December 2021/January 2022

Belle

Interior design and decoration magazine

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Editor-in-chief Tanya Buchanan Acting creative director Lauren Camilleri Deputy editor Harry Roberts Senior copy editor Janice Hogg Chief copy editor, Homes Sarah Pickette Junior copy editor, Homes Matilda Ringrose Art director, Homes Nina Dorn Junio
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Editor’s Letter
It is increasingly rare to encounter historic coastal homes that have been sympathetically altered and retained by new owners. Often, they are given a sterile and superficial facelift or a total bulldoze and rebuild. We are fortunate to have two prec
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Talent Pool
WHILE A NAME such as Aileen Sage sounds as if it could be a genteel character in a 19th-century novel it is the combined middle names of Isabelle Aileen Toland and Amelia Sage Holliday. Suspecting that Toland Holliday had too much of a ring of a soli
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Architecture
Herzog & de Meuron’s SongEun Art & Cultural Foundation in Seoul (left) is hermetic and monolithic at first glance but open and welcoming at ground level. With its context of designer flagship stores in the Gangnam district this continuous concrete fo
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On Country
Coinciding with the opening of the Art Gallery of WA’s new rooftop, ‘The View From Here’ is the museum’s largest-ever celebration of Western Australian art with more than 360 works from 230 leading artists, including Abdul Abdullah, Ngarralja Tommy M
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Influences
WITH BACKGROUNDS IN SOCIAL THEORY AND HOSPITALITY, ARCHITECTS RYAN RUSSELL AND BYRON GEORGE SAY THEY APPROACH EVERY JOB WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE UNIQUE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LED TO THE PROJECT IN THE FIRST PLACE. ASIDE FROM ARCHITECTS AND DESIG
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Earthly DELIGHTS
WHERE DO YOU LIVE? In the leafy Melbourne suburb of South Yarra in Boon Wurrung Country. It’s close to the CBD, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birrarung (Yarra) River and Prahran Market with some of the best-preserved, handsomely decorated 19th-century Victo
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Visual Feast
With her flair for combining seemingly clashing hues and patterns into a stunning idiosyncratic statement, interior designer Anna Spiro creates schemes that are individual and packed with personality. Her second book celebrates her quest for the offb
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Christmas
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More To Love
Rooms – Steven Volpe How to break the rules in style. Rizzoli, $130 Where They Purr When felines and high-end interiors intersect. Thames & Hudson, $65 Collected Interiors – Philip Mitchell Mastering modern maximalism. Rizzoli, $110 The Well-Loved Ho
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Kitchen inspiration
Your favourite cooking companions have had a makeover. The stainless steel strips and handles in graphite are as delightful to look at as they are to the touch, and perfect for any contemporary kitchen. HN.COM.AU/NEFF ONLINE | MOBILE | IN STORE ■
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The Ultimate In Appliances
Your kitchen is a place to meet and eat, and a place to get creative. These NEFF appliances inspire enthusiasm by marrying innovation and design, style and versatility. Our customers expect top quality. NEFF deliver by testing every element, consider
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Cooked To Perfection
Fully retractable, this safe, stylish and unique feature ensures easy access to your food. The Slide&Hide® door lets you monitor your cooking, allows convenient lifting and provides more room to move around smaller kitchens. The revolutionary handle
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Welcome To The Ultimate Finish
It's no secret our hands can get sticky while whipping up kitchen treats, so Door Open Assist is here to let you access your dishwasher's interior without having to fiddle with a handle. Light pressure is enough to open the door so you can stack the
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HEART And Home
WHO OR WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR ENDURING CREATIVE INFLUENCES? I’m drawn to the scale and sensibility of American furnishings and interiors (cue Nancy Meyers) and the patina and craftsmanship of European design. I love the warm, inviting layers of US desig
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A Cooktop Like No Other
The NEFF vented cooktop allows you to design your kitchen your way. Move your pots and pans anywhere within the FlexInduction zone and their size and shape will be automatically detected so that heat is applied to their exact location. At the centre
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Driving with SWEE LIM
SWEE LIM is one busy bee. Quite serendipitous then that she is humming around a Richard Stringer sculpture of said insect lying on a miniature building. “I love this piece! It’s sculptural and over-scaled within an architectural format, yet quirky,”
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Plate Class
WHAT WAS THE CONCEPT FOR THE INTERIORS AT YOUR NEW RESTAURANT, MARGARET, IN SYDNEY'S DOUBLE BAY? Caon Studio and Acme worked together for the first time and it was a beautiful collaboration [1]. You can tell they’re great friends – they complement ea
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Awards
GREG NATALE Greg Natale PATRICK KENNEDY & RACHEL NOLAN Kennedy Nolan Architects Five finalists making a splash in the Belle Fanuli Interior Design Awards JUSTINE HUGH-JONES & KATRINA MACKINTOSH Hugh-Jones Mackintosh YASMINE GHONIEM YSG Studio JULIETT
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Zen Centred
What do you love about your space and how does it reflect the work that you do? What we like about this space is that it’s a moveable working space, it has tall ceilings and large windows, and lots of beautiful light. It’s important to have good ligh
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The Great outdoors
ST YLIST’S ASSISTANTS VIERA TOMASIKOVA, KATE LINCOLN, LEWIS GRANT ■
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Ship To shore
From my first visit to Trincomalee I was captivated and obsessed by the somewhat quirky house in its magical setting. I’m not sure what exactly it was that initially got me hooked. Was it the boat-only access, or the way the charming and slightly ecc
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BRIGHTEN up
When French interior designer Laura Gonzalez started to design the principal bedroom of this 250 square metre-apartment in Paris’s 16th arrondissement her initial intent was to create a “very gentle, peaceful” atmosphere. “I wanted it to feel like a
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Grandest Design
A two-kilometre gravel drive through lush grounds with serried plantings of mature weeping willow and elm trees leads to one of the most spectacular country homes in Australia. Set in undulating farmland in the NSW Southern Highlands, Wollumbi Estate
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Summer Loving
It’s hard to imagine a setting more beautiful than a historied home sitting on the very edge of a bay, perched high and with banksia-yellow shutters. It’s the kind of house you float past and dream of owning. Built in 1862, Ventnor is said to be the
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Pinkly Perfect
Sometimes grand plans don’t come to fruition but what occurs instead ends up being the perfect outcome. This was the case for the owners of this home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Their original intention was to do a massive structural renovation on t
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Lasting Impression
Refined, elegant, timeless, the Sydney home of interiors doyen Michael Love is the epitome of good taste and perfect composition, with a soupçon of intrigue thrown in for good measure. ‘Stirred, not shaken’ – a twist on the catchphrase – would be an
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Lofty heights
The owners of this home in Sydney’s Point Piper had long admired the house next door, so when the time came to renovate, they asked their neighbours – with whom they shared a driveway – who designed their house. Cut to a few years later and Sydney-ba
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On The Grid
Set in Hawthorn’s heritage-listed Grace Park Estate, this Arts and Crafts-style home lures visitors inside through its arched entrance. Complete with box bay leadlight windows framed by terracotta-shingled tiles, the house instantly transports you ba
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Feeling Grand
Stretching out over several street frontages and still occupying an impressive plot of 2600 square metres (once more than 13 hectares), this imposing bluestone mansion in Kew is one of Melbourne’s most significant homes. D’Estaville was originally bu
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For Art’s Sake
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF YOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE MUSEUM SINCE BECOMING DIRECTOR? When I was first employed at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), I was fortunate enough to have a great manager, Kaye Thomson, at council. We identified two simple goals for my ti

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