Contributors

Richard Christiansen

FOUNDER OF CHANDELIER CREATIVE AND FLAMINGO ESTATE

Babylonian retreat in Los Angeles is a far cry from Richard Christiansen’s rural northern NSW farmland upbringing but this speaks his capability to dream big. “My brother and I did not have many friends, but we got to exercise our imaginations all the time with the plants and garden,” he says. For this issue, his covetable home) has been captured by photographer Matthieu Salvaing. “Collaboration, to me, is an alchemical spark that allows you to see things in new ways,” he says. “It was a dream come true to see the garden and orchard through Matthieu’s eyes.” In the course of his career, Christiansen has worked with Hermès and Cartier, as well as “many of my heroes, from Jane Goodall to President Obama to Kylie Minogue to Martha Stewart”. But it’s a return to nature and connection that is now his calling, culiminating with Flamingo Estate’s 14 new products available through Mecca. “Each feature rare botanicals and Australian essential oils that we’ve sourced meticulously from farmers and growers who are working in ways that help preserve Australia’s countryside, Indigenous wisdom and natural resources.”