2020 Decor + Design VIVID x Houzz People's Choice Award
See entries from the best emerging Australian designers in the 2020 VIVID design competition and vote for your favourite
The year 2020 might have been a challenge in every way but it also marks the seventeenth year of Australia’s longest-running design competition, VIVID; a show that shines a light on some of the most exciting emerging Australian designers. Here, we present the VIVID finalists and ask you to vote for your favourite here or via the link at the end of the story. Voting closes on Friday 2 October, 2020, at 5pm. On Tuesday 6 October 2020 at 9am, we will announce the 2020 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice winner.
UPDATE: And the winner is… Cara Jordan-Miller with her Utensils for Bodily Delight (number 49). Congratulations Cara.
UPDATE: And the winner is… Cara Jordan-Miller with her Utensils for Bodily Delight (number 49). Congratulations Cara.
2. Manuel Canestrini and Colin Whitehead
UMBRA/Shadow
Designers’ description
UMBRA is a slightly tilted arched standing mirror with a base replicating the shadow it would cast on the floor. Depending on the viewer’s position, the asymmetric base is either invisible or reveals the mirror’s shadow. The black finish emphasises the depiction of a manifested shadow in bright sunlight.
UMBRA/Shadow
Designers’ description
UMBRA is a slightly tilted arched standing mirror with a base replicating the shadow it would cast on the floor. Depending on the viewer’s position, the asymmetric base is either invisible or reveals the mirror’s shadow. The black finish emphasises the depiction of a manifested shadow in bright sunlight.
3. Pui Yan Casey Chong
The Macaroni
Designer’s description
The Macaroni challenges the common perception of silk, a sheer and delicate material, finding ways to stiffen it without changing its main characteristics. It is a juxtaposition of two-dimensional (printed collages) and three-dimensional (pleating) texture. The deformed mirrored stainless-steel plate provides a new perception of a mirror.
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The Macaroni
Designer’s description
The Macaroni challenges the common perception of silk, a sheer and delicate material, finding ways to stiffen it without changing its main characteristics. It is a juxtaposition of two-dimensional (printed collages) and three-dimensional (pleating) texture. The deformed mirrored stainless-steel plate provides a new perception of a mirror.
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4. James Colgan
Fluted Bench
Designer’s description
Fluted Bench was inspired by, and sought to reinterpret, traditional interlocking joinery techniques with modern technology – a CNC router. This easily assembled/disassembled bench seat efficiently nests material on timber units available, and emphasises the aesthetic characteristics of the selected timber species (Tasmanian blackwood).
Fluted Bench
Designer’s description
Fluted Bench was inspired by, and sought to reinterpret, traditional interlocking joinery techniques with modern technology – a CNC router. This easily assembled/disassembled bench seat efficiently nests material on timber units available, and emphasises the aesthetic characteristics of the selected timber species (Tasmanian blackwood).
5. Duncan Crowe
Two Curved Chair
Designer’s description
Through the repetition of two curved profiles, Two Curved Chair challenges the artificial separation of a support structure and seat that has characterised much laminated furniture. Utilising the technique of wood lamination, American oak is bent to form curved profiles that create the feature of the chair.
Two Curved Chair
Designer’s description
Through the repetition of two curved profiles, Two Curved Chair challenges the artificial separation of a support structure and seat that has characterised much laminated furniture. Utilising the technique of wood lamination, American oak is bent to form curved profiles that create the feature of the chair.
6. Morgan Doty and Danny Ngo
Paper Thin
Designers’ description
Paper Thin is an interior wall-covering system. Porous natural fibres gained from revitalising waste paper are pressed into panels and developed into wall tiles to aid in acoustic absorption. Formally adaptive, colour adjustable and conservative in its production, Paper Thin serves as a biodegradable alternative to interior wall finishes.
