December 2023 - January 2024

Belle

Interior design and decoration magazine

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Masthead
Editor-in-chief Tanya Buchanan Creative director Shayne Burton Managing editor Matilda Ringrose Senior copy editor Janice Hogg Chief copy editor, Homes Peter Griffiths Art director, Homes Marissa Foye Junior designer, Homes Saffron Sylvester Art prod
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London Design Week
At Shoreditch Design District, Soma: Design Abstraction from within the Cell (above) by scientist and artist Abid Javed showed how his research subject – molecular biology – creates abstract forms termed ‘molecular objects,’ through sculpted clay bod
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Editor’s Letter
One of the great privileges of my job is getting the opportunity to meet my entrepreneurial and design heroes. I am a big fan of biographies and documentaries and voraciously devour these to delve into the influences that make leaders in their fields
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Art
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF ARTISTS AND GALLERIES. ■
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Visual Feast
‘Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch’ presents more than 100 paintings, drawings, studies and prints from across the artist’s four-decade career, mapping his work (right) as a process of psychological excavation. Mining unconscious images with the surrea
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In The Making
THE THI RD EDITION of the National Emerging Art Prize was celebrated in November with a glittering reception at Michael Reid Art Bar, where four unrepresented, up-and-coming art stars were named recipients of the program’s major prizes. Sponsored by
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Chic Agenda
With summer in full swing, the ultimate pool or beachside accessory hails from the collection of upholstered lilos which look like something straight out of a Slim Aarons’ scene. My favourite is the ‘Botella’ ring. oliverjameslilos.com Designed to re
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Project Runway
Jenny Child, Oroton CEO: My first instinct was to approach the design analytically and based on how people would want and need to work in a physical space, post-Covid. We began by taking off all the traditional labels and habitual patterns like ‘fina
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Winning Looks
WINNER Belle Fanuli INTERIOR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR WINNER Best Residential Interior 19 WATERLOO STREET 19 Waterloo Street, designed by Adam Haddow of SJB, engages in a playful conversation with space. “Doing more with less,” as Adam says, informs t
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Studio Doherty
WINNER Best Residential Bathroom Design GLOSS HOUSE Studio Doherty’s body of work to date and their talent for applying bursts of bright colour tastefully and with longevity in mind quickly becomes apparent. Here, resplendent in apple green, the ens
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Mim Design
WINNER Best Hospitality Interior ENOTECA BOCCACCIO WHEN THE OWNE RS OF BOCCACCIO CELLARS, a family-run Italian grocer and bottle shop, were looking to extend their business to include a wine bar upstairs, they invited Mim Design to distill their vi
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Arent & Pyke
NO ST RANGE RS TO THE WINNE RS’ PODIUM in varying categories for these awards over the years, Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke are also former Interior Designers of the Year. In this award season, they won Best Commercial Interior for
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Placement Studio
WINNER Best Residential Kitchen Design PARKVILLE HOUSE THE LUSH SCHEME by Placement Studio for this kitchen encompasses walls painted in a deep, muted artichoke green and a darker pine-hued marble with swirling veins lavished upon the curvaceous isl
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Ysg Studio
A CE RTAIN REBELLIOUS AIR permeates the work of Sydney-based practice YSG Studio and, with Yasmine Ghoniem at the helm there’s boldness and bravery to be found in every project. No where else is this better demonstrated than by the way in which she w
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Interior Deisgn
TELLING STO RIES TH ROUGH DESIGN, Amelda Wilde, founder of Amelda Wilde Interiors, attempts to distill the character of her clients within the interiors she creates for them. A unique style that celebrates imperfections within materials and the abili
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Ralph Lauren
IT’S CHALLENGING TO THINK of a designer who is alive today who has spanned as many decades in business and had anything like the colossal effect Ralph Lauren has had on what we wear, how we decorate and how we live. While his fashion lines started ea
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Luxe Files
MY IDEAL GIFT to receive is not something particularly extravagant. I like a book and don’t mind if it’s a paperback novel. It doesn’t need to be a heavyweight design or art tome that I will look at once and then add to the groaning pile and never op
