From booking your dream holiday to fuelling your car, personal concierge services sort out the details so you can get on with life. By Kirsten Craze A TRIP TO the International Space Station? Sorted. Dinner atop an iceberg? No problem. Vow renewals officiated by the pope? Done. These are some of the experiences personal concierge…

With just a few pottery classes on his resume, Tom Dixon founded one of the world’s most significant design companies. Now he wants to go back to where it all began. By CARLI PHILIPS ONE OF THE world’s most prolific designers, Tom Dixon has worked on interiors, accesso­ries, furniture and lighting since the 1980s. All…

What does $3 million get you these days? A foot in the door in one of Victoria’s most prized neighbourhoods. BY KIRSTEN CRAZE DEMAND FOR LUXURY property soared in 2021 and it seems the desire to acquire a piece of Australia’s most coveted suburbs isn’t about to waver as we settle into a new normal.…

Homeowners are getting back to nature, thanks to new trends that have architects embracing the great outdoors and landscape designers letting their gardens grow wild. BY STEPHEN CRAFTI LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AROUND the country are letting loose, trading box-hedged English-style gardens for a less tame, naturalistic approach that’s in keeping with Australia’s botanical vernacular. It’s part…

Meet the Melbourne motorhead whose espresso machine mods are transforming countertops the world over. BY CARLI PHILIPS A FURNITURE-MAKER BY trade and a petrolhead by passion, Dan Schonknecht is a tinkerer. With his business, Specht Design, he puts this unique set of skills to work, customising coffee machines for clients around the globe. Schonknecht admits…

Secret doors, historical details and a sense of occasion … The new home cellar is a space to savour. By STEPHEN CRAFTI WINE STORAGE HAS gone the way of the home office: reimagined and enlarged to become an architectural talking point rather than a mere afterthought. Spurred by the changes wrought by Covid-19, home cellars…

Flowing from formal plantings to the farm, the revitalised ‘Darriwill’ property on the Moorabool River offers a lesson in considered design— and patience. By HELEN HAWKES IT WAS THE artist Francis Bacon who wrote that a garden is the purest of human pleasures. It’s a pleasure well known to the interior designer Sasha, whose 400-hectare…

Hyper cars have entered the electric era. Here, we take a look at five definitive plug-ins, from a mix of heritage marques and bold emerging carmakers. By STEPHEN CORBY Pininfarina Battista When we talk about how long something is we tend to measure it in football fields; if we’re making a weight comparison, we’ll reach…

Sea breezes and sweeping views… These are defining features of the modern Australian home. Here, LOUIS WHITE sits down with the experts to talk about the evolution of local architecture and interior design, and what we can expect in the years to come. OWNING A HOME is the great Australian dream and when it comes…