Issue 68 September 2019

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
After a busy few months attending design awards and events, I’ve been reflecting on the rapport and closeness among our design community. In Australia, we are part of a relatively small community of designers and the degrees of separation are few. Yo
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A Shared Future
Over the past almost two years, I have had the privilege of writing to (and for) Artichoke readers and DIA members in this column, sharing my thoughts and opinions about themes that affect all of us in the design community. During this time, I’ve ask
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Contributors
Marcus Baumgart is a designer and writer, and a founding director of Baumgart Clark Architects with long-time collaborator John A. Clark. You can read about their adventures at www.help.design. Melbourne Central Arcade (page 108) Claire Beale is
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The Edit
Designed by Arash Nourinejad and meticulously crafted in Denmark, Anour’s T Model reimagines the classic table lamp with a minimal form and distinctive finish. It features a tilting lamp shade with an integrated touch dimmer and a warm LED light sour
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Hotel Rose Bay
Authenticity is a word often trumpeted as an essential goal we should all strive for in our digital and physical lives. In the built world, and in hospitality design in particular, authenticity in the user experience is something we all strive to ach
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Prince Dining Room
The Prince of Wales Hotel has been an integral part of St Kilda’s cultural identity since as far back as 1863. When it came to transforming what was once Circa, the exclusive fine dining restaurant on the first floor, IF Architecture was brought on b
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Zagame’s House
Fusing flavours of 1960s design with the bustling urban context of Carlton, Melbourne’s newest boutique hotel, Zagame’s House is playfully unique and comprehensive. Owned by seasoned hoteliers and brothers Victor and Robert Zagame, and designed by Lu
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In Brief
SJB’s revitalization of the University of New South Wales campus bookshop into a dynamic retail space distils qualities from some of the world’s best-loved bookstores into a unique design vision that celebrates the book. Designed in close collaborati
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Perfect Partnership
For close to a decade, King Living has worked with eminent contemporary designer Charles Wilson to produce a suite of outstanding and original design pieces that include beautifully bespoke sofas, armchairs, ottomans, side tables and lighting. The jo
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Dust
A wall is an architecture of exclusion, division, restriction and segregation, and it is the stage setting that the contemporary dance Dust by Dancenorth opens with. A monolithic wedge-shaped wall slices the stage in two, creating a barrier between t
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Flynn Talbot
Australian light artist and designer Flynn Talbot works internationally, creating monumental, experiential light installations and designing products for lighting manufacturers. After graduating from the School of Art and Design in Western Australia
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The Edit
Laminex has launched an updated collection of colourful decorative surfaces that includes forty-one new designs. The Colour Collection has been inspired by the natural landscape and ranges from muted, organic greens such as Green Slate (pictured) to
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Amp Up Your Space
The Sonos Amp is a powerful and versatile home audio amplifier that powers traditional wired speakers with sound from almost any source, fully integrating these speakers into Sonos’ easy-to-use wireless home sound system. Twice as powerful as its pre
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Piazza Dell’Ufficio
There is something monastic in the crisp arches, marbled floors and meticulous proportions of this project. It’s perhaps no surprise that classicism threads through architect Brad Wray’s description – he talks enthusiastically of piazzas and public s
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Giraffe Early Learning Centre
Balgowlah Substation has been a well known civic brick landmark almost since it was built in 1928 in a wide suburban street in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. It was one of three similar Interwar Stripped Classical-style substation structures (the others
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Curtin Think Space
Curtin University is a tertiary institution in Western Australia with a long history punctuated by several major changes: it started life as Perth Technical School in 1900, then moved to Bentley campus in Perth’s south in 1966, when it was renamed th
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Melbourne Central Arcade
How do you draw complexity from a twenty-millimetre thickness of skin, with little recourse to three dimensions? This is the question that Rachel Nolan, principal at Kennedy Nolan, posed on our visit to Melbourne Central. It was one of the challenges
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In Brief
Built in 1882 and located twenty-eight kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, Stamford Park Homestead has been uninhabited since 1987. Seasoned restaurateur Jason Jones and interior designer and partner Brahman Perera have lovingly restored the ho
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After Nature
1 March – 10 June 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 140 George Street The Rocks NSW mca.com.au The starting point for Janet Laurence’s photographic series Fabled from After Eden (2012) was her carefully positioned “camera trap” in the Sumatr

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