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Treetop Studio

Max Pritchard’s Treetop Studio displays his fine attention to detail and high-level craftsmanship. Leanne Amodeo reports on the Adelaide-based architect’s recently completed small project.

Seaside Plywood Shack

An exercise in restraint, ITN Architects’ Great Ocean Road House demonstrates how applying a light touch to a magnificent setting can produce the finest results.

French Connection

Kelvin Ho from Akin Creative talks to Elana Castle about establishing an exclusive retail presence for French fashion label A.P.C.

Mr & Mrs White

The husband and wife duo making honest, handmade products that hail natural beauty and a love of raw materials.

Scale and Light

Old and new are interwoven in this renovation of Noel Lane’s 1920s Arts and Crafts family home in Auckland. Andrea Stevens discovers a house of great depth and contrast by an architect renowned for his bold and monumental approach.

Peddling Coffee

Močan & Green Grout is more than just a café. It’s also home to a bicycle company, a local art and design scene, and some unlikely owners.

Symbiotic Sustainability

Andrea Stevens visits a holiday home on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand that works as an organic element of the environment it sits within.

Operatic Moments

A design-sensitive client, an extraordinary ocean site and the partnership of Dan Sparks and Gabriel Poole has to be the perfect combination. But for Margie Fraser, the humpback whales added something special.

Rustic Chic at The Shed

A unified approach to interior design transforms a dilapidated building in the Queens Park suburb of Sydney into a quirky café with the echoes of a rural workshop.

Rural Connections

Inspired by a local barn, architect Jeremy Wolveridge has built a new home for himself and his family in rural Victoria. But Mark Scruby discovers that there is more than meets the eye to this apparently simple house.

Origins Objects

A collection of hand-crafted design objects by Lasse Kinnunen.