Paper Thin
Designers’ description
Paper Thin is an interior wall-covering system. Porous natural fibres gained from revitalising waste paper are pressed into panels and developed into wall tiles to aid in acoustic absorption. Formally adaptive, colour adjustable and conservative in its production, Paper Thin serves as a biodegradable alternative to interior wall finishes.
7. Stephanie Guest
Claw Hammer Chair
Designer’s description
An exploration of expanded cork – a bio-renewable, recyclable, thermally insulating, and light product. Sold as cladding, the material is used structurally here, reinforced with timber cross-beams. A chunky base form of laminated panels was boldly deconstructed with a claw hammer, revealing the cork’s granular structure and a seat for two.
Claw Hammer Chair
Designer’s description
An exploration of expanded cork – a bio-renewable, recyclable, thermally insulating, and light product. Sold as cladding, the material is used structurally here, reinforced with timber cross-beams. A chunky base form of laminated panels was boldly deconstructed with a claw hammer, revealing the cork’s granular structure and a seat for two.
8. Jay Jermyn and CJ Anderson
Bars_001
Designers’ description
Bars_001 is the first product in the collaboration between designer CJ Anderson and artist Jay Jermyn. Bars_001 is an exercise in quantising and repeating standard material to guide the form of the work. Bars_001 is designed out of one full length of material, resulting in zero waste with no welds.
Bars_001
Designers’ description
Bars_001 is the first product in the collaboration between designer CJ Anderson and artist Jay Jermyn. Bars_001 is an exercise in quantising and repeating standard material to guide the form of the work. Bars_001 is designed out of one full length of material, resulting in zero waste with no welds.
9. Myra Kosen and Ivy Li
Red Yoga Mats
Designers’ description
This stool is a concept of how layered fabric could be load-bearing just by rolling it. Taking this concept and experimenting with an old yoga mat – when cutting half the rolled tube into strips – it created a hairy, fun, and playful stool that gives a second life to old mats.
Red Yoga Mats
Designers’ description
This stool is a concept of how layered fabric could be load-bearing just by rolling it. Taking this concept and experimenting with an old yoga mat – when cutting half the rolled tube into strips – it created a hairy, fun, and playful stool that gives a second life to old mats.
10. Mark Lilly
Phyl Shelving System
Designer’s description
A modular shelving system that can be reconfigured and added to, as requirements change. The aim was to reduce the system to its bare essentials, a repeating unit and steel coupler, resulting in minimum effort for reconfiguring. Set screws on the reverse of the couplers ensure structural integrity.
Phyl Shelving System
Designer’s description
A modular shelving system that can be reconfigured and added to, as requirements change. The aim was to reduce the system to its bare essentials, a repeating unit and steel coupler, resulting in minimum effort for reconfiguring. Set screws on the reverse of the couplers ensure structural integrity.
11. Shao Chun Lin
Fi-Flip
Designer’s description
The aim was to modify the heavy and constant filter coffee tools on the market. The concept was inspired by office workers. Two components combined into one, which can be easily operated when needed and won’t occupy any storage space, can be effortlessly stored in drawers or narrow places.
Fi-Flip
Designer’s description
The aim was to modify the heavy and constant filter coffee tools on the market. The concept was inspired by office workers. Two components combined into one, which can be easily operated when needed and won’t occupy any storage space, can be effortlessly stored in drawers or narrow places.
12. Sarah Mair, Diana Galimova and Carlin Lyon
Odd Sock Stool
Designers’ description
Using three cheap socks stitched together at their heals and mounted on a CNC cut frame, the Odd Sock Stool is a result of both order and uncertainly. Order is dictated by the precise location of the formwork fixings, and uncertainty is created by the effect of gravity on the concrete slump.
Odd Sock Stool
Designers’ description
Using three cheap socks stitched together at their heals and mounted on a CNC cut frame, the Odd Sock Stool is a result of both order and uncertainly. Order is dictated by the precise location of the formwork fixings, and uncertainty is created by the effect of gravity on the concrete slump.
