est living magazine Issue 59

https://www.instagram.com/sophlew_says/ This issue ties a bow on my time in London, where I’ve spent the past few months catching up with architects, designers and makers from the pages of this magazine and estliving.com, and reporting on fairs PAD London, Design Miami.Paris and Art Basel. As a result of conversations, visits, tours and talks, I’ve written Design Correspondent, where you’ll find headlines about immersive new spaces and just-launched product collaborations. It’s fitting to return to Melbourne during summer for our Living with Landscape issue, as we’ve dedicated an entire section to how we inhabit our green spaces. Led by garden editor Will Dangar’s interview with landscape designer Sam Cox, we understand the fundamentals of designing in place, for place, and get to know a significant number of Australian studios specialising in…

Carli Philips Carli Philips is a lifestyle journalist specialising in design, travel and contemporary culture. With over 15 years of experience working in editorial, Philips has interviewed countless personalities for some of the best global publications. She splits her time between Melbourne and Tel Aviv, both places that continue to inspire with infinite creative possibilities. In this issue, Philips writes on the ways light and greenery weave through Jolson’s ‘bastion of bricks’—a new private home in Melbourne. @carliphilips Emma Adams Emma Adams is an editor, writer and researcher with extensive experience in curating collections for print, digital release and syndication. Contributing to a range of architecture and design publications, past projects include architecture journals and Venice Biennale material for the Australian Institute of Architects. In this issue, Adams writes on…

EDITOR @sophlew_says @vincentvanduysen GUBI House London, England As GUBI’s first permanent showroom outside of Denmark, GUBI House inhabits four levels of a Georgian townhouse that looks out across the manicured Charterhouse Square in London’s Clerkenwell. While the townhouse retains its quintessentially London bones, it isn’t designed to feel entirely residential—resembling the communal spaces of a boutique hotel on the ground floor, and a communal work-live space and modern bistro on the second floor. Photography courtesy of GUBI PER QUELLI CHE VOLANO by Joris Poggioli Paris, France Stopping by Paris-based architect and designer Joris Poggioli’s Montmartre studio, I previewed his newest collection PER QUELLI CHE VOLANO which in Italian means ‘For those who fly’. Developed over two years, the collection explores Poggioli’s idea that “form is everything; the material simply dresses…

Traversing a resonance of the past and a contemporary sense of place, this Melbourne home distils light, practicality and individual flair. Guided by the original home while responding to the practicalities of family life, Manifold’s redesign in Melbourne’s inner-south balances character with clarity. Refreshed with all-white fretwork, the renewed heritage details sit within interiors that value the home’s original proportions, while a replan elevates functionality. Manifold director Lachlan Cooper notes that the residence had “inherent charm, but previous renovations had left the spaces feeling disjointed and without character". The street is lined with Victorian-era terraces, “so the house needed to remain embedded in its context—not a bold contrast, but a tactful evolution of what was already there.” Moving from a larger house nearby, “the priority was creating a sense of…

Casa REdDUO unfolds as a sensorial collage of old Milanese craftsmanship and modern intervention. Every room reveals a new layer of colour, texture and story. In Milan, designers Fabiola di Virgilio and Andrea Rosso have reimagined a 1930s apartment into Casa REdDUO. The duo behind REdDUO, known for their material-driven homewares and custom interiors, have transformed the once timeworn residence into a hybrid home and studio where heritage and intuition guide every decision. What attracted you to this area of Milan, and what was your first impression of the apartment? Andrea Rosso: Casa REdDUO sits in Milan’s eastern side, close to Porta Venezia. It’s a place where classic Milanese architecture meets multicultural energy, a mix that perfectly reflects our way of seeing the world. The building dates back to the…

A gallerist calls on close friends to rethink her Antwerp townhouse—twinning new perspectives and old materials in ways that bring light, flow, colour and art into her everyday. Five years ago, art historian, advisor and auction specialist Sarah Vanwelden returned to Antwerp to co-found Newchild Gallery alongside artist and architect Chandler Noah and artist Diego Castano, who split their time between Barcelona and New York. Entering the city’s established art scene, the trio dedicated themselves to a small group of diverse artists, mainly outside of Belgium and Europe. From the gallery’s infancy, Vanwelden hosted artists at Antwerp’s Hotel Pilar, designed by the interior and architecture studio Contekst, co-founded by Sam Peeters and Toon Martens. “I had been following Contekst’s work for a while. My two best friends had stayed at…