Hecker Guthrie’s Triumphant Return at The StandardX Melbourne.Set to bring a new level of cool to Fitzroy's already impressive scene, The StandardX debut is anything but standard. This 125-room hotel embodies The Standard's rebellious spirit while celebrating local design. From its dramatic Corten...
From Unique Objects to Thought-provoking Ideas: Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2023.Melbourne Design Week 2023 is over for another year but not without igniting curiosity, discovery and pride in our Australian design community. With the event’s enduring theme ‘Design The World You Want’ feeling increasingly more...
Curves and Quartzite: Gildas Surry Hills by Atoma Design.Atoma Design has unveiled Gildas, a light and feminine restaurant & bar in Sydney’s Surry Hills for Firedoor chef Lennox Hastie. Inspired by Rita Hayworth’s character in the 1946 film noir of the same name, the studio utilised strong...
Australian Designers & Artists Transform Broken Design Objects Into Future Heirlooms.In Transformative Repair, leading Australian designers transform the broken design objects of celebrated creatives and climate change activists into future heirlooms. This important initiative aims to generate discussion around the...
Dream Weaver: A Spanish-style Casita in Darlinghurst by YSG Studio.Perhaps it was the pandemic-induced isolation, or their newly minted status as empty nesters, but when one Sydney couple acquired a penthouse overlooking Rushcutters Bay, they were mainly enthusiastic about one thing—dialling up the...
Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2022.Melbourne Design Week returned with a wave of fresh local talent responding to the theme 'Design the world you want'. With a sense of possibility in the air, bolstered by an overwhelming sense of community, designers, artists, makers and...
Chairity Project Returns with 18 Australian Creatives Transforming a Chair for Charity.Cult Design is back with the fourth edition of Chairity Project, an event that invites leading Australian creatives to bravely reinterpret an iconic chair with the pieces then exhibited and auctioned off to charity. This year 18 creatives...
Kite Breeze: Adam Goodrum’s Contemporary Take on Traditional Breeze Block for Brickworks.A symbol of indoor/ outdoor Australian lifestyle, breeze blocks have an ability to create an ambience in architecture as a constantly changing sculpture via the interplay of light, shadow and surface. Unveiled at the recent Brickworks B20,...
Exquisite Corpse Straw Marquetry Collection by Adam+Arthur.This mesmerising collaboration between Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur celebrates the kaleidoscopic visual effects of straw...