13. Monroe Masa
Table 2 of Collection 2
Designer’s description
The prototype sought to produce a design that adheres to mass production, which retained elements of individuality: evoking a sentiment of custom-made furniture. The design disassembles to illustrate its ability to create multi-functional spaces. Overall, the prototype seeks to redefine what the future of furniture will be.
Table 2 of Collection 2
Designer’s description
The prototype sought to produce a design that adheres to mass production, which retained elements of individuality: evoking a sentiment of custom-made furniture. The design disassembles to illustrate its ability to create multi-functional spaces. Overall, the prototype seeks to redefine what the future of furniture will be.
14. Tom Morton
Matchbook Chair
Designer’s description
Constructed entirely from steel, the Matchbook Chair is inspired by the Australian wrought iron that has so playfully adorned and helped define the suburbs of this country. It references the formal, as well as the DIY nature of this architectural outdoor element. This piece is intended for outdoor settings.
Matchbook Chair
Designer’s description
Constructed entirely from steel, the Matchbook Chair is inspired by the Australian wrought iron that has so playfully adorned and helped define the suburbs of this country. It references the formal, as well as the DIY nature of this architectural outdoor element. This piece is intended for outdoor settings.
15. Tanakorn Pongpaew
Nayme nO_01
Designer’s description
The design was envisaged as feminine lines with an elegant form. The style, material and fabric type resemble the Art Deco era. My personal style always reflects and is inspired by organic lines and elegant forms.
Nayme nO_01
Designer’s description
The design was envisaged as feminine lines with an elegant form. The style, material and fabric type resemble the Art Deco era. My personal style always reflects and is inspired by organic lines and elegant forms.
16. Jordan Silver and Stefano Di Lorenzo
BULU (In the shadow of a tree)
Designers’ description
Opportunities to benefit from the process of gardening are scarce in dense urban centres. BULU is a modular grow system that promotes ideas of self-sufficiency and enables gardening in any space. Conceived as a versatile assemblage, BULU can act as a standalone furniture piece, screen wall or large-scale installation.
BULU (In the shadow of a tree)
Designers’ description
Opportunities to benefit from the process of gardening are scarce in dense urban centres. BULU is a modular grow system that promotes ideas of self-sufficiency and enables gardening in any space. Conceived as a versatile assemblage, BULU can act as a standalone furniture piece, screen wall or large-scale installation.
17. Karen Tsui
Dipping Wafer
Designer’s description
Exploring timber bending resulted in a singular looped form, bent at both ends to maximise the strength as well as providing a ‘cushion’ effect. This element was repeated and joined by dowels to create stability and add a formal rhythm highlighting the infinity loops.
Dipping Wafer
Designer’s description
Exploring timber bending resulted in a singular looped form, bent at both ends to maximise the strength as well as providing a ‘cushion’ effect. This element was repeated and joined by dowels to create stability and add a formal rhythm highlighting the infinity loops.
18. Fran White
Tessel[p]lates
Designer’s description
Tessel[p]lates explore the potential of mass-customisation in ceramic slip-casting production. A multi-part plaster mould can be reconfigured to slip-cast a wide range of different ceramic forms that meet varying functional, shape and size requirements. This flexible making process allows different functional objects to emerge such as plates, cups and vases
Tessel[p]lates
Designer’s description
Tessel[p]lates explore the potential of mass-customisation in ceramic slip-casting production. A multi-part plaster mould can be reconfigured to slip-cast a wide range of different ceramic forms that meet varying functional, shape and size requirements. This flexible making process allows different functional objects to emerge such as plates, cups and vases
19. Colin Whitehead
Form
Designer’s description
Form is a sustainably designed table that uses eco-friendly materials. Sitting on a metal gate-leg base, the top is made of an ecoply core, eco veneer and a water base finish to the design. It has multiple purposes creating longevity for a lifetime of use.
