Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2021/January 2022 i Belle

SEOUL SHARP THINKING Herzog & de Meuron’s SongEun Art & Cultural Foundation in Seoul (left) is hermetic and monolithic at first glance but open and welcoming at ground level. With its context of designer flagship stores in the Gangnam district this continuous concrete form, punctuated by precision glazing, creates a new landmark for the area. The patchwork surface treatment gives subtle textural interest to the dramatic geometry as the formwork was made up of plywood squares – each leaving an individual imprint. hertzogdemeuron.com TOKYO GREEN LIGHT Embracing nature from the outset, Tsuruoka House (right) in Tokyo was designed by Kiyoaki Takeda Architects using layered planting through the facade and rooftop with soil deep enough for a variety of mature plants, shrubs and ground cover. The dissolving sense of space between inside…

WHERE DO YOU LIVE? In the leafy Melbourne suburb of South Yarra in Boon Wurrung Country. It’s close to the CBD, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birrarung (Yarra) River and Prahran Market with some of the best-preserved, handsomely decorated 19th-century Victorian terrace houses and Art Deco apartments. My block was built in the 1970s and has a glass atrium that frames the building’s entrance. WHAT INITIALLY APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT THE APARTMENT AND WHAT CHANGES DID YOU MAKE? It’s an inner-city dweller’s dream: handy to the shops, parks and the river. I recently spent a year in Europe and was influenced by more compact styles of living. While my apartment is small I made key changes to open it up. Having great windows that provide a lot of natural light also helps.…

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WHO OR WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR ENDURING CREATIVE INFLUENCES? I’m drawn to the scale and sensibility of American furnishings and interiors (cue Nancy Meyers) and the patina and craftsmanship of European design. I love the warm, inviting layers of US designers such as Thomas O’Brien, Nate Berkus and Steven Gambrel, and the textural prowess and impeccable attention to detail of Atelier AM and Axel Vervoordt. IS THERE A COMMON ELEMENT, AESTHETIC OR APPROACH THAT RUNS THROUGH YOUR WORK? A calm, cohesive and transitional aesthetic underpins our work, adding character and warmth with an understated elegance and quiet luxury. We love classic and comfortable, relaxed and inviting, polished and practical – spaces that are equally at ease with elegant entertaining and everyday life. HOW DID THE CONCEPT FOR CASA BY KATE…

What do you love about your space and how does it reflect the work that you do? What we like about this space is that it’s a moveable working space, it has tall ceilings and large windows, and lots of beautiful light. It’s important to have good light when designing a piece. The building also has a wonderful happy energy. Could you tell us about the latest Dinosaur Designs collection – what was your inspiration? The latest collection, Holiday, is filled with optimism, escapism and the sheer joy of the season. It truly captures the zeitgeist inspired by a sense of freedom, transporting us to faraway places with its vivid colours and bold sculptural forms. What are some of your favourite pieces from the collection? I love the colour relationship…

A two-kilometre gravel drive through lush grounds with serried plantings of mature weeping willow and elm trees leads to one of the most spectacular country homes in Australia. Set in undulating farmland in the NSW Southern Highlands, Wollumbi Estate is now owned by corporate litigator Amanda Banton and her family, but it has passed through many hands since former prime minister Harold Holt held the title to the land. Fashion designer and entrepreneur Peter Weiss was châtelain for more than two decades, expanding what had been a “quaint” French provincial-style house and developing the land to include a vineyard and olive grove, as well as running prize Red Angus cattle. By the time Amanda took possession in 2016 the house was in need of an update. The cavernous rooms with…

Refined, elegant, timeless, the Sydney home of interiors doyen Michael Love is the epitome of good taste and perfect composition, with a soupçon of intrigue thrown in for good measure. ‘Stirred, not shaken’ – a twist on the catchphrase – would be an apt description for the cocktail of eclectic yet harmonious pieces he has assembled in his urbane abode that features in Melissa Penfold’s book, Living Well by Design. It is a home with a sophisticated allure that beguiles, whether by the soft glow of lamplight or bathed in bright, early morning sun. Set in a harbourside enclave in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the home is one of two houses reconfigured from a block of four flats by architect Susan Rothwell in 1986. Blessed with a felicitous position embracing water,…

PERTH ALTERED STATE Coinciding with the opening of the Art Gallery of WA’s new rooftop, ‘The View From Here’ is the museum’s largest-ever celebration of Western Australian art with more than 360 works from 230 leading artists, including Abdul Abdullah, Ngarralja Tommy May, Sandra Hill, Tarryn Gill, Christopher Pease, Joanna Lamb and Saleheh Gholami. Sarah Bahbah’s cinematic stills, such as Silence (left), freeze her subjects in moments of heartbreak, ennui and other emotional entanglements as their inner dialogue plays out in subtitles. artgallery.wa.gov.au MELBOURNE OUT OF THE HUE With ambiguous figures sketched in ghostly wisps against a haze of abstract colour, Allan Rand’s oil paintings (right) create a blurry interplay between foreground and background. The artist’s work is paired with Patrick Hartigan’s at Haydens Gallery from February 18-March 19. haydens.gallery ADELAIDE…

