April 2012
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DESIGN// Colour directions in Milan for Salone del...
Looking beyond the spectacular window displays by luxury fashion brands throughout Milan for early indicators of the next wave in colour direction in furniture & interior design – this year the Pantone palette is almost impossible to avoid!!
Gelato shades of teal, green, red & orange pop with washed out shades of pink, along with the ever-present blue that many fashionistas dub...
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DESIGN// Welcome to Salone del Mobile as reported...
It’s April, & Milan Design Week / Salone del Mobile is upon us. Think the ‘Olympic Games of Design’ & you’re halfway there!! Over the years the event has become so big, installations are housed in every available space across the city, making it impossible to cover it all.
First launching in 1961 as a trade export initiative to market Italian Design products internationally, the event...
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GET REAL // Equal Rights for Design
Equal Rights for Design is a campaign lead by Elle Decoration editor in chiefMichelle Ogundehin. A campaign striving to alter laws in Britain to protect design copyright and IP, akin to how film, music and other creative disciplines are protected.
The proliferation of unauthorised production of original designer furniture and lighting in recent years has alarmingly spiked demand for replica, or...
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DESIGN// Lee Broom at Salone del Mobile
Shortlisted for the inaugural FRAME / MOOOI award, Brit designer Lee Broom is set to launch his first collection at Salone del Mobile this week. Lee Broom Public House is showcasing much of Broom’s carpets, furniture & lighting, along with the global launch of Crystal Light Bulb.
Combining industrial influences with decorative qualities, Lee transforms the everyday light bulb into an...
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DESIGN// Alice Rawsthorn Interview
As a weekly columnist for the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, Alice Rawsthorn is arguably one of the world’s most influential design critics. In the lead up to her presentation at designEX 2012, the Australian Design Review talks with Rawsthorn about her definition of good design and the challenges ahead for its practice.
You’re a very successful...
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DESIGN // Bespunk joins The NEST at designEX
Bespunk, a clever initiative from Alexander Lotersztain and his cross-disciplinary design brand DERLOT, will join The NEST next month at designEX!
Found objects and recycled furniture are reborn by the application of a specially developed finish that breathes new life into existing items, the result creating unique, bespoke and limited edition items. The finish can be applied to almost any...
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BLOG // 50 Best Design Blogs
DEZEEN have been announced as the most popular blogs in 50 Best Blogs.
Started in 2006 by the former founding editor of Icon Magazine, Marcus Fairs, Dezeen is one of the most popular and influential architecture and design blogs on the internet, receiving over two million visits a month.
Other contenders in the top ten included It’s Nice That; a massively popular, regularly updated blog...
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ART // Melbourne Affordable Art fair
Art Melbourne, the southern annex of the Affordable Art exhibitions showcasing emerging artists and less expensive works, will reprise next month May 24 - 27th.
Held at the Melbourne exhibition centre and attracting 14,000 visitors, the event provides the ideal entry point for collectors of original, affordable art, and presents offerings that cater to a range of taste and budgets.
Art...
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ARCHITECTURE // Denton Corker Marshall awarded...
designEX congratulates Melbourne-based Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) on their appointment by the Australia Council for the Arts as the architects for the new Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Selected from six shortlisted submissions, the DCM proposal will replace a temporary structure created by eminent architect Philip Cox in 1988.
AIA president and member of the selection committee...
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THE NEST// As seen on How We Create 02.04.12
As designEX – Australia’s largest showcase of interior products, finishes and accessories – heads into it’s 24th year, the exhibition has unveiled not only a new look but an entirely new vision that will ensure the event continues as the key platform for design professionals to connect, inspire and explore the latest in their field.
After several years of the event coinciding with Milan’s Salone...
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ARCHITECTURE // Make-Space for Architecture,...
Make-Space for Architecture is an independent collective promoting the agency of architecture in Sydney – that strives to nurture and promote critical practice in the industry, campaign with decision makers and inform and mobilise the community in order to effect positive change.
Join Make-Space in the gallery on Sunday afternoon for a film screening of The Bank Job (2008) as a part of the...
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DESIGN :: Maarten De Ceulaer // Salone del Mobile
Maarten De Ceulaer is exhibiting at three locations during the impending Salone del Mobile in Milan – PERSPECTIVES, a showcase of 25 established Belgian designers & design brands, will include Maarten’s prototype series MUTATION (above), at the Triennale de Milano; with the series also on display at Rossana Orlandi, & Another Terra: Home Away From Home alongside BCXSY,...
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EVENT // Chrisopher Boots spectacular new lighting...