Form
Designer’s description
Form is a sustainably designed table that uses eco-friendly materials. Sitting on a metal gate-leg base, the top is made of an ecoply core, eco veneer and a water base finish to the design. It has multiple purposes creating longevity for a lifetime of use.
VIVID Award for Furniture Design
20. Gregory Allen
Levity Tall Cabinet
Designer’s description
Designed with the purpose of keeping one’s most precious items high on a pedestal. Warm brass supports and natural oak tones are contrasted by the elegant sleek faceted base. It features a tambour door and open shelves, American oak, ebonised oak, shop-made brass hardware and a hardwax oil finish.
20. Gregory Allen
Levity Tall Cabinet
Designer’s description
Designed with the purpose of keeping one’s most precious items high on a pedestal. Warm brass supports and natural oak tones are contrasted by the elegant sleek faceted base. It features a tambour door and open shelves, American oak, ebonised oak, shop-made brass hardware and a hardwax oil finish.
21. Arian Berisa
Orev Chair
Designer’s description
Orev is a low-sitting chair that is minimally designed to use structural angles and few materials to create an ergonomic seating style. Two materials of opposite strengths come together to make one complete piece with each material compensating each other’s functionality and structural integrity.
Orev Chair
Designer’s description
Orev is a low-sitting chair that is minimally designed to use structural angles and few materials to create an ergonomic seating style. Two materials of opposite strengths come together to make one complete piece with each material compensating each other’s functionality and structural integrity.
22. Manuel Canestrini and Colin Whitehead
Symbiont
Designers’ description
The Symbiont coffee table is a collection of differently shaped slotted timber table tops and variously sized timber legs and connectors. As each table top only comes with two legs, it has to connect to another table to stand firmly while allowing diverse compositions of shapes and heights.
Symbiont
Designers’ description
The Symbiont coffee table is a collection of differently shaped slotted timber table tops and variously sized timber legs and connectors. As each table top only comes with two legs, it has to connect to another table to stand firmly while allowing diverse compositions of shapes and heights.
23. James Chapman
Kami – No Profile Furniture
Designer’s description
Kami is a furniture piece designed specifically for spatially constrained environments and multi-functional spaces. At only 11 millimetres thick, Kami pieces can fold from a floor covering or wall hanging to a fully functioning stool in seconds, all without the need for complex instructions or locking mechanisms.
Kami – No Profile Furniture
Designer’s description
Kami is a furniture piece designed specifically for spatially constrained environments and multi-functional spaces. At only 11 millimetres thick, Kami pieces can fold from a floor covering or wall hanging to a fully functioning stool in seconds, all without the need for complex instructions or locking mechanisms.
24. Nelli Hegi and Pavel Vetrov
Monolith Table
Designers’ description
Monolith Table is an exploration of well-refined mathematical angles and curvilinear forms. Offered in both a square and round option and available in three different finishes, the simple yet carefully considered silhouette of the Monolith makes it stand out on its own, while acting as an eye-catching feature when grouped together.
Monolith Table
Designers’ description
Monolith Table is an exploration of well-refined mathematical angles and curvilinear forms. Offered in both a square and round option and available in three different finishes, the simple yet carefully considered silhouette of the Monolith makes it stand out on its own, while acting as an eye-catching feature when grouped together.
25. Calum Hurley
Chair001
Designer’s description
Hurley’s first realised chair design, Chair001 takes form and colour cues from previous works, especially Window Vain (2019). Hand-woven upholstery – designed with and made by fibre-artist Carol Hebertson – reflects the sporadic nature of Hurley’s signature terrazzo, employed here as a handy side table.
Chair001
Designer’s description
Hurley’s first realised chair design, Chair001 takes form and colour cues from previous works, especially Window Vain (2019). Hand-woven upholstery – designed with and made by fibre-artist Carol Hebertson – reflects the sporadic nature of Hurley’s signature terrazzo, employed here as a handy side table.
