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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
I have blogged Modernist Australia before.... theirs is a TRULY fabulous blog dedicated to Australian Modernist homes… they also post a brilliant nation-wide Modernist real-estate round-up, highlighting some of the most beautiful untouched Mid-Century Australian homes on the market! Never has an orange tiled kitchen or speckled beige Nanna carpet looked so appealing!
Aside from sourcing the very best Modernist Home eye candy, I just can't get enough of Patricia and Peter's hysterical commentary in response to inappropriate suburban residential development! This passionate pair are keen to raise the profile of mid-century architecture in Australia, and vehemently (albeit entertainingly!) oppose the bulldozing and obsessive re-configuring of well-designed sustainable mid-century homes, to make way for 'overbearing statements of Faux-Georgian or Nu-Victoriana'! Let 'em have it guys!
This week Modernist Australia joins the Guest Blog for a week of Modernist design appreciation. They're kicking things off today with a beginner's guide to identifying an MCM (Mid-Century Modern) masterpiece!
WOW it is looking SO fabulous I am already feeling very guilty about the generic white tiles in my bathroom...! Shhh. :)
Huge thanks as always to Jenny B for all her hard work on this week's guest blog!
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