Issue 75
June — August 2021
The everyday stresses of work, family, the environment, politics and everything else that comes with modern life have made us all re-evaluate every aspect of our lives, particularly our health and wellbeing. This has brought on a boom in wellness spaces and a re-imagining of traditional self-care environments, such as beauty studios, gyms, yoga centres and hair salons. Designing for wellness interiors involves understanding how people want to feel, physically and psychologically, and the paradox of creating a private, personal space that will serve the public. This issue, we review four new wellness projects from across Australia, each very different in intent and function, but with the like-minded aim of providing people with some form of self-care.
For Geraldine Maher, designer of Light Years…
