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There are moments in publishing that remind us why we do what we do and the VL 50 AWARDS at Sydney Town Hall was undoubtedly one of them. It was an extraordinary evening, bringing together the very best of Australia’s DESIGN COMMUNITY under one roof. My sincere thanks to our partners: Mobilia, Georg Jensen, Travel Associates, Range Rover and Jo Malone London who helped bring the NIGHT to life. Their support goes far beyond the event itself; they share our commitment to championing Australian design talent and creativity, and it is this alignment of vision that continues to propel Vogue Living forward. You can discover all of this year’s WINNERS, captured so beautifully, on page 48. This issue is a celebration of heritage and innovation of craft, MATERIALITY and the…

From feeling and form to function, art, sculpture and design are so often confined to separate realms. Each is distinct, yes — but something quietly extraordinary happens when their boundaries begin to blur, and they are allowed to enter into a dialogue with one another. For Mobilia founder, Salvatore Fazzari, it is precisely this convergence that he sought to explore more deeply through the creation of his new space, Gallery Twenty Twenty. “The intersection between art, design and sculpture is where some of the most compelling contemporary work is emerging,” he tells Vogue Living. “When these disciplines overlap, they challenge traditional definitions of function and form, allowing objects to exist both as usable pieces and as cultural artefacts.” Fazzari argues that historically, works that exist somewhere in between these categories…

Design is at the heart of what we do,” states Fisher & Paykel CEO Daniel Witten-Hannah, as he explains how a once family-owned company hailing from New Zealand has managed to stay at the top of the appliance game for more than 90 years. Launching in 1934, the company’s remarkable journey has seen it transform into a stalwart of the industry: reliable, ever-present and perenially trustworthy. While new faces have flashed and faded, Fisher & Paykel has consistently remained an outlier of the highest order, boasting heritage and instant brand recognition that quite frankly belies the grit and determination needed to stay relevant for this many decades. “We’ve gone from an organisation involved in a lot of different industries and categories,” notes Witten-Hannah of the brand’s quiet evolution from local…

For more than half a century, Mary Featherston AM has operated quietly at the vanguard of Australian design, guided by an unwavering conviction that the built environment must elevate the human spirit. In May, as part of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Design Week (May 14–24), Featherston will reflect on her career in a keynote conversation with architect and broadcaster Anthony Burke. ‘A Life In Design’ is a rare opportunity to hear from the 83-year-old practitioner whose research-driven approach has shaped everything from this country’s most progressive learning environments to its most publicised living rooms — propped with the atomic-age aestheticism she produced with her late husband, Grant Featherston. Establishing Featherston Design in 1965, their era of experimental industrial design dared to invest problem-solving with playfulness. Making good design…

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Natasha Oakley and Theo Chambers never intended to purchase such a large, grandiose home. When they began looking three years ago, they imagined something small, humble, perhaps with water views. But when the competitive and unwieldly Sydney real estate market offered up this Eastern Suburbs gem, it proved too tempting. “Theo and I had been looking for our forever home, and to be honest, I didn’t think it would be on this scale,” confesses Oakley, the entrepreneur and Monday swimwear mogul married to Chambers, founder and CEO of Shore Financial. “But it was obvious how unique this property was: the aspect, the way you drive in and how it looks over so much greenery. It’s very different — which is quite rare for Sydney.” Luck was certainly on the Australian…

Athena Calderone gets excited about parchment. She’s big on silver leaf and crazy for etched glass; niches are ongoing fixations and figured stone is always a yes. In her last kitchen, she worked at a massive, nearly seven-footsquare island of Calacatta Paonazzo marble — ravishing, until she set her sights on something better. Now she has a monolith of dusky red Kinnekulle limestone to keep her company in the kitchen. “I never thought I would get into hardware design,” she says, glancing from her new countertop over to the burnished-nickel pulls on the double doors leading into her new living room. “But with that and everything else, I just felt like I was going to take this moment to expand myself in ways I’d never dreamed of.” That’s saying something,…

Like popping out for butter and leaving with half the store or going shopping for shoes and returning with outfits for every upcoming event, ‘scope creep’ is a playful way of describing a very real phenomenon. When it comes to interior architecture and design, it literally has no bounds, as Romaine Alwill, founder and director of Atelier Alwill, discovered when she started this project in Queensland. “The brief was just a kitchen reno, with a few little tweaks,” she recalls. “Four-and-a-half years later, we were still going and everything had been stripped bare — all the way down to the original bones of the house.” Holding court on the end of a peninsula, on a river mouth between still and rough waters, the five-bedroom house hadn’t been updated for nearly…

In this moment of geopolitical darkness, it’s easy to load lighting design with metaphor. But for Gabriel Hendifar, CEO and artistic director of Apparatus, the New York-based, international studio crafting resonant furnishings and fixtures with radiant energies, illumination has always been the transcendental “bridge between what is and what’s coming”. “I am more aware of it than I have ever been,” he says of the compulsion to create objects of light; an urge presumed powered by his deep steep in Persian symbolism (Hendifar’s parents fled Tehran for America during the Iranian Revolution of 1979) and predestined by a clairvoyant’s divination that he was a lamplighter in a past life. “Part of this moment in my life is about stepping into the centre of the story that is Gabriel Hendifar —…