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Auction to help Bushfire Affected Well, what a way to start a year, spending our holidays glued to the TV watching bushfire updates and worrying about the welfare of friends and family in fire-affected areas. As a member of the Canberra business community since 1991, we are all too familiar with the threat that fire poses to our local communities and to our native flora and fauna. Having endured the terrible bushfires in the ACT in 2003, and having seen

The Cosm chair by Herman Miller has been dubbed “the pinnacle of personalisation” by TIME for its auto-harmonic tilt, intercept suspension, and more. We’re excited that Herman Miller’s Cosm chair by Studio7.5 has been listed by TIME as one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2019. CLICK HERE to read more about the TIME list and its curation of products, selected for making the world better, smarter, and more fun. Photo: Stephanie Gonot CLICK HERE to learn more about the

(Article courtesy of GUBI) 2019 marks the centenary of Bauhaus; a rebellion against tradition that shaped design history like no other modern institution. Bestlite stems from the revolutionary changes that took place in the Bauhaus period between 1919 and 1933. The modernist movement founded by Walter Gropius, sought to break down the barriers between the practical crafts, industrialisation and fine art. Designs from that era brought functionality and simplicity to the forefront, displacing all superficial ornamentation. The Bestlite Lamp designed

Fable Oak collection was first introduced as six essential utilities: a spoon, a bowl, a stool, a chair, a table and a storage cabinet by one of Australia’s most successful and original commercial designers, Ross Didier. Six essential elements pared back to the bare original character. These typical elements are also represented in traditional children’s tales and seem to conjure belief that a woodsman has simply stepped outside, chopped down a tree and hand-carved these functional objects – the simplicity

We are pleased to announce designcraft are now the exclusive Canberra dealer for Australian brand DERLOT EDITIONS Good design starts with a conversation. A decade of close collaboration with distributors and clients, both national and international, allows Derlot Editions an innate understanding of modern spaces. Derlot Editions is a contemporary Australian furniture brand focused on modular furniture solutions for the modern environment. Scalable and adaptable to suit agile working or flexible workspaces. Designer + Director Alexander Lotersztain, is an Argentinian-born

designcraft are a proud supporter of Australian design and are thrilled to be the official stockist for Canberra brand Furnished Forever. Furnished Forever is a commercial and residential furniture studio founded in 2017 by Canberra based designers René Linssen and Elliot Bastianon. The brand offers a range of highly functional products to cater for the commercial and residential markets. Furnished Forever is defined by clean lines, crisp geometry and a restricted colour palette. Linssen and Bastianon place great value on

A COLLABORATION BY TAIT & MOKUM, STYLED BY STEVE CORDONY With Summer on the horizon, Australian and New Zealand based contemporary textile house, Mokum, and Australian outdoor furniture design house, Tait, have come together to celebrate the southern hemisphere’s latest and greatest in outdoor design. This season channels late-century nostalgia with warm and dreamy scenes of laissez-faire lounging. Tait and Mokum’s Summer 2019/20 collection reaches new levels of outdoor comfort and effortless style, built to last in Australia’s unforgiving elements

Simply submit a review via designcraft’s Google page or designcraft Facebook page, during July & August to go in the draw to win an Angelpoise Type 75 Mini desk lamp. HOW TO FIND US ON GOOGLE Go to www.google.com.au and type designcraft in the search bar. On the right hand side you’ll find our google page. Click on “Write a review”. Then Click on the Star Rating and type your text. HOW TO FIND US ON FACEBOOK Go to www.facebook.com

DESIGNED BY ADAM GOODRUM Reminiscent of flowing rock formations, Scape elicits a soft, organic design language - nurturing a more humanised connection to our vital public spaces and common areas. Nesting adjacently to one another, the modules reference the uninhibited nature of rocky landscapes. Scape’s earthy and wholesome curves offer an inviting sense of warmth, tactility, communal sensibility, and kind-of intangible ‘friendliness’. Scape gravitates people toward it - subsequently drawing activation to the spaces it inhabits. “I have fond memories

The Marigold Series, hosted by Herman Miller and designcraft, was an educational dinner event inspired by the design philosophy behind the famous Marigold Lodge in Michigan which features the classic Herman Miller collection. Fine hospitality have always been a hallmark of life at Marigold with the Lodge regularly hosting seminars, meetings, work team development events and symposiums at the lodge’s Learning Centre and Boathouse. The Marigold Series connected Canberra industry leaders for an evening of networking while being introduced to