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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.
Today we head to Brooklyn and meet the pair behind Fredericks and Mae, where Nat completed her second New York internship! Today is also the last day for you to go into the draw to win this week's giveaway from Third Drawer Down, simply leave a comment on any of Nat's posts before 10.00pm tonight. The winner will be drawn at random and announced tomorrow - good luck! - Jenny x
Fredericks and Mae’s studio was super different to Confetti System’s. They work from the basement of their Brooklyn apartment. It is so kooky and has so much character - just like Gabe and Jolie of Fredericks and Mae. They were both amazingly nice and introduced me to turkey, which I hate, but it was a nice try. American people love turkey, it's so weird?!?
I was only in their studio for a short amount of time but I learnt a lot about their little studio and how it came to be. Actually, what I noticed with both Confetti System and Fredericks and Mae is that they came to working on these businesses quite naturally. Making things for friends that others see, or simply making things for themselves and getting a great response so they just kept doing that and look where they are now!
They had sourced Mongolian horse hair for their beautiful tassels and bird feathers from across the globe their unique arrows. All of their work is again made by hand which is a similarity not many studios in New York can claim, I just so happened to be working with two of the best!
- Nat x
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