Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2019 i Belle

KIT KEMP 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 balance we take into account scale, light, aspect and attention to detail. Your favourite career experiences? Taking unattractive greenfield sites and building hotels from concept to completion. It is always a thrill to walk through the doors into a lobby of your own creation. Where is home for you? Central London in walking distance from my design studio. I walk to work past the V&A and the Natural History Museum, two of my favourite places. Your ultimate travel escape in 2019? Vienna to see the Klimt collection at the…

[ Piece works ] TALENT ARISING Launched during Art Basel Hong Kong, Lane Crawford presented more than 25 exclusive products curated by Local Design, showcasing the rising talents of Australian and New Zealand designers. lanecrawford.com…

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 for Solace, and $2500 to Archie Tait for Monty and Agapanthus. Winners were selected from a pool of outstanding entrants and announced at a fabulous cocktail party, held at the Art Gallery of NSW during Art Month Sydney. All entries could be purchased by guests, who enjoyed delicious wines from Lisa McGuigan, Fever-Tree fizzes and a lush grazing table by Chiswick At The Gallery. The judging panel comprised Fiona Biondi, director of client services, Belle Property; Kerry Armstrong, artist and owner of Studio Gallery Melbourne; Kate Britton, artistic director of Art Month…

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 Dan Pearson and his fresh and relaxed approach to planting schemes. I also develop an individual philosophy for each project by being immersed in the site and responding to its individual sense of scale. I find the site demands its own scale and sense of proportion. IS THERE A COMMON ELEMENT OR APPROACH THAT RUNS THROUGH ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR WORK? Timelessness is the element I try to get to run through all my projects. I create this by closely linking the garden style with the architectural…

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 lamp provides an ambient light source that can be scattered throughout a room. It can transform a space offering light from a lower level, providing a softer intimate vibe. Table lamps are the perfect opportunity to add a designed object to the space. The Flos ‘Atollo’ lamp available from Euroluce is a classic that you just can’t go past. It is available in a variety of sizes to accommodate a range of environments including a small version for a bedside or a larger version for a sculptural entry piece.” designbygolden.com.au 1_SHAPE MAKER Oluce’s ‘Atollo…

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 contemporary design and functionality, and inspired by many great modernists, it’s a particular project’s unique characteristics that defines it and informs some of its intimate details. IS THERE A COMMON ELEMENT OR APPROACH THAT RUNS THROUGH ALL YOUR WORK? If I had to pick one it would be functionality and how that informs the design in terms of form and materiality. WHAT APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT THE STUDIO SITE? WHAT DID THE ALTERATIONS ENTAIL? The interior’s height and scale instantly appealed and presented a unique challenge. Normal in a church, the…

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 Mediterranean. Tucked amid the rambling, serpentine alleys of its peaceful, fortified Old City, the Efendi Hotel is surprisingly inconspicuous, a barely-there door leading from a narrow lane into a cavernous stone lobby. An amalgamation of two Ottoman-era buildings and decrepit houses with Byzantine remains, Uri says his friends thought he was mad to take it on. “Restoring its unique qualities was important. Modern additions would have disturbed the harmony. I wanted people to go into this house and live in it like they had originally. I didn’t want…

WILD COAST TENTED LODGE 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 and Bo Reudler Studio in Amsterdam to team up to design and construct his vision which opened in November 2017. They came up with the organic basket-like ‘boulders’ to house the restaurant, bar and library, and tented ‘cocoons’ and ‘urchins’ for luxury safari sleeping quarters which are a play on the shape of the clusters of rocks found on the nearby coastline. The structures merge seamlessly into the dramatic landscape and are as playful as they are sophisticated and expressed in the perfect balance of stunning appearance, luxury, comfort and sustainability. The interiors…

AUST RALIA’S TOP LAN DSCAPING TALENT gathered at Garden Life in Sydney’s inner west for the launch of Belle’s new ode to alfresco spaces. Meanwhile, young industrial designer Zachary Hanna won the Mercedes-Benz Design Award for his pared-back lamp and side table configuration, ‘Stack’. Armadillo & Co took up residence in Sydney’s The Apollo to host an exclusive dinner for the reveal of its new Egyptian collection. Living Edge opened for business in Perth and boutique developer Gurner celebrated the launch of its luxe Saint Moritz precinct in St Kilda, Melbourne with an intimate lunch featuring its stellar design team including architects Fender Katsalidis, Koichi Takada, interior designer David Hicks and landscape designer Jack Merlo. AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS BOOK LAUNCH Garden Life, Sydney MERCEDES-BENZ DESIGN AWARD Cult, Sydney ARMADILLO &…

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 nothing more exciting than seeing young creatives develop their practice and attract recognition from an appreciative audience and the industry at large. That’s what has been so wonderful about the Belle ArtStart competition sponsored by Belle Property and Studio Gallery Melbourne. This year the exhibition and winners’ announcement was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and our winner was Benjamin Throsby, second place was Olympia Antoniadis and third place went to Archie Tait – Archie has entered every year since the prize started and this year took…

1_SCANDI SCENE 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 2_MYTH AND THE MAN There was no medium that Karl Lagerfeld could not work his magic over, including a series of tables, fountains, mirrors and marble objects in collaboration with architect Aline Asmar d’Amman. carpentersworkshopgallery.com 3_MARBLE MOMENT French furniture designer Christophe Delcourt has taken marble and stone to the next level, creating graphic textiles and collectable forms. collection-particuliere.fr 4_STEEL SILHOUETTE The limited-edition ‘Pouso’ lounge chair is the perfect meeting point of design and sculpture by the Brazil-based architect, Rodrigo Ohtake. rodrigoohtake.com 5_TETRAS RIPPLE ‘Shanty’ cabinet by Doshi Levien is a layered tetras approach reflecting the beauty of improvised architecture. bdbarcelona.com [ Art…

