Issue 69 December 2019

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
It doesn’t get more Melbourne than Cumulus Inc. Since it opened in 2008 in a former art gallery on Melbourne’s Flinders Lane, the trend-setting eating house has served as the great all-rounder – a relaxed, all-day dining experience in a space elegant
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The Most Beautiful Timbers In The World
“Tasmanian timbers are most definitely at the top of what Australia has to offer. We’ve got access to the most beautiful timbers in the world. They provide me with the palette I need, from dark chocolate to blond and everything in between,” says Tasm
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Design Must Lead
In December 1976, the much-admired German designer Dieter Rams gave a speech in New York. “I am convinced,” he told the crowd, “that a well thought out design is decisive to the quality of a product. A poorly designed product is not only uglier than
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The Edit
The Reeno bench designed by Grazia & Co features a timelessly simple yet refined shape, which makes it adaptable and able to sit comfortably in a residential, commercial or hospitality space. Proudly made in Australia, it is fully upholstered and mad
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Coastal Comfort, From Sydney To The World
For more than forty years, Harbour 1976 has specialized in designing, manufacturing and distributing high-end furniture, with its collections specified in prominent projects around the world. From humble beginnings in 1976, when Harriet and Jim Condo
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From The Jury 2019 Jury
It sounds like the beginning of an overly complex joke: an architect, an editor, a restaurateur, a food critic and a designer walk into a room, and barely come out for two days. What happens when five highly opinionated people from markedly different
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Blacksmith Lake Mulwala
Winner Best Bar Design Designer The Stella Collective Location Mulwala, New South Wales There is a beautiful simplicity to the design of Blacksmith in Mulwala, New South Wales, and a sophistication that is all the more exciting given the venue’s r
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Di Stasio Citta
Winner Best Restaurant Design Designer Hassell Location Melbourne, Victoria Where much hospitality design these days relies on nostalgia for bygone eras, Di Stasio Citta, on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, looks boldly forward. As much art installatio
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Via Porta
Winner Best Cafe Design Designer Studio Esteta Location Mont Albert, Victoria There are a lot of bold choices in the design of Via Porta, a cafe and deli in Mont Albert, an eastern suburb of Melbourne. Yet the result is a space that is inviting abo
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Piccolina
Winner Best Retail Design Designer Hecker Guthrie Location Collingwood, Victoria The Collingwood outpost of popular gelato shop Piccolina showcases an approach that makes wonderful use of the raw materials with which the designers were presented. E
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Lagotto
Winner Best Identity Design Designer Studio Hi Ho Location Fitzroy North, Victoria The illustrations, artwork and photography employed by Lagotto, an all-day eatery in Melbourne’s Fitzroy North, is both playful and stylish, and gives the customer a
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The Magic Box
Winner Best Installation Design Designer Liminal Objects with Van Tuil Location Various locations, Tasmania Designed as a portable bar and showcase for Tasmanian whiskies, the Magic Box thrilled the jury with its innovation: the project challenges
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The Calile Hotel
Winner Best Hotel Design Designer Richards and Spence Location Fortitude Valley, Queensland The Calile Hotel in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley is a prime example of a large budget put to fantastic use. The design works to conjure an impressive sense o
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Drift House
Winner Best Hotel Design Designer Multiplicity Location Port Fairy, Victoria A boutique hotel in Victoria’s Port Fairy, Drift House’s design impressed the jurors with its intimacy, its emphasis on pared-down, natural materials and its striking sens
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Cumulus Inc.
Winner Hall of Fame Designer Pascale Gomes-McNabb Location Melbourne, Victoria Surpassing revolutionary design and highly conceptual branding, the ingredient that most often makes a restaurant successful and even iconic is the creation of a space i
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Long-term Perspective
Photographer Peter Clarke and architect Callum Fraser, director of Elenberg Fraser, have a long-standing relationship that goes above and beyond purely documenting buildings. It is a relationship that challenges the creativity and craft of both Clark
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In Brief
Located on the rooftop level of Westfield, Sydney, Babylon Rooftop Bar and Restaurant designed by Brisbane-based Hogg & Lamb recalls the splendour of an ancient city. Specializing in Middle Eastern cuisine, the restaurant features elegant dining room
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Modular Masterpiece
King Living’s Max Sofa Range offers comfort, flexibility and long-lasting performance. Every element of the modular range has been crafted for maximum relaxation. The sofa features feather-topped pillows, adjustable-depth back cushions and a generous
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Studiokyss
Kenny (Yong-soo) Son is a Sydney-based object designer whose Studiokyss (an acronym of his name) was launched in 2013. For Son, object design involves the creation of a physical thing that can “interact with people and its surroundings, often involvi
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Dot Comme
When Octavius (Otto) La Rosa was fifteen years old, his family went to Tokyo. In preparation, the precocious teenager spent a year working out which second-hand clothes stores he wanted to visit and the directions to avant-garde Japanese fashion labe
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Kind Curations
There can be a lot of unknowns in establishing a new bricks-and-mortar retail business: How much storage and display space is required? How to cater for an evolving product offering? How to allow for potential expansion? When designing the fitout of

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