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Issue 07 Editor-in-Chief Suzy Annetta sa@fifthblack.com EDITORIAL Head of Editorial Philip Annetta pa@fifthblack.com Managing Editor Simone Schultz ss@fifthblack.com Editor Nina Milhaud nm@fifthblack.com CREATIVE Creative Director Jeremy Smart js@fif
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Going With The Flow
With two physical studios and a range of projects in progress, for Gidon Bing there’s no typical start to the day — but ideally it begins in his waterfront studio, looking at the beautiful view with a cup of coffee. ‘I’m either straight out of the ho
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Cultural Custodians
The Mulka Project safeguards 50 days, or 1200 hours, or 72,000 minutes, worth of video and audio recordings that date back to the 1930s and further. Located in the community of Yirrkala in northern Australia, The Mulka Project is a multifaceted produ
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Adelaide, Updated
I’d been living in the UK for three years before I returned home this past February. When I arrived, I immediately felt a new appreciation for the dry Adelaide heat. The temperature, like the wide streets, bright blue skies and urban sprawl with rela
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Family Affair
Working with family members can be quite challenging, so when the opportunity arose for Robert Davidov of Davidov Architects to design a home for his sister, brother-in-law and their two young boys, methodology came first. ‘It was important to mainta
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Quietly Crafted
Sitting on one of inner Melbourne’s heritage streetscapes is this warehouse conversion by Rob Kennon Architects. The building has had several lives since it was built in 1860: first occupied by industrial tenants, it then became a store for furniture
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Power Pair
Canberra-based designers René Linssen and Elliot Bastianon established Furnished Forever in 2017 after meeting at a party the year before. The two instantly hit it off and realised that their skills were complementary: Linssen studied industrial desi
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Mountain Retreat
The dramatic beauty of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has a magnetic pull, drawing visitors back again and again. After 25 years of visiting from Sydney, that pull finally led to a more permanent move for this homeowner, a Sydney-based artist who wanted
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Creating Longevity
It’s no coincidence that Australian Nikolai Kotlarczyk has ended up in the design world. As a child, he observed his father making and building things, including their family home, while his artist mother also worked for a local boutique and travelle
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Fine Form
It was when Lindsey Wherrett was living in Japan for a short time as a newly graduated architect that her interest in ceramics grew into a passion and she eventually did something about it. ‘Shifting to ceramics gave me a more immediate connection to
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From The Editor
I recently stumbled upon a short piece of prose from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations: ‘All things are in a process of change. You yourself are subject to constant alteration and gradual decay. So too is the whole universe.’ This made me reflect on the
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Elevated Living
In the Gold Coast suburb of Bilinga, an eclectic area peppered with old fibro beach shacks, Art Deco residences and dense, multiresidential developments, the owners of this property had recently built a second dwelling at the rear of the site, leavin
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Lofty Ideals
Interior architecture and design studio Tom Mark Henry has given a new identity to a rare jewel in Sydney’s east: a former Presbyterian church in Paddington. Composed of two manses, the heritage-listed property was reprogrammed to become a mixed-deve
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Inside Volker Haug Studio
Operating from a former hosiery factory dating to the 1940s in Melbourne’s gritty Brunswick East, decorative lighting practice Volker Haug Studio is driven by curiosity and experimentation, with a skilled team of craftspeople — and some quirky reside
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Creative City
In Geelong, a walk through the central laneways or an afternoon spent wandering the galleries reveals a flourishing art scene. From contemporary and public art to traditional spaces with a new edge, the Victorian port city’s creative output has inten
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Architecture for Life
For Sydney-based Other Architects directors David Neustein and Grace Mortlock, every project offers the chance for deeper thinking, exploring angles away from the default. They apply this everywhere, from residential homes and apartment blocks to cem
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Southern Charm
Australian photographer Anne Stroud began planning her most recent trip to the Southern Highlands in New South Wales, about 100 kilometres south-west of Sydney, after her good friend and interior stylist Jane Goodall told her about the ambitious proj
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Divergent Strands
Having always felt drawn to the curious crossovers of art, science and design, founder of Lost Profile Studio Oliver Wilcox sees his role as a curator of objects, artwork and time itself. As lead designer, he draws on a fascination with oddities, nat
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Vernissage
Image by Samuel Hartnett, courtesy of the artist and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ■
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Distant Threads
A flotsam of noise rises up from a Mumbai street into the heritage Art Deco apartment that has been Areez Katki’s studio base since 2018. During our phone interview, the connection occasionally drops out as the India-born citizen of Aotearoa New Zeal
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From The Editor
It would be only natural, and a little too easy, to feel overwhelmed and pessimistic about the state of the world right now. Global warming, war and natural disasters seem to dominate the headlines and it can feel like good news is harder to come by.
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Editor’s Picks
We round up some of the highlights from the 2022 Melbourne Design Week and the new Melbourne Design Fair, which ran concurrently in March this year. The first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, the Melbourne Design Fair showcased collectable con
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Editor-in-Chief Suzy Annetta sa@fifthblack.com Head of Editorial Philip Annetta pa@fifthblack.com Managing Editor Simone Schultz ss@fifthblack.com Editor Nina Milhaud nm@fifthblack.com Creative Director Jeremy Smart js@fifthblack.com Digital Pro
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A Colourful Life
At home in Abbotsford, Clare Scanlan is up at six a.m. with a coffee. She’s learnt to let ideas marinate overnight and finds that early morning is best for firing off emails and documenting creative thoughts. By seven-thirty, she’s on site with her t
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An Architecture of Care
Leading Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao is the inaugural recipient of the MECCA × NGV Women in Design Commission for 2022. The commission, a partnership between the Australian beauty retailer and the National Gallery of Victoria, is the first and on
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Multifaceted Mind
Zachary Frankel is proud to eschew categorisation in favour of working across disciplines and challenging himself with new materials, colours, shapes and projects. And his background is no more linear: having studied fine art with a major in silversm
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Bold Statement
Accustomed to working on new builds, interior designer Simone Haag and her team didn’t hesitate when the opportunity arose to work on this characterful Victorian home. After living abroad for a decade, the homeowners had returned to Melbourne and wan
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Hidden Eden
Secret Garden House was born from a poetic start. Co-owned by an avid gardener who enjoys tending to her wildflowers, ornamental trees and grasses, ‘the project surrenders a place our client enjoyed and was quite particular about to create an indepen
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