Riverside Modern shines a light on the homes of Studley Park, a small enclave where Australia’s architectural luminaries expressed the country’s own form of modernism

The Australian designer and artist has revisited his fascination with metal accumulation in collaboration with the UNESCO-listed heritage craft of the Thathera community

Across galleries, gardens and a converted convent, Melbourne Design Week 2026 brought together designers from every state, with established names and practitioners showing for the first time. Two ideas kept surfacing: material experimentation and a turn towards reuse

After two decades of illuminating interiors, Melbourne-based Volker Haug is still chasing the curiosity and wonder that first drew him to the medium at the age of ten.

As FutureObjekt debuted at the Melbourne Art Fair, the city’s leading designers challenged the status quo, blending high-end craft with conceptual rigour to redefine the future of Australian collectable design

Curated by Joseph Gardner for Craft’s Visionaries 2025, Done/Undone shows more than 50 artists’ and designers’ explorations of the creative process

Above Us, Steorra, the new Eau de Parfum from Aesop, reinvents the amber fragrance profile with characteristically unconventional inspiration

Prioritising robustness and refinement, Vasey Pavilions comes together as the result of an established relationship between architect and builder as an adaptable family sanctuary deeply attuned to its bushland setting

Melbourne design studio Other Matter has pioneered a natural material that may replace petrochemically derived plastics

An Edwardian-era residence in Melbourne’s Malvern East has been transformed by Alexandra Cerny of ByCerny to become an unfolding journey between past and present

A renovation of a Federation-style Melbourne home by Pohio Adams has realised the clients’ vision for a courtyard-style home that presents discreetly to the street and unfolds spectacularly at the rear

This year’s edition of Design Show Australia celebrates Australia’s most promising talent with the Australian Made Trail and the annual Next Top Designers competition

For this year’s Melbourne Design Week, Aesop has created an expedition through the city centre that explores the material possibilities of a post-petrochemical world

Nest Architects and Studio Esar designed this Melbourne family home with a fresh approach to spatial intervention and a colourful yet elegant palette

Kennedy Nolan has crafted a cohesive vision in Melbourne Place, where colours, craft and urban context converge in the city’s latest hotel offering

Architecture firm Powell & Glenn balanced the old with the new in this reworking of a modernist home next to Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens

Interior designers CJH Studio and Davidov Architects collaborated on this home in Melbourne, where rich layers of personality and detailing are added to Davidov Architects’ reworking of the weatherboard structure

Lanson Place has opened its first Australian hotel, Lanson Place Parliament Gardens, in the historic Salvation Army Printing Works in Melbourne, while the Hong Kong hotel gets a sophisticated update by  Pierre-Yves Rochon

The Standard International group’s new StandardX brand opens its first property in Melbourne, making quite the first impression thanks to its design by Hecker Guthrie and Woods Bagot

Melbourne’s Olaver Architecture refreshed a classic terrace home, creating a new spatial flow and bathing it in light