Tabla de contenidos para Issue 85 December 2023 en Artichoke

Issue 85 December 2023 – March 2024 There's no question Australia and New Zealand's hospitality scene is world-class, if not world-leading. Our restaurateurs, chefs and designers continue to push the envelope thanks in large part to the nations’ ethnic diversity, incredible produce and innovative attitude to menu and spatial design. It was an absolute treat to join my fellow jurors for two days of Eat Drink Design Awards judging in August to debate (and celebrate) the freshest food and drink offerings. In my view, the hospitality industry can be one of the most potent platforms for cultural representation and evolution through co-creation between the service industry, designers and patrons. The venues in this awards program succeed because of this creative meeting of minds, and because they're dedicated to excellent service,…

Eat Drink Design Awards Hall of Fame Inductee Hall of Fame Designer Tzannes Location Woollahra, New South Wales Hall of Fame reflection by the jury — It's 1992. Damien Pignolet, the chef behind three-hatted Claude's, knows a thing or two about fine dining. When Pignolet's good friend Ron White (of Milton Park Country House) asks what the chef dreams of next, Pignolet promptly answers: to open a French bistro serving simple, traditional food. This was a radical idea in early-90s Sydney, where inauthentic French haute cuisine reigned. Nevertheless, Pignolet and White acquired the run-down Woollahra Hotel a few weeks later; Pignolet sketched the menu and invited his friend Alec Tzannes to redesign the interior, including the front room that would become Bistro Moncur. Tzannes – now an industry leader, a Member…

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) recently hosted the Define Design Forum. Hosted by Dr Laura Kostanski, senior social architect for the CSIRO and DIA member, the event was a fantastic example of the design community coming together across disciplines to shape policy and advocate for their professions. The forum, which sought to hear directly from members and others in the design sector about working as a designer in 2023, included a diverse group of designers working as sole practitioners, as members of corporate teams and in higher education. It kicked off with a panel discussion on the relevance of official occupation categories with Dr AJ Lanyon from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), designer Simon Goodrich and the DIA Continuing Custodians Advisor Nicole Monks, followed by breakout sessions focusing…

Up There store by Kennedy Nolan As part of a major refresh of the Up There menswear brand, Kennedy Nolan was asked to design a new flagship store on Flinders Lane in Melbourne. The brand refresh provided inspiration for a vibrant palette, including Up There's signature green applied as a grassy, carpeted foundation that defies the gloomy subterranean site at the base of the Herald and Weekly Times building. The brief called for the deeplyset plan to be theatrical and abstract. The emphasized threshold prepares the customer to enter a new world of identitymaking through fashion. Retail displays are organized in themes and designed to accommodate events. Customers are given ample places to hang out and mull over purchases, plus an in-house cafe. Elements were devised in close collaboration with…

Winner Best Retail Design Jury comment — The Le Tao Australia flagship store in Melbourne radiates the soul of Japanese design. The space is defined by the seamless integration of Japanese minimalism, geometry and raw materials, and the result balances theatre and utility. The design narrative elevates Le Tao's desserts into objects showcased like precious jewels throughout. Strategic lighting adds drama, orchestrating a luxurious experience that resonates with the brand story. The store's narrow layout cleverly employs simple geometry to amplify space, while a monotone palette and carefully selected materials are counterpoints to the pastel-toned products. A hallmark of innovation emerges in the singular, multifunctional bench. It unifies diverse elements, enhancing staff efficiency and customer engagement – and acting as a beacon to draw patrons within. LeTao demonstrates that profound…

Across six categories, 65 projects were shortlisted in this year's awards, a testament to the exceptional hospitality design found across Australia. Visit eat-drink-design.com/gallery to see more images of all of the shortlisted projects. Best Restaurant Design Best Bar Design Best Retail Design Best Cafe Design Best Identity Design Best Hotel Design…

Multidisciplinary Profile Annie Paxton Multidisciplinary designer Annie Paxton works in an architecture office by day, and she designs and makes her own furniture and lighting by night. While the two pursuits occur in separate spheres of her life, one creative practice draws from the other. “Residing in the liminal” is how the Melbourne-based designer characterizes her work, through which she investigates thresholds – material, spatial, physical – and tensions: between sculptural and functional, fragile and robust, process and outcome. Paxton has always been a creative thinker who has enjoyed making things by hand. She studied architecture and began her master's degree at the University of Western Australia before transferring to the University of Melbourne for her final year. She has since been a graduate of architecture at Kennedy Nolan, where she…

Multidisciplinary Profile Don Cameron To create his multifaceted oeuvre, artist and designer Don Cameron turns to pure forms that require discipline to achieve. Brutalist structures captured in black and white photography hint at the emotive power of history, while mirrored aesthetics in sculptural furniture represent memory and architecture through balance and symmetry. Graduating from Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London, Cameron launched his career in music video direction, with highlights such as shooting Simply Red's “Sunrise” in Oscar Niemeyer's Casa das Canoas in Rio. After moving back to Australia, he turned to interiors for high-profile projects like the Kidman/Urban Sydney penthouse, before blending collective inspirations into furniture and art. Today, showing with Sydney gallerist Sally Dan-Cuthbert, he has found an avenue to evolve these professions and varied…