The newly launched photographic studio and props warehouse The Establishment Studiosis set to launch it’s latest endeavour – a collaboration with talented Melbourne lighting designer Christopher Boots.
A new release PROMETHEUS will be unveiled in Melbourne next week – the sculptural pendant so new that we are yet to receive images! Created from bronze, brass and steel, the lamp blends elemental...
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ART // Miranda Skoczek at Iain Dawson Gallery
Using traditional folk iconography and remixing it for the 21st century, Melbourne-based painter, Miranda Skoczek’s works invite the viewer to witness the birth of new meanings and relationships, encouraging us to “imagine how fantastical spaces materialize,” as we engage with each piece.
Tears of Joy, 2012 // mixed media on arches, paper, perspex frame
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March 2012
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PRODUCT FOCUS // TSAR Rugs & Carpets launching...
The TSAR Rugs & Carpet portfolio now includes an extensive selection of wall-to-wall carpets, soon to be joined by a new eco-sensitive range made from bamboo yarn.
Of the new collection, Sydney manager Amanda Grant explains ‘Bamboo yarn is the most innovative and exciting fiber currently available as a floor covering option. The properties of bamboo tick all the boxes – it is a sustainable...
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PHOTOGRAPHY // Hugh Holland vintage skate shots
In the mid-Seventies, two events coincided in Southern California that gave rise to skateboarding as we now know it. The invention of the urethane wheel and the drought that emptied the pools across the city allowed the kids to ride their new boards in an entirely new way. Skateboarders, thrashers and bad-ass kids from different neighborhoods and backgrounds in Los Angeles began hitting the...
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ART // A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words
Gain a rare and exclusive insight into the intimate and defining moments of some of Australia’s most talented photographers in [thousand words], a photography exhibition in Sydney’s newest public art space, Lane Four at The Galeries.
Curated by aMBUSH Gallery in a special collaboration with William York of York Production, ten photographers have been invited to submit a single...
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ARCHITECTURE // Renato D’Ettorre Architects
Azuris by Renato D’Ettorre Architects. Image: Francesca Giovanelli
The Renato D’Ettorre Architects’ designed Azuris residence has received both a Regional Commendation and the J.W Wilson Award for Building of the Year in the Queensland State Awards. A series of connecting pavilions are positioned to harness views across the Coral Sea, with the material palette allowing the building to integrate...
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BLOG LOVE // Emma’s DesignBlogg leads the way!
One of the first to jump into the blogosphere – Swedish interior stylist and freelance writer Emma Fexeus launched her blog, Emma’s DesignBlogg way back in 2005, a lifetime ago in ‘internet-speak’!
Finding a blog to be the ideal way to share trends and inspirational imagery, Emma swiftly gained a massive following, with regular posts focused on interior styling and photography, rather than...
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DESIGN // Great Dane turn 10 with a hot new...
Scandinavian design specialists Great Dane this week celebrate 10 years with a new showroom in Johnson Street Fitzroy. The expansive Melbourne space allows the brand to showcase not only emerging talent, but will also launch new brands over coming months, cementing Great Dane’s position as a leader in the Australian design retailing scene.
Following the curated feel found in the original showroom...
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DESIGN // AUSTRALIAN INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS –...
The shortlist for the Australian Interior Design Awards has been revealed - collectively the stellar list of projects demonstrate that the Australian design industry is thriving, with the shortlisted design practices representing excellence across the many different spheres of interior design.
The judging process, conducted under the auspices of the Design Institute of Australia, also...
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DESIGN // FRAME Moooi finalists announced –...
With the ultimate award to be presented during Salone del Mobile on April 18, ten finalists have been announced in the prestigious FRAME / Moooi interior-design award – among them Sydney based designers at FACET STUDIO for the ‘shoe box’ display system!
FACET STUDIO ‘Shoe Box’ – Australia
Entry criterion required submissions custom designed furnishings or lighting that have been launched in...
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EXHIBITION/EVENT // Women With Clever Hands at...
Women with Clever Hands: Gapuwiyak Miyalkurruwurr Gong Djambatjmala features an incredible survey of handcrafted works made by women artists from Gapuwiyak in northeast Arnhem Land.
Women with Clever Hands spans 130 pieces that include bags, baskets, mats, apparel and sculptural figures, all made from natural materials that have been produced and collected over the past fifteen years....
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ARCHITECTURE // Historic Houses talks SYDNEY OPEN...
Bay House, Watsons Bay, 2000.
