Filed under: Australian Design, Events, Homewares, jewellery | Tags: Angus & Celeste, Bride & Wolfe, Kindergallery, Magnolia Square, Meredith Gaston, Sydney Design Markets, Typekey
The Magnolia Square markets are in full swing in Sydney at the moment, the last day is tomorrow (4th July). This is their first time in Sydney and they have a very impressive line-up of design, craft, homewares, food and children products. Check out their magnolia square blog for more details, they also have another blog, little snippets, dedicated entirely to children’s products. Below are some of the exhibitors we’re excited about.
(above) Cufflinks from Typekey
(above) Bride & Wolfe Owl walnut cut-out
(above) Bone China Brooch by Angus & Celeste from the Birds and Buttons series
(above) Meet Ms Swan Illustration by Meredith Gaston for Kindergallery
Filed under: Chairs, Furniture | Tags: Chair Shaped Tree, Live Chair, Pooktre, Tree Shaped Chair
This chair takes the idea of sustainability and the tradition of bentwood chairs to a whole new level – it’s growing out of the ground and has been ’shaped’ into a chair. It’s been created by an artist that calls himself Pook and it’s pretty kooky stuff, see their website for more. We’d like to see a classic interpreted please… perhaps the Eames Wire Frame with Eiffel base?
Filed under: Australian Design, Environment, LivingOn Lifestyle | Tags: green fruit and vegie bags, onya weigh bags, reusable produce bag
Contributed by Mary Holmes
We’re all getting very good at remembering to take our ‘green’ bags to the supermarket (see our favourites here if you missed them), but what about all the little plastic bags used for fruit and veg? The Onya weigh bag is an Australian product designed for this very purpose. It weighs next to nothing, is see-through for ease at the checkout and your fresh produce can be washed and stored in the bag – makes good sense to us.
Filed under: Australian Design, Furniture, LivingOn Lifestyle, Photography, Sustainable design | Tags: Adrian Lander, Living Edge Ads, LivingOn, Republic of Everyone
Have you seen our new ads that have started appearing in magazines recently? Basically we took a selection of our furniture and created two futuristic landscapes. Look closely to see if you can pick out the pieces… here’s a clue – there’s some Eames, Frank Gehry, George Nelson, Jon Goulder, Norman + Quaine and Charles Wilson in the mix. The ads are part of LivingOn – our commitment to sustainability and the environment. The concept and art direction was done by the Republic of Everyone and they were photographed by Adrian Lander. We’re really proud of how they tuned out, what do you think?
Filed under: Australian Design, Events | Tags: bernabeifreeman, Indesign Luminaries
Check out the great shots of the Indesign Luminary party for bernabeifreeman held at our Surry Hills studio last week (a few below, see indesignlive for more). It was a great night and we were very proud to see Rina and Kelly acknowledged for their contribution to the Australian design industry.
(above and below) Rina and Kelly being presented with their certificate by the lovely Paul McGillick, Indesign’s Editorial Director
(above) Living Edge’rs Stephen, Belinda and Darren
(above) The crowd
(above) The feature in Indesign, no. 37
Filed under: Art, Exhibitions | Tags: Estuary Exhibition Australian Galleries, Jade Oakely Exhibition, Jade Oakley, Wire Mobile
Some time ago we featured the mobile Jade Oakley created for our Alexandria showroom, inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames (see post here). Jade has recently got her new website up and running, so you can now view more of her stunning portfolio online. She also has a solo exhibition Estuary currently showing at the Australian Galleries in Sydney until July 11th. Below are two of the pieces featured in the exhibition.
(above) Estuary V by Jade Oakely, photograph by Anthony Pearse
(above) Driftwood II (detail) by Jade Oakely, photograph by Anthony Pearse
Filed under: Art, Australian Design, Graphic design | Tags: australian graphic design, me and amber graphic design, screenprinted artwork
I am known to seek out a Me and Amber card for special occasions, so was very excited to recently discover they also create a range of limited edition artworks, screen-printed directly onto the pages of old books. As with all of this duos charming work, the hardest bit is choosing…
Filed under: Children, Exhibitions, LivingOn Lifestyle | Tags: Cardboard cubby house, Javier Mariscal, Magis, Villa Julia Cubby House
If the cold is keeping you inside with the kids you might appreciate this little gem – the Villa Julia cubby house launched by Magis at Milan design week. Play is divided into five stages; assembly, personalisation (by colouring the outside), decoration (for the budding interior designer), occupation and disassembly. Best of all unlike all the plastic versions around, this one can be neatly folded and recycled at the end of it’s lifetime. No mention of where to buy it yet, but we’ll keep you posted.
(above) Villa Julia (pre-personalisation!) designed by Javier Mariscal for Magis
Filed under: Events | Tags: DIA Milan night, Living Edge, Milan Furniture Fair
Here are a couple of photos from the Milan Report hosted by the DIA at our Surry Hills studio last week. The evenings discussion was chaired by Anne-Maree Sargeant, with panelists Adam Goodrum, Rina Bernabei, Shareen Joel and Megan Morton discussing the latest innovations, trends and new releases from the fair. It was a great night enjoyed by all who attended.
(above) Rina Bernabei, Anne-Maree Sargeant and Kelly Freeman
(above & below) The showroom made a cosy setting for a cold winters night
Filed under: Australian Design, Environment, Events, LivingOn Lifestyle, Sustainable design | Tags: Green Marketing, Green Marketing Forum, Sustainable businesses
The second annual Green Marketing Forum is on in Sydney the 30th June and Melbourne 01st July. It takes the form of a conference and workshop which explores strategies for successfully marketing green products and services, profiling current campaigns by a range of leading companies. We’re proud to be one of the businesses being profiled, keeping company with the likes of IBM and The Body Shop. It looks to be a very worthwhile event, to read more about it and book tickets see the website.