26. Brett Julian
Lovebird Dining Table
Designer’s description
The Lovebird dining table, made from American white oak. A versatile and elegant design featuring a shaped and tapered leg. Made using traditional mortise and tenon joinery to achieve an extremely robust and lightweight frame.
Lovebird Dining Table
Designer’s description
The Lovebird dining table, made from American white oak. A versatile and elegant design featuring a shaped and tapered leg. Made using traditional mortise and tenon joinery to achieve an extremely robust and lightweight frame.
27. Brianna Keenan and Tyler Storey
Green Glass
Designers’ description
Green Glass brings more greenery to living and alfresco spaces. A versatile piece, Green Glass is perfect as a side table or coffee table, whilst being suitable both indoors and out. Its modern design brings a contemporary appeal to brighten your living spaces. Plant Green Glass your way.
Green Glass
Designers’ description
Green Glass brings more greenery to living and alfresco spaces. A versatile piece, Green Glass is perfect as a side table or coffee table, whilst being suitable both indoors and out. Its modern design brings a contemporary appeal to brighten your living spaces. Plant Green Glass your way.
28. Jun Kim
Pop
Designer’s description
The Pop table range brings a new perspective to its typology through its distinctive rounded legs that subtly extrude beyond the table top, challenging the traditional notion of legs being confined to below table tops. Made of American oak and designed in 2020.
Pop
Designer’s description
The Pop table range brings a new perspective to its typology through its distinctive rounded legs that subtly extrude beyond the table top, challenging the traditional notion of legs being confined to below table tops. Made of American oak and designed in 2020.
29. Callan Kneale
Chroic Side Table
Designer’s description
The cantilevered dichroic laminated glass side table features a Tasmanian oak turned and tapered leg, a 3D-printed brass glass clamp and threaded legs.
Chroic Side Table
Designer’s description
The cantilevered dichroic laminated glass side table features a Tasmanian oak turned and tapered leg, a 3D-printed brass glass clamp and threaded legs.
30. Myra Kosen and Ivy Li
Elephant Stool
Designers’ description
Inspired by Japanese origami to have sharp, clean edges and to stack up with each other, this Elephant Stool explores the potential of using a single sheet of material, cut and scored, which can then be folded to form functional furniture.
Elephant Stool
Designers’ description
Inspired by Japanese origami to have sharp, clean edges and to stack up with each other, this Elephant Stool explores the potential of using a single sheet of material, cut and scored, which can then be folded to form functional furniture.
31. Jordan Leeflang
Cab Chair
Designer’s description
The Cab Chair takes inspiration from long journeys in unfamiliar landscapes. The welcoming felted upholstery nestles between the expressive blackwood. The facets of the timber are tempered by the softly curved interior. This piece incorporates the processes of coopering, timber lamination and hand-formed upholstery.
Cab Chair
Designer’s description
The Cab Chair takes inspiration from long journeys in unfamiliar landscapes. The welcoming felted upholstery nestles between the expressive blackwood. The facets of the timber are tempered by the softly curved interior. This piece incorporates the processes of coopering, timber lamination and hand-formed upholstery.
32. Carlin Lyon
Wrapped
Designer’s description
Concrete tables formed with recycled bubble wrap.
Wrapped
Designer’s description
Concrete tables formed with recycled bubble wrap.
33. Patrick MacPherson
A Bench from Bark
Designer’s description
Layers of melaleuca paperbark and recycled north coast hardwood, strung along a system of dowels. Timber bookends compress the layers together. The edges where the hand grips and the moments when the body adjusts wear the bark away to reveal a new condition beneath, embracing the inevitability of decay.
A Bench from Bark
Designer’s description
Layers of melaleuca paperbark and recycled north coast hardwood, strung along a system of dowels. Timber bookends compress the layers together. The edges where the hand grips and the moments when the body adjusts wear the bark away to reveal a new condition beneath, embracing the inevitability of decay.
