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Homes

Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.

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Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.

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Art

Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.

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Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.

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Street Artist Rone's First Book Is Released!

Read all about it – a new book chronicles the prolific Melbourne artist’s two decades on the Australian art scene.
Sasha Gattermayr

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A New Handmade Homewares Brand Launches With A Knock-Out First Collection!

Ancient artefacts and modernist interiors have inspired this experience local textile designer’s first homewares collection.
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An Architecture-Inspired Furniture Exhibition Opens This Week In Canberra

Two designers launch a collection of conceptual furniture inspired by the stylistic patterns of Japanese streetscapes!
Sasha Gattermayr

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Local Creatives Redesign Fink & Co.’s Iconic Jug For A Good Cause

The regional design company will auction the bespoke pieces to raise money for Headspace and creative communities.
Sasha Gattermayr

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Heide Museum Of Modern Art Re-Opens With Five New Exhibitions

One of Victoria’s most beloved galleries opens its doors again!
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A New Design Bookshop Opens In Collingwood!

Bookshop by Uro sets up shop in Collingwood Yards with a focus on Australian architecture and design titles, and a fitout by Architecture Ar...
Sasha Gattermayr

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A 'Revolving' Exhibition Of Indigenous Art In Melbourne

‘Connecting with Community’ at Chapman & Bailey supports remote arts centres from around Australia who have lost income in t...
Sasha Gattermayr

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TDF's Family Columnist Releases Her First Book!

Today our brilliant family columnist Ashe Davenport released her memoir about motherhood, and it’s every bit as sad, joyous and hilari...
Sally Tabart

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Artist Vincent Namatjira Receives An Order of Australia

Celebrated South Australian artist Vincent Namatjira receives an OAM in the Queens Birthday 2020 honours list.
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A Photographer’s Rustic Country Home (With Its Own Private Bar!)

The charming Macedon Ranges home of photographer Marnie Hawson, and her husband Ryan.
Lucy Feagins

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An Architecture-Inspired Furniture Exhibition Opens This Week In Canberra

Two designers launch a collection of conceptual furniture inspired by the stylistic patterns of Japanese streetscapes!
Sasha Gattermayr

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A Modernist-Inspired Getaway On The Mornington Peninsula

This architecturally-designed getaway nestled in the sand dunes behind St Andrews beach is your next holiday destination!
Sasha Gattermayr

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Designer, Businesswoman and Mother Fatuma Ndenzako Weaves Dual Cultures Into Something Beautiful

We chat to one half of the sister-duo behind Collective Closets about motherhood, her thriving fashion label, and growing up African in Alto...
Ashe Davenport

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A Charming Victorian Cottage, Turned Contemporary Family Home (With Two Rooftop Terraces!)

A sleek renovation in one of Melbourne’s most coveted inner city locales revives this heritage home - and it's on the market!
Sasha Gattermayr

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A Cascading, Compact Garden That Envelopes This Sydney Home

Greenery spills in from every angle in this suburban garden designed by Bell Landscapes!
Sasha Gattermayr

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A New Handmade Homewares Brand Launches With A Knock-Out First Collection!

Ancient artefacts and modernist interiors have inspired this experience local textile designer’s first homewares collection.
Sasha Gattermayr

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A Dazzling (Yet Inviting!) Family Home

Brutalist inspired architecture meets contemporary Australian style, in this WOW-factor Melbourne home by Kennon Architects.
Amelia Barnes

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Terrazzo Queen Tantri Mustika's New Shop + Studio!

The big-dreaming Melbourne ceramicist has just opened the doors to her new retail store in Collingwood Yards, Melbourne!
Sally Tabart

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Street Artist Rone's First Book Is Released!

Read all about it – a new book chronicles the prolific Melbourne artist’s two decades on the Australian art scene.
Sasha Gattermayr

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A Monumental New Headquarters For Fashion Trailblazers Incu

Take a tour of Incu's dreamy new headquarters in Sydney, incorporating retail store and head office, designed by Akin Atelier.
Sasha Gattermayr

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July Is Bringing The Sights Of Overseas Travel Into Your Home!

The Melbourne-based luggage company have teamed up with five Australian photographers to offer high-quality travel prints – framed and de...
Sally Tabart

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Ornate, Oozing Ceramics By Ebony Russell

A Sydney artist exploring the space between decorative art and feminine power.
Sasha Gattermayr

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A Legendary Local Design Writer’s Renovated 1930s Home

Two art deco apartments in South Yarra owned by reverred Melbourne writer Stephen Crafti have been transformed into one unified home, by Rob...
Amelia Barnes

A Day In The Life

A Day In The Life Of Artist, Designer And Small Businesswoman, Rachel Castle

The bubbly, effervescent design icon takes us through a day in her heavenly Marrickville studio - plus how she built her business from the g...
Sasha Gattermayr
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