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17/08/2026
IDEA AWARDS
GENESIS has been shortlisted for the 2026 IDEA Awards in the Event category.
Staged for Melbourne Art Fair's inaugural FUTUREOBJEKT salon, GENESIS was our first collection comprised entirely of limited edition works: fifteen years of signature forms distilled into a suspended constellation of fire, stone and light.
Congratulations to all those who are shortlisted. It's an honour to be among such strong company.
Thank you to everyone who helped bring this origin story into being. Thank you Australian Design Review for your ongoing support of Australian design. Thank you Melbourne Art Fair and FUTUREOBJEKT, we’ll see you in February 2027.
IDEA Award winners announced in November.
Explore the GENESIS collection via the link in profile.
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Photographer: Guy Lavoipierre
12/08/2026
Over the next 24 hours, the sky is putting on a show. Three celestial events, each remarkable in its own right, converging within a single day.
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
The Moon will completely cover the Sun along a path through northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. Throughout much of Europe, parts of North America and northwest Africa, millions more will experience a partial eclipse.
SIX PLANETS AT DAWN
Mercury • Mars • Jupiter • Saturn • Uranus • Neptune
Six planets strung along the arc of the ecliptic in the pre-dawn sky. Mars and Saturn will be easily visible to the naked eye, with Mercury and Jupiter lower in the dawn light. Uranus and Neptune will need binoculars or a telescope.
PERSEID METEOR SHOWER
One of the year’s great meteor showers reaches its peak overnight into August 13.
A New Moon leaves the sky especially dark, creating ideal conditions for the Perseids to streak overhead.
Most of this spectacle will unfold across Northern Hemisphere skies.
Check a local sky guide for what’s visible in your region.
Wherever you are: take a moment to gaze up, as we have for millennia.
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Image 1: Total solar eclipse, NASA/Joel Kowsky
Image 2: Total solar eclipse composite, NASA/Keegan Barber
Image 3: Six-planet composite assembled from NASA imagery. Source credits: Johns Hopkins APL/Carnegie, Malin Space Science Systems, JPL-Caltech; Jupiter processed by Kevin M. Gill (CC BY).
Image 4: Perseid meteor shower, NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image 5: Transparent Solar System, James Reynolds, c. 1846–1860
11/08/2026
THE COLLECTOR’S EYE
Jeff and Mariko Provan have spent decades collecting the objects that speak to them most. Their Melbourne terrace is a living archive of instinct and curiosity.
"Houses should continually evolve as new things are discovered"
– Jeff Provan
Among the newer arrivals, BCAA is suspended from the original 1870s ceiling rose. Hand-moulded foliage above, branching form below, a century and a half between them.
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Photographer: Eve Wilson
Featured in: The Design Files and Habitus Living
Project: Albert Park House, designed by Clare Cousins, Clare McAllister and Neometro
Lighting: BCAA
31/07/2026
The brief: "Moody, original, unexpected, full of character." Delivered in spades by dining room and feline alike.
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Interior Design: Melanie Turner Interiors
Project: Hyde Park
Location: Tampa, Florida
Photographer: Mali Azima
Lighting: NEPENTHES
30/07/2026
INTO PLACE
The final moments before our lighting pieces become part of the architecture.
Many conversations, design decisions and weeks in the hands of our artisans lead here. But the work only becomes wholly itself when it arrives where it belongs.
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Image 1: NEPENTHES purse meets its clasp
Image 2: Custom PROMETHEUS arrangement, suspended and wrapped
Image 3: ORACLE final unwrapping
Image 4: PROMETHEUS final touches
Image 5: Custom STALACTITE final fastening
Image 6: Custom STALACTITE & PROMETHEUS arrangement, suspended and wrapped
Image 1 photographer: George Downing
Images 2, 4, 5 & 6 photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 3 captured by: SIRAP
24/07/2026
HOLDING LIGHT
Recently, we invited a small group of guests to meet PETRA in its most elemental form: quartz slices, in hand, raised to the light. A means to encounter the material intimately, feeling its weight, watching translucency and colour shift from piece to piece, tracing veining that never repeats.
Every slice transmits light differently, because no two ever formed the same way. This variation is fundamental to PETRA. We intervene only where necessary, just enough to give the stone the setting it deserves.
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Photographer: Guy Lavoipierre
Image 1: Interactive quartz slice display
Image 2: Rose quartz slice, held to the light
Image 3: Smoky quartz slice, held to daylight
Image 4: PETRA III in rose quartz, detail
Image 5: PETRA III in rose quartz, in situ
23/07/2026
CASSINA TOKYO
Two ways of thinking in brass & light, now on view in Cassina IXC, Tokyo.
ORACLE unfolds in luminous, interlocking arcs, while ABACUS casts a measured line through the adjoining space.
20/07/2026
EARTH AND EMBER
Pepperberry is a room of earth, curve and light.
Rammed earth walls, natural finishes and vaulted curves create a retreat that feels both contemporary and reassuringly ancient.
Set within it, PETRA I in smoky quartz becomes a continuation: raw, unprocessed stone, illuminated from within, softening into something closer to embers than electricity as the day fades.
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Project: Pepperberry at Temple Farmhouse, Nashua, Australia
Photographer: Jessica Aleece
Lighting: PETRA I Sconce in Smoky Quartz
13/07/2026
BEACHSIDE RETREAT
PHASMIDA introduces an organic counterpoint to the home's orderly architectural rhythm.
Suspended within the open living & dining space, the pair establish sculptural focal points, their branching silhouette echoing the trees and coastline beyond.
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Project: Beachside Retreat by Christian Anderson Architects. Omaha, New Zealand.
Photographer: Thomas Cannings
Lighting: PHASMIDA
08/07/2026
DANGER & BEAUTY
The pitcher plant is nature at its most seductive. Sweet-scented, glistening, and lined with nectar. Insects follow the shine in. Few climb back out.
NEPENTHES follows the plant's logic. Hand-blown glass hangs soft and amorphous, inviting and alive with light. Solid brass tendrils hold it in suspension; hard, exact, geometric.
Danger dressed as beauty. Worked in brass and glass instead of leaf and nectar.
Named for the mythical potion said to dissolve all sorrow, NEPENTHES is nature's engineering, reclaimed for interior space.
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Image 1: NEPENTHES Sconce
Image 2: Custom NEPENTHES Complex in Polished Brass for CLD Interiors. Photographer: Anson Smart
Image 3: NEPENTHES Sconce. Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 4: NEPENTHES and Nepenthes. Photographer: Guy Lavoipierre
Image 5: Nepenthes (left) and NEPENTHES (right). Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 6: NEPENTHES Sconce. Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 7: Custom NEPENTHES Tendrils in Brushed Brass for MAEK. Photographer: Traianos Pakioufakis
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324-328 Napier Street
Melbourne, VIC
3065
To reach the destination on Napier Street in Melbourne, you have a couple of options for transportation:
**Public Transport:**
1. **Tram:**
- Take tram route 86 or 96 from the city center. Board at any stop along Swanston Street or Bourke Street.
- Alight at the stop closest to Napier Street (check local maps for the nearest stop).
- From there, it’s a short walk to your destination.
2. **Train:**
- Catch a train to North Richmond Station on the Hurstbridge or Lilydale lines.
- Exit the station and walk towards Napier Street, which should take about 15 minutes.
**Driving/Parking:**
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- If you're driving, head towards Napier Street via Victoria Parade or Johnston Street depending on your starting point.
- There may be street parking available nearby; however, be mindful of parking restrictions and time limits.
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