34. Michael Papanikolaou
Ember
Designer’s description
The Ember side table centre support is encased within a burnt trunk from the impacted area, bringing part of this historical devastation into homes of the Australian community. Proceeds from this purchase will go to communities impacted by the bushfires.
Ember
Designer’s description
The Ember side table centre support is encased within a burnt trunk from the impacted area, bringing part of this historical devastation into homes of the Australian community. Proceeds from this purchase will go to communities impacted by the bushfires.
35. Timothy Robertson
Lande
Designer’s description
The Lande chair is a reflection of a unique and inquisitive design process that explores cultural values and native elements of the Australian people and landscape. Taking playful cues from native flora, a sleek organic form ties into a beautiful narrative that emphasises natural, honest and ethical materials and manufacture.
Lande
Designer’s description
The Lande chair is a reflection of a unique and inquisitive design process that explores cultural values and native elements of the Australian people and landscape. Taking playful cues from native flora, a sleek organic form ties into a beautiful narrative that emphasises natural, honest and ethical materials and manufacture.
36. Matthew Sherwen
Round Dining Table
Designer’s description
Designed for a client who loves to cook and share intimate meals with friends. Neolith Calacatta is used for heat resistance and becomes a turntable by pushing downwards. The turntable mechanism is designed from three pieces of bronze for low friction. Bronze dovetails are used to connect the tabletop to frame.
Round Dining Table
Designer’s description
Designed for a client who loves to cook and share intimate meals with friends. Neolith Calacatta is used for heat resistance and becomes a turntable by pushing downwards. The turntable mechanism is designed from three pieces of bronze for low friction. Bronze dovetails are used to connect the tabletop to frame.
37. Jake Williamson
The Sideboard
Designer’s description
Every living room needs a conversation starter and nothing gets people talking like The Sideboard. It features our trademark bevelled-edge door, which pulls open to reveal one fixed and two adjustable shelves, making it not just pretty but practical too. Made from FSC-certified Tasmanian oak.
The Sideboard
Designer’s description
Every living room needs a conversation starter and nothing gets people talking like The Sideboard. It features our trademark bevelled-edge door, which pulls open to reveal one fixed and two adjustable shelves, making it not just pretty but practical too. Made from FSC-certified Tasmanian oak.
38. Indy Wilson
Summit Occasional Table
Designer’s description
Summit is inspired by the natural landscape of the Himalayas. Carefully designed to mimic the silhouette of a mountain, this organic form has been refined for a contemporary stage.
Summit Occasional Table
Designer’s description
Summit is inspired by the natural landscape of the Himalayas. Carefully designed to mimic the silhouette of a mountain, this organic form has been refined for a contemporary stage.
39. Riley Woosnam
Maple Easy Chair
Designer’s description
Working with rational continuous lines, the Easy Chair is reduced into four sections. The seat, the base, the back, and the ottoman. Letting curves be the predominant feature of the design, steam bending was the process that allowed American hard maple to appear lightweight, relaxed and unified.
Maple Easy Chair
Designer’s description
Working with rational continuous lines, the Easy Chair is reduced into four sections. The seat, the base, the back, and the ottoman. Letting curves be the predominant feature of the design, steam bending was the process that allowed American hard maple to appear lightweight, relaxed and unified.
VIVID Award for Lighting Design
40. Morgan Doty and Ash Allen
Crest
Designers’ description
Inspired by sand dunes of the Simpson Desert, Crest is a pendant light made of paper pulp, repurposing discarded magazines by vacuum forming over reusable moulds. Two thin domes unite to provide strength, while the split celebrates the peak and how light interacts with a desert landscape at sundown.
40. Morgan Doty and Ash Allen
Crest
Designers’ description
Inspired by sand dunes of the Simpson Desert, Crest is a pendant light made of paper pulp, repurposing discarded magazines by vacuum forming over reusable moulds. Two thin domes unite to provide strength, while the split celebrates the peak and how light interacts with a desert landscape at sundown.
