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The annual Kitchen & Bathroom issue. Kitchens are the epicentre of family life. Plus, we take it outside, from beachside showers to dining outdoors.
51 9 771836 055007 > JUNE - SEPTEMBER | 2021 AUD$17.95 | NZ$17.95 | SGD$13.95
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Life imitates art TEXT YVONNE XU | PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO PERIPHERY
As the founders of Studio Periphery, Marc Tan and Amy Lim are immersed in beautiful image making and design, and it spills over to their home and studio.
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Kitchen art TEXT LUO JINGMEI | PHOTOGRAPHY DANIEL KOH
This dry kitchen counter’s curvaceous, evocative form embodies the house’s artistic sensibilities.
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house designed for art usually distinguishes architecture as shell and art as object. HYLA Architects’ Sculpted Space House attempts to merge the two for its art collector owner. The façade is an expressive montage comprising a rectilinear timber cantilever and screened planes juxtaposed with concrete fins, and a rotund brass-wrapped staircase. This palette continues indoors as a tactile canvas for artworks that eschews the white box gallery aesthetic. The dry kitchen island counter, connected to the living room, is itself a piece of sculpture. A concrete-lookalike Dekton sintered stone top, the tone of which matches the floor tiles, caps a sinuous steel base. “It brings out the casual, semi-outdoor effect that we aimed
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for with the home. We used a reflective material for the base that can be applied in an organic profile to lighten the appearance of the 2.8-metre-long counter,” says Han Loke Kwang, the Singapore-based firm’s founder. It stands out against dark cabinetry containing metal-and-tinted glass kitchen appliances. The island counter is a casual dining space for the family of three. They can sit facing the person behind the counter, the garden and pool that runs alongside each side of the house, or the television at the end of the living room. Like art, its harmony with the house’s overall design sensibilities elevates the utilitarian and routine activities of cooking and eating. H YLA Architects | hyla.com.sg
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THIS PAGE The unobtrusive black, linear lamp that lights the island bench was chosen so as not to detract from the counter’s evocative shape
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PREVIOUS Michael Drescher at home in his own kitchen, which features rich materiality LEFT For the kitchen in this private residence in Mount Martha, cool grey natural limestone softens the generous spatial planning, photo by Damien Kook ABOVE The kitchen at Habitus Townhomes, photo by Timothy Kaye
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A suburban jewel TEXT JAN HENDERSON | PHOTOGRAPHY RORY GARDINER
An alteration and addition of a house in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne ticks every box for comfort and amenity, as DREAMER reimagines the old to make new again.
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Off the wall TEXT LUO JINGMEI | PHOTOGRAPHY DANIEL KOH
While most may look to introverted schemes in a plot hedged by other buildings, Park + Associates’ introduction of a bold, singular gesture is an inventive way of enabling ample outdoor connections.
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Simply the best TEXT VICKI WILSON | PHOTOGRAPHY TOM FERGUSON
Croydon House by Apto + Best, an emerging Sydneybased practice, takes a once dilapidated cottage and turns it into an elevated family home.
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