Indholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2021 i Vogue Living

Chris Pearson EDITOR AND WRITER Chris Pearson started his career as a business journalist but it wasn’t long before the New Zealand native and current Sydneysider decided to pursue his true passion, design. “Design draws on not just my passion for aesthetics but also the relationship people have with their homes — we shape and are shaped by where we live,” he says. “Language and design have always been among my greatest loves and this way I can combine the two.” For this issue, Pearson wrote the story on the renovation of a 1916 Tudor Revival home in Sydney (page 152). It’s the debut interiors project for We are Duet, a brand-new practice helmed by designers Dominique Brammah and Shannon Shlom. “It was a pleasure to write about the first project…

Anyone who’s witnessed their child building a fort out of sofa cushions understands the power of interior design. With just a blanket over the top and a ‘keep out’ warning in crayon, they’ve engineered the perfect space: bespoke, adaptable and invitation-only. While the form may be basic, its function is spot-on but even more important is how it makes them feel: cosy, independent, in control. Our adult homes may be more complex of material and more ruinous of budget, but Yasmine Ghoniem, founder of Sydney-based design studio YSG, believes the desired outcome is no different. “For me, interiors are emotions. They’re not actual spaces with objects in them,” she says. “It’s that sense of warmth and safety that makes me feel at home. I think it’s the same for everybody,…

SYDNEY Benjamin Avery THE ARTISTIC TOUCH @thecolourblindflorist Benjamin Avery’s arrangements are like miniature ecosystems, complete with their own laws of gravity and unique topographical features. “Each composition is a little world. An island in the sea; a cavernous rock formation; a mossy outcrop; mountain ranges; alien terrain or an entire coral reef,” says Avery who, as his Instagram handle suggests, is indeed colourblind. “Runs in my family,” he adds with a chuckle. But colour is in the eye of the beholder. And the spontaneity that springs from Avery’s work speaks of an artist who’s liberated from conventions. He trained as a painter but found florals while working at The Tea Room QVB — rather than tossing blooms leftover from events, Avery would use them to brighten his studio apartment. “It…

As Melbourne snaps into lockdown 6.0 (at the time of writing) and snuffs out the real-life previews of new design, Lauren Tarrant swivels to the cloud-streamed capture of her latest handiwork and home — “an ode to marble ‘crafted’ in collaboration with Conrad Architects”. She is the boss lady and creative brains of namesake interiors practice Lauren Tarrant Design, a boutique firm that dabbles in high-end residential developments and does a bankable line in restrained beauty, the evidence of which is about to show through her phone’s eye. It frames up the inscrutable walled frontage of her river-end Toorak property and follows the tight axis of engagement established by project architect Paul Conrad, who later posits his style as steeping centuries-old tectonic values in structures that tell of this time.…

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The hideaway family home of Alexander Design’s VANESSA ALEXANDER is tucked into a quiet street of MALIBU. “It’s very close to the beach, yet feels slightly rural,” she says. Alexander spent 18 months remodelling the property into a SERENE AND MODERN barn with nods to Dutch and Belgian design. Coupled with her collection of art and design pieces by Pierre Yovanovitch and Pierre Jeanneret, she’s crafted a tactile and inviting home. See more house tours like this at VOGUELIVING.COM.AU. Vogue Living @vogueliving VogueLiving @VogueLiving vogueliving.com.au…

Amusement parks are for the young. At least that’s the conventional wisdom. Job Smeets, however, has never put away childish things. For the founder of Studio Job, the provocative product-design firm, youthful recollections of Efteling — the largest theme park in the Netherlands — form the DNA of his defiantly kitsch creations. Imagine an armchair in the form of a hamburger, a punching bag that appears to be made of red brick, and a table lamp that mimics a half-peeled banana. “If I can visualise those memories, I can explore new shapes and forms,” explains Smeets, who launched Studio Job in the Dutch city of Tilburg, in 1998; it also has an outpost in Milan, is represented by New York City gallery R & Company while in Australia, its irreverent…

ACID.FLWRS Like psychedelic explosions of colour, the hand-dyed orchids by Sydney-based floral studio Acid.Flwrs are in hot demand among certain creative circles — a limited-edition ‘drop’ style of distribution, which requires customers to register for the blooms online ahead of time, adds to the allure. Founded by stylist Claire Mueller and graffti artist RJ Williams, we can hardly wait to see what direction this exciting studio takes next. @acid.flwrs HATTIE MOLLOY The Melbourne-based floral artist’s multidisciplinary practice means she may be crafting a freshly toiled garden bed one day, and a sculpture gallery the next. Molloy’s vibrant style is so distinctive that at the city’s coolest events you’ll often hear denizens whispering, ‘Is that a Hattie?’ There’s even a line of merchandise for the ultra-obsessed. And watch this space: while…