Depot Beach House, Depot Beach NSW, 2008
Sydney’s Historic Houses Trust, in partnership with NSW Architects Registration Board, will host a dynamic series of talks: SYDNEY OPEN TALKS: HOUSE - lectures that explore the historical and contemporary perspectives in heritage, architecture, design and development. The series of eight conversations with eminent historians...
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EXHIBITION // Penfolds THE BLOCKS by Studio...
British creative agency Studio Toogood has created a multi-sensory food and wine experience for Penfolds Wines with THE BLOCKS. A temporary food and wine event, that is overseen by trained sommeliers within the context of a creative installation that fuses art, design, food and wine.
THE BLOCKS pop-up installation encourages visitors to discover their palettes using sight, touch and smell prior...
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ART // Abbey McCulloch
Those lusting after an original painting by Gold Coast-based artist Abbey McCulloch should get in line, with her shows at Melbourne’s Helen Gory Galerie all but pre-sold prior to the opening!
Recently this superb four panel series featured as part of a group show in Sydney, with Melbourne’s Helen Gory Galerie exhibiting as a pop-up at MOP Gallery.
The four panel series ‘Of Things to...
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DESIGN – NENDO ‘1% products’ // Milan preview
Like a host of other brands, uber-cool Japanese design studio NENDO have released images of a limited edition tableware collection to be launched at the NENDO solo exhibition during Salon del Mobile in Milan next April.
The collection includes a series of stacking vases, a coffee-filter holder that mimics the matching cup it stacks with, and a stacking set of sake cups that can be combined to make...
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designEX // a new look, a new identity, a new...
Paramount to sign posting the many changes to designEX in 2012, last week we saw the unveiling of the new identity created by Marita Leuver, director of Leuver Design, who shares with us some recent projects she has completed with a host of world class creative Australian entities.
1.Please introduce us to Leuver Design:
Following 10 successful years with my sisters running the...
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DesignEX Seminar Series-7 Kinds of Happiness
AMS speaks to Emma Telfer, partner of Office for Good Design, the collective producing the seminar series for designEX, with talks falling within the overarching theme exploring 7 Kinds of Happiness: Conversations on Design and Emotion
1. Introduce us to OFFICE FOR GOOD DESIGN - what was the motivation to establish the collective?
We (Kate Rhodes, Dan Honey & Emma Telfer) met whilst working...
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ARCHITECTURE Wang Shu, the 2012 Pritzker laureate
Chinese architect Wang Shu, from the Hangzhou-based practice Amateur Design Studio he established with his wife Lu Wenyu, has been announced as the 2012 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s most prestigious award.
The field of architecture was chosen by the Pritzker family because of their keen interest in building due to their involvement with developing the...
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DESIGN Salone del Mobile preview Fornasetti
Barnaba Fornasetti will unveil new Fornasetti pieces at Fuori Salone de Mobile 2012, including a low buffet cabinet available in a range of finishes selected from the Fornasetti archive. ’Face and Stripes’ (above), an interpretation of the woman’s face taken from the Fornasetti series ‘Tema e Variazion’ (Theme & Variations), adds to the iconic collection of decorative objects, screens and...
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ART Paul Davies at Tim Olsen Gallery
Paul Davies paintings reveal a passion for modernist architecture, with the geometry of the houses he paints juxtaposed by the surrounding landscape. Working from photographs, then using stencils and paint, the paintings blur the lines between abstraction and realism.
At just 32 years old, Davies’ international profile is rising after showing in Los Angeles and London, prior to a solo exhibition...
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The NEST – An Australian Design Showcase
In support of Australian furniture, lighting and object design talent, designEX NEST will showcase the BEST in works from independent Australian designers and design collectives.
Observing that there are several platforms that promote new works by emerging designers, along with supportive mentor programs showing product at a prototype stage; designEX identified an opportunity to support local...
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Hotel Missoni Kuwait
Almost two years after unveiling Hotel Missoni Edinburgh, the long-awaited Hotel Missoni Kuwait opened the doors on February 29th, a second collaboration with Rezidor Hotel Group.
Boasting breathtaking views across the Gulf, the iconic Italian fabric house stretches playful geometry and bolts of contrasting color throughout the interior, with the Hotel featuring key pieces from the MISSONI HOME...
February 2012
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WELCOME to designEX BLOG!!
After 24 years designEX remains Australia’s most significant trade event for interior design and architectural professionals – and now with a new team at the helm, designEX is about to enter a new era!
Over the coming weeks we will introduce you to the people behind the brands, exhibitors and designers; the big-name internationals set to headline the seminar series, along with the inside word on a...
