Utopia or Oblivion Photography Series by John Tsiavis for Christopher Boots.For Christopher Boots, the concept behind Utopia or Oblivion images was to imagine a refuge from the noise and turbulence of our times—an indoor utopia steeped in beauty, and sheltered from the oblivion outside....
Belmont House in Kew, VIC by Kennedy Nolan.Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to...
Fred International Unveils New Melbourne Showroom.Set in an iconic Collingwood warehouse, Fred International showroom features a darker, moodier palette, that the one you would expect to find in a Scandinavian furniture emporium. Angela Harry's idea was to make Fred feel at home in...
Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite – but even so, there’s still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
Mitchelton Winery Hotel in Nagambie, Victoria by Hecker Guthrie.The Mitchelton Winery Hotel is one of a number of new, luxury lodgings colouring Victoria’s quiet, sunny wine country. In Central Victoria (apparently Victoria’s best-kept wine secret), it’s also the second historic regional hotel by...
Kloke’s Brutalist-Inspired Melbourne CBD Store by David Goss.Put simply, Kloke's new Melbourne store has a gentle brutalist sort of feel. The pale grey stucco finish across the walls and ceilings conveys a sense of mass, as if the space had been carved out as a single, sculptural...
Lindenderry Hotel in Mornington Peninsula by Hecker Guthrie.A little village in the hinterland of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula called Red Hill may not squeal design hotspot, but a few recent additions to the region’s accommodation options may be changing that...
Caravan 2.0 Restaurant in Seoul, South Korea by Flack Studio.One of the many very cool things about Caravan Hapejong restaurant in Seoul are the rows of powder blue Featherston Scape dining chairs. I love this iconic Australian early 60s-era chair, its brass circle feet, and its inimitable curve...
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...