Chess Moves: A 70s-Inspired Family Home Transformation in Byron Bay.This family home takes on new dimensions and depths with its Rubik’s cube of textures, tones and interventions. The original identity of the house exists somewhere between the exposed red brick walls, heavy timber beams and the all too...
Designing Tranquillity: Lawless & Meyerson’s Sydney Wharf Apartment Transformation.For anyone acquainted with Jo Lawless, director of Sydney interior design practice Lawless & Meyerson, chances are they’d describe her as cool, calm and collected. So it comes as no surprise Lawless & Meyerson’s latest project feels...
Alchemy of Styles: KODA Cutters Hair Salon by Arent&Pyke.Both nostalgic and futuristic, KODA Cutters, a blazingly bold hair salon perched on the upper mezzanine level of Sydney’s heritage-listed Queen Victoria Building, is a majestic work of sculpted fiction. Designed by Arent&Pyke, the...
Beachside Beauty: A Holiday Home in Sydney’s Northern Beaches by YSG Studio.By and large, the end of summer heralds three things: cooler weather, better behaved flies and permanently flung-open doors. And yet, there’s one house, nestled amidst Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where the summer lingers on: gently,...
A Mindful Retreat: Pokolbin House by Lot 1 Design and Matthew Woodward Architecture.A trifecta of interconnected pavilions, Pokolbin House balances the demands of a working estate in one of Australia's most established wine regions with the refined ease of a country retreat for a Sydney family. A nod to the principles of...
Nonchalant Sophistication: Johnson Partners HQ by YSG Studio.Inspired by Ken Adams’ James Bond set designs—including Scaramanga’s island lair carved into rocky outcrops and the whiskey noir sophistication of Goldfinger’s Rumpus Room—sculpted depths of saturated drama befit this new Sydney...
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...
Cultiver Sydney Head Office by YSG Studio.YSG Studio has drawn on the grandeur of Italian villas and subtle organic antipodean references to transform a St Leonards warehouse into a gestural expression of arched volumes and tactile finishes for the Australian home accessories...
Budge Over Dover by YSG Studio is Not Your Regular Home.This 825-square-metre project in Sydney's Dover Heights has peaceful outdoor areas on the ground floor and spectacular ocean views from balconies on the upper level. One of the main objectives of this project was to enhance the...
