Yellowtrace Spotlight // August 2018.

Well hello there, good lookin’, and welcome to the August 2018 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Spring this weekend (finally!), you can catch up on a few local and international hospitality & commercial projects; a former church turned into a workplace in Sydney; new dreamboat hotel in Santorini; the reveal of Haymes Paint’s latest colour forecast; new product launches from Smeg, Pedro Paulo-Venzon & GRT Architects; plus a sensational art exhibition at NGV you don’t want to miss. Let’s do it!

Warrior One Yoga Studio In Melbourne By Golden.

Inspired by a deep desire to create an organic, sensory experience for their guests, Warrior One is a yoga studio with transportive and tactile qualities.

ISTORIA Hotel in Santorini, Greece by Interior Design Laboratorium.

A deserted private residence neighbouring a deep blue patch of the Aegean Sea was transformed into a boutique hotel for travellers with eclectic taste, inspired by luminous images of the Mediterranean locations.

Lost Villa • Valley Land Boutique Hotel in Yuyao, Zhejiang, China by DAS Lab.

An ancient village in Eastern Chinese has recently welcomed a new boutique hotel by DAS Lab, designed to drive the development of local tourism industry.

Red Deer Architects Design Mid-Century Pasta Restaurant For London Institution Lina Stores.

For Lina Stores pasta restaurant in London’s Soho, Red Deer have created a contemporary dining experience that connects the ground floor open-kitchen bar with the downstairs restaurant.

Former Church In Surry Hills Transformed Into A Workplace by Squillace Architects.

Squillace Architects have transformed an old church into a light and harmonious interior that allows their team to work in a motivating and inspiring space.

Dog House In Beijing, China By Atelier About Architecture.

This Dog House has been designed as a calming sanctuary for a German shepherd with diminishing health and his doting owner.

Haymes Paint Reveals ‘Colour Conscience’ As The Latest Addition To Their Colour Library.

The latest colour release from Haymes Paint is a feel-good forecast built around the philosophy of how personal change can contribute to a greater good.

Door Frames Reimagined Into Furniture Pieces By Femme Atelier.

Traditional door and window frames seem like a fairly humdrum source of creativity, but with a dreamy gelato colour palette, clean lines, and iridescent panes layered with gradient colour, Femme Atelier’s Framemust series is anything but bland.

Door Frames Reimagined Into Furniture Pieces By Femme Atelier.

Impossibly cool Brazilian product designer Pedro Paulo-Venzon has returned with a new series of impossibly cool, sculptural side tables.

Dolce Stil Novo Luxury Appliance Collection By Guido Canali For Smeg.

Designed by one of Italy’s most lauded architects for Smeg, Dolce Stil Novo luxury range crosses the great divide between kitchen appliances and furniture.

Flutes & Reeds Cast Concrete Tiles By GRT Architects For Kaza Concrete.

With their cast concrete tile collection for Kaza Concrete, GRT Architects have explored fluting and reeding as one architecture’s oldest surface embellishments.

Design Storytellers: The Work of Broached Commissions Opens at NGV.

Spanning ten years of design, in this first retrospective of Broached Commissions, the designers have responded to a research-based model to create limited-edition and one of a kind bespoke design objects.

From Code To Confectionary: Not A Single Origin By Small Multiples & Bakedown Cakery.

Not A Single Origin is an Australian-first data-driven chocolate project that uses food to represent core cultural backgrounds of Sydney suburbs.