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CONTRIBUTORS ONLINE NOW vogueliving.com.au EDITOR’S LETTER VL VIEW Creative director of Sydney Design Week, Stephen Todd delves into the thriving diversity of Australian design in the 21st century

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29 LAND OF MANY TALENTS Australian design continues to lead the way, as local creatives turn their hand with studied and instinctual skill to conjure expressive pieces from our very own shores

38 WILD SPIRIT Marimekko’s signature patterns and motifs make bright additions for all occasions

42 THE VL EDIT A curated hit list of new feature pieces and accessories that have caught our eye

VLife 47 VL50 Making up this elite group of established and emerging creatives are the names the Australian design world is talking about right now

68 NEW DAWN Founder David King of King, one of Australia’s most successful furniture businesses, tracks its evolution

70 ICONIC STYLE: EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE The late, great Anmatyerre elder is one of the eminent artists ever to practice in the history of Australian art

VLiving 88 HOMEWARD BOUND Australian-born international music sensation Troye Sivan called upon the revered talents of Flack Studio to sensitively reimagine his Melbourne home on the site of a former 19th-century racquetball court

100 PAST & PRESENT A youthful energy permeates through this sun-drenched historic Sydney property reinvigorated by interior designer Blainey North, who ably explored and expressed the blurring between the new and old 110 LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE Architecture and design practice Akin Atelier combines moments of fluid sophistication with a rich palette and eclectic playfulness in this beachside home May/Jun 2021

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182 Chefs at the sushi bar of Nobu at Crown Sydney.

166 RETAIL HITS Purchasing furniture, art and homewares isn’t just about the transaction – for us, shopping is best when it’s an immersive aesthetic experience that sparks ideas and puts pieces in context. Here are our favourite places to browse and buy the best of Australian and international design

182 IN FULL BLING The action amps up at eye-catching Crown Sydney as new openings join the roll call of marquee restaurants, adding to the attractions for revellers seeking an injection of glamour 12

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On the cover The living and dining area of the Melbourne home belonging to singer-songwriter Troye Sivan.

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Contributors Jake Millar WR I TE R A ND E DI TOR The wonderful Jake Millar can usually be found working as editorial director for Vogue Living’s brother title, GQ. Millar started with the brand as an intern around 10 years ago and says that alongside writing and editing, like many of us, he spends most of his time failing to get on top of his inbox — “so that feels like my actual full-time job”.

For this issue, Millar helped to compile the VL50, (page 47) the first of what will be an annual list of the country’s top design figures and creatives. “It was exciting to see just how much talent there is out there in the Australian design landscape,” says the British-born, Sydney-based editor.

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STYL IST A trained interior designer, Joseph Gardner has worked in magazine publishing for almost a decade.

As style editor for Vogue Living, he has spent the last five years creating some of the magazine’s most stunning imagery and has only recently spread his wings to move into an editor-at-large role. For this issue, Gardner collaborated with photographer Saskia Wilson on ‘Land of Many Talents’ (page 29). “The highlight of the shoot was teaming up with Saskia to capture the work of some of Australia’s best designers while the sun rose over the ocean.

It was a perfect Sydney morning.” @joseph_gardner

WRI T ER Features writer extraordinaire Amy Campbell makes her interiors feature debut with Vogue Living this issue, touring two very different yet equally spectacular Sydney homes; the first, a “fabulous and eccentric” Georgian Revival-style retreat (page 100) designed by Blainey North; the second, a 21st-century sculptural wonder with Sydney Harbour views (page 130) by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and Sibella Court.

Campbell also put together our shopping guide for design lovers (page 166). “Writing about interior design is still relatively new to me — I’m usually banging on about fashion or pop culture,” she says. “It’s been a fun challenge learning the industry terminology.” A highlight was meeting interior stylist Sibella Court.

“The Stylist’s Guide to NYC was like my little black book when I moved to New York!” @amycammpbell

P H OTO G RAP H E R The natural environment is a primary source of inspiration for award-winning Sydney-based photographer Chris Court. “Nothing beats the Australian landscape for both subtlety and harshness in colour and light,” he says. Sibling to Australian interior stylist and designer Sibella Court, Chris first picked up a camera 20 years ago and now works predominantly in the US and Australia shooting for interiors, food and lifestyle clients. For this issue, Chris collaborated with his sister on capturing the sculptural curves of a harbourside home in Sydney’s Lavender Bay (page 130) designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects with interiors by Sibella. “The house was very generously proportioned so I had to manage my time there very well,” he says. “There were so many beautiful spaces but we only had one day to shoot. The highlight was looking out at that spectacular Sydney view, and getting a beautiful day to boot!” @chriscourt 16

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LE FT editor Rebecca Caratti at home.

Vintage Camaleonda sofa by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia from Tigmi Trading, enquiries to Space Furniture for reissued edition; custom rug from RC+D; marble and terrazzo coffee table from The Future Perfect; pink marble side table from Dimorestudio; artwork by Vicki Lee; sculpture by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran.

Singer-songwriter Troye Sivan in his Melbourne home designed by Flack Studio (page 88).

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his edition of Vogue Living that you’re holding is one I am extremely proud of — an issue purely dedicated to Australian design and the creatives that shape it. Now more than ever, Australians have a greater appreciation for this incredible country we live in, and so this special production shines a spotlight on the diverse talent and spectacular homes that we have right here on our own shores.

I’m also excited to introduce our inaugural VL50 — a list compiled by myself and the VL team recognising the top interior designers, architects, makers and artists across our remarkable design landscape (page 47). The line-up is a mix of emerging creatives and industry heavyweights — and the one common tie binding them together is that they are all capturing our attention in 2021. It wasn’t an easy task, but it’s an annual initiative I want to continue as VL’s way of celebrating the creatives making waves in our design scene and beyond.

And then there are the homes. From our cover star, Perth-born pop sensation Troye Sivan’s Melbourne retreat designed by Flack Studio (page 88) to the heritage family home in Sydney thoughtfully updated by globally recognised local design darling Blainey North (page 100), the variety of styles on show highlights our nation’s expansive talent pool. Architect Neil Durbach from Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and interior designer Sibella Court have crafted an apartment worthy of the most perfect view of Sydney Harbour (page 130) and YSG’s Yasmine Ghoniem casts a tonal spell upon an old corner store now home in Sydney (page 118). There’s another striking project by Luigi Rosselli Architects and Arent&Pyke, breathing new life into a tired villa (page 140). And then there’s the beachside Sydney home

by Akin Atelier (page 110) — modern yet playful, it captures the laid-back lifestyle we’re renowned for around the world.

One of the questions I get asked by colleagues, readers and friends most is “Where can I buy…”, which is why we’re sharing our little black book of design stores for your shopping pleasure (page 165).

I hope you enjoy this special edition as much as we have loved putting it together. It’s also one of the last issues I edit before I prepare for the birth of my second child. For me, this is a collector’s issue, one that bookmarks what Australian design is right now and the inspiring movers and shakers of our thriving creative community.

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he lightbulb moment happened on November 10 2011 when, having recently returned to Australia after 20 years living abroad, I found myself at the launch of the first Broached Commissions collection in a disused film facility in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Until that second, I’d been wondering what ‘Australian design’ might look like. And there was an answer: the work on show included a tea set made from lacquered kelp and kangaroo pelt, a lushly polished tallboy devised along the lines of rustic outback structures, and a towering tripodal floor lamp the legs, stem and head of which were covered in thousands of hand-dyed toothpicks to evoke the psychological carapace of convict women who managed to survive transportation from Britain.

Deeply thoughtful, supremely crafted and responding to the specifics of history and place, Broached Commissions has in its various iterations over the ensuing decade added gravitas to the accruing critical mass that is a nascent Australian design aesthetic.

That’s not to say that all Australian design is intellectually or aesthetically outré, yet it is characterised by a certain edge: something awardwinning designer Yasmine Ghoniem identifies in her own style as “arty-casual”. “As a country we’re very refined but not pretentious, and when you mix that refinement with a certain Australian harshness you get this really great concoction,” she says.

For Richard Munao, director of Cult and founder of locally designed and manufactured brand Nau, Australian design is marked by an “easy, unpretentious” allure often reminiscent of the clean lines and honest materials of mid-century architecture across the nation. The Nau collections — designed by Adam Goodrum, Tom Fereday and Zachary Hanna in Sydney, Kate Stokes and Adam Cornish in Melbourne, and Jack Flanagan in Perth — are manufactured in New South Wales (timber and upholstery) and Victoria (metalwork).

That means that when, say, Hermès orders Goodrum’s Fat Tulip armchairs for its Tokyo and Osaka stores, fine Antipodean craftsmanship is being recognised not only on the international stage but within the rarefied environs of one of the world’s most renowned leather goods houses. “The maturity of what’s being conceived and produced by Nau has made the brand evolve even quicker than I expected,” says Munao. “I’m quietly proud of where we’re at.”

Aidan Mawhinney, director of Living Edge, which imports Tom Dixon (UK), Vitra (Switzerland) and Herman Miller (US) but also works with Sydney

designers David Caon and Henry Wilson as well as Brisbane’s Alexander Lotersztain, sums up Australian design as simply “progressive”. “I’ve kept an eye on the Australian designers showing in Milan in recent years, and they’re not underperforming in any way,” says Mawhinney, who insists he’s intent on “supporting great global design, and it just so happens that a lot of that is coming from Australia these days”.

Until recently, designers across our nation of any stature would flock to Milan for Salon de Mobile in the hope of getting their self-funded prototypes in front of any of the hundreds of major brands based and/or showing there. Sometimes, they’d luck out and actually get an appointment; mostly they talked their way into the endless roster of parties in the hope of schmoozing someone in the know.

“Australian designers are like mushrooms in a forest,” says Alberto Alessi, whose grandfather Giovanni founded the namesake company in 1921. “At first you can see just one, but the more you look, the more you spot. There must be something that makes design there special.” ››

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Adam Goodrum and Arthur Seigneur, who collaborate under the banner of A&A. All three sold out, two to Sydney philanthropist Judith Neilson AM (for whom Goodrum is also designing several bespoke pieces).

Also in Melbourne, art dealer Sophie Gannon began exhibiting design in 2017 — the year of the inaugural Melbourne Design Week held under the auspices of the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria). Today her regular roster includes Melbourne creatives Danielle Brustman and Dale Hardiman, as well as Alice Springs-based Elliat Rich. “The market has become sophisticated very quickly,” says Gannon. “The label ‘art’ or ‘design’ can be made by the collector if they want to categorise it. But more and more people are just going with it and appreciating the object for what it is.”

And more and more, they are appreciating — and consuming — it onshore. “The local design community has always been very rich but it was under-recognised because there were limited opportunities for expression,” says NGV director Tony Ellwood AM, who established the Department of Contemporary The Art of Light, an exhibition of creativity and community by Design & Architecture in 2015, three years after Articolo, part of this year’s taking up the reins. “I would come across these great Melbourne Design Week.

