Meet the Melbourne-Born Lighting Range Built on Ideas.Melbourne-based Andro started with a sketch and a prototype—a humble track light, developed at the HQ of lighting consultants Ambience. A group of lighting, design, and product professionals set out to develop a range that was distinctly...
William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner Bring Serious Design Cred to Swop South Melbourne.Forget what you think you know about second-hand shopping. Conceived in collaboration with designer William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner of Studio Gardner, Swop South Melbourne draws on New York warehouse energy and a furniture edit that...
Coffeyhallett Turns Love Isabelle’s Armadale Store Into a Domestic Retreat.Coffeyhallett's Love Isabelle Armadale resists everything the typical luxury jewellery store reaches for. No marble, glass cabinets, or formal geometry. Instead, the space is conceived as a living room — warm timber walls, generous...
Streifen’s Sentimental Pull: A Tender Exhibition About the Objects We Can’t Let Go Of.Melbourne studio Streifen has never been interested in design for design's sake. Founded by Madeleine Murdoch and Frances Normoyle, the practice begins with feeling—and Sentimental Pull, their March exhibition was perhaps the clearest...
Dion Hall Strips the Coffee Ritual Back to Its Purest Form at Standing Room Coffee Carlton.Standing Room Coffee strips the ritual back to its purest form—no seats, no distractions, just coffee. The compact fitout by Dion Hall is anchored by sculptural timber poles, rotational shelves and a warm material palette drawn from...
Ice Cream Shop Slash Listening Bar Designed as a Kit of Parts Built to Move.Most retail fit-outs end up in a skip bin when the lease expires. Kori Windsor by Air Design Studio is a deliberate challenge to that norm. The 50sqm Windsor ice cream shop slash listening bar is conceived as a suite of relocatable...
A New Vision for Optical Retail: Six Six by Kennedy Nolan.Not your average trip to the optometrist. Kennedy Nolan's design for Six Six centres on a zig-zagging display wall that orients most product away from the street, encouraging unhurried discovery over forensic browsing. A largely...
A 19th Century Pub Transformed into Seven Layers of Atmosphere.Eleisha Gray's creative direction of The Waterside Hotel is rooted in production design thinking—atmosphere and sequence first, materials second. At Past/Port restaurant, colour became a shared language between Executive Chef Sarah...
Check In to The Lobby, Ellison Studios’ Hotel-Inspired Showroom on Chapel Street.Ellison Studios transforms Prahran's 1914 Conways Buildings into The Lobby—part showroom, part social space, all atmosphere. The space brings together the brand's growing collection, curated artworks by Hake House, and a selection of...