Peter Davies is a writer and editor based in Melbourne. He has an enduring interest in language, culture, art and architecture, and has worked on publishing projects in design, education and the legal sector. Studio Edwards / alt.material (page 108) Emma-Kate Wilson is a regional New South Wales-based contemporary art and design writer originally from the UK. She examines art, interior design and architecture with a focus on sustainability, both environmentally and culturally. Don Cameron (page 97) Peter Bennetts is a Melbourne-based, global-roaming architectural photographer whose work appears in internationally acclaimed publications. He tempers his time at the vanguard of architecture and design with environmental concerns. Eat Drink Design Awards Hall of Fame (page 66) and Studio Edwards / alt.material (page 108) Dale Hardiman is a Melbourne-based designer. The co-founder…

Joint Winner Best Restaurant Design Designer Fiona Lynch Office Location Sydney, New South Wales Jury comment — Kiln takes hotel dining to new heights, literally. Perched atop the Ace Hotel in the heart of downtown Sydney, its design plugs into current conversations about sustainability, collaboration and community. Collaborations with local artisans, including Henry Wilson and Spacecraft Studio, honour the site's history – it hosted Australia's oldest known ceramic kilns during the 1820s. For Kiln, pigments were mixed out of waste materials recovered from the site. Despite Ace's global presence, the restaurant's palette of dusky pinks, greens and blues are of the Australian landscape. Locally sourced materials echo this, from leather tabletops to stone floors and raw timber furniture. The space is original and playful, its manylayered interiors inviting discovery. Further,…

Winner Best Cafe Design Designer Studio Shand Location Bondi Beach, New South Wales Jury comment — This little gem is a brave circuit breaker; it's not your average pit-stop cafe-sandwich bar. A beautifully crafted bespoke space that aesthetically delivers in spades, it manages to weave together urban chic and Bondi's laid-back, fashionable culture. The crew at Studio Shand embraced the challenge of ensuring S'wich's unique cafe concept would transition with ease from day to night and lead with a strong brand identity. The design embodies every aspect you need in a local cafe – the idea of bringing warmth and comfort to the local community is very much in evidence. Located in a classic Art Deco building, the cafe was designed to nod to its Bondi heritage. The small space…

Winner Best Hotel Design Designer Bar Studio Location Sydney, New South Wales Jury comment — The jury members were all impressed by this example of adaptive reuse. What used to be a government building has been painstakingly restored such that the original property, once inaccessible to most people, has been given new life and opened up to the public. The design seamlessly blends old and new in an approach that honours the hotel's civic history. This refurbishment has the same sense of permanence and timelessness as the original Edwardian structure, and it nods to the charm and robustness of the building. New insertions are solid and unembellished, implementing authentic materials and creating a variety of hospitality spaces. This hotel finely balances restraint and reuse. In an industry known for a…

Terzofoco countertop basin by Oliveri Oliveri's new line of Terzofoco basins are handmade in Umbria, Italy, in a lush region celebrated for its decorative enamel earthenware products. The tactile and hard-wearing Terzofoco collection is derived from three types of clay, including durable Raku (pictured here), which imparts a unique crackled effect. The basins are available in a variety of clay types and coloured enamel surfaces – all made by Italian artisans and exclusively brought to Australia by Oliveri. Oliver! — oliveri.com.au 590H mixer by Vola Vola's original 1960s tapware by Arne Jacobsen was based on the brand's founding vision to create a new type of concealed, wall-mounted tap where only the handles and spout were exposed. Since then, Vola's modular design system has allowed for adaptable tapware products to be…

Multidisciplinary Profile Caon Design Office / Laker Caon Design Office is not your ordinary multidisciplinary design practice. Yes, its work spans from interiors to furniture to object design, which covers crockery and resin-cast bottles of Negroni, but what is most interesting about this studio is its associations and its ability to expand and contract. While Caon Design Office exists as its own entity, founder and director David Caon spreads his wings over various business ventures, creating a unique design ecosystem. The practice's Chippendalebased Sydney studio houses a dedicated industrial design business, Laker, and an upcoming brand identity business, Actuel. It's a creative nerve centre that's powered off a highly collaborative work ethic. David Caon co-runs Laker with designer Henry Wilson. Evolving from casual conversations between Caon and Wilson, Laker was developed…

Multidisciplinary Profile Olivia Bossy If you've seen Olivia Bossy's work before, you most likely haven't forgotten it. There's something – not only within the design itself, but also in its presentation through styling and photography – that is at once familiar and unique. Scrolling through Bossy's website or social media, you won't find lengthy descriptions of each work, but you will see an object or interior that has a strong narrative in its physical presence, and a precision and intelligence that doesn't need to be defined with words. While Bossy's multidisciplinary work seems to come from a creative practitioner with decades of experience, it was only five years ago that she made the transition from graphic design and completed her first interior project. Titled Freshwater, the 51-square-meter space was “an exercise…