Melbourne designers when I was abroad, and they’d tell me they’d had an opportunity to exhibit with a gallery in Paris or Vietnam or had been picked up by a store in New York. But they had no presence in their home city.” ‹‹ And so in a lineup that rolls off the tongue like a libretto — As Melbourne Design Week goes from strength to strength, the Castiglioni, Branzi, Dominioni, Botta — it’s easy to detect the twang Victorian government has plans for NGV Contemporary, a new gallery of Antipodean talents like Newson, Goodrum, Kontouris and that will house the hundreds of design pieces acquired since 2017.

Cornish. Alessi is so convinced of the talent pool here that in 2014 Meanwhile in New South Wales, the Powerhouse Museum — the company launched the Alessi Design Prize, most recently held which has organised an annual Sydney design event for more than in conjunction with Vogue Living. two decades — is reorienting the historical Ultimo space while Since Covid has grounded most international travel (with the forging ahead with a new setup in Parramatta designed by Moreau Milan fair cancelled last year), Australians have had to hunker Kusunaki and Genton: the largest spend on cultural infrastructure in down — and that might well prove to be a boom for the local design the state since Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, completed in 1973. scene. Certainly the handful of galleries dealing in the burgeoning “Design is central to how we think and what we do as an collectible design sector have made good inroads recently. institution,” says the museum’s chief executive Lisa Havilah. “The Sally Dan-Cuthbert, an established art consultant with a private distinctive scope of the Powerhouse allows us to consider design client list, established her “functional art” gallery in Sydney’s across all aspects of contemporary life, from our built environment Rushcutters Bay in late 2019 and today represents some 20 designers to fashion to engineering. By working across existing design sectors — including Trent Jansen and Johnny Nargoodah, Ivana Taylor and and investing in new work, we not only document and amplify Edward Waring — and almost the same number of visual artists.

Australian design but contribute to its development.”

Her design collectors “are a mix of people who are just Today, 10 years after that initial lightbulb moment, it’s clear that understanding collectible design and functional art and, like me, Australian design is a vibrant constellation of creators and brands, want to have pieces with a story and importantly an artist’s hand,” makers and manufacturers, independent galleries and important she says, noting her stable is of “Australian artists and designers institutions. All synapses firing, positively brilliant. VL who are of international quality but who have remained local”.

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Shelter in Double Bay. “This was our first commercial project and it received a huge amount of attention,” says director Anna Trefely.

C L I E N T S : Mirvac, Gavin Rubinstein and The Rubinstein Group, Rachel Gilbert, Kristin Fisher Eyebrows.

The Avian Apartment.

“I had a wonderful client who allowed creative freedom within the parameters of brief, budget and time, which made it a joy to work on and resulted in the project being awarded, and published nationally and internationally,” says the interior designer.

C L I E N T S : “I recently worked for Architectus within its interior architecture team, and am now running a suite of residential projects for private clients.”

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An extensive refurbishment to transition two apartments into one residence in Brisbane.

E T H O S : “My philosophy is to collaborate with my clients to achieve an outcome that is receptive to people, place, community and environment. As such, my design aesthetic is grounded by the essence of warm minimalism and organic modernism.”

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“Brick House, our first completed high-end residential project, is a landmark for us,” says director Alessandra French, pictured with director Ara Salomone, and senior designers Amy Clark and Jessie Nguyen.

C L I E N T S : Shutter House,

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Sweep House, designed for a young professional family. “The brief was to create a space that is enduring and timeless.”

E T H O S : “Our vision centres on innovation, momentum and craftsmanship. Each project is formed from

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C L I E N T S : Four Pillars Gin, Gage Roads Brewing Co., Go-To, Cultiver, The Lord Dudley, as well as local and international high-end private clients.

C U R R E N T LY W O R K I N G O N : “A private residence in Kuwait for a dear friend I went to high school with.”

E T H O S : “Sculptural, textural and unexpected. Perfection in my book is about cohesive clashes and unpredictable conclusions.

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“When I started architecture, my father said I can afford to send you to university but I want you to work in an apprentice way with architects and do your course at night-time. I worked with Neville Gruzman, and in front of him sat Bill and Ruth Lucas, who were doing their house at Castlecrag. I was very young but it was an incredibly important time for me because they were all extraordinarily demanding, but unless the demands are there, you don’t know what it is to perform. I was raised with such intense discipline. In my first 10 years of practice, I did only two houses and more than 150 alterations and additions. But into each one of those alterations I built a little experiment, and I built up all those experiments into my first house for my brother — it won awards.

The next project I did for Laurie Short, it also won awards. Until I was 50, practically every house I did won major awards, but I don’t say that with pride — I just say that these staging points gave me confidence. I am extremely unconfident. The real ability I have is in knowing when it’s not good enough.”

C L I E N T S : The Marie Short House at Kempsey (1974-1975) — “it was the first time I was dealing with climatic concerns on the cusp of the tropics, high rainfall, isolation, living on a verandah, things that were critical for me”; Magney House (1982-1984); SimpsonLee House (1988- 1993); Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre (1998-1999) with Reg Larkin and Wendy Lewin; Naomi Milgrom’s MPavilion (2019) — “I was in my 84th year and had never dealt with membranes. It gave me the great opportunity to start working in another material.”

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The Cobar Sound Chapel inside an abandoned water tank with composer George Lentz, plus a new facility for the Royal Far West in Manly — an organisation providing holistic care for vulnerable country kids — in association with architect Angelo Candalepas.

E T H O S : “My father raised us on the words of Henry David Thoreau: ‘Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.’ My father would also say, ‘Remember, son, that for every compromise you knowingly make in your occupation — in architecture, [it is] the constructed work — it will represent the quality of your next client.’”

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New dawn David King, founder of King, one of Australia’s most successful furniture businesses, tracks its evolution from humble beginnings at a Sydney market stall to international acclaim and Oprah’s seating of choice.

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um was a really great interior designer.

After my parents were divorced she began to buy houses — mostly in absolutely dilapidated states — and renovate them.

Every year during my childhood, I think from the age of about nine or 10, we lived in a different house. Sooner or later I started helping her and I could see the results of what she was doing. She was remarkable in making the interiors of a cluttered house very simple and beautiful. She’d always get top dollar when it came to time to sell the house because of the way she decorated — she was really, really good at it. And that’s how we got into furniture because we used to do a lot of things ourselves and one day she thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to have some casual furniture for one of the rooms?’

Mum and I started off making little foam chairs, very simple designs that almost looked like kindergarten drawings. We took them to the markets in Sydney and people loved them. We started selling hundreds and, within a short time, we decided to expand the range to include other models. Talking to customers, I knew they wanted something that was comfortable, and that had depth and softness in the seat. I discovered this amazing suspension system made from steel that was used in European cars.

But this type of suspension couldn’t be attached to a timber frame — because it would break the timber — so I experimented with using a steel frame.

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“What I’m interested in is not just MAKING ordinary furniture but making BETTER furniture that will last and be a GREAT REFLECTION ON AUSTRALIA” David King, founder of furniture brand King. The Fleur range includes sofa, swivel lounge chair and ottoman options. The contemporary appeal of the Fleur three-seater sofa.

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In 1979, we produced our first sofa using a steel frame with this European suspension. It was a really exciting moment and was hugely popular. People were looking for something better.

Many had bought furniture made from webbing and timber, and it would creak and crack and go saggy. And here we had this product that actually holds its shape. It was far more advanced than most of the furniture at the time. That’s how King started.

We design and manufacture all our furniture — and that’s super powerful. We’re still re-covering furniture even from the 1970s. This means that we can also keep improving our products.

What’s exciting at the moment is our young, dynamic design team. Our people look at these products on a daily basis and it really helps them understand what’s come before and how to improve on it. Our whole culture is that of a family business.

We’re not answerable to shareholders looking for dividends — we grow the business very carefully and very deliberately, and everybody works as a team. All the people that we employ, we treat as members of the family. It’s very close knit.

Things are changing faster than I’ve ever seen. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, even just a few years ago, people were decorating based on trends. They’d want a certain trend and would buy all the pieces to fit that look, and when that trend moved on, they’d have to discard the whole lot. People are smarter now — because they’re connected, they can get advice and very easily see what other people are buying. They can then buy pieces that work with any trend and also fit into their lifestyles. This is far more sensible than just buying something that has the look of the moment.

We have a range that we call King Motion, which is made up of recliners and furniture that move to fit the shape of your body. Traditionally recliners have been ugly, they take over the room and can look awful. Our recliners look like normal sofas and you can hardly tell they’re recliners until you make a gesture or push a button and they automatically adjust to your favourite position. This category is huge and it’s where our designers are innovating. We have the most advanced products in this range anywhere on the planet.

One of our biggest-selling sofas, the Delta, has appeared on Oprah and our products feature regularly at various Hollywood events. What’s exciting is not only do we sell our furniture to Australian A-listers for their homes in New York or wherever it might be, but we’re also in the most beautiful homes in places like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai. I never dreamed our products would end up in huge home theatres in Moscow, the most beautiful chalets in Whistler, or over in the United States. This is the most satisfying thing to me. To see our products around the world is just incredible.

What I’m interested in is not just making ordinary furniture but making better furniture that will last and be a great reflection on Australia — to have really great products with this Australian substance behind them. VL kingliving.com

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye The late, great Anmatyerre elder is one of the eminent artists ever to practice in the history of Australian art and her presence on the international stage is only increasing in power.

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owards the end of 1988 at Utopia, an Aboriginal Australian homeland north-east of Alice Springs, a women’s group specialising in batik was offered acrylic paint and linen on which to work for the first time. The brainchild of Rodney Gooch, manager of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) shop, and Sydney gallerist Christopher Hodges, A Summer Project exhibition was devised so the women — all experienced image-makers — could continue their artistic practice across the peak of the hot desert summer. The collection of canvases, a month or so later, proved to be a watershed moment in the history of Australian art. There were many beautiful works, according to Hodges, but those of one particular elder woman, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, were truly exceptional.

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In a career brief but extraordinary, Kngwarreye produced more than 3000 works in just eight years, prior to her death in 1996, including the monumental Earth’s Creation, which set a world record for Aboriginal art, as well as for a work by a female Australian artist, when it sold for $1,056,000 in 2007. (The work went under the hammer for a second time a decade later at Cooee Art Gallery, selling for $2.1 million.) Truly inspiring, though, was the creative about-face itself: Kngwarreye put a paintbrush to canvas for the first time at age 79 and became one of Australia’s greatest artists.

“She obviously enjoyed painting,” says Hodges, whose gallery Utopia Art Sydney represented Kngwarreye throughout her career. “You can see it in all the best works. There’s a vigour and enthusiasm and an emphatic strength in her mark making. She was an amazing woman: if you knew her she just had it, a knowing, and understanding.”

