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DENFAIR hits Sydney for the first time next week

Pitch Acoustic
Pitch Acoustic

After a successful four-year stint in Melbourne, one of Australia’s leading contemporary design and art events DENFAIR is coming to Sydney, where it will be taking over the Hordern Pavillion from August 16-to-18. With an inspiring array of local and international brands exhibiting, we thought we’d highlight a few in anticipation.

Cotswold InOut Furniture
Designed by Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles, the Wicked collection from Cotswold InOut Furniture is some of the more fabulous outdoor furniture designs we’ve seen. Combining wicker with a contemporary steel frame, I love the collection’s bold graphic lines.

Cotswold In Out Furniture
Cotswold InOut Furniture reimagines wicker

Cube & Circle
After an impressive display at Melbourne, Cube & Circle is set to bring to DENFAIR Sydney the infamous Spin Stool. With wooden legs that bend horizontally around the seat and then down towards the ground, it’s easy to see how this design received the 2011 prize for Furniture of the Year by the interior magazine Sköna Hem.

Cube & Circle
Cube & Circle’s celebrated Spin Stool

Tivoli Audio
It’s the retro lines that caught our eye. Tivoli Audio will premiere their latest product at DENFAIR Sydney, The Music System Home. An all-in-one audio system, these designs combine vintage design with high performance audio.

Tivoli Audio
Tivoli Audio

Nood Co
We profiled them recently but you’ll be able to see them firsthand at DENFAIR Sydney. Nood Co’s new Pill and Cube basins will be launching alongside 13 other new products. Combining three of our favourite things (pastels, curves and concrete!) we’re keen to check them out in the flesh too.

Nood basins
Nood Co Pill & Cube basins

Spark & Burnish
A new purveyor of designer hardware, Spark & Burnish will be launching new collections at DENFAIR Sydney from International brands including Tom Kundig (USA), Nest Studio (USA), Baccman & Berglund (Sweden), Shayne Fox Hardware (Canada), Buster & Punch (UK) and Kawajun (Japan). The Ocean Plastic handles from Sydney’s Vert Design will be showcased too.

Spark & Burnish
Spark & Burnish designer handles

Pitch Acoustic
Creators of stylish sound absorbing solutions for walls, ceilings and desks, Pitch Acoustic will be showcasing a range of privacy booths for work, studio, home and learning environments. I love the brand’s use of on-trend colour. 

Pitch Acoustic
Pitch Acoustic

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The Sydney design fair that’s open to the public

DESIGN-MADE. at SUNSTUDIOS

Sydney’s first independently run design festival is landing in town on Friday 27 October. And the best part? It’s open to everyone – public and trade alike – and it’s free to attend! Over three days and two sites DESIGN-MADE. will present designs from around Australia and beyond, for both the indoors and out.

DESIGN-MADE. at SUNSTUDIOS

So what can you expect if you attend? Exhibitions, new product launches, curated installations, dining and drinking, demonstrations, workshops and talks. Curated by founders Anne-Maree Sargeant and Kobe Johns, DESIGN-MADE. will showcase a broad spectrum of products and brands, ranging from affordable through to gallery level, collectables, bespoke and one-off pieces.

Spoon making workshop with Carol Russell

Highlights include spoon making workshops with Brisbane-based woodworker and artisan Carol Russell; daily demonstrations by Melbourne-based designer and architect Colin Hopkins on porcelain throwing; and a range of educational installations on replica furniture and the importance of authentic design.

26 Original Fakes Installation

DESIGN-MADE. is based out of SUNSTUDIOS, a former 1930’s woolshed in Alexandria and the FISHER & PAYKEL Experience Centre (just a five minute walk away) from Friday 27 October to Sunday 29 October.

Pre-register for free entry here | Get your design fix

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Make way, there’s a new design trade fair in town!

Committed to promoting both Australian and international design, DEN Furniture and Design Fair will be a three-day event offering only the best in contemporary furniture, lighting, soft furnishings and homewares. Held in Melbourne from 14 – 16 May 2015, forming part of the 2015 Design Matters: Melbourne International Design Week, the event is the brainchild of Thibaud Cau-Cecile, the founder of Life Instyle and The Wearer’s Right.

den interiors addict

The vision for the show is to place Australian design firmly on the international agenda. It also aims to hold events in Australia and beyond, with DEN planning to take place in major overseas design pavilions such as 100% Design, Milan Furniture Fair and Maison&Objet (Paris and Singapore).

“For the first time, you will be able to see the best in Australian and international design under one roof,” said Thibaud. “We want to show well-known original designers, plus unearth new and innovative designers from all over Australia and beyond.”

Designers must apply to be selected to exhibit at DEN and organisers are taking expressions of interest at [email protected]

“We are asking those in the industry to nominate businesses who are designing and manufacturing amazing objects but are lesser known,” said Thibaud. “The combination of having the best in the industry with some extraordinary surprises will make DEN a standout global design show.”

If you know a design business you would like to nominate, send an email to [email protected]

The first two days will be trade only and the third day will also open to a limited number of non-professional design enthusiasts. For more information.