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 cantilever, has gained some traction here. “I will send them a bill,” he quips. One of his latest completed projects for longstanding client Micasa, an upmarket São Paulo furniture store, is a minimalist exhibition, event and living space for visiting artists. This spare building channels a certain Japanese restraint through the use of structural 15-metre laminated timber beams that combine with a skin of translucent polycarbonate to allow the building to glow like a lantern when lit at night. As with many of his projects he chooses to tell the story of…

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 get a sense of us as people too,” says Richards with a smile. “There’s also a lot of carefully styled white crockery. Having things on display means that everybody keeps everything nice and clean and neat.” We all know that spaces speak volumes about the people who inhabit them. But the spaces interior designers choose to devise for themselves are like style guides to their entire practice: not just what they believe is good design, but how they want clients to perceive them as creatives. For the interiors duo…

Fairytale elements create cosy and cocooning spaces for young ones.…

“It’s white on white and neutral on neutral,” Phoebe says, “which creates a very calming feel.” 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 Phoebe Nicol in warm whites and neutrals. The owners, a young professional couple with one child, bought the house some years ago and engaged Phoebe, who had worked on their previous home, to freshen it. The house had beautiful bones and no structural work was required so Phoebe had the delicious task of selecting fittings, finishes and new furniture. “The clients totally trusted me and I had free rein,” she says. “They wanted…

A QUICK BITE with MATT WHILEY { 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 producers. They are the true heroes behind the food and drink industry. Favourite restaurant? Noma. Recent projects? Scout Sydney in the Dolphin Hotel. My team in London is also producing cocktails for a number of events and bars, and I’m working on a new restaurant in Notting Hill. What are you looking forward to? Working on my tan at Sydney’s amazing beaches! scout.bar/scoutsydney; talentedmrfox.com MELBOURNE ALL-DAY DINER Blue and breezy Elwood Bathers, with its panoramic views over Port Phillip Bay, is the latest…

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 ALTERATIONS? The price, the size (200 square metres) and the natural light. I added pulleys and workbenches. WHAT ARE YOUR STUDIO ESSENTIALS? Hammers, chisels and sandpaper – all the Den Holm pieces are handmade in high-grade Australian limestone. I also use a pencil or charcoal to draw a piece to scale straight onto the walls, a work table or sometimes the floor. DESCRIBE YOUR VIEW. We’re on an industrial estate and while we can’t see treetops here we do get a nice sunset. DESCRIBE A…

MELBOURNE BOOK OF GENESIS 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 to show you’, her solo debut at Neon Parc, has seven operatic tableaux composed on an intimate scale. April 24-May 25. neonparc.com.au MELBOURNE STOWAWAYS ‘Contraband’ (right) comprises 1075 photos taken by Taryn Simon over 24 hours at JFK Airport’s customs and mail facilities, capturing bizarre and illicit items seized there with icy, museum-like detachment. April 2-May 18. annaschwartzgallery.com MELBOURNE LINE DANCE Drawing upon late-modernist sculptural traditions with a zest for blunt simplicity, Caleb Shea creates exciting, energetic spatial configurations in his practice, as in his…

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 trousers and anything from Loewe [7]. CONTEMPORARY ART YOU MOST ADMIRE? Michael Zavros’s work [3]. FAVOURITE WATCH? I just treated myself to a Cartier Panthère [4]. FRAGRANCE OF CHOICE? ‘Rose Atlantic’ by D.S. & Durga [14]. BOOKS – WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW – BOTH FICTION AND ART/DESIGN? Fiction: I’m currently reading Less [10], a novel by Andrew Sean Greer. MUSIC – WHAT’S ON ROTATION AT OFFICE AND HOME? A summer playlist curated by my sister featuring artists from Drake all the way through to Luther…

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 loft she renovated on University Place in Manhattan for an art dealer about 10 years ago where she kept the irregular floorboards and cracked concrete ceilings, and insisted the plumbing pipes and electrical system remain apparent. There is, however, an exception to every rule and what interested her in this 230-square-metre apartment, which directly overlooks Paris’s Parc Monceau, was precisely the fact that there was nothing to salvage. “It was so contorted that I was certain everything had to be demolished,” she says. The former owner had lived there for…

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 and women’s rights, it also left us with the valuable notion that if you do not have a comfortable room and feel at ease with your surroundings, it is much more difficult to be creative. Creating comfortable, functional and well-designed interiors is not rocket science, but it is very often misunderstood and underrated. Having a pleasant and happy room of one’s own is important for our wellbeing. To be able to turn the key in the lock and find oneself surrounded by much-loved objects…

POINT BREAK Adding an infusion of glamour to Burleigh Heads dining options, the former Beach Pavilion has had an impressive makeover by Alexander & Co. Dreamed up as a quintessential beachy structure but with a sophisticated Miami Vice meets Gold Coast edge, the venue’s top floor features a vast open kitchen with three restaurants branching off it, all oriented to soak up the stunning views. See Lounge, p177.…

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 Mediterranean. Tucked amid the rambling, serpentine alleys of its peaceful, fortified Old City, the Efendi Hotel is surprisingly inconspicuous, a barely-there door leading from a narrow lane into a cavernous stone lobby. An amalgamation of two Ottoman-era buildings and decrepit houses with Byzantine remains, Uri says his friends thought he was mad to take it on. “Restoring its unique qualities was important. Modern additions would have disturbed the harmony. I wanted people to go into this house and live in it like they had originally. I didn’t want…

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