Kngwarreye shared a profound interconnectedness with her people, the Anmatyerre, and their ancestral homeland in the Central Australian Desert — a bond fundamental in any survey of her work. “Oneness with Country is central to the identity of the Anmatyerre and is expressed in their visual culture,” says Judith Ryan AM, senior curator of Indigenous Art at the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria). Born circa 1910, Kngwarreye’s life was turned irrevocably upside down when the borders of the Utopia pastoral lease were drawn across the lands of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre peoples in 1926. “Like other dispossessed people of the region, Emily moved to Utopia Station and was forced to work tirelessly for the new occupiers of her Country in exchange for rations,” says Ryan. In a harbinger of the trailblazer she would become in later life, the young Kngwarreye spent her days as a camel driver and stock-hand. The physical strength she developed in her hands and arms would serve her well in her gestural painting style decades later.

When the Aboriginal Land Rights Act was passed in the Northern Territory in 1976 — and the Utopia pastoral lease acquired by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission the same year — it was in 1977, that Kngwarreye was introduced to batik during classes at Utopia Station. In both batik and painting, according to Ryan, the structural elements of her work — the bold stripes forming the primary source of her iconography — find their origins in the body painting of women’s rituals, known as awely. Also depicted are designs that signify her main Dreaming, the atnwelarr, or pencil yam, abundant in her grandfather’s Country, Alhalker. Kam – another way to spell Kame – in fact, is Kngwarreye’s Aboriginal or bush name, and means ‘seed of the pencil yam’. ››

P HOTO G RAP H E R: G R EG WE I GHT (PO RTR AI T), © E MI LY KAME K N GWAR RE Y E / COPY R I GH T AGE NCY — N TAN GE DR EA MI N G (1 989 ) I MAG E CO URT E SY O F N ATI O N AL GAL LE RY O F AU ST RAL I A, UN TI T LE D (19 92) I MAG E COU RT ESY OF U TO PI A ART SY DN E Y, E ARTH ’S C R E ATI O N (19 94) I MAG E COU RT ESY OF CO O E E ART GAL L E RY

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artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye in 1994.

Untitled (1992) by Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

Earth’s Creation (1994) by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. O PPO SI TE PAGE Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Anmatyerre people, Ntange Dreaming (1989), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 1989.

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‹‹ “Emily’s work is daringly painted and expansive in scale,” says Ryan. “Her acrylic paintings were unprecedented when they first appeared. They can appear almost abstract and range from fields of dots, compositions of bold lines or combinations of dots and lines.” Contact with the outside world was minimal: Kngwarreye did not speak English and rarely left her birthland but as Ryan points out, her work is often compared with Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists. Upon seeing the work of Modernist painters and in particular, the work of Sol LeWitt, she is said to have asked: “Why do those fellas paint like me?” Ultimately though, Ryan views the comparison as inappropriate as Kngwarreye’s seemingly abstract paintings are actually representational. “The markings reference her birthplace Alhalkere and her Dreaming: the pencil yam abundant in that place. She needs to be considered in her own terms and in comparison with other senior Indigenous women who also work in daring, painterly styles on expansive canvasses.”

Earth’s Creation was painted in 1994 during the artist’s ‘highcolourist’ phase and, according to Adrian Newstead OAM of Cooee Art Gallery, is regarded as one of her masterpieces. “The swirling blues, greens and yellows evoke what Kngwarreye called the “green time” that comes after the rains, when the bush erupts with new life in her country. She painted with a ‘dump dot’ technique, using her brush to pound the acrylic paint onto the canvas to create layers of colour and movement.” Newstead arranged for the painting to be shown at All the World’s Futures, the 2015 Venice Biennale. The work will also be included in the 2022 Women in Abstraction show at Paris’s Centre Pompidou.

He adds: “In time I have no doubt that Emily Kame Kngwarreye will be considered an international superstar and among a tiny handful of the greatest artists ever in the history of Australian art.” VL

A BOVE Emily Kame Kngwarraye, Anmatyerr c. 1910 –1996, Body paint: Awely (1993) synthetic polymer paint on paper, 77cm × 56.3cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Alcoa of Australia Limited, Governor, 1994. R I G HT Kngwarraye at work.

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AB OV E Emily Kame Kngwarraye, Anwerlarr angerr (Big yam) (1996) synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 401cm × 245cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased by the National Gallery Women’s Association to mark the directorship of Dr Timothy Potts, 1998.

PH OTO GRAP HE R: GRE G WE IG HT (K N GWARR E Y E AT WO R K ), © E MI LY KAME K NGWA R R AY E /L I C E NSE D BY CO PY R I GH T AG EN CY, AU ST RAL I A, BO DY PA I N T: AWE LY (1 993 ) AN D A NWE RL ARR AG E RR (B I G YAM) (199 6 ) IM AG E S CO URT ESY O F N AT I ONA L GA LL E RY OF VI CTO R I A

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Escape with Vogue Living anytime, anywhere Exclusive: Troye Sivan at home in Melbourne

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T HI S PAG E singer-songwriter and actor Troye Sivan in the mezzanine above the main living and dining area of his Melbourne home.

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Australian-born international music sensation Troye Sivan called upon the revered talents of Flack Studio to sensitively reimagine his Melbourne home on the site of a former 19th-century racquetball court.

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T H E SE PAG E S in the main living area of this Melbourne home, vintage Cerruti lounge chairs from Nicholas & Alistair; wall sconce designed

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“The thing that I appreciate when I’m in Australia is the general approach to life — a grasp on what’s important and the prioritising of it: family, outdoor spaces, beers”

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e may be the new standard-bearer of pop stardom, but for Troye Sivan, the 25-year-old Aussie singer-songwriter and actor who rocketed to the top of global dance charts with self-penned intimacies sung over lush synth-soundscapes, the celebrity tropes are simply for smashing.

Starting with the hackneyed ‘star is born’ narrative that casts prodigious talent in underdog circumstance then plots for its lucky meet with a modern-day Svengali who dictates its loves, looks and living, Sivan has concertedly written his own script and regards fame without freedom as the seventh circle of hell; an abyss filled with hangers-on and overblown houses à la rapper 50 Cent, who famously bragged about 19 bedrooms, 25 bathrooms, a hot tub that fit 40, a nightclub and an indoor racquetball court before going bust.

“I think I’d be really sad if I woke up in a house by myself with 19 bedrooms,” says Sivan from the peachy bedroom peak of his new tri-level Melbourne home, a 19th-century hardball court set in a mews-style square reminiscent of residential London. “When I open all these windows up, and feel the texture of the carpet beneath my feet and the breeze over the top of the trees and watch people in the park enjoying what is truly the greatest city in the world, that makes me feel really, really happy.”

With a poise and personal insight beyond his spot-lit career and years, Sivan, who was born in South Africa and raised in Western Australia, communicates his idyll of home in terms of feelings rather than forms. He claims a design sensibility seeded in the peace and simplicity of Perth, the isolated city of endless sun, self-made millionaires and a can-do mindset that convinced a young Jewish teenager to out his talents and queerness on YouTube.

Sivan cut through the ether with a sensual emotionalism that now explains his love of Ilse Crawford’s design work. “She’s awesome,” he says, in recall of being smitten by Stockholm’s Ett Hem Hotel — the 12-room Arts and Crafts building that Crawford contrived into the lived-in home of an insinuated character. “Then I watched a documentary on her, talking about design and materiality and how it can change the way you experience life and it really hit home for me.”

Eschewing the type of arriviste high style that discourages jumping on the couch, Sivan adds that for him family is everything and always in his orbit, necessitating a serviceability of home for big dinners — “to celebrate Friday night Shabbat” — pet dogs and a projected future of little climbing feet. “Our life plan,” he says in reference to his three close siblings, who one by one moved to the Victorian capital with parents in pursuit, “is that one day we will all have our own families and raise them here [in Melbourne].”

It’s not the usual cynical speak of celebrity but a surprising expression of joy in the simple rhythms and dog-hair strewn realities of the everyday in a region that he believes has got it right. “You know the thing that I appreciate more than anything else when I’m here [in Australia] is the general approach to life — a grasp on what’s important and the prioritising of it: family, outdoor spaces, beers.”

He leans into the longing that has come from six years of living in Los Angeles where he regularly guests on late-night talk shows and casts in box-office movies, having garnered rave reviews for his role in the tale of teenage gay conversion Boy Erased and bagging a Golden Globe nomination for its soundtrack song ‘Revelation’. “That’s what I really miss when I’m overseas — everything seems to make sense here.”

But for all the espoused grounding of home, the point is made to Sivan that like ‘Fiddy’ he has succumbed to owning a racquetball court. Slippery slope? Sivan, a one-time Saint Laurent model and current Cartier ambassador, who now sports a ‘business at the front, party at the back’ mullet haircut just laughs and counts the modest three bedrooms and two bathrooms that cram into the space of his repurposed court, one dating back to the 1860s.

“The history of this site was just so exciting to me,” he says of the unexpected real estate purchase made during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdown. “The other day I calculated that the marks on the rear courtyard wall were likely made by hardballs 146 years ago. The fact that I’m 25 in this house that has such a layering of lives, it humbles me. There’s a real through line of love for the space, the architecture and the artistry of it.”

Though Sivan’s plans to buy into Melbourne were always a future proposition, he remembers March 12, 2020 as the day in Los Angeles “it felt like everything went to shit,” and March 13 as the day he was on a flight back to Australia. The move was presciently penned in the song, ‘Take Yourself Home’, a feature track on the melancholy EP In a Dream: “I’m tired of the city. Scream if you’re with me. If I’m gonna die, let’s die somewhere pretty.”

“It’s a song about waking up and wondering what am I actually doing here,” he says of LA. “Am I truly fulfilled and happy, which is not to say that I’m unhappy in America, but I don’t think I ever got the balance really right.” ››

homeowner Troye Sivan in the main living area, vintage Percival Lafer MP-61 sofa from Smith Street Bazaar; custom log coffee table from The Makery Club; vintage Moroccan High Atlas Taznakht rug from Halcyon Lake.

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‹‹ The accompanying YouTube video — a bird’s eye flight over abandoned city — and the scroll-down of online comments tells his pining impacted with fans, one of whom questioned: “Does anyone feel like home is not the house they’re living in?” It’s such a fundamental ask of shelter, and the one that ultimately steered Sivan’s brief for the sensitive rejigging of his Melbourne dwelling, but the star confesses to lacking the confidence to call a designer.

“I started showing a friend some of my favourite houses around the world and they said you gotta work with Flack Studio,” he recalls. “The second I went on its Instagram, I think it was the Sandy Bay House in Tasmania [featured in the September/October 2019 issue of Vogue Living] — I was like, ‘OK, these guys get it.’”

David Flack, principal of said studio, later remembers the call coming through to the office mid-2020 and the following studio meet with a very “visceral” Sivan. “He knows how he wants to feel, and instantly struck me as an effortless, chilled and honest guy who would be lots of fun to work with,” he says. “Troye totally gets it.”

