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1 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary is a fabulous retrospective on the dynamic designer, entrepreneur and marketer Dame Mary Quant. And it’s coming to Bendigo Art Gallery, having had a sell-out season at London’s Victoria & Albe

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ARMADILLO AND HOUSE OF GREY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A NEW COLLECTION OF RUGS THAT EXUDE A QUIET SIMPLICITY. SHOWN HERE IS THE ‘TERRA’ RUG IN NATURAL, WHICH LAUNCHES ON MARCH 5. ARMADILLO-CO.COM ■

“WE DON’T HAVE A PANDEMIC every century and it would be wise to learn from it,” says Roger Wood, who is founding principal of longstanding Victorian practice Wood Marsh Architecture with partner Randal Marsh. Wood is in a reflective mood about the pa

By motoring expert Elise Elliott @EliseElliott_Media STEVE’S STYLE is ever-elegant and finessed, but his presence is adventurous and bold. Fittingly, then, this interiors and lifestyle expert chose a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen to visit his favourite haunt

The last 50 years has transformed Mykonos into a popular stop on the world’s summer itinerary. Private yachts, ferries, Gulfstreams and Airbuses transport visitors and residents looking to reconnect with one thing – authenticity. For generations, thi

When it came to the renovation of this home in Sydney’s Mosman, all roads led to architect Daniel Boddam of Daniel Boddam Studio. His clients, Carolina Hughes Elliott and Greg Elliott, had noticed a house he was designing in their street, and he had

A Scandinavian aesthetic, by way of blonde timbers, white walls and pitch-perfect furniture, has infused this original 1900s cottage with a sense of youthful joie de vivre. Located in a desirable pocket of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs with easy access to

From distressed outdoor limestone to charcoal Pietra stone, black granite and slabs of Calacatta, this Sydney house is a wonderland of marble that has been leathered, polished, honed and even laid in mosaic patterns with custom brass inlays. The exte

Homeowner Tracey Atkins admits she started with a “strange brief that was more about an idea [rather] than a place” when she and her husband Andrew first approached interior designer Swee Lim about renovating their recently purchased beachside proper

The adage ‘less is more’ is definitely at play in this serene home overlooking Middle Harbour in Sydney. Deftly reinvented by interior designer Pamela Makin of Les Interieurs, the heritage home has been stripped of its fussiness and its rooms streaml

With its stepped landscaping surrounded by formal clipped hedges, manicured lawns and creeping vines, this Sydney house has a transportive quality. Blink and you could be at a European villa, huddled around the stone outdoor fireplace in winter or su

With rainbow lorikeets flitting through a lush canopy of palms and eucalypts casting dappled light on ferns below, this sprawling Byron Bay garden is a tropical paradise for its owner and creator, Lisa Hochhauser of LANDstudio. Cooling and all-envelo

PRESENTED WITH A blank canvas, interior designer Thomas Hamel and his colleagues Brendan Guy and Carla Barton were able to explore the use of some exciting materials in this penthouse kitchen. Chief among them was a dazzling white rock crystal bencht

THE PRIO RITY FO R interior designer Olivia Babarczy of Studio S.O for her own Sydney kitchen was that it set a beautiful stage for the theatre of family life. “That was of the utmost importance,” she says. “I have a large family and we entertain a l

GATHE RING SPOTS DON’T come much more beautiful than this Melbourne kitchen, which was specifically designed to be not only a hard-working cooking zone but a space that would wow guests. And that it does. Devised by interior designer Alice Villella i

EVEN THE BEST OF HOMES need an upgrade eventually, and that was certainly the case with this grand old lady on the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, which was fast approaching its centenary. The trick for interior designer Meryl Hare of Hare + Klein

THERE’S A MONOLITHIC quality to the island bench that architect Ben Robertson, director of Tecture, designed for this penthouse apartment. “I chose Era Silver stone for its depth and moodiness,” he says. “It was all about selecting a stone that could

WITH ITS STEEL doors opening out to the garden, this striking kitchen is a space that’s refined in form and materiality yet also perfectly set up for fuss-free family living. “The 19th-century bones of the house were good,” says architect and interio

CLASSICISM IS MET with a crisp, modern sensibility in this kitchen by interior architect Phoebe Nicol. “The room sits within a Victorian terrace, so we wanted to explore a subtle pairing of traditional joinery techniques with contemporary materials,”

A KITCHEN’S LOCATION in the home can really impact on its functionality and its suitability as a spot in which the family can congregate. In this Melbourne townhouse, the kitchen has been positioned at the heart of the ground floor, so it’s strategic

A BASE PALETTE of light and dark in the kitchen of this inner suburban Melbourne home plays up both its softness and its strengths. A pared-back use of embellishments by Doherty Design Studio provides a contrast to the decorative aesthetic of the ori

THE CONGESTED, NOISY SU R ROUNDS of inner-Sydney’s Paddington seem a lifetime away from the expansive, sun-drenched kitchen fashioned by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects for this terrace house. “The home is on a large block with some spectacular gard

A PENTHOUSE DEMANDS special rooms and this bayside Melbourne bathroom, designed by Ben Robertson of Tecture in collaboration with CBG Architects, achieves it through a less-is-more approach. “Being an internal space, we wanted to maximise any opportu

THE ICONIC BEACHSIDE LOCATION of St Kilda is home to this double-storey Victorian terrace that has been restored to its former grandeur by architect and interior designer Melanie Beynon and her colleague, Alis Garlick. With its sweeping spans of marb

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORKSPACE? Le Salon Aux Fleur is a studio for our floral work where we prepare flowers for friends and clients’ homes, dinner parties and celebrations. We’re also open for locals to buy flowers and have a chat. WHAT INITIA

AN EXISTING LEADLIGHT WINDOW was the key reference point for interior designer Mardi Doherty in her makeover of this Melbourne bathroom, achieved with colleague Michelle Evans. “Our aim was to create a peaceful sanctuary that links aesthetically to t

STEPPING BACK IN TIME to an era when elegance reigned, this bathroom in Melbourne’s Toorak by Thomas Hamel & Associates shows what can be achieved when the net for design features, influences and finishes is cast far and wide. The undisputed stars in

ITS FLOWING, CU RVACEOUS shape inspired interior designer Alice Villella’s approach to this Melbourne bathroom. “It was all about celebrating the room’s rounded walls and sculptural elements,” she says. “I didn’t want to crowd the space, but it was i

Art’s potential to provide healing and care for fragile natural and social ecosystems is a major focus of the third iteration of The National, the biennial survey of contemporary Australian art exhibited across Sydney’s three major institutions – the

AN AWKWARDLY SHAPED space proved absolutely no impediment to interior architect Phoebe Nicol’s treatment of this petite terrace-house ensuite. Embracing its dimensions, she sought to highlight the room’s symmetry and features by having the walls rend

The same as for all her projects, designer Sally Knibbs of Sally Caroline met her first-time clients armed with a quiz. It’s an initial briefing phase that she says is crucial to the way she does business. “For so many people, a new home and renovati