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SWEE LIM is one busy bee. Quite serendipitous then that she is humming around a Richard Stringer sculpture of said insect lying on a miniature building. “I love this piece! It’s sculptural and over-scaled within an architectural format, yet quirky,” says Swee. The piece somehow embodies her: she’s a professional, punctual, perfectionist – and playful. In her business, Swee Design, she is creating a buzz with memorable and meaningful spaces in her selection of furniture, art, sculpture and objects. “Art is more than decorative; it’s thought provoking. It brings in energy and changes the way we engage emotionally and spatially with a room. It’s an integral part of my work,” says the Melbourne-based designer who is mother to Charlie and Mimi, herself an impressive young artist. Swee studied art history at…

From my first visit to Trincomalee I was captivated and obsessed by the somewhat quirky house in its magical setting. I’m not sure what exactly it was that initially got me hooked. Was it the boat-only access, or the way the charming and slightly eccentric old house sat rather grandly in the bush, looking over the water between Lovett and Elvina Bays in Sydney’s Pittwater? It wasn’t like anything I’d experienced before. Arriving in Sydney in 1991 from the UK, I was intent on finding adventure and soon became close friends with Justine who had grown up at the house, and whose parents still lived there. I fell instantly in love with Australia, made my home in the sparkling city of pleasure and numerous orphan Christmas holidays were spent sleeping…

It’s hard to imagine a setting more beautiful than a historied home sitting on the very edge of a bay, perched high and with banksia-yellow shutters. It’s the kind of house you float past and dream of owning. Built in 1862, Ventnor is said to be the oldest surviving home in Sydney’s north and today it remains one of the most visually dreamy, with the beach on one side and a wharf and boathouse on the other. You can only access Ventnor by boat, and it’s after you dock that the magic happens. There’s a holiday feel in the air from the minute you step onto the jetty and approach the twinkling lights of the boathouse. This isn’t just any boathouse – the sweet little structure is set over mangroves,…

The owners of this home in Sydney’s Point Piper had long admired the house next door, so when the time came to renovate, they asked their neighbours – with whom they shared a driveway – who designed their house. Cut to a few years later and Sydney-based interior design and architecture practice Archer Design can now take credit for both beautiful homes. While the initial brief was for some minor works, the project quickly skyrocketed into a full gut-it-and-begin-again renovation. The owners sought a “luxurious, resort-like home that was comfortable enough for their small family but offered them the option for entertaining on a large scale,” says architect Richard Archer, the founder and design director of Archer Design. “The house was built in 2008 but it looked like it was…

WHILE A NAME such as Aileen Sage sounds as if it could be a genteel character in a 19th-century novel it is the combined middle names of Isabelle Aileen Toland and Amelia Sage Holliday. Suspecting that Toland Holliday had too much of a ring of a solicitor’s practice about it, the pair wanted to create a business alias that was clearly female but with a touch of ambiguity. “We liked the idea that she could be both of us or one,” says Amelia. It is rare to find an architecture practice with two female directors and their stance is consciously ambitious for both themselves and the clients they work for. “We added the wording around ‘ambition’ to our website manifesto a year or two ago after reflecting on the projects…

WITH BACKGROUNDS IN SOCIAL THEORY AND HOSPITALITY, ARCHITECTS RYAN RUSSELL AND BYRON GEORGE SAY THEY APPROACH EVERY JOB WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE UNIQUE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LED TO THE PROJECT IN THE FIRST PLACE. ASIDE FROM ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS, THEIR AWARD-WINNING STUDIO, RUSSELL & GEORGE, EMPLOYS THEORISTS, STRATEGISTS AND URBANISTS FOR PROJECTS IN CITIES AS DIVERSE AS NEW YORK, SEOUL, AUCKLAND AND ROME, AS WELL AS ACROSS AUSTRALIA. RUSSELLANDGEORGE.COM 01 INSPIRING SPACES ARCTIC MEMORIAL Take the single-lane road along the Arctic Ocean to the northeastern-most point of Norway and you will find this incredible structure, a memorial to the 17th-century witch burnings. Steilneset was a collaboration between artist Louise Bourgeois and Swiss architect Peter Zumthor on a building that captures the sheer horror of what it memorialises. Well worth…