Again, with the ‘gets it’; that ephemeral something that Flack reckons to be the shared values elicited from endless conversations about everything from Wes Anderson movies to being queer to Black Lives Matter to the then “filthy orange man” in the White House.

“But there’s an otherness, always an otherness,” says the designer in qualification of Sivan’s want to work feeling around Australian art, vintage furniture and “the vibe” of past residents, the most recent of whom had respectfully preserved the details of the prominent modernist architect who owned the house in the 1970s. “So, we first started identifying who and what we really liked and Ball was a big part of that.”

Referring to the late Australian abstract painter Sydney Ball, who stars on Flack Studio walls and featured in the seminal exhibition The Field at the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) in 1968, Flack believes that the artist and the architect-owner, who added the cork ceilings and top-level studio (now Sivan’s bedroom), must have been known to each other.

“There’s a real through line of love for the space, the architecture and the artistry of it” Such suggestive thread-lines appealed to Sivan who “added to the site’s archaeology”, says Flack, with the purchase and placement of one of Ball’s hard-edged geometries on a courtyard wall still etched with markings. This injection of line and colour informed the landscaping hand of Rupert Bain, who was conceptually briefed to make it all appear as if “Grandma had collected these random plants and pots and didn’t know that she was great at gardening.”

“The house told us what to do,” says Flack, pointing to a glazed rear facade, now a pleating of fine black steelwork that dispensed with “the fizz and obstructive light flow” of old leadlights.

He instated a new clarity of structure, continuing the line inside where an ill-sited bathroom was absorbed into a conservatory-style corner kitchen that reset with Le Corbusier-inflected oak cabinets, handmade tiles, a customised chopping-board bar — “the nightmare finesse of 360 fingers of oak” — and oxidised metals that would testify “to the passage of time and Troye”.

Over the top of this subtle shift in materiality and making, realised by Flack’s A-team of art-end contractors, the designer began laying the aesthetic objectification of Sivan — a salon hang of contemporary Australian art and a careful select of furniture running the gamut from mid-century masters to modern crafters of comfort.

“This is by Maker & Son,” says Flack of a deep-set, down-filled sofa upholstered in a malachite linen, robust enough for Sivan’s specification of jumping. “Rather than shipping around the world, they set up satellites in countries and issue the templates for local making.

It’s a bit of a ripper.”

The sofa’s comforting English bulk contra-posts the upright Italian posturing of vintage Cerruti velvet armchairs and the Brazilian entreaty to lie-back on a ’70s leather sofa by modernist Percival Lafer in a house-wide conversation between past and present lives.

“It’s all underwritten by passion,” affirms Flack of the objects and occupants, then and now, that fed into the “heart and soul” effort of this project. That earnestness feeds back to Flack in the form of a lyric from one of Sivan’s hit-songs: “Cause passion is passion. You know it just as well as me.” The piss-take cracks a laugh from Flack, who joins in the follow-on chorus of client approval: “Oh my, my, my! Living for your every move…” VL flackstudio.com.au May/Jun 2021

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in the kitchen, custom blackened-steel rangehood canopy; benchtop in honed Verde Fantastico marble from Bluechip Marble & Granite; crown-cut American oak timber veneer joinery; Sun Valley Bronze square-foot cabinet pulls in Raw White Bronze from Mother of Pearl & Sons Trading; induction cooktop from Fisher & Paykel; Moroccan Zellige glazed tiles from Tiento; aged brass utensil rail designed by Flack Studio and produced by Alustain; pots from Phillip & Lea; Birds Out On A Limb (2020) vessel by Fiona Hiscock from Jan Murphy Gallery. O P P O SI T E PAG E in the breakfast nook, vintage S33 chairs by Mart Stam for Thonet from Castorina & Co.; Tolix G table from Thonet; plate by Glenn Barkley from Sullivan+Strumpf; restored tiled floor; build by GRW Developments; landscape design by Florian Wild; Infinex 36 (2014) artwork by Sydney Ball from Sullivan+Strumpf. Details, last pages.

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eritage-listed homes are a bit like movie stars. They are culturally significant and full of spellbinding stories, but they also share the pressure of keeping up appearances, which means that face lifts can be precarious endeavours. Such was the challenge James and Rachel Cooper found themselves faced with when they purchased Allala, one of Sydney’s few Georgian Revival-style homes, in 2019. The handsome home’s ensuite, downstairs powder room and study all contained heritage features that couldn’t be tampered with. But rather than viewing this as an inconvenience, the team behind the project turned it into an opportunity.

“Instead of working against it we decided to embrace it, and make things even more fabulous and eccentric,” says interior designer Blainey North. “We wanted it to feel like this traditional, grand home from the outset. Yet from the moment you step in the front door, you know something is very different. The place is really quite young and fun.”

Between outfitting superyachts and designing interiors for high-end hotels like Crown Towers Sydney, North isn’t left with a lot of time for residential projects.

But this one was special for a number of reasons. Firstly, North and the Coopers have known each other since high school. “Blainey is one of the most creative and passionate people I know,” says James Cooper, a property marketing and advertising entrepreneur. Both James and his wife Rachel knew that North would be the one to bring their dream home to life. “We really wanted to work with people who we knew and respected, and who knew and understood our family.”

Susan Rothwell, another family friend of the Coopers and North, also helped with the structural changes. “We’re all in bed together, buddies working on the same project,” says North with a laugh. “But James and Rach were really open to unique ideas, which is quite unusual because a lot of people are happy to do something they’ve seen before, but to do something genuinely new is always a risky thing. It’s exciting to work with people like that.”

Allala also presented North with a unique challenge. The heritage-listed estate — built in 1938 by Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, the father of Liberal politician Tom Hughes AO QC and Robert Hughes, the famous critic and author of The Fatal Shore — meant this was a two-pronged job. “It was a restoration project and a renovation project,” says North of the brief.

“We really thought about reinterpreting an old home in a new way that respected the traditional architecture and interiors but that also did something different to subvert expectations and make it feel quite new. That became the obsession.”

For North and the Coopers, subtle echoes of the home’s traditional features in joinery, furniture and artwork played a key role in striking this balance. “It became about a repetition of form,” she says. The arch of the wall niches that line the entrance and staircase, for example, came to influence the curved surfaces seen throughout the rest of the house.

The kitchen’s colossal marble-topped breakfast bar is one such highlight. It’s a hulking structure, but the rounded base creates the illusion of the bar hovering delicately above the floor.

Lighting is another point of intrigue. In the formal living room at the front of the house, a tubular creation from New York lighting company Roll & Hill punctuates the room’s more classical elements (a grand piano among them). A Carlo Scarpa original illuminates the circular table in the dining room.

Textural moments elevate the more monochromatic rooms — a custom bouclé headboard in the main bedroom ties in surreptitiously with a set of Kelly armchairs from Jardan.

“These features are like art pieces in their own right,” explains North. “But we didn’t want it to feel like we’d just thrown a whole lot of interesting art pieces into an old home… I feel like this is a bit of a trend, where people throw in a bunch of art to ››

“We wanted to engage with the traditional elements of the house in a way that made it feel like a genuinely new project, rather than just a decorative project” BLAINEY NORTH

in the library, vintage desk; Chaplin chair from Blainey North Collection; custom armchairs; heritage-listed mahogany shelving with Phillip Jeffries Suede Lounge textured wallpaper in Bottle Service Blue; Estro Divina chandelier from Artemest; custom art silk and wool carpet. OP P OS ITE PAG E in the entrance, Lang wall lights from Collier Webb; Officina Luce Shade 28-light chandelier from Artemest; Pierre Frey Sumi Noir wallpaper from Milgate.

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in the kitchen, Statuario marble island top, benchtop and splashback; tapware from Brodware; custom stools; Paola Paronetto Paper Clay vase and Moooi Meshmatics chandelier from Space Furniture.

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In the main ensuite — which houses a heritage-listed bathtub reminiscent of an Italian grotto, gargoyle-shaped taps and all — and downstairs powder room, the essence of this approach is on full display with wallpaper from Pierre Frey allowing the coloured tiles to pop. These quirky, existing details are treated like heroes, not backdrops.

“We felt like custodians of the house,” says James. “We did a little bit of work on it but ultimately, because of the house’s heritage, we’re also responsible for the upkeep.”

The Coopers plan to stick around for a while, too. With four children under the age of 12, they’re excited to continue Allala’s legacy as a true family home. James remarks that the home’s original owners, the Hughes family, resided here for many years. “We’re definitely not finished. We want to be here for at least 20 years, and we want to be able to layer it over time.” VL blaineynorth.com

Levels of knowledge Architecture and design practice Akin Atelier combines moments of fluid sophistication with a rich palette and eclectic playfulness in this revitalised beachside home.

By Verity Magdalino Photographed by Anson Smart

in the poolside bar of this southern Sydney home, custom bar in Arabescato marble, with glass-fibre reinforced concrete from Concreative; vintage bar stools from Alm; vessels from Alex and Trahanas. O PP O SI TE PAG E the beachside water views from the home’s rear garden, which steps down to the boatshed (seen, at left). Details, last pages.

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TH IS PAG E in a view of the dining area from the main living area, Röthlisberger Oval table from Anibou; India Mahdavi Best Friend chairs from Alm; custom walnut and rattan joinery with Smereldo quartzite benchtop; Visual Cues and Dirt Stories (2020) vessels by Alexandra Standen from Chalk Horse; On The Cusp, Dice and Open Window (2020) artworks by Zara June Williams from COMA Gallery. In the main living area, glass-fibre reinforced concrete bench from Concreative.

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“We wanted to introduce a sense of honesty but also unexpected moments as well”

n the southern Sydney beachside home of construction entrepreneur Troy Mayne, his Spanish-born wife Laura and their children Arianna, Mirella and Baylen, there’s subtle surprises around almost every curve. From the breezy sea-green stone and patinated brass kitchen where a generously stocked bar, softly illuminated like something out of a James Bond film, conceals behind custom walnut joinery to the upper storeys of the five-bedroom home with four bathrooms — each one hewn from a different shade of exquisite marble — the mood is one of a relaxed yet highly refined temple of contemporary interior delights.

The expansive sandstone, concrete and timber residence, located on the site of a former 1930s holiday cottage, is the result of a debut collaboration between Jorge Hrdina Architects and Akin Atelier — the architecture and interior design practice best known for its supersleek boutiques (APC, Dion Lee, Bassike and, in New York, Saturdays), bars and restaurants including Sydney hotspots Bert’s and Totti’s.

According to Akin founder and director Kelvin Ho — distinctively tall, softly spoken, quietly confident — there were two parts to the initial brief; the first being the architectural scope driven by Hrdina, which detailed an honest, all-encompassing connection of building to landscape and a focus on optimising the brilliance of the coastal light. The second, based on the homeowners’ ideas for the interiors, referenced a mid-century, Brazilian sensibility and a desire to ››

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“Once we met Kelvin and the team, we just knew they were the right people to work with. It was a great vibe” TROY MAYNE

‹‹ express a sense of playfulness via a mix of finishes. They were also keen to re-create the luxurious feel and flow of a contemporary hotel.

