Artichoke, March 2023
ArtichokeEnjoy Australia’s most respected coverage of interior architecture, design, objects, people and products.
Profile
Emerging profile: Second Edition
What started as a research project for Amy Seo and Shahar Cohen, founders of Second Edition, has turned into an ongoing investigation into how buildings and objects can be more resource efficient.
‘Style meets joy’: Yeend Studio
Thomas Yeend, founder of Yeend Studio, creates hand-crafted object, lighting and furniture designs from his Adelaide studio.
Design as a ‘love language’: Marlo Lyda
For Marlo Lyda, a youth spent between inner-city Sydney and the Central Tablelands lead to work inspired by nature, but created using industrial methods and materials.
Poetics of everyday: Knight Wilson
The founders of Gold Coast- and Melbourne-based Knight Wilson believe that architecture need not be original or on trend, but instead dictated by the everyday lives of its occupants.
Design facilitator: Sandra Githinji
This Kenyan-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary designer interrogates the interdependence between design and people to facilitate more equitable environments.
Transforming space and dreaming new realities: Meagan Streader
By employing light in her sculptural installations, Meagan Streader plays with perception through intersecting forms and glowing hues.
Plucked from nature: The designs of Samantha Dennis
Based in Tasmania, Samantha Dennis explores the visceral through highly realistic insect jewellery.
From pan flipping to wheel throwing: Claire Ellis
Passionate about sustainable ceramics, Canadian-born artist, designer and ex-chef Claire Ellis uses the waste of ceramic studios and restaurants to create her work and zero-waste glazes.
Projects
Africola Canteen by Claire Markwick-Smith
In her first interiors project since starting her solo practice, emerging designer Claire Markwick-Smith has created a new eatery and retail interior exuding familiarity and domestic warmth for well-loved Adelaide institution Africola.
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An introduction to the March 2023 issue
The Disco by J.AR Office
In Brisbane, emerging studio J.AR Office has created a hair salon where stainless steel joinery, cool lighting and polished concrete evoke the spatial qualities of a slick nightclub experience.
Bronte Studio by Saha
Designed by emerging studio Saha, this ceramics workshop in Sydney’s Bronte disappears under a green roof of foliage, while robust materials, such as brick and concrete, reflect the creative nature of pottery making.
Above the Clouds by Pattern
This Surry Hills fashion store, designed by young practice Pattern Studio, is a celebration of dualities – exuberant yet sophisticated, polished yet relaxed, hyper-industrial yet playful.