Penny Craswell: Reclaimed: New Homes from Old Materials
by Penny Craswell captures 21 Australian houses and apartments from an old weatherboard cottage with a 1980s extension in Melbourne to a tiny site that was once home to the Hobart Port Officer in colonial Australia. Curatedcelebrates not only these homes, but also a single bespoke Australian-designed piece of furniture or lighting in each. In Birrelli art + design + architecture’s Hobart Port Officer’s house, it’s a striking Tasmanian myrtle and leather chair by local craftsman Rye Dunsmuir. In Austin Maynard Architects’ weatherboard cottage, it’s a chandelier made from recycled black Sambuca bottles manipulated to resemble dripping tulips by glass artist Ruth Allen.
