Artichoke, March 2010
ArtichokeEnjoy Australia’s most respected coverage of interior architecture, design, objects, people and products.
Library
Art and Architecture
The only meeting of art and architecture needn’t be an abstract sculpture in a building forecourt or a polite artwork on a boardroom wall.
Features
Victor Churchill
Dreamtime Australia Design crafts a serious and visceral essay in butchery as high art in Sydney.
Leo Burnett
Hassell designs a creative space for a creative agency and curates the mess.
Design for eating
Eating out is often an indulgent pleasure that deserves a correspondingly lavish setting.
Restaurant identity
They all have tables, chairs, attentive wait staff and great food – so what makes a destination restaurant stand out from its neighbours?
Seeing your food: lighting
Essential ingredients in a good lighting scheme to get a tasty outcome.
The sound of dining: acoustics
Acoustic advice can make a major contribution to the ambience of a bar or restaurant.
Designing big: the public face of private dining
How diners engage with the dynamics of a large restaurant space.
Designing small: dining for one
Eating out alone is now commonplace and can be a pleasurable experience.
Outpost
Hecker Phelan & Guthrie’s Outpost serves as a kind of self-contained settlement.
Sideplate
A tiny restaurant in suburban Sydney by Tribe Studio.
Detour
A tiny cafe in Darlinghurst by Rory the Architect.
Soban
A Korean restaurant designed by Studio MKZ.
The Penny Royal
The Penny Royal reflects a lasting interest in the small cafe as an extension of the house. And like the private spaces we inhabit, it …
Lord of the fries
A space-age future meets urban industry in this loudly branded vegetarian fast-food franchise.
Pizza Farro
A pizzeria in Melbourne’s inner north looks to the recent past to create future nostalgia.
Bond Street Cafe and Wine Bar
Chris Connell focuses on space and form with a black-on-black approach for this Melbourne cafe.
Charcoal Lane
Mission Australia’s training restaurant finds optimism in the history of its location.
More articles
Center for Cosmic Wonder
A first-hand account of the photosynthesis of art, fashion and retail.
MMG
First impressions count in Carr Design’s new workplace for Minerals and Metals Group.
Easton Pearson
The Gallery of Modern Art finds that the true centre of its latest exhibition is behind the scenes.
St Mark’s Church
Final pictures of a postwar building.