Design Innovation Shines at 2024 Australian Interior Design Awards.The Australian Interior Design Awards have once again illuminated the pinnacle of design excellence, reflecting the industry's thriving and evolving nature. With categories spanning residential, retail, hospitality, public, workplace, and...
French Excellence in New York: Villa Albertine Atelier by Hugo Toro.With views over Central Park on New York’s Upper East Side, the historic Payne Whitney House is a relic monument to the Gilded Age. The five-storey building is now home to Villa Albertine, a French institution for artistic and...
Wynk Collaborative Make a Splash With Auterra Wine Store in Singapore.Wynk Collaborative's Auterra, a wine store and tasting space in the heart of Singapore, draws on the French concept of terroir, loosely translated to a feeling of the climate, soil and landscape coming together. The interior is defined by...
Hopper Joint in Melbourne is Brahman Perera and Jason Jones’ Love Letter to Sri Lanka.Hopper Joint has been a long time coming. The Sri Lankan diner in Prahran is a personal project eight years in the making for Melbourne designer Brahman Perera who has weaved his own heritage and familial customs into a space that breathes...
Four Unique Coffee Shops to Break Your Doom Scroll.Ever walked into a coffee shop on the other side of the world and had the eerie feeling you’ve been there before? No longer just the hallmarks of Starbucks, homogeneous designed cafes can be found all over the world—yet these venues...
Like Inside of a Coffee Bean: Ido & Friends Cafe by Aurora Design.Resembling the inside of a coffee bean, Aurora Design’s concept for Ido & Friends Cafe offers a humble retreat into the world of coffee, while remaining unpretentious and accessible. Embracing various types of chocolate brown timber, the...
Harnessing Materiality & Light: LES Berlin by RHO.Designed to be a highly flexible event location, LES Berlin is the kind of space that lies dormant until it is called upon. Lonely and stark, a series of hard surfaces build up the bones of three distinct areas—canteen, bar and event...
Salt, Fire, Heat, Acid: Bar Kar Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur by Spacemen.In Spacemen Studio’s design for Bar Kar, an immersive wood-fired restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, elements of heat and fire are reimagined via terracotta stucco walks, fiery mesh installations and the earthy hues of red travertine in a...
Now Showing: De Witt in Dordrecht by Studio Modijefsky.It’s often not a single moment of revelation that leads to the burst of excitement and inspiration so often brought on by good design, but rather, a collective of moments and measures that have been orchestrated so clearly and...
