The Design Files Awards 2019
Posted by Buxton Lifestyle - 25 July 2019
Posted by Buxton Lifestyle - 25 July 2019
The Design Files team have spoken, and the list of their shortlisted finalists for the Design Files Awards 2019 have been announced! TDF is one of Australia’s most popular design blogs, that celebrates our local designers working in all realms including gardens, arts, architecture, interiors, homewares and much more. The awards were created to acknowledge the designers, architects and makers who add great value to the Australian creative community.
The award-winners will be announced on September 19th from the talented pool of shortlisted designers across 12 categories. Their work is creative, thoughtful and forward-thinking, and we have selected some of the shortlisted designers from each category so you can peep their amazing work.
For more information and to see the full list of shortlisted designers, head to DesignFiles Awards website.
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE
Hello House
Sibling Architecture
Inspired by the veranda culture of Port Fairy, this home is a site of big open spaces, natural light and connectivity.
Image: Christine Francis
Empire House
Austin Maynard Architects
An inter-war style bungalow is updated with two small pavilions, where old and new are demarcated with white shingles against the historic red brick home.
Image: Derek Swalwell
Yarra Valley
House
Chelsea Hing
Set in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, this Aussie beauty with vineyard views was completely overhauled to create more space for a growing family.
Image: Sean Fennessy
Perfect Storm
Matt Woods Design
Known and ‘the concrete bunker’, this sleek Camperdown apartment is an intimate, yet utilitarian environment.
Image: Katherine Lu
Portsea Garden
Phillip WithersLandscape Design
A beach house connects to its surrounds through the introduction of native coastal flora, and weaves between the architecture and environment.
Image: Amelia Stanwix
New Street,
Brighton
Mud Office
An intimate, multi-zone garden for an urban setting. This garden brings minimal space to life with lush planting and a clever use of zoning to create space.
Image: Shannon McGrath
Ceramic Lamps
Sarah Nedovic
This sculptural
ceramic lamp series is designed to celebrate the handcrafted marks made from
the designer’s hands and sculpting tools.
Image: Unknown
Nebulae
Chandelier Collection
Ross Gardam
A decorative chandelier featuring glass discs in an array of unique finishes and textures, this design casts an refracts dynamic luminescence, from both LED and natural beams.
Image: HaydnCattach
Clearer Coffee
Table
Softer Studio
A material exploration of timber and glass, in a coffee table for a high-end market that retains Softer Studio’s edgy personality.
Image: Unknown
Wyrie Table
Nick Rennie Studio
Responding to a
brief from Artedomus, this dining table is made of Elba stone and is incredibly
manufactured without any form of fixings, screws, glues or pins.
Image: Sean Fennessy
Woven Bag Series
Georgina Whigham
Emulating characteristics of a plastic bag yet seeking to counteract throwaways mass-produced connotations, these linen and cotton bags are an ode to craftsmanship, and handwoven in Australia.
Teresa Ceberek
for Tsar Carpets
Mimicking natural
landscapes, the two hand-tufted rug-cum-art-pieces create a soft, sensory
experience for the user/viewer. At once playful, commanding and refined, they
challenge conventional ideas of what floor coverings can be.
Image via @tsarcarpets
Wildflower
Trolleys
BESS
Utilising
discarded trollies as a frame for a mock pop-up flower stall, this project uses
found objects to create a portable base for long lasting and dried Australian
native wildflowers.
Image: Unknown
Way Of Flowers
Pomp andSplendour
Modern sculptural arrangements created to complement the Obus Autumn 2018 collection, inspired by Ikebana
Image: Unknown
Pepite
Kelly Larkin
A playful series of images that showcases a collection of local artisans stocked at Pepite illustrating the store’s eclectic style.
Image: LillieThompson
Art Of Dining
Simone Haag
A decadent dinner party table setting designed for a gala event at the NGV that takes inspiration from the artwork, ‘The Banquet of Cleopatra’ by Giambattista Tiepolo.
Image: Dylan James
Serenity 2019
Tammy Kanat
Created to client brief, this elliptical wall hanging incorporates ‘sunny Brisbane’ hues and charcoal merino warping to complement a residential living space. Woven in two part, it utilises wool offcuts.
Dark Tower
Nicolette Johnson
A large coiled stoneware vessel, which is encrusted with more than 1,000 hand-sculpted spherical protrusions. Its hourglass and ovoid shapes combine into a totem, appearing at once ancient, mystic, surreal and futuristic.
Image: Unknown
Three Piece House
Trias
Designed for a downsizing, retiring couple this modest two-bedroom home and studio balances its compact footprint with height, light, and volume. Since the site is exposed to coastal weather, the materiality of the home is robust and resilient.
Image: Ben Hosking
Walkerville POD
House
Two existing prefab pod structures have been ‘stitched together via a new link’ to create a comfortable holiday home that maximises rainwater collection, solar energy generation, access to natural light and garden space.
Image: Tatjana Plitt
Edition Office
A new firm
founded by established architects interested in both the cultural narratives of
architecture alongside its experiential qualities.
Image: Ben Hosking
A Melbourne-based
studio bringing together architecture, interiors and conceptual design with a
dedication to pushing these disciplines in unexpected directions.
The combined skills of landscape, interior and design practices aligned in this NGV Architecture Commission, where two firms sought to re-emphasise the value of public space through their intervention into the garden.
Image: Peter Bennetts
Tableau
CantileverInteriors & DesignOffice
Practical and effective kitchen systems designed with precision and elegance. The collaboration between designer and maker follows user-centred design principles that allow for personalised customisation.
