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We are so proud to be celebrating a decade of design – 10 years of the Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards with our major partner Coco Republic. When we first started these awards, our editorial co-ordinator (now deputy editor) Harry Roberts a

SYDNEY Decapitation seems an appropriate motif for artist Lillian O’Neil, given her epic collages are formed through a cut-up technique that sees pre-digital pictures from a fastidiously compiled archive spliced and sutured into compelling new storie

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SPONSORED BY Words JUDY PASCOE Portrait KRISTINA SOLJO AN AGGREGATE OF STYLISH and innovative projects spanning Residential, Kitchen and Bathroom categories has netted Handelsmann + Khaw a trio of awards – Belle Coco Republic Interior Designer of the

IS THERE AN ARTIST WHO HAS BEEN AN ENDURING INFLUENCE? Rachel Nolan: Sidney Nolan [5]. Patrick Kennedy: John Coburn [18] for his brilliant approach to colour and the allusive abstraction. CONTEMPORARY ART YOU MOST ADMIRE? RN: Nonggirrnga Marawili [8]

WHAT INITIALLY APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT THE SPACE? It was the absolute stillness and quiet, close to the water with panoramic harbour views. After my previous apartment, a large penthouse atop a 30s art deco building on busy New South Head Road, the abs

IT IS TESTIMONY TO Alexander Tzannes that he is able to recall in great detail and with immense fondness a two-storey addition to a tiny timber cottage in Balmain for writer Leta Keens, which he designed in 1985. “I still just love that building. Siz

THIS CHRISTMAS, entertaining at home becomes more important than ever. The message is clear – have fun with your loved ones and go simple and abundant. Pandemic etiquette is still newish to us all, but making guests feel at ease and welcome in our ho

WHO OR WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF YOUR ENDURING CREATIVE INFLUENCES? The design process is ever-changing and evolving and I am constantly inspired by designers past and present. I was fortunate enough to commence my career at Parish-Hadley Associates, Ne

For gallerist and art adviser Sally Dan-Cuthbert collecting is a lifelong preoccupation. She grew up in a household that was always engaged in art and design. The ceiling of her childhood bedroom was papered with a Marion Hall Best design, while the

Faced with a steeply sloping site that promised a spectacular ocean view in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, architect Matthew Krusin, principal of Tobias Partners, knew that a terraced design was the answer. “We had a challenge – we knew how many levels we

Los Feliz is one of the many beautiful old Spanish colonial neighbourhoods in Los Angeles. Set in the hills above Hollywood, its leafy green streets wind up to the famous 1930s art deco Griffith Park Observatory which is an iconic film and TV locatio

This Mediterranean-style property in Castlecrag, with glimpses of Middle Harbour, could easily be in Portugal. With bougainvillea shooting on the concrete columns framing the new garden room, this relaxed residence is now home to a couple with two ch

There are three things that preoccupy an architect when they are about to approach a new project: the site, the client brief and the budget. All three have to be held in balance to create the optimum result as is clearly illustrated by this exception

This three-storey property in Sydney’s east had fallen victim to decades of crude, inconsistent renovations, presenting its new owners with an adequately proportioned home of five bedrooms and four bathrooms but with tired, timeworn interiors. But th

Standing on a rocky promontory near Pornichet on the Atlantic coast in western France, this neo-medieval manor house looks out over a popular surfing beach and faces the tidal island of Noirmoutier in Brittany. Accessed via large parklands where the

What a spectacle to come home to. For the owners of this four-level house in Sydney’s eastern suburbs while a year living in Europe was transformative perhaps their return was even more so. Their harbourside home had experienced its own sea change, p

Glamorous, dramatic and redolent of Palm Springs, this streetscape and garden in Sydney’s eastern suburbs would look perfectly at home in that playground of Hollywood A-listers. As in that resort town of iconic mid-century retreats, landscape and arc

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SPACE? New York loft meets Sydney. WHAT INITIALLY APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT IT? DID IT REQUIRE ALTERATIONS? My office is the old garage of our heritage-listed home designed by Professor Leslie Wilkinson. It’s detached from the

Looking beyond the faded exterior and interior of Villa Verano, designed and built in the 1920s by architect F. Glynn Gilling, a devotee of the Spanish mission style, Olivia Babarczy saw a bright future in buying the house for her large family. Surro