“Troy really loved Bert’s,” says Ho, who translated elements from the popular Northern Beaches venue such as its use of rattan and marble into the home. “But we wanted to bring another layer to it.” Cue a crafted response helmed by Akin associate Linda Tjaturono to the couple’s personalities and needs. “There’s a certain kind of humbleness and humility to Troy,” says Ho. “He grew up in the area and there’s a very laid-back Australian nature about him. And Laura grew up in Spain so they have a unique dynamic and energy. We wanted to introduce a sense of honesty but also unexpected moments as well.”

For Mayne, who met the love of his life on a surfing trip in the South of France just outside Biarritz where Laura was holidaying from Spain — “I bought her and her girlfriends a Solero ice-cream as a bit of an icebreaker,” he grins — working with Ho and his team was a no-brainer. “We have always loved Akin’s work,” says the construction specialist who also runs his own fashion label, Pool Club, where he “can get a little creative outside of the day job”.

“The fact that both Laura and I love fashion and food — a space that Akin plays in — also helps,” Mayne continues. “Once we met Kelvin and the team, we just knew they were the right people to work with. It was a great vibe.”

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When projected through the Akin lens, the couple’s brio and love for modern design and art — Mayne references Marcio Kogan, Oscar Niemeyer and Patricia Urquiola’s Il Sereno Hotel at Lake Como as key inspirations — results in an abundance of refreshingly unique moments throughout their newly completed home.

There’s the poolside bar, which began — at a request from the homeowners — as an homage to the 1980s Tom Cruise film, Cocktail, and which Akin translated into a sunken hideaway of polished form concrete and elegantly rounded stone. The main bedroom, with its spectacular water views and tactile upholstered walls, features a specified floor plan that accounts for Mayne’s early morning routine (he likes to exit quietly, to avoid waking his sleeping family). It also replicates the easy layout of a luxury hotel suite with an ensuite leading into an expansive walk-in wardrobe and a sitting room and study beyond. Then there’s the explosion of Norwegian rose marble in the bathroom for the girls, Arianna and Mirella, which was specified in the original moodboards brought to Akin by the couple. “Troy was really invested from a design point of view,” says Ho. “He wanted to go to the stone factory; he wanted to know all about the joinery. With his background in construction, he understood all the fundamentals and I think this gave him the ability to dive into the details so the narrative then came together.” ››

T H ESE PAGE S in the main bedroom with a view of the ensuite, custom bed designed by Akin Atelier; Society Limonta bed linen from Ondene; Mabeo Lebone floor lamp and Philip Arctander Clam chair from Alm; carpet from Whitecliffe Imports; Scarabeo Lines (2019) artwork by Ali McNabney-Stevens from Studio Gallery. In the ensuite, basin and stonework in Brescia Capria Royal marble from Worldstone by Mediterranean Marble; Oeuffice Tuskan Chroma stool from Criteria; Fort Standard Counterweight Rectangle sconce from Roll & Hill; travertine flooring from Worldstone. OP P O SIT E PAGE in the sitting room/study, vase from Alex and Trahanas; Flos Snoopy lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni from Euroluce; Groovy chair by Pierre Paulin for Artifort from Tangerine and Teal; artwork by Belen Irazola from Alm; custom desk by Akin Atelier with Predia marble from Artedomus; stonemasonry by Mediterranean Marble; joinery by JP Finsbury. Details, last pages.

‹‹ It’s a story, which began when, after a 12-month search, the couple settled on the waterfront property primarily due to its location on one of only two streets in the local area with a true beachfront. After living in the house for two years before undertaking the renovation, Mayne says one of the most unique, enjoyable aspects of the refresh is the gentle cascade of the new floor plan. “From the top pavilion the property is made up of 14 transitional levels down to the water’s edge, 10 of which form the house,” says Mayne. “All the transitions have been subtly spread between spaces. Sandstone and form concrete features both inside and outside in the bones of the home and Akin has complemented Jorge’s foundation by softening the interiors with warm finishes, different tones throughout the spaces, and by introducing curves via the joinery and furniture selection.”

Akin’s expert edit of the majority-new furniture reads like a hit list of contemporary greats — from Faye Toogood’s Roly-Poly chair in the master suite to India Mahdavi’s Bishop stool in the children’s bedroom, and a Castiglioni Snoopy table lamp and the appealing cream bouclé-covered curves of a Pierre Paulin armchair in Mayne’s study. And there are local touches, too: Henry Wilson’s lighting and his solid, appealingly tactile door handles, as well as Mayne’s favourite artwork painted on glazed tiles, an original by Byron Baybased artist Jai Vasicek that the couple purchased together on a trip to the seaside town pre-children.

After three years of renovating, the family are only now just beginning to luxuriate in the expanse and sheer delight of their forever home but Mayne admits he’s already on the lookout for another creative outlet. “I already miss working with the design team and after five months of living in our new home, I’m ready to go again,” he says. “We’re looking for acreage on the NSW South Coast.

There’s a real shortage of great boutique hotels and accommodation there and I think it’s an area worth investing in.” VL akinatelier.com jorgehrdina.com.au May/Jun 2021

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A new approach to tone and mood infuses the latest project by YSG, a 19th century heritage-listed former corner store in Sydney’s Inner West.

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asmine Ghoniem’s star is in the ascendent. The Sydney-based interior designer and founder of YSG is blowing up the city’s preponderance for safe white-box luxury with her colour-fuelled, experimental aesthetic. At the most recent Australian Interior Design Awards the studio was bestowed a holy trinity, taking out prizes for the Best Residential Design, Best Residential Decoration and Best of State, NSW. Her latest production — a two-storey, four-bedroom, heritage-listed sandstone home in Sydney’s Inner West — pares back her trademark maximalism to reveal a more mature but no less boundary-pushing approach. Here, we talk to the refreshingly candid Ghoniem about the trials and celebrations of reworking a heritage site into something completely, yet subtly, different.

The owners got in touch with us originally because everyone in the family was using the same bathroom. The household was expanding as their daughters’ partners moved in and one bathroom was getting too much — this had to change. The bathroom was in the centre of the first floor, was very dark, and had no ventilation.

We ripped out all the flat plasterboard ceilings and revealed this incredible, tall vaulted ceiling that we later handpainted. It felt very natural to us to then re-purpose the space into a light-filled library.

This room is still one of my favourite spaces.

The home was originally a store and is heritage-listed. The project started about three-and-a-half years ago. The main thing I wanted to do was to open it up [by knocking down a sandstone wall] so we could create a better connection between the interior spaces. I think if we couldn't achieve that then the project was going to die — it was just pointless. There was a lot of perseverance to get it through council regulations but it was almost like, if we didn’t do it, the owners were going to sell the house.

With the main living area now opened up, the family use every single space in the house. The owners’ daughters are at university so there’s always someone studying in the kitchen or down in the living area playing the piano or reading a book. It’s really lovely.

There are a lot of sandstone walls and we revealed some and rendered some — I know some people will hate that we’ve done that — but I feel like the sandstone needed to be celebrated in moments and taken away at other times. We replaced all the timber flooring, which we felt was detracting from the sandstone, and installed these beautiful sandblasted, travertine pavers with a gorgeous fat grout line, which felt more European. It was a bit of an unknown move at the time as it could’ve felt quite hectic in terms of combining travertine with the texture of sandstone but I think it works quite beautifully. There was so much brown everywhere before, which made it feel so dark and we had to lighten it up. ›› May/Jun 2021

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‹‹ We wanted to celebrate under-utilised areas. Like the space by the front windows, which now has a rendered seating area and a custom travertine dining table. I think one of the reasons we won the project was our idea to build up the level of the kitchen to match that of the dining area for better flow between rooms. This also worked to create an inviting and cosy sunken living area.

Overall, the interiors are very tonal. We used a hemp render on the fireplace in the living area and 12 different Venetian plasters, a variety of renders and material mash-ups of many different stones and timbers throughout the home. We carried the use of timber through to the custom lights. The fitting above the dining table is our take on a Barovian crystal chandelier but carved from Australian red cedar. When you come down the stairs, you can see through the top of the chandelier. It’s quite magical.

The new main bedroom suite used to be a secondary living area but it was never used. It had the most gorgeous natural light and so the owners didn't love the idea of me dividing it with a wall to add an ensuite. There was a lot of reworking of the plan. I said ‘We don't need that much light in the bedroom — you go to bed there!’ They just love this space now. It has all original timber flooring that we ended up painting because again, everything was just wrong — the dark colour of the timber felt very aggressive next to the natural sandstone.

The owners’ daughter found us when she was living in New Zealand. We used a sofa in a project and the sofa-maker had used an image of it for his promotional shot. Their daughter sent the image to her mum, saying “This is the couch you need.” Her mother wanted to know who did the rest of the house, the daughter put the image into Google, and that’s how they got in touch.

I actually get that a lot — kids liking what we do and saying, “Mum, I think you need to be a bit cooler.” I always look on Instagram to see who’s actually interested in our posts and it’s never older people, it’s always the 25-year-olds and I’m like, [Ghoniem smiles and jokingly sighs] ‘Ahh, this is not good for me.’ But maybe the kids are telling their parents so it’s not too bad…

For us it doesn’t feel like a very YSG project because it’s less colourful. It’s a toned-down version of what we would normally do — a different, slightly more sophisticated take. It’s been interesting for us even while we’ve been photographing the home. I’m like “Oh my God, we need to put that bright yellow artwork right there,” and the photographer is like, “No.” Although it’s been challenging for me to pare it back and reduce, I do love that it’s more mature.

I also loved the heritage part of it and figuring out how to make it modern, but not too modern. It was challenging but I really enjoyed that. Just working with a different envelope than we’re used to is great, too. We always do the Eastern Suburbs [in Sydney] and it was just nice to be in the Inner West and give it a bit of YSG. VL ysg.studio 122

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by YSG; custom American oak coffee table designed by YSG and produced by Maiden; vintage vases from Rudi Rocket; curtains from Simple Studio in Creations Métaphores fabric from Boyac; custom bi-fold doors designed by YSG; Things That Can Kill You #2 (2020) artwork by Rune Christensen, courtesy of Piermarq.

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Two of Australia’s most singular auteurs teamed up to create this harbourside home. The result is unexpected, thrilling and unlike anything else.

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in the living area, Arflex Elettra armchairs, enquiries to Space Furniture; 1950s Italian floor lamp from Modern Times.

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he architect and interior stylist behind this Lavender Bay home couldn’t be more aesthetically disparate if they tried. Where Neil Durbach of Sydney’s Durbach Block Jaggers Architects is known for dreaming up sparse yet sculptural forms, interior stylist, author and product designer Sibella Court — who also runs design emporium The Society Inc. — is a maximalist in every sense of the word.

