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Sand Castle
In the early aughts, Sheree Commerford celebrated her 30th birthday by booking all five apartments at Seascape, Yamba’s iconic oceanfront mid-century holiday accommodation, and filling it with her closest friends. Sitting on the terrace, watching the
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Effortless Flavour
Find the beauty in life’s functional moments. Clean lines and bold shapes characterise the Elements by ASKO range, blending style with substance. Even the design of the inner cavity is optimised, inspired by traditional wood-fire ovens, for even heat
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Contributors
Photographer Georges Antoni is used to shooting A-listers and fashion models, and for our VL50 award winners portrait series (page 42) he captured the best of Australia’s design industry. “When you photograph people who are at the pinnacle of their f
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Vl Online
The Los Angeles residence of model Jasmine Tookes and her husband, Snapchat executive Juan David Borrero is an amalgam of the couple’s disparate design tastes. Tookes sought out KES Studio founder Kara Smith to bring a renewed sense of character and
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Total Control
Dial in the perfect amount of heat and eliminate any guesswork. ASKO Celsius° Cooking™ induction cooktops come with Circular Slider controls, offering a graphical and numerical representation of settings. Increase your accuracy with the ASKO Chef’s P
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Raw Beauty
Style — all who have it share one thing: originality.” So said Diana Vreeland, the magazine editor and elegantiae arbiter who never met a leopard print she didn’t like and preferred people with a little ‘bad taste’ to those with no taste at all. Thou
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Sculpture By The Sea
The first thing you see upon entering Villa D’Estate is the stairway, curled like a cat’s tongue in a swathe of grey steel, and lit from above by a hand-poured skylight that creates patterns of light on its static, metal form. It’s a sign of things t
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Fairest Of All
Phoebe Nicol has fallen madly in love more than once. In fact, it wasn’t so long ago that she set her heart on a 17th-century mirror, which now hangs in the sitting room of this Woollahra home. When in Europe on a buying trip for The Vault — the anti
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Vl vision
PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNA POGOSSOVA. STYLIST: JOSEPH GARDNER. STYLE ASSISTANT: LAURA ALEXANDRA ■
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The Vl Edit
PHOTOGRAPHERS: KATERINA LAGODA AND VALENTIN SAVIN (ALIA VITAE), LUCY ALCORN (MAISON BALZAC), FRANCESCO DOLFO (MOBILIA), IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GALLERY SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT, SYDNEY (SABINE MARCELIS). SABINE MARCELIS IS REPRESENTED BY GALLERY S
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Editor’s Letter
On February 29 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Vogue Living celebrated the top 50 creatives in the country at the inaugural VL50 AWARDS presented by Mobilia alongside supporting partners Range Rover, Waterford and Ruinart. The evening’s specia
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Century Of Style
Architecture doesn’t identify by gender and chairs don’t differentiate by chromosome, so why are we still banging on about ‘women in design’ when enrolment numbers in the bastions of aesthetic learning now mostly slant in their favour? “Because it co
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Seamless Innovation
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Ciao, Summer!
When an Italian brewery throws a party to celebrate the arrival of its latest beer in Australia, only one location will do. On February 29, Sydneysiders gathered at Bondi Icebergs to experience Peroni Nastro Azzurro’s new Stile Capri lager, an easy-d
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Romantic Chemistry
It was not so long ago, before e-commerce and affordable travel became the norm, that a visit to the great pharmacies and apothecaries in Europe was limited to a lucky few. Those retail spaces, cloaked in old-world opulence and centuries of hard-earn
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Efficient Flexibility
Experience the benefits of tailored washing. ASKO Style fully integrated dishwashers feature 12 modes and settings. Green Mode saves energy, Speed Mode saves time, Intensive Mode can handle anything and Night Mode is super quiet. Variable start delay
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REBECCA CARATTI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ART DIRECTOR Sandy Dao ACTING ART DIRECTOR Joshua Morris DEPUTY EDITOR Lindyl Zanbaka STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEATURES WRITER Annemarie Kiely DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY AND E-COMMERCE Francesca
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A Bright future
The energy in the Paola Lenti studio is charged. Salone del Mobile is approaching and the pressure to put on a presentation that impresses has shifted the mood from one of enthusiasm to anxiety. “It’s crazy. We’ve got to be nervous because every year
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Crown Jewel
Being invited to design a light-filled show apartment in The Whiteley “felt like the stars had aligned”, enthuses stellar New York-based interior designer Kelly Behun. “When I was sent the details of the building and the team behind it, I was hooked.
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Curtain Call
What a night. On February 29, Vogue Living brought the country’s most influential creatives together to celebrate Australian design excellence at the inaugural VL50 awards. In the North Building of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the year’s best
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History In The making
In many ways this Sydney apartment isn’t typically modern. Aesthetically, it’s busy, shiny and animated with tassels and golden couches. There are 19th century moire fabric dining chairs and moments redolent of the 1990s — wrought iron mirrors, glass
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Natural habitat
Incorporating a client’s existing collection into a new, meticulously designed space can be tricky. The interior designer has a vision, the owners have their ideas, and never the twain shall meet. But that isn’t how Sydney interior design firm Arent&
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Where The Wild Things Are
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Portrait Of A Gallerist
Penning a short, sharp profile on the ‘pre-eminent’ gallerist Roslyn Oxley, based on the newly published art tome Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: The First 40 Years, written and edited by Felicity Fenner, is like decanting a deluge into a cup. Too many thrill
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REBECCA CARATTI ART DIRECTOR Sandy Dao ACTING ART DIRECTOR Joshua Morris DEPUTY EDITOR Lindyl Zanbaka STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEATURES WRITER Annemarie Kiely DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY AND E-COMMERCE Francesca Wallace HEAD OF
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Vl Online
Sydney’s Bellevue Hill sets the scene for architect Jonathan Richards, director of Richards Stanisich, to craft a nuanced family home that balances areas for entertaining with quieter, more private spaces. Landing on a rich palette of dark timber, cr
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Editor’s Letter
As this issue goes to print, the Vogue Living team and I are counting down the days until the VL50 awards. Presented by Mobilia, the inaugural EVENT will take place at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on February 29, the day this edition goes on sa
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