Issue 62 March 2018

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
In Australia, the source book on colour for a generation of designers has been Janne Faulkner and Harley Anstee’s book Using Australian Colour (first edition 2002). The rich terracotta soil of the Red Centre, the silvery green-grey of eucalyptus tree
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Designing Our Shared Future
Since I wrote my inaugural Comment piece for Artichoke, I’ve had the privilege of spending time over the summer with our members, supporters and fellow travellers in the design community, recognizing the achievements of innovative and inspiring indus
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Contributors
Rachael Bernstone is a writer who specializes in architecture and design. She recently moved from Sydney to Perth and is embracing all the wonders of the west. Curtin Connect (page 110) Gus Dalheimer is a Dubai-based designer working in high-end
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In Brief
In designing Bang Bang at the Rifle Club in Elsternwick, Melbournce, Six Degrees and Chamberlain Architects have created an expansive indoor/outdoor hospitality space that draws inspiration from the surrounding greenery and South-East Asia. The club
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Bondi Hall
A “finish” is the interior design term for the outermost surface, the part that the user sees and touches. The finishes at Bondi Hall include steel, concrete, timber, felt and brass. For the work produced by architect Alana Cooke, the word “finish” o
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Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera
An opera house has the potential to define a city, to conjure a certain magic and, as Australians know too well, can leave a legacy for years to come. Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera is a Tasman-inspired brasserie that evokes the luxury and sophisticati
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Vacation Cafe
The team behind Vacation Cafe – owners and brothers Kael and Matt Sahely, design practice Therefore and branding agency The Company You Keep – knew they were up against a saturated cafe market when they began the project. Rather than getting overly s
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Raw Beauty
Restaurateur Simon Kardachi is behind some of Adelaide’s most exciting new restaurants. He’s had a hand in reactivating various pockets of the CBD and his latest hospitality offering brings a Japanese-Korean flavour fusion to trendy Leigh Street in t
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In Brief
Located on the island at Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Isle of Voyage restaurant by Design Theory is housed within the relocated heritage building Florence Hummerston Pavilion, built in 1928. The design focuses on quality materials, such as solid oak furn
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Design To Feast On
Artichoke Night School is a great opportunity for professionals and the public to come together and discuss issues at the forefront of Australian design. The latest edition, held in Space Furniture’s Sydney showroom, focused on a topic close to the h
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RNA Day Spa
How do you distil the luxury of time and relaxation, the rituals of pampering and the supposed medicinal effects of mineral spring water into one abbreviated experience of the day spa? In his design for RNA Day Spa, architect Stephen Cameron of Camer
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Life Ready
Parallels can be drawn between the way that physiotherapists work with the body to help it adapt to change and the way that designers Russell & George have worked with the brand of Western-Australian-based company Life Ready Physio and Pilates to hel
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VR And The Sensory Experience Of Design
The human experience is an inherently sensory one. We feed off multiple stimuli, including touch, light, sound, depth and movement, in order to formulate emotional and physical connections with our environment. Without the full spectrum of these sens
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This Is A Voice
This Is A Voice exhibition at Powerhouse Museum in Sydney explored the elusive nature of the voice “before and beyond language,” and the exhibition space similarly evoked an elusive quality. Through materials, illumination and physical forms, the sub
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Melbourne Cup Carnival Marquees
The Birdcage turns thirty in 2018. Corporate sponsors have come and gone but there has been no stopping the evolution of the infamous Flemington Racecourse marquees in that time. The marquees have evolved from, reportedly, party pies and plastic chai
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In Brief
The new home of arts and design organization Craft Victoria, designed by Karen Abernethy Architects, is a 300-square-metre space in the basement of 171 Collins Street in Melbourne, housing a purpose-built exhibition gallery, retail centre, offices an
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Doctor Lisa Cooper
Lisa Cooper sends me a bouquet of flowers almost every day. I confess that I receive it along with thousands of others as an Instagram image. Nevertheless, I’m grateful for it. It’s a moment of stillness in a day, an opportunity to stop and appreciat
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Artichoke Magazine Prize
The Artichoke Magazine Prize for design communication is awarded to one graduating student from each of the institutions in Australia and New Zealand that offers interior design/interior architecture degree courses, and which are members of the Inter
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Victorian Auditor-General’s Office
State government auditing is a serious affair: the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO) is committed to the public, and as such, its orientation is outward. Its focus is not on the spaces in which it works. Fortunately, this concern belongs to B
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Building No.2
Early on in Building No. 2’s development, a freedom of information request yielded a hefty file of hand-typed correspondence, annotated documents and architectural drawings that traced the building’s history as the home of CSIRO’s printing and public
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Curtin Connect
Before the new Curtin Connect opened at Curtin University in 2017 – taking up residence inside an imposing brutalist building that has been stripped back to reveal its original splendour – students had to visit several offices across the campus to en
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Undervalued
It’s hard to imagine a smaller exhibition – just a number of modest objects scattered, seemingly randomly, across a not-very-large mirrored plinth. Sitting between the Stylecraft and Mr. Fräg stands at the recent Design-Made event in Sydney, the whol

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