Just In: Finalists in the 2022 Australian Interior Design Awards
Get ideas from these stunning projects, which are in the running for Australia's most prestigious interior design awards
Georgia Madden
3 April 2022
Now in its 19th year, the Australian Interior Design Awards recognises the very best in Australian design across residential, commercial and public sectors. The shortlist for this year’s awards has just been released, offering up 184 spectacular projects by some of the country’s most talented designers. Here are four of our favourite residential and commercial finalists, which are packed full of ideas for your upcoming reno or new build.
Design practice: YSG Studio
Project: Dream Weaver
Photography: Prue Ruscoe
Designer’s notes: A Pantone party of oversized soft landings, deep-piled custom rugs and stone surfaces with planetary swirls levitate within this penthouse apartment overlooking Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
Project: Dream Weaver
Photography: Prue Ruscoe
Designer’s notes: A Pantone party of oversized soft landings, deep-piled custom rugs and stone surfaces with planetary swirls levitate within this penthouse apartment overlooking Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
Counterbalancing the sobriety of its box-like frame, which is predominantly shrouded in glass, the mood is revelatory and futuristic, with a bright dose of Pedro Almodóvar’s cinematic eccentricity.
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Design practice: IF Architecture
Project: Jardan Perth
Photography: Dion Robeson
Designer’s notes: The experience of visiting Jardan Perth is less like entering a furniture store and more like being welcomed into a home.
Project: Jardan Perth
Photography: Dion Robeson
Designer’s notes: The experience of visiting Jardan Perth is less like entering a furniture store and more like being welcomed into a home.
A contemporary showroom in a quintessentially Western Australian setting creates an authentic connection between the furniture brand and its Perth customers.
Design practice: Flack Studio
Project: Elwood Residence
Photography: Anson Smart
Designer’s notes: The Elwood residence is a beachfront Spanish Mission.
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Project: Elwood Residence
Photography: Anson Smart
Designer’s notes: The Elwood residence is a beachfront Spanish Mission.
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With newly defined thresholds, terrazzo floors, bronze display cabinets, custom-lights, monumental fireplace surrounds, portals with half-radius arches, this respectful renovation in Melbourne has blurred all the discords created by a 1980s attempt to allow this beauty to bathe in glory for another century.
Design practice: Nic Graham Associates
Project: QT Auckland, New Zealand
Photography: Alex Wallace
Designer’s notes: QT Auckland, in New Zealand, is a design-driven hotel with a forthright classic-modern façade and soulful interior spaces filled with light, art and design moments that are derived from local narratives; a series of spaces that have a sense of warmth and sometimes nostalgia, cocooned in the shell of repurposed office building.
The winners of the Australian Interior Design Awards will be announced in Sydney on Friday 17 June, 2022.
Project: QT Auckland, New Zealand
Photography: Alex Wallace
Designer’s notes: QT Auckland, in New Zealand, is a design-driven hotel with a forthright classic-modern façade and soulful interior spaces filled with light, art and design moments that are derived from local narratives; a series of spaces that have a sense of warmth and sometimes nostalgia, cocooned in the shell of repurposed office building.
The winners of the Australian Interior Design Awards will be announced in Sydney on Friday 17 June, 2022.
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None really appeal and agree with other comments that they will quickly date. Do however like the dining table.
Should I be worried I didn’t like any.
Everything is so…. beige!