As the wheel of good taste turns, various elements of the home are dragged into the spotlight. Kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces, columns, windows, curtains, tiles, rugs, lamps, roofs and stools have all been seized by designers and reworked and redeveloped and iterated and innovated and fetishized until it becomes a little bit tiring and the next big thing minces over the horizon.
One part of the home that has seemingly evaded this breathless cycle so far is the door, which is curious, given its pivotal role in defining the home as a private space. Open Door: Contemporary Makers and Designers, an exhibition at Craft Victoria curated by Julie Ewington, serves as a criticism of this bit of cultural absentmindedness. Because, after all, the door or entrance has, at various times and…