Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2025 i Vogue Living

LEVON BAIRD Photographer Levon Baird, who was behind the camera on our Mobilia photoshoot (page 28), describes the new Sydney showroom as “interesting and dynamic, filled with structurally unique pieces.” It worked in his favour — Baird is drawn to shape and form — though he concedes the combination of hard, direct flash, the space’s depth and multiple models was technically challenging. “Finding ways to create compelling frames without casting unpleasant shadows or losing the richness of the designs was a fantastic puzzle to solve.” Baird’s editorial images are electrifying, but he feels most free “walking the streets of a new country, shooting the people and places”, and quizzed about future icons, he lists filmmaker Sam Youkilis, fashion designer Robert Wun and photographer Szilveszter Mako as the emerging creatives he…

As a brand founded on braving new worlds, luxury design dealership Mobilia was bound to branch from its base in Western Australia to the country’s ‘arts-oriented’ east. Box-tick Melbourne, where the rationale of ‘rightful belonging’ saw a new showroom launch in Richmond in 2022. But Sydney was a slower burn, says company director Sam Fazzari who, intent on matching house values to a ‘happening’ vicinity, stalled in frustrated search until the Bourke and Bowden precinct opened in ‘gateway’ Alexandria. Designed by Wardle and internally fitted and fizzed by Flack Studio, the complex clutched its corner site like a terracotta-hued campanile, an Italian bell tower that marks time and, in southern-fringe Sydney, figuratively tells of the Fazzari family journey. “Imagine the distance in sea miles and civilisation between Calabria and Fremantle,”…

Danielle Moudaber’s dream can be found somewhere between an enchanted forest in the Yucatán Peninsula and a mysterious cave on the Mediterranean coastline. It’s no wonder the London-based interior and furniture designer is known for her unbridled imagination, stemming from a vast repertoire of inspiration that includes an upbringing in Nigeria and Lebanon, and modern art studies in London. In a former shoe factory in London’s Clerkenwell, Moudaber has redesigned a loft at the request of two French-Lebanese sisters, Yasmine and Laura. “They were already living in the flat, which meant they knew the space well: where the sun shines at different times of the day and how the mood changes with the seasons,” Moudaber says of the young women, who work in private equity and interiors. The designer was…

Agnes Martin the abstract painter deemed simplicity “the hardest thing to achieve.” But simplicity in the sure hands of architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard is an antidote to the overfed eye, it is the crafting of natural light and negative space, it is the arousing of the imagination. Born and raised in Paris, Lesnoff-Rocard considers the city’s architecture family, its presence permeates childhood memories. Of the forces that would inform his career path, he says: “It’s diffcult to be fully hermetic to architectural matter when you are surrounded by such a beautiful and intense environment.” At 35 he is the youngest architect to complete a project for LVMH, namely its new Métiers d’Art headquarters in a former printing house with a glass and metal roof by the engineer Gustave Eiffel. The commission…

As those in attendance at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) during the city’s Art & Design Week would attest, the collaboration between Lexus and the Bratislava-based design studio Crafting Plastics — which develops circular products and biodegradable materials — made for a blockbuster installation assembled using bioplastics. Titled Liminal Cycles, the presentation takes drivers one step closer to a future of Software Defined Vehicles, that is, cars with software-enabled customisable features that could take responsible, personalised luxury to new heights. Central to the installation was a sculpture referencing the Lexus LF-ZC concept car. Crafting Plastics co-founders Vlasta Kubušová and Miroslav Král engineered the body using their own invention, a 3D-printed bioplastic called Nuatan that is biodegradable and based on 100 per cent renewable resources. Coated in a…

ANNIE PAXTON On the Ascent Product Designer of the Year, presented by Range Rover JILLIAN DINKEL On the Ascent Interior Designer of the Year, presented by Moroso KENNEDY NOLAN Architect of the Year, presented by Mobilia SEAN GODSELL Creative of the Year, presented by Cassina ADAM&ARTHUR Product Designer of the Year, presented by Mobilia MORQ On the Ascent Architect of the Year, presented by Poltrona Frau MYLES BALDWIN DESIGN Landscape Designer of the Year, presented by Mobilia FLORIAN WILD On the Ascent Landscape Designer of the Year, presented by Kettal…

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Apart from one West Australian suburb named after Captain James Stirling’s exploratory ship, ‘Success’ does not have a postcode. Though most Melbourne property dealers will swear it parks squarely in 3142 — mail delivery code for the pricey residential pocket of Toorak. But not these two real estate tycoons, says designer Fiona Lynch of Jan and Alan Stephens, a couple in their mid-80s who, dismissive of the demographics of status and age, built for later-life stage with a ‘wildness’ befitting their west-side address and wardrobe. “I mean have a look,” says Lynch of a portrait shot in which the couple’s outfits play to a living room redolent of 1980s Memphis Studio — the upstart Italian collective who crafted in sweet-toothed pastels and fat geometries that freed from the ‘form follows…

At the Museum of Contemporary Art on February 27, in his erudite yet disarmingly down-to-earth acceptance speech, VL50 CREATIVE OF THE YEAR Sean Godsell repeated the words: “Everybody benefits from GOOD DESIGN.” His statement has stayed with me ever since, and I think it sums up the energy that was in the room that evening. THE AWARDS reaffirmed just how robust, proud and motivated the Australian design industry is, and the camaraderie among those in attendance was manifest. The event’s success would not have been possible without the vision and commitment of presenting partner Mobilia, and the incredible contributions of our supporting partners Range Rover, Programa, Waterford, Ruinart and Jo Malone London, which made every moment memorable. Speaking of vision, this issue is dedicated to design that breaks the mould…

The act of creation is never a straightforward process, a fact that Hayden Cox knows all too well. Since 1997, Cox has steadfastly driven his surfboard empire, Haydenshapes, into unchartered territory, with wife Danielle joining him for the ride in 2012. The couple, who demonstrate the unique intimacy of being business and life partners by finishing each other’s sentences, share three young children, and are as obsessive about design and craftsmanship as they are about revelling in their coastal surrounds. It explains why they spent three-and-a-half years perfecting their home in Sydney’s Palm Beach. Perched loftily on the peninsula, every room offers unobstructed views of the South Pacific Ocean, as well as the occasional pods of dolphins or migrating humpback whales that might pass by. The couple’s decision to relocate…

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The Milanese pied-à-terre that Giampiero Tagliaferri designed for a young art collector offers a mini masterclass in Italian modern design. The idiosyncratic duplex penthouse is chock-a-block with treasures by a pantheon of 20th-century design titans on the order of Mario Bellini, Osvaldo Borsani, Angelo Mangiarotti, Gae Aulenti, Gio Ponti, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Joe Colombo, Tito Agnoli, and others. Works by laudable but lesser-known talents — Pia Guidetti Crippa, Giovanni Travasa, Gigi Sabadin — pepper the heady mix. All those melodious names sound like toothsome items on an Italian menu: “I’ll have a plate of Mangiarotti with a glass of your best Gio Ponti.” Delicious. But there’s much more to the apartment than a mere accumulation of objets de vertu. Tagliaferri has lovingly evoked the spirit of those avant-garde Italian…