When Covid-19 called halt to the 2020 MPavilion, the annual architectural commission conceived by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation (NMF) and birthed by big-note practices in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, the question asked: does a temporary structure premised on congregation still cut it? No one could have preempted a pandemic in the detail of the design brief that issued in 2019 to Traudy Pelzel and Francesco Magnani of Italy’s MAP Studio, the young Venice-based practice tapped by the NMF to ground their “deeply site-responsive” oeuvre in prime Melbourne parkland in 2020. Back then, the constraining limits were measured out by building codes, budgets and respect for the land belonging to the Boon Wurrung people, not the growing rate of a contagion rapidly closing global cities. But suddenly what had framed for…

I like the fact that it’s so multicultural in London,” says Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor Ahuja while discussing her recently redesigned Notting Hill home and Kensington office mews. “People who live here come from every part of the world — the fashion and art and music and culture and the gastronomy is all very global. I don’t think there is anywhere else like London.” It makes sense then, that the two-bedroom, three-bathroom London apartment she shares with entrepreneur husband Anand Ahuja reflects Sonam’s multicultural appreciation, too. Architect and designer Rooshad Shroff worked with the actor to fuse internationally sourced design pieces to form a series of complementary spaces that sing with colour-drenched, kaleidoscopic vibrancy. “Initially they thought it would be minor changes and I could just help them style a…

There are properties that look straight out of Slim Aarons’ iconic Poolside Gossip series, and then there’s Biscayne. So it’s fitting, if not a little coincidental, then that the name of the whitewashed home was inspired by one of the renowned photographer’s favourite destinations to shoot: Florida. Yet ensconced on a quiet street in the sleepy hamlet of Mount Martha on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Biscayne couldn’t be more geographically distant from the Everglades if it tried. The holiday state-of-mind however can be felt in each and every detail. “It’s got that resort feel,” says designer and homeowner Kate Walker. “It almost feels like compound living. You come through the private gates, they close behind you, and you really do feel like you’re transported someplace else.” Where other buyers found the…

The return of Salone del Mobile (or Supersalone) to a world reeling from the aftershocks of a pandemic offered its usual heady blend of innovation and creativity. Arguably though, it showed that despite the exhaustive speed at which the market churns through trends, there will always be a place for true originality. Arflex turned to Mario Marenco’s shapely modular sofa conjured back in 1970. Its versatile, streamlined and rounded form has led to a re-imagining for the great outdoors. None of the inviting comfort or joyful charm it’s offered for five decades has been lost in translation; just flexibility and actual time in the sun added to the chic equation.…

Interior design has never been more popular. From homewares to home renovations, the whole sector has been booming over the past few months. And the reason seems fairly simple: so many of us have been stuck indoors, with little else to do but stare at all the things we want to change. But I think there’s something else to it, too. After almost two years of chaos and confusion, our interior spaces feel like they are one of the few aspects of our lives we can control. Whether it’s a complete kitchen makeover or serving your morning coffee in your favourite mug, design has the ability to affect not just how a space looks, but how it makes us feel. That’s what this issue is all about. We’re calling it…

This feature should probably come with a warning. If you don’t want to be filled with a sense of longing for the Before Times, then you should probably look away. Because even a cursory glance at the life of Cordelia de Castellane, the artistic director of both Dior Maison and Baby Dior, is enough to inspire an almost Proustian wave of nostalgia. Just look at her Instagram. There, well over 66,000 of her followers are treated to a joyful parade of insights into de Castellane’s days at her countryside retreat in L’Oise — parts of which date back to the 15th century — north of Paris. There are photos of colourful tablescapes, images of food and family, and snapshots from de Castellane’s travels to Greece or Milan. None of this,…

The prospect of emerging from the depths of travel deprivation has energised us. Firmly in our viewfinder is Singapore, the verdant South-East Asian city-state adored by Australians, revered by food fanatics, and floated as the next potential bubble for quarantine-free travel. Singapore’s diminutive size belies its bounty of experiences. The usual suspects abound — the charming shophouses of Chinatown, Marina Bay Sands’ many luxurious temptations – but the nation’s appeal lies in its constant evolution, its polyglot cultural mix, and its impressive efficiency—the gleaming MRT system, for instance, and masses of taxis that make scooting around town a cinch. Here, we take a closer look at the impressive and innovative bar and dining scene that reveals Singapore is more enthralling than ever. EATING OUT From hawkers to haute cuisine Singapore’s…