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Industrial buildings can be challenging to repurpose without looking like faux facsimiles of their former selves or overly beautified and decorated imposters – pretending to be something they never were. How refreshing it is to appreciate buildings t

DOMINIC FINLAY-JONES and I go way back. In 2000 my husband and I bought a modest but notable house by pioneering modernist architect Bruce Rickard on Sydney’s North Shore. Dominic had worked alongside Rickard for eight years at a formative period ear

Forty years after it was first shown in downtown bars as a slideshow set to music, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a diaristic portrait of her chosen family amid a bohemian demimonde, remains the defining photo collection of the 80s. Ch

Local flora and fauna inform the design of Aesop’s rejuvenated offering in Parramatta. Confirming that art, culture and boutique retail are firmly on the agenda in Sydney’s west, the revamped store on the land of the Burramattagal people boasts a new

WHAT APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT YOUR HOME? We (my partner Ben Whittaker and I) knew we wanted an apartment in the city and within Melbourne’s Collingwood or Fitzroy area. We had been looking for a small space to call home when we came across a development

WHAT WERE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPACE AND WHAT APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT THE SITE? Tali Roth (principal of Tali Roth Interior Design) It was the old Acne Studios store so the interiors had a more minimalistic, futuristic look than what we were going fo

WHAT APPEALED ABOUT THE SITE? Joe Farage: My wife Katy and I fell in love with the building’s heritage. It looked like something out of Paris or Milan. It was built as the Harp of Erin pub and most recently owned by one of Sydney’s most influential a

IT’S LIKE BEING THE LEAD in a superbly styled Nancy Meyers film; the wonderful thing about walking into a Ralph Lauren store is the feeling that life is fabulous, everything is in order and you are the star at the centre of this carefully curated wor

There is a reason locals refer to The Bakery in Sydney’s inner-city Newtown as ‘the secret garden’. Behind the unassuming two-storey rendered facade with its lettering ‘1909 W Dibble’ – the date this former award-winning bakery was built and the orig

Interior designer Simone Haag confesses that she often makes things difficult for herself. But the end result of her sometimes unconventional choices is well worth the angst. In the case of this spectacular home in Melbourne’s Kew, the result of a co

Feng shui principles were the catalyst for the renovation of this home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs – and the elegant, luminous interiors surely reflect the happy outcome. A dramatic entry in marble and brass ushers in a new beginning for a home that

Old walls are comforting. We reclaim them; ushering them forward into new times. We conserve traces of their history and, like the lines on an old face, we take reassurance from the stories evoking a sense of ‘if walls could speak’. And sometimes, li

The first contact for this home in Melbourne’s peaceful Eaglemont is the front door handle, its metallic scales a tactile reference to the craters of the moon. It’s the initial talking point in a house governed by feng shui principles, a process that

Like a rocky outcrop, this handsome home on the NSW South Coast rises organically from its hilltop overlooking the Pacific. Architects Welsh + Major drew inspiration from iconic clifftop abode Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri, where landscape and

First impressions can be deceiving. This is true of when interior designer Nellie Tilley walked into this stately federation arts and crafts home with her long-term clients. “It went from that initial meeting when we were just planning to open up a c

There’s nothing quite like planning a wedding at a property to kickstart the renovations. Such was the case with this historic Federation cottage on the Hawkesbury River that became a dream project for owners Kendall Bora and Matt Doran. Having disco

Balancing the comfort and practicalities of family living with the style and amenity for parties and visitors was the task at hand for Studio Tate in designing this mature and masculine Melbourne home. Armed with established plans by renowned archite

Interior designer Henrietta Summerhayes puts it succinctly, “It’s funny how challenges can end up bringing bonuses you never imagined.” Engaged to reimagine this Victorian terrace house in Sydney’s inner west, Henrietta encountered challenges aplenty

Like so many working arrangements over the last few years, circumstance meant that renovating from a distance was unavoidable for creative director and principal designer Gillianne Griffiths of Studio Griffiths. For everyone in the architectural and

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORKSPACE? Quite a mess really, to my girlfriend’s chagrin. Desks and shelves are littered with 3D prints, material samples, nuts, bolts and pieces of electrical cables and light fittings. This is a necessary evil, as the