After the success of Open House Melbourne, later this month it’s Ballarat in Victoria’s turn, with some of the best architecture and significant buildings set to open for public viewing. Presented in collaboration with City of Ballarat and Visit Ballarat,...
Here at the AFA, we love people who are inventive with furniture and this week we bring you Benjamin Rollins Caldwell of BRC Designs. He is one of those designers with a definitive artistic and imaginative view of the possibilities that everyday objects hold. He uses...
We always like to bring you a bit of the weird and the wonderful and this week we found this on the dezeen web site! A sofa shaped like a hot dog and a burger-like chair are among Studio Job’s latest designs for Italian brand Seletti. The food-themed pieces are...
Cat condos and dog beds can be awkward, cumbersome eyesores. Covered in matted beige carpet or crocheted gingham blankets, they tend to disrupt a room, no matter how stylish the rest of your furnishings are. What options are there for the more discerning decor and...
For many offices, a lot of thought goes into design elements like desk and cubicle layout and lighting. But when it comes to colour, many companies default to white. Studies show colour can significantly influence our mood. Certain colours can excite, depress,...
Elliat Rich has won $20,000 for her piece “Place” in the new biennial awards presented by Stylecraft and Jam Factory. It is an awards program, open to Australian designers globally and to designers residing in Australia. “Place” will be...
Updated designs for a proposed skyscraper near Hobart’s waterfront have been submitted to the local council as part of the development application process. The new design calls for a 179.6-metre-tall tower with an angled roof occupying a smaller footprint than the...
For lovers of all things design, this exhibition is for you. In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the House of Dior, one of the world’s most prestigious couture houses, the National Gallery of Victoria presents The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute...
Does your furniture have PEFC’s Chain of Custody certification? This certification is a mechanism for tracking certified material from the forest to the final product to ensure that the wood, wood fibre or non-wood forest produce contained in the product or...
Chairless chair” is designed to provide support for active factory workers This flexible exoskeleton, designed by Swiss studio Sapetti, allows its wearer to sit down whenever and wherever they need to. The Chairless Chair is designed primarily for manufacturing...
Consult Australia’s Safety in Design course is an intensive two-day seminar which addresses safety issues relating to design and provides practical tools on how to eliminate hazards at the design stage. Examples from practitioners will be provided and the...
As we head into the long weekend and the official opening of ski season, we thought this might inspire you. Art student Hongtao Zhou from the University of Wisconsin-Madison constructed furniture made from ice and snow on the frozen surface of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin,...
Make it Wood Our friends at FWPA have produced a series of campaigns in partnership with Planet Ark and feature the brand Wood. Naturally Better – which FWPA established in order to promote the advantages of wood to consumers. This campaign promotes responsibly...
These honey-coloured chairs and tables, with a smooth dramatically flecked surface are made by designer Spiros Kizis. They are made from the artichoke “fibre” left after farmers in Northern Greece have sold their crop for bio-fuel. “This is a new eco...
“A stand-alone moment at which culture and industry become an international benchmark – from the creative genius displayed by the architects and designers and from the huge numbers of visitors who flocked to Milan to check out the latest innovations at the...
Finland-based entrepreneurs have come up with a wood-based bag in response to the continued environmental impact from plastic bags. Paptic has looked to combine the best aspects of plastic and paper in creating the new product. The wood-based bags have plastic-like...
With the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, our first thoughts are…how can we help? In the furniture industry, we could easily donate furniture from our fabulous Members and networks. However, after further investigation, we have discovered that sadly this is not...
GRANT FEATHERSTON With original Grant Featherston contour chairs frequently fetching well over $5,000 most people probably think that they have never sat in a Featherston chair but they are most likely wrong. Most Australians have experienced at least one...
Maison et Objet describes Pierre Charpin as “an explorer at heart” – but the French designer, who graduated from Bourges Art School in 1984, is so much more than that. A “designer’s designer” in the truest sense of the expression, Charpin is unfazed by the world and...
How choosing the right paint, building and furniture materials, air and lighting systems, and even shower head can turn a home into a restorative oasis that contributes to your overall well-being...
…and what you can do to improve your pricing strategy This week we received a great thought provoking piece from Ron Wood, Founder and Managing Director of Pricing Insight. He highlighted the email shared with the world for a very specific and clever...
