Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer and set designer, with 4 Oscars, 5 BAFTAs and a Tony Award among many others. To the millions around the world who have seen the movies, CM known as the woman who made Nicole Kidman resplendent in red in the costumes for ‘Moulin Rouge!’, for making us want to shimmy our way in beaded...
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Decor & Design 14 – 17 July 2022
On of Australia’s most loved Interiors Trade Event is back. Decor + Design and the Australian International Furniture Fair (AIFF) will return to the Melbourne Exhibition Centre next week from 14 – 17 July 2022, with 250+ exhibitors, the Seminar Series, VIVID Design Awards, the Avenue of Design and Design Matters National Sustainability Hub.
It’s an important annual destination for retailers, interior designers, decorators...
New Wave – By Greg Natale + Designer Rugs
Greg Natale is known as master of patten and colour, and his New Wave collection for Designer Rugs reveals a number of inspirations, with postmodernism and a bold ’80s sensibility at its core.
Seven stunning new rug designs showcase Natale’s inimitable flair for pattern and colour, and represent another evolution in his design journey. After the last collection, which was Deco...
St Hubert’s cellar door
On approach St Hubert’s cellar door dramatically rises from the ground. St Hubert’s, one of the oldest wineries in the Yarra Valley, has reopened its doors following a world-class transformation by leading design practice Cera Stribley, and now forms part of the grander Hubert Estate.
Resolutely natural and elegantly evolving, Hubert Estate is Victoria’s latest highly anticipated destination...
La Colombe d’Or Bungalows
Located in the heart of Houston’s eclectic Montrose neighbourhood, the Garden Bungalows at La Colombe d’Or offer visitors and locals alike an artful respite from the hum of the big city that surrounds. The site is situated across the road from La Colombe d’Or’s newly renovated historic 1920’s Mansion and new residential tower, and is intrinsically connected in both concept and history.
Drawing from...
El Torón Reserve House – Mexico
El Torón Reserve House is located on the coast of Oaxaca, at the southernmost point of the Mexican Pacific coastline. It is a protected 30-hectare area characterised by mixed vegetation and rugged topography, with steep cliffs and hilltops creating hard-to-reach spots and a unique natural beauty.
For the House IUA Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos imagined a lightweight architecture that...
Mixed material gallery
The founders of Oever Gallery located in Oostende, Belgium, gave 5AM design studio carte blanche for the spatial design. The strong link with graffiti, street, and urban art formed the basis for the interior concept. The challenge consisted in keeping the gallery space for creative experiment, inspiring a new generation of artists on the one hand, but...
The Origami House
The Origami House features a new rear extension to a family home in the Buchlyvie Conservation Area of Stirlingshire located in Scotland, United Kingdom. The ground floor plan of the existing cottage was composed of small, dark rooms which closed the house off from the expansive rear garden. The clients asked Loader Monteith to upgrade the home...
Code Black South Melbourne
South of the river was uncharted territory for both architectural practice We are Humble and Code Black, what’s a Brunswick babe to do in far-off lands… jokes the design team, whom were super excited about their first project in South Melbourne. A site on Coventry St, right across from the South Melbourne markets.
The studio was struck by...
Fulham Cemetery Lodge
Fulham Cemetery Lodge was built in 1865 as part of an urban composition alongside the cemetery chapel and gatehouse. Over the years the lodge and an adjacent accretion of sheds and public toilets had fallen into disrepair. The original urban composition has been repaired and enhanced, developing an architectural language by Simon Gill Architects, that allows old...