Issue 80 September 2022

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
Issue 80 September - November 2022 I’ve been following the story of Ace Hotel’s launch in Australia since 2013. In October that year, I attended a hotel design symposium in Sydney at which Alex Calderwood, one of the original founders of the Ace Hote
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Editor — Cassie Hansen MDIA Editorial enquiries — Cassie Hansen +61386991000 artichoke@archmedia.com.au Editorial director — Katelin Butler MDIA Editorial team — Nicci Dodanwela Jude Ellison Josh Harris Production — Goran Rupena Design — Janine Wurfe
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Nurturing Valuable Shifts In Australian Design
In August, the Design Institute of Australia (DIA), Australia’s peak national design body, presented the highly sought-after Designers Australia Awards 2022. The DIA collaborated with 18 local and international interdisciplinary design leaders, inclu
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Contributors
Marcus Baumgart is a designer and writer, and a founding director of Baumgart Clark Architects with longtime collaborator John A. Clark. You can read about their adventures at their website, help. design. FEIT (page 64) Cameron Bruhn is the Dean and
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The Edit
Urania is a collection of avant-garde tubular pieces from New South Wales studio Hegi Design House in collaboration with New York and Florence-based architect Pietro Franceschini. Designed to make a grandiose, playful artistic statement within the ho
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The Imperial
If walls could talk, The Imperial at Clifton would have stories to tell. Built in 1911, it was the long-time drinking hole for the local community and visitors until a landslide forced the main road to close in 2003. The Imperial soon followed suit,
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No Vacancy Gallery & Cafe
No Vacancy Gallery is one of Melbourne’s most prominent “for-hire” galleries and a mainstay in the city’s contemporary art and design scene. First established in 2008, the independent gallery has offered countless young artists and creatives a platfo
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Shell House
“Four personalities in one venue” is the description given to this new Sydney venture from The Point Group, whose stable features venues such as The Dolphin and Hotel Harry, Attributed to architects Spain and Cosh, Shell House comprises four venues s
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In Brief
Studio Co and Co serves up a contemporary take on creature comforts with its design for this Italian restaurant in Melbourne’s inner north-east. Inspired by nostalgia for old-world trattorias and childhood holidays, the cosy two-storey interior gives
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Ace Hotel Sydney
Contemporary interior design practice can, and perhaps should, be a risky business. Advantageous risk-taking can take several forms - from an impecunious designer quitting a stable job in a high-profile firm to hang out their shingle and go it alone,
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Marta Figueiredo
Marta Figueiredo’s colourful, tactile creations provoke a feeling of joy and delight in viewers, inviting people to interact, engage and play. But beneath the architectural and sometimes anthropomorphic forms, each object is driven by a strong concep
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FEIT at Melbourne Connect
FEIT Academics and post-graduate students are an interesting bunch to design for. Different disciplines have different predilections and needs. The interior of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) by Hassell is evidence of wha
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The Edit
A Sydney furniture and lifestyle company Koskela has launched a range of fabrics featuring designs by female First Nations artists from across Australia, including Penny Evans, Jacinta Lorenzo, Raylene Miller, Lucy Simpson, Regina Wilson and members
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Adytum Day Spa & Wellness Retreat
Braddon, a previously industrial area of central Canberra, has in recent years been transformed into a dynamic hub of interesting apartments, eateries, design stores and artisan activities. A new addition is the Adytum Day Spa and Wellness Retreat, a
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Circles of Hair
Circles of Hair is a tour de force. Beating with music and riotous colour, the Perth salon is not one for your twilight wind-down; it’s the emphatic start to your Friday night, to your weekend, and to the rest of your life. Forgive the hyperbole it’s
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ODE Dermatology
Dermatology, the medical discipline specializing in the skin, deals with both disease and cosmetics, health and beauty. Yet in terms of building typologies, a medical facility normally has a very different architectural image to, say, a day spa. At O
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Relinque Urban Retreat
Let me tell you about hot-cold contrast therapy. First, you warm up in the hammam-like steam room, set to a balmy 45 degrees Celsius. Then you step over to the tile-clad circular plinth, scoop up two handfuls of crushed ice and give yourself an invig
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In Brief
Cycling apparel brand MAAP’s Port Melbourne head office, newly designed by Clare Cousins Architects, occupies a nineteenth-century soap factory. Celebrating the 5.5-metre ceilings and clerestory glazed roof, the predominantly white and light treatmen
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Nae Tanakorn
Contemporary craft and design is as much about traditional techniques as it is about new approaches. Craft Victoria’s 2022 Fresh Awards and exhibition celebrated the state’s recent graduates in contemporary craft and design, with Nae Tanakorn winning

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