Issue 75 June 2021

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Interior architecture, design, objects, people.

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Welcome
Issue 75 June — August 2021 The everyday stresses of work, family, the environment, politics and everything else that comes with modern life have made us all re-evaluate every aspect of our lives, particularly our health and wellbeing. This has bro
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Editor — Cassie Hansen MDIA Editorial enquiries — Cassie Hansen +61 3 8699 1000 artichoke@archmedia.com.au Editorial director — Katelin Butler MDIA Editorial team — Georgia Birks, Nicci Dodanwela, Jude Ellison, Josh Harris, Jacqueline Smith Produ
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Contributors
Leanne Amodeo is an editor, writer and media consultant. A former editor of Monument and Inside magazines, she currently consults on communications, strategy and content, and contributes to architecture, design and visual arts publications internatio
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The Edit
Design studio Made by Pen (Pen) reintroduces their award-winning product “The Dog Room,” with improved, locally-sourced materials and a new partnership with Help Enterprises, a social enterprise company focused on providing employment and training op
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Prince Public Bar
Changing a beloved institution is always a challenge but this hotel, previously known as the Prince of Wales, is particularly hallowed ground. Constructed over the remains of an earlier pub, the grand ocean liner of a building was completed in 1937.
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The Signal Box Pavilion
In visiting the Signal Box – a wonderful return to the public realm of a heritage railway building – architect Jason Elsley of Derive Architecture and Design and I kept talking about big principles, big agendas. We talked about them through the proje
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Warders Hotel & Emily Taylor
Fremantle, or “Freo” to those in the know, wears its convict-cut limestone buildings with poignant reverence. Pregnant with a layered and multifaceted history, Perth’s port city has, for almost 200 years, seen the to and fro of trade and, with it, tr
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The Edit
Kvadrat Soft Cells are fully customizable, high-performance acoustic panels designed for aesthetic excellence, sustainability and durability. Mountable on both walls and ceilings, they are available in a wide choice of Kvadrat textiles. They can be s
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Smart Design Studio
Take a long chain by each end and hold it up in front of you. Gravity will pull it – naturally – into a catenary curve. Invert that curve and you have a catenary arch. Arches with this most efficient self-supporting geometry have been an architectura
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Hattie Molloy
The world of Hattie Molloy is a magical one. And it smells good, too. Since establishing her practice four years ago, the floral artist has been bringing a new kind of floristry to showrooms, events and stores across her home town of Melbourne. Mixin
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In Brief
In this vast lobby refurbishment, Woods Bagot has revitalized the previously disconnected and outdated ground-floor plane of Central Park Tower in Perth. Supplanting the aged austerity of the original space, the refurbishment brings lightness and ele
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Grown Alchemist
Grown Alchemist’s flagship retail store offsets new and old, to the benefit of both. A dilapidated nineteenth-century terrace house in Carlton has been restored at the front and preserved in its decayed state at the rear, where a new “clean room” has
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Fox Fit
Empowering and aspirational, the design of Fox Fit seeks to inspire individual achievement while bolstering a vibrant culture of health and wellbeing. Executed by Mim Design, the “fitness for females” brief presented an opportunity to translate the s
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Joey Scandizzo Salon
Abuzz. Joey Scandizzo Salon is absolutely abuzz when I visit at six o’clock one evening in late November 2020. The atmosphere of fun, however, belies the intense focus, care and attention to crafted detail that distinguish this interior. The salon, w
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Light Years Skin Studio
The Light Years Skin Studio was created through a virtual collaboration between Melbourne-based designer Geraldine Maher of Maher Design and her client, Megan Jurisich. Located in the Oracle Boulevard development at Broadbeach on Queensland’s Gold Co
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Melbourne Design Week 2021
After suffering a difficult year in 2020, the 2021 Melbourne Design Week program opened in late March to an eager audience. Under the banner theme of “Design the world you want,” the fifth iteration of the festival invited consideration of design’s a
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In Brief
Boardgrove Architects has designed a collection of pavilions for the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2020 Triennial summer outdoor dining program. Situated in the NGV Garden, the pavilions are nestled under trees and next to permanent sculptures and t
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Taking Stock
Compared to many nations, Australia has weathered the COVID-19 outbreak relatively well. While others still languish in lockdown, most of us have returned to something approaching normal life (snap restrictions to manage localized outbreaks excepted)

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