May/June 2021

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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Vogue Living
Rebecca Caratti EDITOR editor@vogueliving.com.au CREATIVE DIRECTOR Natasha Allen DEPUTY EDITOR Verity Magdalino STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner ACTING CHIEF COPY EDITOR Virginia Jen MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEATURES WRITER Annemarie Kiely DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL S
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Take The Tour
In this charming home in SYDNEY’S INNER WEST, a heritage brick facade conceals a series of clever additions designed by Rushcutters Bay-based architecture firm STUDIO PRINEAS. Transforming the rear of the house into a grassy, open-plan entertaining a
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Contributors
A trained interior designer, Joseph Gardner has worked in magazine publishing for almost a decade. As style editor for Vogue Living, he has spent the last five years creating some of the magazine’s most stunning imagery and has only recently spread h
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Editor’s Letter
This edition of Vogue Living that you’re holding is one I am extremely proud of — an issue purely dedicated to Australian design and the creatives that shape it. Now more than ever, Australians have a greater appreciation for this incredible country
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Local Ambitions
The lightbulb moment happened on November 10 2011 when, having recently returned to Australia after 20 years living abroad, I found myself at the launch of the first Broached Commissions collection in a disused film facility in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
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Land Of Many Talents
PHOTOGRAPHER: SASKIA WILSON. STYLIST: JOSEPH GARDNER. STYLE ASSISTANTS: LUCINDA JACQ AND ROMY SAFIYAH ■
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Vl50
Making up this elite group of creatives are the names the Australian design world is talking about right now. Some are emerging studios, still young in their careers and forging a path as the country’s NEXT BIG THINGS, while others have more than ear
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BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT: “Hotel Hotel was a turning point, as it was the first interior project I did after walking off film sets,” says the designer. ETHOS: “My concerns centre around crafting uniqueness. I rely on objects to build narratives with, in o
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Interior Designers
CLIENTS: Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, James Packer, Alice Temperley, the Pratt family and the Stokes family. CURRENTLY WORKING ON: The world’s tallest residential tower on Central Park; a number of grand homes in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and Lond
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Emerging Interior Designers
BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT: The Avian Apartment. “I had a wonderful client who allowed creative freedom within the parameters of brief, budget and time, which made it a joy to work on and resulted in the project being awarded, and published nationally and i
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Architects
BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT: Peninsula House, which received a number of overseas awards including the AR Emerging Architecture Award. CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Shack in the Rocks, a two-room weekender in country Victoria for the photographer Earl Carter and his
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VL50 Product Designers
CLIENTS: SheBuilt with Agius Scorpo Architects, DesignByThem, Professor Joel Pearson, Future Minds Lab, UAP (Urban Art Projects), Indigenous Art Code. CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Design objects for The Things We Made Next for NGV’s Melbourne Design Week. “
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VL50 Emerging Artists
BREAKTHROUGH MOMENT: “Exhibiting in the 2018 Dhaka Art Summit,” says the artist. “And a large-scale co-commission with Artspace Sydney and the Samdani Art Foundation, which travelled to the Encounters sector for Art Basel Hong Kong in 2018.” CLIENTS:
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Towards the end of 1988 at Utopia, an Aboriginal Australian homeland north-east of Alice Springs, a women’s group specialising in batik was offered acrylic paint and linen on which to work for the first time. The brainchild of Rodney Gooch, manager o
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New Dawn
Mum was a really great interior designer. After my parents were divorced she began to buy houses — mostly in absolutely dilapidated states — and renovate them. Every year during my childhood, I think from the age of about nine or 10, we lived in a di
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Past & present
Heritage-listed homes are a bit like movie stars. They are culturally significant and full of spellbinding stories, but they also share the pressure of keeping up appearances, which means that face lifts can be precarious endeavours. Such was the cha
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Homeward bound
He may be the new standard-bearer of pop stardom, but for Troye Sivan, the 25-year-old Aussie singer-songwriter and actor who rocketed to the top of global dance charts with self-penned intimacies sung over lush synth-soundscapes, the celebrity trope
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Levels Of Knowledge
In the southern Sydney beachside home of construction entrepreneur Troy Mayne, his Spanish-born wife Laura and their children Arianna, Mirella and Baylen, there’s subtle surprises around almost every curve. From the breezy sea-green stone and patinat
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Anything but Ordinary
At first blush this home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, with its fretwork, gable and bay window, appears to be a traditional 1880s villa. But the pink render and a brise-soleil running along the roofline hint that this is no prim and proper Victorian.
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Opposites ATTRACT
The architect and interior stylist behind this Lavender Bay home couldn’t be more aesthetically disparate if they tried. Where Neil Durbach of Sydney’s Durbach Block Jaggers Architects is known for dreaming up sparse yet sculptural forms, interior st
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Growing Up Gracefully
Yasmine Ghoniem’s star is in the ascendent. The Sydney-based interior designer and founder of YSG is blowing up the city’s preponderance for safe white-box luxury with her colour-fuelled, experimental aesthetic. At the most recent Australian Interior
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A Tale Of Two Cities
In these so-called transformative twenties, as the world begins to redress in the wake of unprecedented upheaval, the question of who we are as a country and how we want to manifest that character seems never more fraught and potentially fabulous. Wh
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VLShop Retail hits
Known for bringing New York, Milan and Antwerp’s most directional pieces Down Under, Criteria’s lofty warehouse is the place for discovering what’s cool before it’s cool. You'll find brands like Apparatus, Oeuffice, Gubi and Baxter, each hand-picked
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Sources
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Travel+Luxury IN FULL BLING
Exquisitely cut and meticulously polished, Crown Sydney rises from Barangaroo like an iridescent gem. Its carapace of 8000 glass panels reflects the painterly light of the adjacent harbour, while its sinuous silhouette forms an intriguing counterpoin
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Innate Nature
Nature is, of course, an endless source of inspiration but for pioneering floorcoverings company Armadillo, it has also governed every facet of its business, from the use of natural materials and ethical practices to valuing artisanal craftsmanship.
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VLcollection
Nothing quite beats the feeling when blank spaces in a home are filled with beautiful unique home decors that are loved timelessly through the many phases of interior design. Paola & Joy is an Australian owner small business that curate, design, sour

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