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Luxe List
In the latest edition of Dior’s Lady Art project, British artists Gilbert & George adorn the house’s seminal ‘Lady Dior’ handbag with an original work. A velvet and 3D resin inlay is adorned with their likeness arranged like a cross and staring up at
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Higher Calling
AFTER PIONEE RING ORGANIC and spiritual beauty and healing treatments and techniques for 30 years on one of Sydney’s busiest boutique shopping streets, beauty and wellness guru Jeannie Bourke has unveiled a new monastic and quietly luxurious temple o
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The Joy Of Text
Granted access to the private spaces of top creatives both within and outside of the city, Simon Upton’s camera worked overtime capturing the fancies and follies of their tasteful homes. Karen Howes, Simon Upton, Vendome, $130 The doyenne of fusion
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Bold Choice
WHAT WERE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR SPACE AND WHAT INITIALLY APPEALED ABOUT THE SITE? Location was a top priority for us, and we were thrilled to discover a space nestled in the vibrant neighbourhood of Fitzroy (voted Melbourne’s coolest neighbourhoo
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Neon Desert
1 ‘Cactus’ ceramic vase by Paola Paronetto, from $1250, from Fanuli. 2 ‘Cosmograph Daytona’ watch in Platinum, POA, from Rolex. 3 Eloa ‘Haumea Amorph’ pendant light in Silver Smoke, $3734, from 1stDibs. 4 ‘La Banane Bambinou’ bum bag in Brown, $1405,
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Pastel Prose
1 ‘Anemone’ flower print wallpaper, $1740/roll, from Gucci. 2 Lancôme ‘L’Absolu Rouge’ cream lipstick, $64, from Mecca. 3 Suede calfskin tailored coat in Beige, $12,400, from Loewe. 4 ‘Screen’ acetate sunglasses in Light Pink, $500, from Loewe. 5 ‘Ho
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Cool, Calm Collective
Stylesetters in their own right, mother and daughter team Barb and Alexandra Brownlow of Brownlow Interior Design bring a classic sensibility to residential projects from their South Yarra studio and store filled with luxe lighting, furniture, rugs,
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Homes
Transforming from bland white weatherboard to a pink paradise, this weekender on Sydney’s Pittwater was dusted with a rosy glow via a clever makeover from the hands of interior designer Marco Meneguzzi. For more, see La Vie en Rose on the following p
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La Vie En Rose
Pretty in pink and a little playful – and perhaps channelling modern-day Barbie – that could neatly sum up this tri-level beach house hugging frangipani and palm tree-clad slopes above Pittwater, NSW. In its colour and design cues, it instantly whisk
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Colour Burst
Packed with personality and panache, this house is a masterclass in how to transplant a vibrant contemporary heart into a stately heritage property. No surprise that this is the family home of interior designer Andrew Parr, award-winning director of
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Power And Glory
The synergy between the architecture and interior design is the standout feature of this newly built home in Sydney’s inner west, executed to perfection by Ursino Architects and designer Linda Habak, director of Studio LHD. On an elevated site with v
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Dual Accents
Interior designer Lynda Kerry is, by all accounts, a California girl. Raised in Newport Beach, Pasadena, she grew up surrounded by – and enamoured with – Spanish mission architecture. For her own home in Sydney’s Darling Point, she engaged Australian
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Grand Vision
This handsome home in Sydney’s north west, an inspired collaboration between architect Julian Brenchley and interior designer Jase Sullivan, offers a beguiling blueprint on being green with elegance and style – while welcomingly eco-aware it never le
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Open Invite
The owner and the designers of this home in the NSW Southern Highlands share a background in hospitality. It certainly shows in these warm and welcoming hotelinspired spaces, which deftly mix the communal and the private, the grand and the intimate,
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The Wow Factory
DO YOU WORK FROM HOME OR THE OFFICE? We split our time working from our manufacturing base in Thomastown and the Zuster showroom office in Hawthorn. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORKSPACE? It is in one of our five Zuster manufacturing facilities all i
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Flair Deal
IT’S MY BELIEF that we are all shaped by life’s early experiences and so I always like to understand how architects came to choose the profession – or how it chose them. Architect Sam Crawford is clear that a decision by his parents to take him and h

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