing INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist
The results are out! We’re excited to introduce you to your INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist. Read on to find out which entries made the final cut.
Events
The Official Shortlist Of INDE.Awards 2019
“Innovative and awe-inducing” – We’re excited to introduce you to your INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist. Read on to find out which entries made the final cut.
Ideas
Whose chair is it anyway? How replica furniture took over the world
In the multi-billion dollar business of replica furniture production, we ask the tough questions about what bootlegging is doing to our design industry.
News
What makes Good Design?
Last week saw hundreds of products across a wide range of categories awarded in the annual Good Design Awards. Here we highlight the projects and products that remain close to our heart – architecture, interiors and furniture.
Ideas
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’.
News
A look back: INDE.Awards 2017 winners and themes
Your INDE.Awards Official Shortlist for 2018 is about to be announced. We cast our eyes back to the successful entries of 2017. What new directions will 2018 bring?
Dissections
Escala Sydney
If engaged at the beginning of a business lifecycle, designers can become so much more than the vessels of a new brand. In the case of Escala by Molecule, they have the opportunity to define it.
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.
News
From the Publisher’s Desk
Another month has whisked by with plenty of action from all corners. Raj Nandan, Indesign Media Asia Pacific’s Publisher, recaps on the highlights throughout the month and what we’re looking ahead to in April.
News
How sustainable is local fashion and design?
Featuring Ross Gardam, Holly Ryan and speakers from Arnsdorf and Sussex Taps, the VAMFF panel discussion explored environmental best practice across industrial design, handcrafted jewellery, and fashion.
Products
Pulling The Rug Out
Having just launched their inaugural rug collection, Stylecraft shows how Australian creatives continue to reimagine the design rulebook.
Articles
Pulling The Rug Out
Having just launched their inaugural rug collection, Stylecraft reminds us that Australians continue to reimagine the design rulebook.
Products
Everything is Illuminated! The Lighting Designers You Need to Know
For designers, lighting is an underappreciated element that is integral to shaping the character of – and experience within – a space. We showcase some of the best lighting designers from across Australia and New Zealand.
Dissections
Lights in the Attic
This artfully composed Melbourne café worships all things materiality. Designed by Melbourne-based studio Architects EAT, we speak with Director Eid Goh on taking our industry’s total obsession with fine materials to the next level, and the value of specifying beyond aesthetic.
Articles
5 minutes with … Ross Gardam!
As his latest collection of lounges and accessories – ADAPT – hits the Australian market, we sit down with Ross Gardam to get a behind-the-scenes peek at the collaboration with Stylecraft.
Products
Adapt in Name, Adapt in Nature: The Lounge Designed for Today’s Dynamic Workplaces
Weaving together the best of commercial and residential design, what’s not to love about Ross Gardam’s new collection of lounges and accessories?
Articles
Adapt in Name, Adapt in Nature: The Lounge Designed for Today’s Dynamic Workplaces
Weaving together the best of commercial and residential design, what’s not to love about Ross Gardam’s new collection of lounges and accessories?
People
Local Design x Kozminsky: A Rockstar Line-up of Aussie Designers
Melbourne’s Kozminsky celebrates its 165th birthday with a killer collaboration with 7 of Australia’s most unique and sought after designers.
Ideas
Galleria – Indesign’s vibrant, interactive hub
Indesign’s dynamic Galleria hub offered lofty heritage-listed industrial architecture at the Locomotive Workshops at Eveleigh’s Australian Technology Park in Sydney’s inner-west. Sophie Davies reports.
People
Process and Passion: Ross Gardam
Since turning his hand to industrial design in 2007, Ross Gardam has never looked back.
Furniture
Half Full Collection by Ross Gardam
Launched at this year’s Saturday in Design Sydney, Half Full is Ross Gardam’s new collection for Stylecraft.