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- A design and art fusion
| Get The VIP Treatment At Saturday Indesign Posted: 20 Feb 2022 07:32 PM PST  In just a couple of months Sydney's architecture and design community will be brought to life as Saturday Indesign (SID) transforms the city into a hub of inspiration. Coming on May 21st, mark your calendar and get ready to make connections and immerse yourself in the best of design. While SID's trademark hop-on/hop-off buses will be back for the 2022 program, we are expanding our fleet with the much-anticipated return of our VIP studio buses, available for bookings to make your SID experience extra special. Studio Buses are available for teams of 10 or more. They offer a curated route that chauffeurs you around to all the must-see showrooms, letting you experience all the best Saturday Indesign has to offer from product launches and dynamic showroom experiences, all while skipping the queue. So what is in the works for Saturday Indesign 2022? Not only will Sydney be a city fired-up with the best in design, but it will also be about fostering a full day of inspiration and professional growth. Featuring an edited footprint with a selection of the best showrooms and exhibitors across Sydney, SID offers the kind of backdrop that sparks life-long friendships and fuels design ideas. Hurry, VIP Studio Bus spaces are limited, click here to express your interest now. The post Get The VIP Treatment At Saturday Indesign appeared first on Habitusliving.com. |
| A small oasis in the bustling city Posted: 20 Feb 2022 03:44 PM PST  Within a bustling neighbourhood of New Delhi, India, Anugraha is a place of respite and sanctuary. The compact residence is the home for a family of four and through thoughtful spatial planning has now become the perfect place to live. Envisage was commissioned to reinvent the interior of this 111-square-metre (1200 square feet) apartment and every area has been redesigned to ensure that there is maximum utility. Although the new interior was completed on a tight budget, financial constraint is certainly not apparent, and the result is a splendid example of just what can be achieved when an architecture practice such as Envisage brings its expertise to a design.  The family wished to retain a traditional Indian theme for the interior but this has also been incorporated in a pared-back and no fuss Scandinavian aesthetic with touchpoints of industrial design. With a new open plan kitchen and living area, there is room to move. Sliding, folding shutters can screen the kitchen when required but opening up this area was the starting point of the new concept. The next impactful inclusion was replacing the windows and doors with Poly Vinyl Chloride un-plasticised (uPVC) windows and Mediterranean-style glass-panelled doors that provide ventilation and allow natural light to penetrate the interior.  As the apartment is surrounded by greenery, nature has been a major influence on the design. With a base of neutral tones, there has been the opportunity to feature botanical patterned wallpaper and Indian cotton fabric for depth of colour and to reference the cultural context, while also bringing the outside in. To accentuate and define rooms a honey brown, moulded timber edge has been applied along the skirting and architraves throughout the apartment and this simple yet effective feature frames the walls as if they are artworks.  Another clever design idea has been the creation of a timber rafter ceiling where there is a difference in levels between the interior ceiling that leads to the balcony. This opens up the interior and draws the eye through the space to the landscape beyond. Everywhere there is multiple uses of rooms and furnishings. Seating has been designed as storage in the L-shaped dining nook and main bedroom bench seat and in the kitchen, bold timber panelling conceals yet more cupboard space.  There is also a special multipurpose room that serves as a religious sanctuary but can also transform to a guestroom and multimedia space. As the name of the house is Anugraha (which means 'the divine grace of God' in Sanskrit) this room is integral not only to the design of the apartment but to support the religious beliefs of the family. While the colour palette is subdued, carefully positioned splashes of colour in the floral prints makes this a home that does not take itself too seriously. The furnishings, all sourced locally, are in keeping with the contemporary nature of the interior decoration with mid-century modern style chairs, simple timber occasional tables, an upholstered timber-framed sofa, casual rugs and slimline standard and pendant lighting.  The bedrooms are generous in size and feature timber and metal framed free-standing wardrobes: while in the main bedroom a bench seat under the bay window is just the place to sit and contemplate the views of the neighbourhood below. As a home, Anugraha provides everything a family might require, with an interior that is now spacious with purpose-built amenity. Its compact size does not define it, instead each area complements the other providing flow and visual connectivity. Anugraha is a gem, a perfect reflection of the architect's creativity to become a small oasis in a very large city.   Project details Architecture & interiors – Envisage We think you might like this house inspired by Lutyens in India by Studio Lotus The post A small oasis in the bustling city appeared first on Habitusliving.com. |
| Posted: 20 Feb 2022 03:15 PM PST  Incongruously for a nation of its size with a sophisticated, mature design sector, Australia has never had its own design fair. "Australian designers, the industry and collector community have always had to look to events offshore to present, sell and purchase unique and limited-edition design works imbued with values and features that reflect diverse approaches to design production," explains Simone LeAmon, NGV's Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture.  However, according to LeAmon, this state of affairs is about to change. Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair is ready to fill a key gap that has existed in the Australian design market for decades. An initiative of the National Gallery of Victoria in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, the fair breaks new ground in the presentation, promotion and sale of collectable contemporary design in Australia and will offer audiences a unique cultural experience with all the design works presented available for purchase.  "The fair offers an unrivalled moment to purchase, explore and contemplate the creativity of Australian designers whose functional objects delight, challenge and inspire us to think differently about the rituals of everyday life and the ideas, and the materials and making they employ," says LeAmon. "A unique cultural experience for art collectors, enthusiasts, consultants, interior designers, and specialists across the creative industries – the intention of the fair is to stimulate long-term interest in the purchase of contemporary collectable design in Melbourne and Australia and deliver important economic opportunities for the design sector."  The work on display will be divided into two platforms. The first of these, Present, is an opportunity for galleries, design organisations, agencies and studios – including Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert (Sydney), Sophie Gannon Gallery (Melbourne), JamFactory (Adelaide), Design Tasmania (Tasmania), and more – to mount dedicated displays by the design creatives they represent. While the Select platform, which is curated by LeAmon, brings together the work of more than 35 Australian design creatives – both established and establishing. These include Dale Hardiman, Ashley Eriksmoen, Emery and Poole, Carvolth, Cassie Leatham, Anna Varendorff, Damien Wright, and more. Maree Di Pasquale, chief executive officer of Melbourne Art Foundation, expressed her organisation's delight to be involved in what she called a "national first".  "Melbourne Design Fair marks a significant moment for design in Australia, both for the design community but also for Australia's wider creative identity. Established in response to the increasing demand from collectors to have access to highly collectable contemporary design on Australian shores, the Fair will be a true celebration of design culture and commerce in this country," she says. "Having a design fair has made sense for a long time, and Melbourne is the perfect setting as the design capital of Australia. We are ideally positioned as an industry to deliver what will be a regional first. The Melbourne Art Foundation is thrilled to be part of the inaugural event, a true coming of age for collectable contemporary design."   Melbourne Design Fair runs 16 – 20 March at Warehouse 16, 28 Duke St, Abbotsford. Melbourne Design Week The post A design and art fusion appeared first on Habitusliving.com. |
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