“Everyone thought we were quite an unusual partnership,” says Court of their pairing. “It’s been really rewarding,” adds Durbach. “The mixture of the minimalism and the maximalism has sort of allowed this third aesthetic to develop. I think we’ve achieved together what neither of us could’ve done individually.”

It was the owner who thought to pair the two together. “She’s really interested in people, and I think she thought we’d get along on a personal level,” Court remarks. Fortuitously, they did — “like a house on fire” (a brave metaphor from the stylist, given she’s just finished putting the finishing touches on this new build). But this particular house is as sturdy as they come. Built from sandstone and basalt, it appears almost monolithic from the road.

“We wanted it to look like this almost-solid cube of stone, but then inside, it feels as if water has been percolating through the structure, eroding it organically,” explains Durbach. “Then floating above that is this friendly shadow of a roof, which we wanted to feel like a cloud.”

If the architect’s poetic description doesn’t hammer it home, this Sydney residence is, for want of a better word (because no word feels quite capable of encapsulating the sheer beauty of this place), spectacular. A four-storey structure layered with garden terraces that overflow with predominantly native foliage, it’s a once-in-a-decade (or once-in-a-lifetime) type of ››

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“For something that’s so complex and detailed, it’s incredibly unoppressive” TH IS PAG E in the outdoor area, Soda chairs from DesignByThem; Bob dining table from Reddie; landscape design by Sue Barnsley Design; landscaping by Bates Landscape; wall by Sydney Stone Company; flooring from Eco Outdoor. OP P O SI TE PAGE in the dining area, vintage Featherston Scape dining chairs from Ken Neale Twentieth Century Modern, reupholstered in Lino Lavato viscose linen from Unique Fabrics; Johansen oak dining table from Great Dane; custom brass pendant light by Sibella Court and Colo Forge; You Are What You Eat artwork by Graeme Townsend.

‹‹ project for the team who brought it to life. Owned and built by a couple with grown-up kids who recently moved out of their long-time family home, their brief to Durbach was to design something new that worked with the landscape, took advantage of the vantage, and felt different to their previous dwelling.

Court’s task, then, was to warm and soften the space. “It was such an abstract build that it really gave us a strong foundation for what needed to be layered on top,” says the stylist.

“The house needed a bit of warmth, so that’s why we have fabrics like velvet and sheepskin and bouclé linens.” But in place of her signature blues, patina-heavy finishes and maritimeinspired prints, Court has kept the colour palette neutral for this project. That way, the textures do all the work. “There are a lot of hard surfaces in the home — marble, formed concrete, glass-beaten stainless steel. So we brought in the sheepskins… almost to tease Neil,” she chuckles.

Selecting the furniture was a challenge. “Neil’s got about two straight walls in the whole place,” says Court. The stairwell, a formidable element that coils its way through the centre of the house, is the most singular articulation of Durbach’s affinity with “twirling and curving” components. Looking down from the third floor, its shape is reminiscent of the skeleton of a nautilus shell.

It’s not the only feature that seems to be in dialogue with the property’s harbourside surroundings; a crescent-shaped, steel-rimmed window that divides the living area and main garden contains echoes of the arc of the nearby harbour bridge. Meanwhile, it’s impossible not to feel a subtle connection between the roof that hovers over the entire top floor and the sails of the Sydney Opera House, which are visible from east-facing floor-to-ceiling windows.

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THI S PAG E in the main bedroom, Gubi BL6 wall lamp from Cult; custom bed frame by Jonathan West; bedhead upholstery in James Dunlop Thread linen in Nature; cushions in Barzin velvet in Forest from Elliott Clarke and St Germain linen in Oatmeal from Raffles Textiles. O PP OS IT E PAGE , F R O M L E F T in the main ensuite, vanity designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and produced by Saltwater Joinery in marble from Granite and Marble Works; sink from Villeroy & Boch; tapware from Brodware; bath from Victoria + Albert; custom marble mosaic wall and floor tiles designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and produced by Teranova; Flos light from Euroluce. In the main dressing room and study, wardrobes designed by Durbach Block Jaggers Architects and produced by Square Peg Woodworks; ICF Valea Esse office chair from Hub Furniture; Ribbon chair by Pierre Paulin from Ken Neale Twentieth Century Modern, reupholstered in Barzin velvet in Forest from Elliott Clarke Textiles; custom sheepskin rug from Wilson & Dorset. Built by GNC Quality. Details, last pages.

“You know, it wasn’t a direct inspiration,” reveals Durbach of the harmony between the dwelling’s structure and its surroundings. “But being in Sydney, it’s almost impossible to escape the influence of those landmarks. It didn’t necessarily drive the design, but now that it’s finished, you can see the embrace.”

Unsurprisingly, the gravity-defying roof was the build’s biggest challenge. “It’s a 15.5-metre span, the whole way across,” says Durbach. “To make it seem like it was floating, we wanted there to be minimal support. We ended up with two tiny columns, which are made from completely solid steel — that’s how they’re able to hold it.” It’s remarkable, he notes, adding that usually, for a roof of this size and weight, you’d need at least four or five big columns propping it up.

Here, the synergy between architecture and styling is a testament to the respect Court and Durbach have for each other’s work — and the enjoyment they got out of working together.

“I think it’s quite philanthropic, to build something of this calibre,” observes Court.

“It’s a real investment in the place and the time we’re living in. There’s something amazing about supporting makers and builders and even the neighbourhood in this type of way.”

Durbach says the owner’s father — a former railway engineer who crafted bespoke door handles and some cabinetry for the home — had given the best summary of the project he’s heard yet.

“He said: ‘For something that’s so complex and detailed, it’s incredibly unoppressive,’” recalls the architect. “It felt like this really beautiful, clear way to describe the house. It’s a background to the furniture, the lighting, the garden, the way the family lives. But the complexity is not here screaming at you.” VL durbachblockjaggers.com thesocietyinc.com.au May/Jun 2021

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t first blush this home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, with its fretwork, gable and bay window, appears to be a traditional 1880s villa.

But the pink render and a brise-soleil running along the roofline hint that this is no prim and proper Victorian. Away from the street, the house lets it hair down, thanks to an inspired extension crafted by architect Luigi Rosselli and interior designer Juliette Arent Squadrito of Arent&Pyke.

While the front reflects its origins, the back boasts a renovation with a dash of Italian brio. Inspired by his Lombardy upbringing, Rosselli added a second brise-soleil to allow generous glazing without compromising privacy and comfort. For him, this feature recalls grain sheds ventilated by laterizio (perforated brick) walls peppered across the Italian countryside. Instead of bricks, he recycled tiles from the dwelling’s roof. “A brise-soleil creates an amazing space inside,” he says. “The light is broken by warm terracotta tiles, full of texture and age.” In further echoes of his youth, this home evokes a holiday villa overlooking Lake Maggiore and is named La Casa Rosa for its washed pink render — this, too, has been christened accordingly.

Such quirks delight the owners because they hired Rosselli to eschew the ordinary. “We chose him for his timeless vision and distinctive aesthetic,” says one of the owners. “You can often pick a Rosselli house, even though each is different.”

She and her husband bought the home in late 2015. “We loved the elegant facade, high ceilings and backyard with established trees,” she says. But there the love ended. “The 1990s open-plan addition got very hot in summer. The garden was large, but on four levels.

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Rosselli shaved off that extension and replaced it with a light and breezy open-plan zone on the lower level while above, the ensuite boasting the brise-soleil and main bedroom soak up views of soaring eucalypts. Meanwhile, he utilised the existing roof cavity to accommodate a study — its clerestory windows sport the brise-soleil seen from the street. Downstairs, the original section comprises two bedrooms, a family bathroom and rumpus room.

While the addition is startlingly different from the Gothic Revival front, it also pays homage to it. The extension embraces sweeping curves — a Rosselli trademark — in the vaulted living room ceiling, the fireplace wall, an arched kitchen window and the sinuous staircase. On the rear external wall, a curve sweeps into a cantilever.

“It expands in the direction of the garden. I wanted that columnfree link,” he says. Earthy formwork concrete in a Rosselli rosa hue echoes the textured render on the street side, while the arched window suggests the bay at the front.

The interiors were a collaboration, with Rosselli focusing mainly on the spatial aspects and Arent Squadrito on materials and furnishings, but with a toing and froing between both them and the owners. “The client was interested in how the house would make her feel, how it would engage the senses,” says Arent Squadrito. “Our brief was modern but timeless, uncluttered but cosy, with drama in the materials and colour,” adds the owner.

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‹‹ moodier, while texture rules here, too, with a fluted marble kitchen island framed by inky-blue timber joinery, a caramel marble splashback and salmon pink terrazzo underfoot.

“Everything’s matt, soft and muted, creating an earthiness that ties in with the concrete and brise-soleils,” says Arent Squadrito. “It makes the kitchen feel part of the furniture, while glossy grey travertine in the bathrooms creates contrast for added interest.”

And crafted detail pervades, right down to the dressing room with its signature Faye Toogood wallpaper on its wardrobe doors.

Furnishings included statement splurges such as a squishy Edra sofa and a hefty Collection Particulière dining table. The owners specified a modular sofa for the living room to give the family space to relax, its rounded asymmetry emulating Rosselli’s curves.

The couple’s collection of bold artworks flows throughout, such as a Sri Lankan wall sconce made of, yes, screwdrivers near the front door. “It makes it a richer, more robust story when the clients bring in personal objects that we can weave in,” says Arent Squadrito.

“Vintage rugs were among the first items we sourced with Arent&Pyke,” adds the owner. “The other elements and colours fell into place after that. We went with our gut — whether we absolutely loved a particular rug or Murano pendant light and whether it would make us feel happy and inspired to have it in our home.”

That dialogue between the wow and the cosy throughout is worlds away from the starchy formality of the bungalow’s distant past. “We considered a bigger renovation, but we’re so glad we didn’t,” says the owner. “We use every room every day, with no wasted space.”

“The clients wanted an intimate house, favouring materiality over square metres,” adds Arent Squadrito. “While there’s an openness at the back, there’s also a fabulous soft, inward quality.” VL arentpyke.com luigirosselli.com

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Jeremy Bull of Alexander & Co has filtered the refined cosmopolitan edge of London through a heritage-listed warehouse lens, crafting a modern and tactile family home on Sydney Harbour.

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n these so-called transformative twenties, as the world begins to redress in the wake of unprecedented upheaval, the question of who we are as a country and how we want to manifest that character seems never more fraught and potentially fabulous. What is Australian style?

With clear-eyed hope for the future, architect Jeremy Bull, the forty-something founder of boutique design firm Alexander & Co ponders the question of a national design vernacular; whether it still exists or indeed still matters relative to his latest project, a heritage warehouse-turned-familyhome on the fringes of Sydney Harbour.

