May/June 2020

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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Vogue Living Australia
Rebecca Caratti EDITOR editor@vogueliving.com.au CREATIVE DIRECTOR Natasha Allen DEPUTY EDITOR Verity Magdalino STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner ACTING CHIEF COPY EDITOR Virginia Jen DESIGNER AliciaRidley MARKET EDITOR Anna Delprat MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEAT
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Contributors
Green began her career as a newspaper journalist but has spent the past 20 years editing food, fashion and home magazines. “The early years honed my news sense; the latter allowed me to indulge my love of design and encourage more sustainable consume
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Take The Tour
Located in the hip, ARTISTIC neighbourhood of Kreuzberg in BERLIN, this apartment-turned-family home has been completely revamped by Brooklyn-based designers WHITE ARROW. The apartment’s original features were honoured throughout the renovation, whic
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Editor’s Letter
It only seems like yesterday that I was sitting at my computer contemplating what to write, as Australia was experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons on record. Now, once again, I’m struggling to find the words as we face a global health pandem
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Closing The Divide
The answer was ‘no’ whenever cousins Agnes and Rhoda Garrett tried to persuade an architect to take them on as apprentices in London during the 1860s. The reason was, predictably, their gender. An architect friend, John McKean Brydon, eventually agre
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Better Together
Collaboration may be the buzzword du jour — all those shared secrets, strange bedfellows, and celebrity co-designs redressing weary culture — but no matter how fresh and fabulous the sell, it’s still just hoary old commerce cloaked in sparkly new cos
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Maison&Objet
For the new Passifolia collection, Benoît-Pierre Emery, the brand’s creative director of tableware, wanted to explore “a lush tropical nature that is very rich and colourful, with a great diversity of plants, foliage and flowers, which are wild and f
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Brave New World
Nirin, the title of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney translates to ‘edge’ in Wiradjuri, the language of Australian artist Brook Andrew’s mother. As artistic director of this year’s Biennale, Andrew — who grew up in Sydney and now resides between Berlin, M
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Charlotte Perriand & Fernand Léger
Great artistic strides have often accompanied the tumult of societal upheaval and the 1930s were no exception. A financial catastrophe of age-defining magnitude ignited a burgeoning of nationalistic sentiment, the terrifying rise of multiple populist
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The Exhibition[ist]
I love entertaining,” says Parisian footwear designer, Christian Louboutin. “I was brought up with musical comedy, dance halls and the circus. I guess I’m trying to express that same sparkling side of life with my shoes.” Nowhere is this approach mor
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Geometry Lesson
Curves are at home in this Milan apartment, but then it is Italy (Sophia Loren, spaghetti, Gaetano Pesce’s Up chair). Former lawyer Camilla Trutalli and her “eclectic” musician/artist husband Stefano live here with their 10-year-old twin boys, Dante
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Heart Of The Matter
It was the final piece of the picture, a triangular bench in walnut timber, angles blunted, edges rounded. As the centrepiece of Naomi Tosic’s kitchen and home, it works hard, a robust and beautiful monument to family life crafted by her joiner husba
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New Angle
The Schouwenhoek Penthouse on Amsterdam’s Apollolaan comprises elements that shouldn’t work together: rustic timber ceilings canopying pale French oak parquetry floors and, in between, boxy mid-century furnishings set against black mesh shelving, plu
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Keep In Touch
Recalling the age-old proverb, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, a painting by French-Australian artist Stanislas Piechaczek hovers within the entrance of Jason Johnson and Portia Thomson’s Dover Heights home. It was the first artwork the couple
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OF LANGUAGE & LIGHT
The narrow pathway that leads to the Sydney home of celebrated Australian author Markus Zusak is discreet and low-key. There’s a palpable sense of discovery as the quiet side alley unfolds to reveal a tall front door. Through an elegant covered entry
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Close To Home
My family owned a shack near the beach in the town of Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island. We would go three or four times a year, sometimes for weeks at a time. It was a raw and untouched place, which forced a different pace of life upon all who visited. A
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Valued At $45
Food writer and journalist Nigel Slater’s cookbook Greenfeast: Spring, Summer is a vibrant and joyous collection of food for the end of the day. There are more than 110 beautiful recipes, each with suggested variations and most can be on the table in
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Ode To The Past
With Christian Dior’s home on your résumé, doors can really open. For Atelier Cos and Yves de Marseille, the doors in question were at the end of a long driveway in Champagne and opened up to the refurbishment of Moët & Chandon’s world-famous but fie
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Out Of Office
In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow broke the internet when she posted a statement on her Goop website announcing that she and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, were not getting divorced. No. Instead, they had decided to “consciously uncouple”. Paltr
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Alessi Design Awards
Celebrating the best in Australian product design, Vogue Living teamed up with Alessi this autumn to choose the winners of the Alessi Design Awards for 2020. Design legends Alberto Alessi and Philippe Starck, the judges for the awards, announced the
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Sources
Acerbis acerbisdesign.com Adriatic Pools adriaticpools.net.au Agapecasa agapecasa.it Allied Maker alliedmaker.com Alm studioalm.com Anibou anibou.com.au Artedomus artedomus.com Artemide artemide.com Arthouse Gallery arthousegallery.com.au Avanguardia
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VL Collection
Specialising in Japanese antique furniture custom made between the 1850’s to 1920’s. Unique and functional pieces that sit well in traditional or contemporary Australian interiors to create character and warmth. Beautiful selections of antique and vi

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