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Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
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WELL in case you missed it (incredibly unlikely) today I am just writing one last little post to remind you all that The Design Files Open House is officially open today in Windsor, Melbourne. WOOHOO!
After an epic few months preparing, and a particularly busy week bumping in, we are thrilled to finally throw open the doors today and share this mad adventure with you all! If you're in Melbourne please do pop down and pay us a visit!
BUT if you can't make it, or if you need a little further encouragement, we thought we'd share a little sneak peek today! The lovely snaps here have been captured by Brooke Holm earlier this week, and there are also some gorgeous pics from our opening night event last night by the dashing John Deer! (Thankyou to both Brooke and John for the epic turnaround on these shots!)
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BIG THANKS once again to our Major Event Sponsors - Jardan, Mini and Marimekko. We are so grateful for their support of this project! Also big high-fives to all the amazing local businesses and friends who have supported this crazy venture - especially Cookes Food who cooked up a storm for our opening event last night (they even made giant pavlovas!). Thanks also of course to all the wonderful brands, designers and artists who have filled this home with their beautiful wares and made it such a colourful and inviting space.
A special thanks is in order also to our most excellent team of staff, especially the bump in crew who have worked tirelessly over the last few weeks to pull this thing off! THANKYOU Lisa Marie Corso, Nat Turnbull, Marni Kornhauser, Melissa D'Alessandro, my amazingly talented fella Gordon Johnson, and my wonderful Mum for the epic hours you have all put in this week - GO TEAM!
The Design Files Open House
27 Eastbourne st
Windsor, 3181
Open TODAY 10.00am – 5.00pm
And tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, 10.00am – 5.00pm each day.
ALSO we have a special bedside book signing with Megan Morton on Sunday Dec 2nd, 11.00am - 12.00pm! (Chelsea from Trophy Wife Nail Art will also be on hand that morning creating sweet handpainted nail decals for visitors to the book signing!)
FOUR DAYS ONLY people!
The Design Files acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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Looks absolutely amazing Lucy – and I’m sure I can’t even begin to imagine how much time and effort you’ve put in to this. Congratulations – such a fabulous concept. I only wish I could hop on a plane to visit. xx
Looks FANTASTIC Lucy!! As always, it’s a riot of colour, impeccable styling, and divine design!
Congratulations Lucy and team – it looks fantastic!! It’s times like this I almost want to move from Newcastle to Melbourne :)
Looks AMAZING Lucy! Well done to you and your team. I SO want to be there. Damn not living in Melbourne! I’m sending my mother-in-law for a squiz however. Good luck, I’m sure it’s going to be a huge few days.
Looks amazing Lucy & Team!!! I cant wait to see the delicious array of colour bursts I might get tempted by! x
yippee!! i’m coming down on sunday!!!! can’t wait, see you then x
I’m sorry I can’t be there to see it in the flesh, to soak it all up. I am impressed by the photos though. Congrats on a splendid job! Amazing array of Color and Design.
Congratulations Lucy & talented team! The Georgeous Team will be there with bells on tomorrow and cannot wait! x
Oh how I wish I could be there. There is so much design talent!
Heading to Windsor tomorrow, looks amazing.
Congratulations.
My ultimate shopping experience!
hooray! advertising…woohoo!
Looks great! I wish I lived in Melbourne : (
jaw-dropping amazing stuff guys! well done!
You are a rockstar Lucy. It looks absolutely amazing and I want everything that I’ve seen in the photos Well done to you and the team of people that made it all happen. I’ll definitely try and make it down there.
Gorgeous! I want to move in. I only wish I didn’t live so far away and could pop in to see all your amazing work first hand.
The open house looks fabulous to say the very least! I just have to now where you found the herb/plant stand shown in the second image?
Thank you for sharing all that is wonderful and inspirational about Australian Design – it makes for a fabulous start to each day!
Sooo amazing – I just had a very lovely visit to this colourful wonderland and it was SO lovely to (very quickly) finally meet you and Lisa too! :)
Congratulations!!
Gorgeous! So wish I could visit in person. Congratulations!!
Congratulations from cold Germany!!! What a pitty I live so far away…
Keep up the great work!
Well done. It all looks amazing. I wish I was in Melbourne so I could visit.
Totally totally amazng and I’m so sad I’m not there to visit. Inspiring!
drool, drool – wish I was there.
Hey its not in these photos but where is the yellow & brown rug from? Gorgeous!!
It was pictured on the Arent&Pyke FB with a blue chair?
This is soooooo gooood! The BEST.
It all looks fantastic Lucy! Wish I could fly down from Singapore to see it! Rima x
Amazing!! Can you post a full list of suppliers?
Congratulations to Lucy and your hard-working team: what an inspiring feast for the eyes, and a wonderful celebration of local talent. Our visit to the Open House made me feel proud to live amongst such an abundantly creative community. Thank you, and a monumental effort!
Congratulations! This was fantastic.
Amazing work! You talents never fail to impress!
Hi. Can you please advise where I can find the pot plant stands. Thanks so much.
It’s so amazing ! Congratulations ! All this job done was worth it ! The video is great as well !
Oh i wish i could have been there – all looks amazing! A hell of a job but looks worth it! Congratulations from Barcelona!
So gorgeous….when are you coming to sydney….??