“I could go on a spiel about critical regionalism,” he says in reference to the theorising of critic Kenneth Frampton who, responding to the homogenising effects of globalism in the 1980s, made a case for structure to be informed by a site’s climate, topography and tectonics. “If I accept that colonial settlers fundamentally dismantled anything that was critically regional when they first arrived — decimating all the Indigenous thinking around shelter — and that we borrowed colonial workmanship and applied it to whatever was available with regard to weather… I arrive at a whole lot of different morphologies; regional mash-ups of something European expressed in local materials.”

But now, there are none of the limitations on global supply chains that once gave structure its materiality, shape and dialect, he argues in reference to a culture that today splays off in every conceptual and aesthetic direction. “It’s the same all around the world,” he says.

“Australian style is now pretty much arbitrary because it’s all up for grabs.”

Believing that design is now more focused on people than place — “one logically impacting on the other” — he says that the concept of luxury across all consumer quotients is re-calibrating to time — “not style, not look, not theme, not scheme dripping with expensive stone, but time” — the can’t-cheat-it measure of the making and thinking that goes into complex problem-solving relating to living, ecologies, sustainability and histories.

“And time was both the luxury and the limitation of this property,” Bull says, thumbsketching an entrepreneurial couple who, having spent the last 10 years in London, hoped to sustain the essence of that cosmopolitan life in a heritage-listed structure for a family of six.

“How to transplant their life in the UK into an important colonial building in less than 12 months, while convening all meetings and decision-making long distance?” Bull asks with more than a hint of the residual stress that came from preserving important industrial archaeology while materialising the wants of clients he had met only once. “The old warehouse-turned-admin-facility was perched on piers on the water and constructed ››

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“Every single wall is superficial except for one or two, but we tried to bring a little of the old building’s DNA through”

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The only way forward was to build an entirely new two-level house within the heritage envelope, working all services into the sandwich of old and new wall while dovetailing the colonial detail with modern design until history and home blurred.

With a design hand hovering between pure reductivism and a sensory richness informed by the spirit of place, Bull applied his mediating, sumptuous minimalism to a top floor finessed for adults and a lower level made serviceable for children.

But the kicker was his clients had a strong affection for certain European brands and required that anything specified would be accessible for the inspection in a London showroom. This narrowed down the select of fixtures and fittings, determining that the ease of ‘pure-shape’ kitchen systems by Italian manufacturer Boffi be installed in both the upper-level entertaining hub and the lower-level kids’ kitchen (detailed to conceal behind accordion-fold doors).

The want for a cross-continental continuity of home ambience and artistry further fed into the chosen Giorgetti furnishings, the sinuous, historicist elegance of which worked well with lighting artefacts by Apparatus in New York. The quiet addition of their curves, patinated bronze, exotic woods and the insinuated glow of gaslight into the white calm of formal rooms — nodding to both the classicism of the building’s colonial era and the clients’ UK context — left all decorative drama to the surrounding views of Sydney Harbour.

Conversely, the lower level tilted more towards a child-responsive muscularity with squared-off slabs of leather sofa and the soft fog of polished plaster walls. Only the sentinel presence of 200-year-old timber columns, left to express their age and raw structure, remind that Australia grew on the sheep’s back in a warehouse that once housed its wool.

Yesterday’s industry is today’s luxury living and likely tomorrow’s something else, says Bull as he tips all notion of an Australian style into the hole of contested histories, piling conservation orders, pandemics, planetary issues and the ‘right now’ needs of people.

“The present always changes the past,” he says, adding metaphor to his matter-of-fact description of altering Australian history. “I’m more interested in the potential of process than the limitations of style.” VL alexanderand.co May/Jun 2021

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in the study, console and Elisa armchair from Giorgetti; custom walnut timber desk with green leather insert from Jonathan West; marble dish from Provincial Home Living; Synapse pendant light from Apparatus. O PPO S IT E PAGE in the main ensuite, custom vanity in honed Arabescato marble from Stoneplus; Brodware Manhattan tapware from Candana; Fisher Island bathtub

by Piero Lissoni from Boffi; Endless Straight – 3 Units pendant light from Roll & Hill; herringbone flooring in honed Carrara marble from RMS Marble; wall finished in Waterstone polished plaster in Dark Grey from Ludi Braga Interior. Details, last pages.

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Purchasing furniture, art and homewares isn’t just about the transaction — for us, shopping is best when it’s an immersive aesthetic experience that sparks ideas and puts pieces in context. Here are our favourite places to browse and buy the best of Australian and international design.

By Amy Campbell

Criteria CREMORNE, MELBOURNE Known for bringing New York, Milan and Antwerp’s most directional pieces Down Under, Criteria’s lofty warehouse is the place for discovering what’s cool before it’s cool. You'll find brands like Apparatus, Oeuffice, Gubi and Baxter, each hand-picked by owner Rachael Fry. 66 Gwynne St, Cremorne, Victoria; @criteriacollection

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WOOLLOOMOOLOO, SYDNEY Tucked beneath the studio of Hare + Klein, this rustic yet airy concept space showcases furniture, artwork and homewares designed exclusively by the renowned firm, as well as an evolving selection of complementary accessories.

91 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo, NSW; hkedit.com.au

Spence & Lyda WATERLOO, SYDNEY Housing a mix of Australian and international furniture, lighting and textiles, Spence & Lyda is one of Sydney’s original destinations for modern design. For the Missoni Home obsessed, get your fix here.

18 Danks St, Waterloo, NSW; @spenceandlyda

Hub Furniture MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY The ‘Hub’ for international furniture brands like Bocci, Pulpo and Molteni & C, there’s always something different to discover in each showroom. The Hub General Store in Collingwood is also a favourite style spot. 16-28 Duke St, Abbotsford, Victoria & 46 Birmingham St, Alexandria, NSW; @hub_furniture

The Society Inc. ST PETERS, SYDNEY An ‘imaginarium’ of hardware, finishes and one-off pre-loved curiosities sourced from around the globe, The Society Inc. is the manifestation of founder Sibella Court’s vintage-inspired style. Crafted in collaboration with a blacksmith, the designer’s hooks and handles are especially charming.

75 Mary St, St Peters, NSW; @thesocietyinc

Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert RUSHCUTTERS BAY, SYDNEY This light-filled space is home to ‘functional artwork’ and design from artists around the Antipodes. 20 McLachlan Ave, Rushcutters Bay, NSW; @gallerysallydancuthbert

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The DEA Store REDFERN, SYDNEY In an area known for its community of retro furniture stores, DEA — ‘delicate eye area’ — has become our go-to for smaller handcrafted pieces packed with personality.

A treasure trove of ceramics and objects by artisans like Tom Dixon, Japanese brand Futagami, Sharon Muir and Peter Anderson, it’s impossible to leave empty-handed.

146 Regent St, Redfern, NSW; @thedeastore

Castorina & Co. FITZROY, MELBOURNE

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This family business has long offered the best of Italian and Australian design. Also available is a new range by artists Billy and Lulu Cooley and furniture designer Tony Hurd of Altone. 269 Military Rd, Cremorne, NSW & 2681 Chapel St, South Yarra, Victoria; @fanulifurniture

Dog-eared in every vintage lover’s little black book, Castorina & Co. specialises in Italian furnishings restored to original glory — but with charm still firmly intact. On a recent trip to its Fitzroy showroom, we spied a Willy Rizzo bar cart. Here, you won’t find anything that’s not truly unique.

202 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Victoria; @castorina_co

Planet SURRY HILLS The backdrop to Planet’s sustainable, materials-led design philosophy is its inner-Sydney showroom, which feels more like a gallery space.

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Cultiver SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Shopping for bed linen and tableware is a chic activity in Cultiver’s concept shops, placing the brand’s wares in an aspirational yet approachable context. 643 Military Rd, Mosman, NSW & 499 Malvern Rd, South Yarra, Victoria; @cultiver_goods

Poliform SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE

Macleay on Manning POTTS POINT, SYDNEY The charm of this neighbourhood emporium is only amplified by the fact you have to go there to shop there. With a very small selection of online wares, Jill and Rod Ordish reserve their buy of Fornasetti, Iittala and Waterford for real-life shoppers, which makes their business feel that much more unique.

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The iconic furniture brand brings the work of designers like Marcel Wanders to our shores.

If you’re looking for complete home solutions with an Italian twist, look no further. Level 1, 84 O’Riordan St, Alexandria, NSW & 650 Church St, Richmond, Victoria; @poliformaustralia

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It’s quite possible every interior designer — from Perth to Auckland — has Cult on speed dial. With pieces from brands like Hay, Fritz Hansen and Nau, this Sydney-born store is a one-stop shop for timeless, on-trend pieces. cultdesign.com.au

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SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE With a curation of brands that reads like a design enthusiast’s wish list (Artek, Thonet GmbH, ClassiCon), Anibou is committed to timeless quality. The artfully arranged showrooms are punctuated by pops of colour, making them joyous places to be in. 726 Bourke St, Redfern, NSW & 32 Glasgow St, Collingwood, Victoria; @aniboufurniture

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The Vault SYDNEY Jeremy Bowker and Phoebe Nicol are adept in guiding customers through their rotating vault of enchanting antique furniture and objects. 377 Gardener Rd, Rosebery, NSW; @the_vault_sydney

Editeur PEPPERMINT GROVE, PERTH Situated in the dreamy seaside neighbourhood of Peppermint Grove, Editeur plays host to an amalgamation of new and old objects, sourced by creative director Christian Lyon. Next to homewares from Zaha Hadid Design, you’ll find diamond-netted face masks by Perth-based accessories designer Sheridan Tjhung.

It’s an unconventional collection in the most alluring of ways.

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Living Edge is simply one of Australia’s most trusted destinations for innovative design.

Whether you’re after a La Chance dining table, a Herman Miller Story bookcase or a retroperfect decorative piece from Vitra, you’ll find it (and so much more) here. livingedge.com.au

Armadillo SURRY HILLS, SYDNEY Armadillo’s all-natural rugs are ethically handcrafted in Northern India, as a way of preserving the timeworn art form unique to the region while providing employment and education opportunities to the artisans there.

And now with the recently opened showroom, they feel good to walk on — in more ways than one.

2/188 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, NSW; @armadilloandco

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Tamsin Johnson PADDINGTON, SYDNEY Housed in a whitewashed terrace on a leafy side street, the showroom of Sydney interior designer Tamsin Johnson is one of our favourite places to loiter. Here, there’s always something new and unexpected to take in, arranged in Johnson’s quintessentially playful style, where small details are never forgotten and zany floral arrangements almost always make an appearance.

33 William St, Paddington, NSW; @tamsinjohnson

Mondopiero FITZROY, MELBOURNE Just like its founder, the fashion retailer turned restauranteur turned design store owner Piero Gesualdi, Mondopiero is delightfully ambitious.

Working with his partner Michele Azzopardi, this icon of Melbourne’s design scene brings together art and homewares.

