Issue 70 March 2020

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
It often seems like everyone and everything is vying for our attention. News headlines are shouty, advertisements are pushy, social media feeds are deafening and inboxes are nagging. All of this noise can feel overwhelming. Short of surrendering comp
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Editor — Cassie Hansen MDIA Editorial enquiries — Cassie Hansen +61 3 8699 1000 artichoke@archmedia.com.au Editorial director — Katelin Butler MDIA Editorial team — Nicci Dodanwela, Josh Harris, Alexa Kempton Production — Simone Wall Design — Me
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Contributors
Judith Abell is a writer, designer and artist, consistently working at the intersections between these disciplines. Judith currently works for the City of Hobart as a public art coordinator, while maintaining her sculptural art practice and her freel
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Gathered
Sometimes the measure of an interior’s success is the deeply misleading appearance that the designers haven’t done much at all. With Gathered in Footscray, this is the case in the most positive possible sense. Ewert Leaf has taken a space with great
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Designing For The 100 Percent
A few years ago I arranged to meet a work colleague at my office. Through my window I watched him cross the small park opposite our building. He walked slowly but purposefully, circumventing a pair of bollards blocking the footpath, skirting a light
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The Edit
Geelong-based woodworker and furniture maker Ross Thompson’s work fuses the traditional craft of furniture making – its careful, intricate joins and processes – with the intent of a designer, who produces work with strong creative intent. His elegant
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Sisterhood
Despite being described as a waterfront suburb, Sandy Bay – just outside Hobart’s CBD – has a retail centre that defies this reference. An eclectic range of retail, hospitality and other service providers cluster around one main road, with little to
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Via Porta
The design of Via Porta has been approached as an urban exercise, an attempt to construct experiences reminiscent of the density and complexity of narrow Italian alleyways in a distinctly different setting. The project also demonstrates a detailed un
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Luxury And Scenic Beauty Combine
Based in the remote Ahuriri Valley in Otago, New Zealand, the award-winning Lindis Lodge has all the features of a five-star resort, with beautifully stylish bedrooms and living spaces, a private chef and a grand billiard room. Though the real drawca
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Part Time Lover
There’s a contemporary style in spatial illustration that you can see in any design school or artisanal lifestyle magazine like Frankie or Monocle. It has a certain planar, crisp quality, full of personable occupants and appealing details that sugges
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Ozlana
Ozlana in Westfield Sydney is like a winter wonderland. Blanketed in white marble, with pink onyx blocks and frosty-blue coverings, it provides an elegant and whimsical backdrop for Ozlana’s designer parkas. Founded in 2014, Ozlana is an Australian o
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Aesop Sydney
If we are to believe the headlines, bricks-and-mortar stores are in trouble. With increased international competition and the ease of online shopping, it’s not hard to see why so many retailers have recently shut their doors. But while some brands mi
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Joshua Smith
What intrigues us so much about the miniature? In one respect it offers little more information, if any, than its full-scale subject. Yet the singular act of shrinking the familiar forces our attention onto the very aspects of our built environment t
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The Edit
Lighting design studio Articolo has created the Scandal wall sconce, featuring elegant mouthblown glass shades with barrel-like inlaid cuffs. Exquisite brass mesh or leather is inlaid into the design, creating a dramatic, sculptural lighting feature.
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Seen Skin
Skin specialist and founder of Seen Skin, Jazmin Camilleri, approached Golden with a clear understanding of her brand’s values and philosophy and her client’s needs. She turned to Golden to use this vision to create a new flagship space, located with
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Artichoke Magazine Prize
The Artichoke Magazine Prize for design communication is awarded to one graduating student from each institution in Australia and New Zealand that offers interior design/ interior architecture degree courses, and which is a member of the Interior Des
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Longevity And Versatility
When Australian entrepreneur and mother Janine Allis embarked on the design and build of her five-bedroom home she turned to Penny del Castillo of In Design International to help her realize her dream house. Understanding that Allis’s family lives a
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Byres Street
There are few commercial projects that better encapsulate the power of a “big idea” than Byres Street, an office building in Brisbane designed by Cavill Architects in association with Hogg and Lamb. The concept manifests physically in the form of a r
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In Brief
Joybird is your familiar neighbourhood chicken shop reimagined; a fancy fast-food restaurant brimming with 1970s nostalgia. This unapologetic celebration of the suburban fast-food joint accommodates a two-hundred-seat, diner-style restaurant. At the
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The Commons QV
The rise of the co-working space as a collaborative hub has pushed at the very pointy end of workplace design in recent years. Usually peopled by small-scale enterprises, tech start-ups and creatives, co-working spaces reflect shifts in the way we th
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Broached Goulder
Looking back can often move you forward. That’s certainly the case for furniture designer and maker Jon Goulder, who has looked back to his family’s tradition of craft and defined a new direction for his work in doing so. Broached Goulder is Jon’s me
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In Brief
In 2019, Japanese luxury car brand Lexus’s presence at the Melbourne Cup Carnival evolved into Landmark by Lexus, a three-storey pavilion that invited guests to experience the company’s commitment to design and innovation. A week-long hospitality pro

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