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From the editor

This special issue celebrates the outcomes of the 2022 Australian Interior Design Awards, a partnership event of Artichoke and the Design Institute of Australia.

This year we received 449 entries, representing an immense variety of scales, budgets and briefs. However, this year’s award winners all share a common goal – a commitment to emotional connection, artisanship and utility, all while being simply sublime. This year’s winning interiors set new benchmarks for the industry and show that Australian interior design is evolving and thriving.

The awarded projects across the eleven categories employ design thinking to solve complex briefs and requirements. While very different in type, each winning project is an exemplar and sets a standard for designers to aspire to. Among them, a university robotics lab that eschews hyper-futuristic design tropes to create a calm, peaceful and warm setting for researchers and robots to coexist. A Melbourne sneaker store that transforms a tiny corner shopfront into a flexible, sustainable retail interior that can cleverly be demounted and re-assembled elsewhere. And the Premier Award for Australian Interior Design recipient, Stable and Cart House by Clare Cousins Architects, a commercial-to-residential conversion that beautifully balances history and present-day. Stable and Cart House is an exemplary piece of work, exuding honesty and restraint, and a worthy addition to the archives of the Australian Interior Design Awards.

I congratulate all the winners, and those commended and shortlisted in this year’s awards. As an industry, let’s appreciate and celebrate this outstanding work.

– Cassie Hansen, Editor, Artichoke

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