Artichoke

Artichoke, Australia’s most respected interior architecture and design magazine, presents inspiring examples of design excellence and engaging discussion of design issues to industry professionals and a broader audience of design-savvy consumers. It reviews significant new projects, profiles designers, showcases new products and explores creative design collaborations. It is the national magazine of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

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The Edit • A round-up of the latest and greatest furniture, lighting and objects.

Prince Public Bar • The Prince is dead; long live the Prince. IF Architecture demonstrates a deft understanding of an iconic Melbourne venue in this new chapter for St Kilda’s Prince Hotel.

The Signal Box Pavilion • In Newcastle, Derive Architecture and Design has reworked a railway building and transformed it into a spatially and historically important restaurant.

Warders Hotel & Emily Taylor • Matthew Crawford Architects has re-imagined a historic row of cottages with significant cultural heritage as a boutique hotel and restaurant–bar.

The Edit • A round-up of finishing touches for interiors, including paints, textiles, tiles, surfaces and more.

Smart Design Studio • The new office of Smart Design Studio, in an industrial heritage conservation precinct in Sydney, is a sustainable, sculptural building purpose-built for the studio’s ambitions and practice.

Hattie Molloy • Melbourne-based floral artist Hattie Molloy mixes playfulness and elegance, art and design to create floral installations, sculptures and displays that surprise and delight.

In Brief • A collection of the latest interiors recently completed by Australian designers, from a moving image museum in Melbourne to a ramen bar in Sydney.

Grown Alchemist • In its design for a flagship skincare store behind a dilapidated terrace house in Melbourne’s Carlton, Herbert & Mason in collaboration with Grown Alchemist contrasts the pristine with the industrial to enhance both qualities.

Fox Fit • An energized female fitness facility in inner Melbourne by Mim Design merges brand and experience to create a vibrant space that punches well above its weight, inspiring a better way of living.

Joey Scandizzo Salon • In a nineteenth-century Italianate building in Melbourne, architecture studio Kennon has redesigned a recognized hair salon into the perfect backdrop for “me time.”

Light Years Skin Studio • Sculptural formations of joinery and a trio of individual treatment pods within shrouds of sheer curtaining distinguish the unique interior of Light Years Skin Studio on Queensland’s Gold Coast, designed by Maher Design.

Melbourne Design Week 2021 • Themed “Design the world you want,” the program for Melbourne Design Week presented more than 300 events over the 11-day festival.

In Brief • A collection of the latest interiors recently completed by Australian designers, from a health club in Melbourne to an early learning centre in Canberra.

Taking stock • The COVID-19 pandemic turned retail strips and high streets into ghost towns. How has Australian retail adapted to the pandemic and what’s in store in the future?