Rooms – Steven Volpe How to break the rules in style. Rizzoli, $130 Where They Purr When felines and high-end interiors intersect. Thames & Hudson, $65 Collected Interiors – Philip Mitchell Mastering modern maximalism. Rizzoli, $110 The Well-Loved House Adventurous blend of colours and patterns. Rizzoli, $99 New Rural Expressing the allure of country living. Hardie Grant, $ 60 Shades of White Stylish scenes of the utmost serenity. CICO, $60 Isabelle Stanislas – Designing Spaces Drawing Emotions An holistic approach to creativity. Rizzoli, $130 Rose Uniacke at Home A privileged insight into this on-trend designer’s work. Limited edition. Rizzoli, $430…

SLIDE & HIDE® OVEN DOOR Fully retractable, this safe, stylish and unique feature ensures easy access to your food. The Slide&Hide® door lets you monitor your cooking, allows convenient lifting and provides more room to move around smaller kitchens. The revolutionary handle is easy on the wrist, so you can use it year after year, without strain. FULL STEAM AND VARIO STEAM FullSteam combines all the heating modes of a full-featured oven with those of a steam cooker, providing a quick and clean option for vegetables, fish, risottos, dumplings and puddings. VarioSteam, on the other hand, adds bursts of steam to the normal hot-air cooking process, for food that needs to be moist inside and crispy outside – think bread and meat. MULTI POINT MEAT PROBE Overcooked and undercooked meals…

GREG NATALE Greg Natale PATRICK KENNEDY & RACHEL NOLAN Kennedy Nolan Architects BEST WORK WITH COLOUR Five finalists making a splash in the Belle Fanuli Interior Design Awards JUSTINE HUGH-JONES & KATRINA MACKINTOSH Hugh-Jones Mackintosh YASMINE GHONIEM YSG Studio JULIETTE ARENT & SARAH-JANE PYKE Arent&Pyke JOLANTA SCOTT & JESSICA M. OTTO Martin J Scott Design EMERGING DESIGN STAR An impressive field of fresh talent rising in the world of interiors. LUCY PARTRIDGE & EMMA DANIELS Partridge Daniels BIANCA FRASER The Unlisted Collective CAROLE WHITING Carole Whiting Studio PHOEBE NICOL Phoebe Nicol Interior Architecture…

WHAT WAS THE CONCEPT FOR THE INTERIORS AT YOUR NEW RESTAURANT, MARGARET, IN SYDNEY'S DOUBLE BAY? Caon Studio and Acme worked together for the first time and it was a beautiful collaboration [1]. You can tell they’re great friends – they complement each other and totally understood my brief. I wanted a sophisticated, world-class restaurant that feels like a wonderful, approachable neighbourhood dining space and they delivered those two worlds beautifully. CONTEMPORARY ARTIST WHO YOU ADMIRE? Gabrielle Penfold is a great young Australian artist [13]. She had worked with David Caon before, and as soon as I saw her work I said ‘yes please’. We gave her an indication of the art we wanted her to create for Margaret. Seafood is important to the restaurant and Gabrielle’s still-life paintings with…

When French interior designer Laura Gonzalez started to design the principal bedroom of this 250 square metre-apartment in Paris’s 16th arrondissement her initial intent was to create a “very gentle, peaceful” atmosphere. “I wanted it to feel like a floating cloud,” she says. She installed a number of low-key elements – a natural bullrush rug, a Soho Home leather ottoman, and a pair of burlwood tables by Rose Uniacke. Then, she recalls, she got the urge to be a little more expressive. “I couldn’t help myself,” she laughs. “I had to add something.” That “something” turned out to be a fabric on the wardrobe doors by Jack Lenor Larsen with a geometric pattern and, for the bed, a plaid with a panther motif. “Since I started working for Cartier four…

Sometimes grand plans don’t come to fruition but what occurs instead ends up being the perfect outcome. This was the case for the owners of this home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Their original intention was to do a massive structural renovation on the three-bedroom 1930s house. However, the costings were a little steep and so they realigned their vision to concentrate instead on making the interiors as beautiful and workable as possible. Interior designer Meryl Hare, principal of Hare + Klein, was engaged by the owners to make the best use of the house without increasing the footprint. “The home had been altered over the years in an ad-hoc fashion and there was no flow or logic to the layout,” says Meryl. She set to work to reposition rooms, relocate…

WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF YOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE MUSEUM SINCE BECOMING DIRECTOR? When I was first employed at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), I was fortunate enough to have a great manager, Kaye Thomson, at council. We identified two simple goals for my time at SAM: to grow the reputation of the museum into a nationally significant cultural space through outstanding exhibitions and programs, with artists central to our work; and to build an inspiring and ambitious new art museum. Both goals have now been achieved and we have just opened the new building. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK SPACE? Fast-paced and never dull. Possibly the most beautifully designed office I have ever worked in, with natural light and excellent design. WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT YOUR SPACE? I have…