41. Richard Greenacre
InFlux Wall Light
Designer’s description
Inspired by the shifting play of light and shadow, the InFlux sconce represents an exploration into materiality, digital technology and the experiential properties of light. Slipcast from porcelain, warm indirect light slowly builds and fades across the central textured surface creating a dynamic visual experience that evolves with each glance.
InFlux Wall Light
Designer’s description
Inspired by the shifting play of light and shadow, the InFlux sconce represents an exploration into materiality, digital technology and the experiential properties of light. Slipcast from porcelain, warm indirect light slowly builds and fades across the central textured surface creating a dynamic visual experience that evolves with each glance.
42. Cara Jordan-Miller
Stroke Light
Designer’s description
Designed using scrap materials from a university workshop, the Stroke standing floor lamp is an exercise of frugality in both form and fabrication. Crafted with steel, cast maple veneer and aluminium.
Stroke Light
Designer’s description
Designed using scrap materials from a university workshop, the Stroke standing floor lamp is an exercise of frugality in both form and fabrication. Crafted with steel, cast maple veneer and aluminium.
43. Xanthe Murphy
Tidelines Pendant
Designer’s description
The Tidelines Pendant explores the capacity of slip-cast porcelain to achieve variations of layered transparency, which are only revealed once illuminated. Drawing inspiration from the soft sand markings of a retreating tide, each pendant has brass components and a linen flex cord, and is hand-poured, thus unique.
Tidelines Pendant
Designer’s description
The Tidelines Pendant explores the capacity of slip-cast porcelain to achieve variations of layered transparency, which are only revealed once illuminated. Drawing inspiration from the soft sand markings of a retreating tide, each pendant has brass components and a linen flex cord, and is hand-poured, thus unique.
44. Sarah Tracton
Lucent Pendant
Designer’s description
Handcrafted with the finest Australian porcelain clays, which deliver luminous and ethereal translucency, the Lucent Pendant is an individualised fusion of fine art, craft and functional design. Its unique vertical cordless design creates a streamlined visual aesthetic. Iridescent coloured stains resemble landscape topography, creating a singular and ambient lighting experience.
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Lucent Pendant
Designer’s description
Handcrafted with the finest Australian porcelain clays, which deliver luminous and ethereal translucency, the Lucent Pendant is an individualised fusion of fine art, craft and functional design. Its unique vertical cordless design creates a streamlined visual aesthetic. Iridescent coloured stains resemble landscape topography, creating a singular and ambient lighting experience.
Browse more statement lighting in beautifully designed Australian interiors
VIVID Award for Object Design
45. Manuel Canestrini
Cannon Vase
Designer’s description
Cannon Vase is inspired by depictions of the ‘human cannon ball’ act of an old-fashioned circus. It features a cannon-shaped, mouth-blown glass vessel with an ombre effect, a hollow glass ball attached to the vessel and a charred timber base. The vessel can be tilted freely in any direction.
45. Manuel Canestrini
Cannon Vase
Designer’s description
Cannon Vase is inspired by depictions of the ‘human cannon ball’ act of an old-fashioned circus. It features a cannon-shaped, mouth-blown glass vessel with an ombre effect, a hollow glass ball attached to the vessel and a charred timber base. The vessel can be tilted freely in any direction.
46. Yuro Cuchor
AUTRE
Designer’s description
The retro-futurist appeal of the AUTRE vessel is found in its playful geometry and precision. Utilising the ceramic tradition of slip casting combined with machined brass, the AUTRE vessel celebrates balance, sophistication and purity of form and materials.
AUTRE
Designer’s description
The retro-futurist appeal of the AUTRE vessel is found in its playful geometry and precision. Utilising the ceramic tradition of slip casting combined with machined brass, the AUTRE vessel celebrates balance, sophistication and purity of form and materials.
47. Yuro Cuchor
ZUZA
Designer’s description
Introducing the stoneware water jug, ZUZA.
