I’VE LONG DREAMED of creating a prestige magazine that would not only be unique to Australia, but would also help to define and drive the local luxury market. And here it is: “The Luxury Report”. The global luxury landscape has been a passion of mine for decades. Within this landscape, Australia is a beacon of…

Ross Gardam catches up with CARLI PHILIPS to talk local craftsmanship, lockdown lulls and furniture that’s made to last the distance. MERGING CRAFT WITH technology, the Melbourne-based multidisciplinary designer Ross Gardam is lauded for the pure forms of his light fixtures, furniture and objects. His studio comprises of nine designers, engineers and manufacturers, and is…

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…

Lured by the rich soils and bounteous sea, Brigitte Hafner traded her lauded Fitzroy eatery for a converted farmhouse on the Mornington Peninsula. This year, it was named Australia’s best restaurant. By JENI PORT We have to do this because we can’t not do it,” Brigitte Hafnerre members saying. It was late 2019 and Hafner,…

It’s time to rip up that to-do list and replace it with a single directive: unwind. For those who prefer to do their de-stressing somewhere extraordinary, our travel writer UTE JUNKER has picked five of the world’s most luxurious hideaways. SUITE DREAMS Menorca Experimental, Spain The designer Dorotheée Meilichzon loves a bedhead. Meilichzon works with…

Three Australian gallerists let JEN NURICK in on the emerging art talents to invest in (and name-drop) before everyone else does. HOW DO YOU define a piece of art? In the infancy of his career, Keith Haring may have pointed us underground, to the bare advertising spaces in New York City subway stations that famously…

How stainless-steel sports watches rose from their utilitarian roots to become the new horological flex.  ON REFLECTION, PAUL Newman must shoulder some of the blame. In 2017, the actor’s Rolex Daytona (Ref. 6239) went under the hammer at the Phillips auction house in New York. After 12 minutes of ferocious bidding, the 1968 watch was…

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…