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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.
After seeing her stunning work last Friday, we are super lucky to have Anna-Wili Highfield with us all this week on the Guest Blog! We're also very lucky to see something a little different from Anna-Wili - the crafty papery antics she gets up to with her daughter Matilda! This week she'll share some truly unique creations made with and for her little one - possibly the luckiest 4 yr old in Sydney? - Lucy x
My name is Anna-Wili Highfield. In the adult world I make sculptures of animals, mainly birds, from paper.
For my Design Files guest spot this week, my daughter and I are going to don our makers hats to show you some crafty fun we have had at home. These will be craft pieces I’ve come up with myself, and I will show you how you can make them with a small friend of your own.
Today, I will show you some little gifts I’ve made for her in the past. Some are a bit too elaborate to make together with a child. But I thought I’d show you.
This is the first paper piece I made. It was for my daughter. My methods have evolved, but a taste for the material began here. She wants an eagle now.
I make seasonal murals with the kids at Matilda’s kindy. I cut shapes and choose the elements in advance and then they help me to paint it and put the pieces together.
Some hand made apparel. The hat was for her to wear to our wedding. She gets it out regularly, in case a wedding comes up soon. It’s ‘the wedding hat’.
Pop back tomorrow for some very special butterfly wings!
- A.W
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