ZUZA
Designer’s description
Introducing the stoneware water jug, ZUZA.
48. Marta Figueiredo
Elementary Abacus
Designer’s description
Elementary Abacus offers a new kind of inclusive sensory experience. Functioning as a side table or as a playful multi-sensory element with colourful, tactile and musical moving beads, the piece also includes an aroma diffuser and a braille surface inviting people to interact. Materials include steel, jesmonite, polylactide, wool and timber.
Elementary Abacus
Designer’s description
Elementary Abacus offers a new kind of inclusive sensory experience. Functioning as a side table or as a playful multi-sensory element with colourful, tactile and musical moving beads, the piece also includes an aroma diffuser and a braille surface inviting people to interact. Materials include steel, jesmonite, polylactide, wool and timber.
49. Cara Jordan-Miller
Utensils for Bodily Delight
Designer’s description
Spoons designed to encourage the pleasure of eating in a slow and mindful manner as a means of reconnecting the mind to the body through food. Inspired by bodily forms, each are individually sculpted in wax and cast using the lost-wax method, served in silicon. Pictured here in brass, sterling silver is also available.
Utensils for Bodily Delight
Designer’s description
Spoons designed to encourage the pleasure of eating in a slow and mindful manner as a means of reconnecting the mind to the body through food. Inspired by bodily forms, each are individually sculpted in wax and cast using the lost-wax method, served in silicon. Pictured here in brass, sterling silver is also available.
50. Mark Lilly
Fold Shelf
Designer’s description
The Fold shelf is design in its simplest form. A simple spatial transformation gives rise to functionality.
Fold Shelf
Designer’s description
The Fold shelf is design in its simplest form. A simple spatial transformation gives rise to functionality.
51. Dean Norton
Confetti Vase
Designer’s description
A formed metal vase constructed using traditional spinning techniques over a custom timber mould and welding laser-cut components. Available in electroplated steel, polished and brass-coated stainless steel as well as a ceramic edition. The vase has a number of circular openings, strategically placed for dynamic flower arrangements.
Confetti Vase
Designer’s description
A formed metal vase constructed using traditional spinning techniques over a custom timber mould and welding laser-cut components. Available in electroplated steel, polished and brass-coated stainless steel as well as a ceramic edition. The vase has a number of circular openings, strategically placed for dynamic flower arrangements.
52. Sarah Tracton
Terrain Vase
Designer’s description
Terrain is handcrafted using a niche clay slip poured on plaster method of architectural construction. Made with the finest Australian porcelain, each vase is a fully individualised, one-of-a-kind object that is environmentally sustainable. With its iridescent colouring and unique surface variations, Terrain evokes aerial landscape topography.
Terrain Vase
Designer’s description
Terrain is handcrafted using a niche clay slip poured on plaster method of architectural construction. Made with the finest Australian porcelain, each vase is a fully individualised, one-of-a-kind object that is environmentally sustainable. With its iridescent colouring and unique surface variations, Terrain evokes aerial landscape topography.
53. Denis Wittwer
Flower Tower
Designer’s description
Flat packable and stackable, the Flower Tower is more than a piece of furniture; it is a customisable construction system that blends elements of furniture, industrial design and fine-grain landscape architecture. It is a structural mesh that elegantly, efficiently and sustainably arranges plant matter in a vertical format.
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Flower Tower
Designer’s description
Flat packable and stackable, the Flower Tower is more than a piece of furniture; it is a customisable construction system that blends elements of furniture, industrial design and fine-grain landscape architecture. It is a structural mesh that elegantly, efficiently and sustainably arranges plant matter in a vertical format.
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1. Sam Allen
Hold 01
Designer’s description
Hold 01 is a response to the notion that candelabras are meant to make a statement. Hold 01, instead, blends seamlessly into the background due to its simplicity. A bead-blasted surface diffuses light and emphasises the rounded form. The curved openings gently embrace the candles once they are inside.