May 2019

Belle

Interior design and decoration magazine

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Contributors
An extract from Design Thread by Kit Kemp, Firmdale Hotels co-founder and creative director, features on p148. How would you describe your aesthetic as a designer? The finished project should look colourful and carefree, but to achieve the right bala
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Editor’s Letter
Forgive us, but at Belle, we can’t help being seriously into beauty and talent – we appreciate being surrounded by and looking at exquisite objets and stunning imagery, and we absolutely love discovering new creative brilliance. To me, there is nothi
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Orange Crush
1 GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? Australia’s top creatives will fashion a series of spectacular tables for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Art of Dining: Best of the Best 2019. Hecker Guthrie, Flack Studio, Thomas Hamel & Associates with de Gournay
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Look Book
Reflecting on the role of the artist as world-builder, Matilda Davis stages her very own creation myths (left), folding in idiosyncratic and subversive motifs from kabuki theatre, kids’ toys and tales by Enid Blyton and C. S. Lewis. ‘I have something
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What We Love Right Now
Friends | Founders’ latest addition to their family, the ‘Novel’ chair is no exception to their ethos of creating monochromatic Scandinavian sophistication via geometric abstraction. friendsfounders.com There was no medium that Karl Lagerfeld could n
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Strokes of INSIGHT
CONGRATULATIONS TO the talented young artists who took top honours in the fourth Belle ArtStart, sponsored by Belle Property and Studio Gallery Melbourne. First prize of $10,000 went to Benjamin Throsby for Paddy, 1980, $5000 to Olympia Antoniadis fo
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Line Maker
MARCIO KOGAN, founder of Brazilian practice Studio MK27, is a lively and witty interviewee. I tell him that his work is well-known by Australian architects and that his treatment of the indoor/outdoor room, often positioned under an enormous cantilev
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Designed For Living
The devil is in the detail. Smooth light-reflecting stone, soft muted eucalyptus greens and subtle grain detail in a birchply finish play in harmony in an environment where durability is on par with design and functionality. Harnessing incredible adv
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Private EYE
WHAT HAS INFORMED AND INSPIRED YOUR PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETIC AS A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT? I am hugely inspired and informed by travel and being open to works and projects by new designers that I see working overseas. At the moment it’s the designs of Da
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Letter Perfect
IS THERE AN ARTIST WHO HAS BEEN AN ENDURING INFLUENCE? Not as such as I’m constantly discovering new things. DO YOU COLLECT ANYTHING? I try to collect art but I get derailed by the clothes. WHAT ARE YOUR FASHION MUST-HAVES? Manolo Blahniks [6], great
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Happy Browsing
Premium kitchen, bathroom and laundry specialist e&s has unveiled its expansive Preston flagship store replete with state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen, in-store cafe and fully-stocked cellar. Mim Design has imbued the showroom with the bespoke fe
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Fashion Issue
WHAT HAS INFORMED AND INSPIRED YOUR INTERIORS STYLE? HAS THIS EVOLVED OVER TIME? Simone Haag: With confidence my style has evolved considerably. I used to fear selecting fabrics but now I can honestly say it is the most fun aspect of my job. I have e
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Global Profile
DIRECTORS OF INTERIOR DESIGN studio Golden, Kylie Dorotic (left) and Alicia McKimm (far right), pictured with Belle interior design editor Lucy Montgomery (centre), believe table lamps are an important consideration when designing a space. “A table l
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SERVING Congeniality
THE FIRST THING you notice upon entering the new Sydney studio of interior architects Jonathan Richards and Kirsten Stanisich is that there are lots of wineglasses stacked in neat rows on the immaculate white De Padova shelving. “We wanted clients to
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Living Colour
Visions of Architecture is the appropriate subtitle for this monograph that profiles the original and often radical projects of inspirational Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. Challenging preconceived notions and proposing different styles of living
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RELIGIOUS Conversion
WHAT INFORMS YOUR ARCHITECTURAL PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETIC? A unique response is required for every project based on location, the client brief, and existing natural or man-made elements in and around the site. While my general aesthetic is informed by
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Photo Fix
French interior designer Charlotte Macaux Perelman normally likes to respect the history of the spaces she transforms. “There’s always a soul; something to preserve,” she explains. “I like to take inspiration from what I find.” A perfect example is a
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Endless Summer
Think Sydney’s northern beaches and all things summery and sunny spring to mind: sparkling surf; clear air; glorious sunshine; sunrise swims. It’s an area anchored by nature and an outdoor lifestyle, but when interior designer Pamela Makin of Les Int
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Limited Edition
A wonderful feeling of calm descends as you enter this elegant home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Although the hubbub of the city is merely minutes away it reads as a private sanctuary decorated in perfect taste by interior architect and designer Phoe
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Rich Seam
In the 1920s, Virginia Woolf wrote a small book, A Room of One’s Own, which grew out of a lecture she had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge. As well as giving us one of the greatest feminist debates about women and fiction, equality a
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ANCIENT Mariner
Uri Jeremias went through four architects before settling on, well, himself for the renovation of his hotel in the world heritage UNESCO site of Acre (Akko), an ancient port city in Israel and historically one of the key trade routes in the Mediterra
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GREEN Heaven
With its sweep of bangalow palms swishing in the breeze and bougainvillea tumbling over the walls, this laid-back home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs could be in the Caribbean. But when its designer, Marcia Hosking, first saw it the garden was laid out
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COASTING Now
Seafood superstar and internationally acclaimed chef and traveller Rick Stein is clearly no slouch when it comes to spotting opportunity. And possibilities abound in many of Australia’s picturesque seaside towns with outdated motels, hotels and clubs
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Good Cheer
{ Owner of Scout and author of The Modern Cocktail } Favourite food experience? Spending time in the development kitchen at The Fat Duck. Tipple of choice? The banana wine at Scout Sydney is a firm favourite. Enduring influences? Growers and producer
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ANCIENT Mariner
Uri Jeremias went through four architects before settling on, well, himself for the renovation of his hotel in the world heritage UNESCO site of Acre (Akko), an ancient port city in Israel and historically one of the key trade routes in the Mediterra
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Tropical SAFARI
The spectacular WILD COAST TENTED LODGE is a unique and innovative glamping resort conceived by Malik Fernando of Sri Lanka’s Resplendent Ceylon hotel brand. Fernando commissioned Netherlands-based architects and project developers Nomadic Resorts an
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First Class
Rosewood’s new hotel on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour showcases breathtaking views to the water and Kowloon Peak. The ultra-luxe suites are some of the largest in the city. rosewoodhotels.com Renovations at Tokyo’s Mandarin Oriental reflect the changi
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Stone Age
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STUDIO? My studio is an old brick warehouse, built in the 70s, in Melbourne’s Reservoir with a tin roof, a roller door, and tools and dust everywhere inside. WHAT FIRST APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT THE SPACE? DID YOU MAKE ANY ALT

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