28 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Victoria; @mondopiero

Fred International SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Australia’s love affair with Scandinavian design will never wane, and no store offers a better selection of Nordic decor than Fred, which showcases brands like Møbel Copenhagen and Rubn Lighting. Both showrooms fit the bill when you need a vicarious trip to the design lover’s mecca of northern Europe. fredinternational.com.au

Stylecraft Home MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY In addition to its own brand of sleek furniture, Stylecraft Home is the place to find local brands like Ross Gardam, Skeehan and Neatt. 145 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria & 100 William St, Woolloomooloo, NSW; @stylecraft.home

Dedece MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Offering a concise edit of seven brands, Dedece is a store that practises quality over quantity.

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Pan After COLLINGWOOD, MELBOURNE Every basket, vase and heirloom in Pan After’s eccentric showroom has been carefully sourced, with a focus on handmade, ethically produced and eco-conscious wares, thanks to motherdaughter duo Mandy and Phoebe Munro. Here, you’re just as likely to pick up a traditional woven ‘beer strainer’ sourced from South Africa as you are a set of organic Tekla towels.

38 Cambridge St, Collingwood, Victoria; @pan_after

Modern Times FITZROY, MELBOURNE Vintage designer furniture from Europe and modern Australian art were not commonly paired together — until Modern Times opened. Now a Melbourne institution, the store’s ability to merge new with old is unparalleled, as is its collection of Hans Wegner sideboards and mid-centuryera floor lamps. 331 Smith St, Fitzroy; @moderntimesau

Mr Kitly BRUNSWICK, MELBOURNE

Tucked above a fabric store in a Victorian-era building on busy Sydney Road, Mr Kitly feels like a best-kept secret. Its shelves heave with ceramics, homewares and art by independent local makers, and every other bit of wall space is occupied by happy plants. Upstairs, 381 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Victoria; @mrkitly

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Mr Minty’s POTTS POINT, SYDNEY The little brother of Potts Point institution Becker Minty, Mr Minty’s is a cosy gallery that spotlights art (marble sculptures by Carol Crawford), furniture (Maitland-Smith, the odd vintage Chiswell) and unique objects, while playing host to a rotating roster of small exhibitions by local artists. Shop 7, 81 Macleay Street, Potts Point, NSW; @beckerminty

Palmer & Penn DOUBLE BAY, SYDNEY

Parterre WOOLLAHRA, SYDNEY Stepping into Parterre’s annexe feels a bit like taking a trip to the lavender-lined hills of Provence. Here, you’ll find antique and modern indoor and outdoor furniture, as well as garden sculptures, planters and mirrors that might inspire a French-style garden oasis.

33 Ocean St, Woollahra, NSW; @parterre_australia

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Collectors of antique Louis Vuitton trunks are just as familiar with this Sydney establishment as decorators with an eye for preppy East Coast flair. Run by partners in life and business Ben Palmer and Josh Penn, the store’s grand interior feels like a special occasion — best capped off with a treat from the in-store cafe, Café sur L’avenue. 16 Transvaal Ave, Double Bay, NSW; @palmerandpenn

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Koskela ROSEBERY, SYDNEY The first Australian furniture company to become a Certified B Corp, Koskela is proof that making beautiful objects and contributing to a better world don’t have to be mutually exclusive. And its Sydney space is the best place to see this. 1/85 Dunning Ave, Rosebery, NSW; @koskela_

With interiors that play off the vibrance of each collection, the Space stores feel like theme parks dedicated to the coolest contemporary design. B&B Italia and Kartell are among those that call Space home. spacefurniture.com

VBO Australia SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE

Ondene DOUBLE BAY, SYDNEY Every piece, including objects from Collection Particulière, in this petite shop has been carefully chosen, and it shows. The space feels like a highly curated ode to sculptural forms in neutral tones and tactile textures. 12 Transvaal Ave, Double Bay, NSW; @ondene_doublebay 178

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It’s the only place in Australia you’ll find cult lighting brand Viabizzuno and Milan-based Henry Timi. VBO’s showrooms are unsurprisingly illuminated with panache. Level 3, 13-15 Levey St, Chippendale, NSW & 176 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne, Victoria; @vboaustralia

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Domo MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Having stocked some of Europe’s most prestigious furniture designers for close to 40 years, owner Francesco Novembre’s expert eye for style is unsurpassed. domo.com.au

Nicholas & Alistair MELBOURNE Browsing Nicholas Mesiano and Alistair Knight’s edit of furniture and objects always feels like a sensory event.

387 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Victoria; @nicholasandalistair

Utopia Goods Store PADDINGTON, SYDNEY This is technically a textiles store, but Utopia Goods feels more like a gallery. Its Australiana-inspired fabrics, designed by owners Bruce Slorach and Sophie Tatlow, are so intricate they could — and often do — double as art. 30 Oxford St, Paddington, NSW; @utopiagoods

Euroluce MULTIPLE LOCATIONS The fact that Euroluce refers to its stores as ‘light studios’ tells you everything about this provider of architectural and decorative lighting from brands like Flos, Wästberg and Oluce. euroluce.com.au 180

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Robyn Cosgrove WOOLLAHRA, SYDNEY A rug store that could double as a Moroccan palace? It’s how we see this space, which is hemmed with decadent new and vintage rugs. 168 Queen St, Woollahra, NSW; @robyncosgroverugs

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CLAREMONT, PERTH Having fun exploring a high-end interiors store is what this Western Australian shopping destination offers in spades. The buying team’s approach to colour is captivating and its selection of indoor and outdoor furniture from brands like Poltrona Frau, Cassina and Moroso never fails to feel fresh.

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xquisitely cut and meticulously polished, Crown Sydney rises from Barangaroo like an iridescent gem.

Its carapace of 8000 glass panels reflects the painterly light of the adjacent harbour, while its sinuous silhouette forms an intriguing counterpoint to the predominantly square-shaped skyline. Roaming the billion-dollar development on a recent visit, I was struck by the elaborate interiors, too, from the whopping crystal chandelier in the lobby to the lavishly decorated hotel rooms to the public spaces arrayed in exotic marble and adorned with original artworks. The glitz never quits. Crown Sydney, you see, is emblematic of a new breed of over-the-top hotels offering six-star amenities.

Since opening last December, the venue has become an instant hotspot. Barflys, food lovers, urban professionals, rubberneckers and staycationing Sydneysiders have all embraced it with gusto.

That’s a radically different narrative to the one playing out in the headlines. Crown Resorts has been mired in controversy, reeling from a damning report into its suitability to hold a NSW casino licence and tumultuous changes to its board. But to the pleasureseekers eating, drinking and hobnobbing at this gleaming new playground none of that matters. They’re more concerned about whether to order the tiramisù al cucchiaio at a’Mare, Alessandro Pavoni’s exceptional Italian eatery. Maybe that sounds trifling, but the hotel represents a dash of technicolour after an interminably grey year. ››

Cirq, the terrace bar on level 26 of Crown Sydney; the stunning view from one of the hotel’s rooms; the porte-cochere, or entrance, to Crown Sydney. OPPOS I T E PAGE the hotel’s pool features exotic landscaping, cabanas and panoramic vistas.

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‹‹ The gastronomic temptations are plenty. The stellar line-up of restaurants, including Ross and Sunny Lusted’s razor-sharp Woodcut (order the fragrant spiced Maremma duck) and Nobu Matsuhisa’s crowd-pleasing Nobu (try the yellowtail jalapeño), will be burnished even further when Michelin-starred British chef Clare Smyth introduces her eatery later this year. I peeked inside the space and it’s equipped with a glassed-in kitchen that resembles a culinary lab – an ideal setting for Smyth’s audacious food. On the same floor is Neat Peat, an intimate members-only club with a jade-green bar, leather armchairs and a rare whisky collection sourced from around the globe. You might need an invitation to access that den, but if you ask me the most inviting spots are the outdoor terraces of a’Mare and Woodcut with their water views.

Experiments in ultra luxury can fall short – witness Dubai’s gaudy Burj Al Arab – but this project has been tastefully executed by British architectural firm WilkinsonEyre and New York-based Meyer Davis, the latter fashioning the multilayered interiors. The eye has to travel but it need not venture far here to alight on something remarkable. One minute I was admiring the swirling carpets, onyx-like panels and flower-filled planters at Cirq, the rooftop bar on the 26th floor that has recently opened. The next I was marvelling over the touchscreen technology, petal-shaped taps and blue marble walls in the high-rise villas. Or wondering what it might be like to spend an afternoon by the sprawling infinity pool where the mirrored surface melts into the horizon. Whiplash soon set it. Crown Sydney demands a return visit. The high-rollers may not have arrived, but the high spirits are tempting enough. VL crownsydney.com.au

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MARIMEKKO Bring a bright, sunny touch to your dining experience all year round Marimekko’s latest home collection celebrates summer living in style.

Timeless tableware, which also includes cups and saucers, features clean lines and bold pops of colour for a fresh and fruity twist you’ll welcome wholeheartedly to your table. Explore the complete range at marimekko.com

COTSWOLD INOUT FURNITURE Belgian furniture company Vincent Sheppard blends traditional craftsmanship with timeless appeal in its wide variety of indoor and outdoor furniture. The woven Lloyd Loom pieces — the Jack Dining Chair seen here for instance — utilise recycled kraft paper and steel, and can easily fit any style from classic to contemporary.

Check out the collection at cotswoldfurniture.com.au

OSIER BELLE Elevate your alfresco entertaining with a new outdoor dining setting.

Osier Belle’s Dining Concrete Bar Table with teak base, as well as a sealed top in either slate or white, is an elegant option for outdoor entertaining. Teamed with all-weather bar stools featuring the signature Osier Belle tie, this contemporary setting creates the perfect spot for casual afternoon drinks and transforms into an intimate space for dinner on a balmy night. For details, visit osierbelle.com.au

AUDREY GACHET Inspired by the great outdoors, designer Audrey Gachet creates delicate hand-painted watercolours that feature in her label’s collection of artworks, clutches and homewares, such as this Les Bananiers linen cushion with cotton tassels. All the pieces are handcrafted in the label’s Sydney studio. To find out more and see the collection, visit audreygachet.com

FAIRFAX & ROBERTS With unparalleled elegance and quality, No.19 bespoke tableware is designed to complement the unique style of your home and lifestyle. To elevate its custom offering, Fairfax & Roberts presents an exclusive hand-selected range of No.19 tableware including dinnerware, crystal, barware and silverware from Raynaud Limoges, Lalique 100 Points, Ercuis France and Nouvel Studio. For details, visit number19.com.au

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in the salon of this Sydney home, vintage Alky chair by Giancarlo Piretti for Castelli from Castorina & Co. in Pierre Frey Malou fabric; Tapetti rug designed by YSG; coffee table designed by YSG and produced by Maiden; vintage vases from Rudi Rocket. Turn to page 118 for the full story.

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