Talking Design

Make sure you check out the exhibition 'Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary' at the Bendigo Art Gallery (closes 21 July 2021). Showcasing garments from 1955 to 1975, the 110 garments on display are an important reminder of the swinging 1960s. Emma Busowsky Cox, curator of this exhibition, talks about some of the highlights and this period of fashion.

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Geoffrey Hatty, Director of Applied Arts in Melbourne, has been at the forefront of designer furniture and objects since the mid-1980s. One impetus was seeing the Joseph Hoffmann collection of furniture, with each room of the Gallia apartment from Vienna on exhibition. Hatty has found beauty in everything, from the 1980s Memphis period through to the 1890s arts and crafts movement and even a handmade hammer recently discovered in a junk shop!

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NTF Architecture has established a reputation for their townhouses, with its Blackburn development receiving an AIA Victorian Chapter Award last year in the category of multi-res. This project showed that the past (in this case 1960s units) can be transformed into abodes for contemporary living. Their latest project is a large heritage-listed bluestone house that fuses the past and present, celebrating both periods in the process.

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Coinciding with her new book, Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People & Place, published by RMIT in conjunction with Thames & Hudson, this interview traces some of the landmark projects in KTA’s practice since the early 1990s. Thompson, who graduated from RMIT, regularly receives awards for everything, from her understated homes to even simple amenities, such as a toilet block adjacent to a freeway. Often driven by this history of a building, there’s a strong thread of ideas running through every project.

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Balarinji is one of Australia’s most high profiled design practices. From graphics for Quantas airlines in the mid-1990s, it has gone on to make an important indigenous mark in Australia and abroad. Established by Ros and John Moriarty 40 years ago, Balarinji has made its mark on everything from textiles to art installations. The Moriarty Foundation, established in 2011 enables Aboriginal families and communities in the Northern Territory, Queensland and NSW to unlock the potential of their children through a number of programs from football to early learning.

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Ross Harding is a principle at Finding Infinity, which was established in 2014. He has organised A New Normal for this year's Design week (26 March - 4 April), inviting leading architectural practices, including John Wardle, Kennedy Nola, Clare Cousins, Edition Office and many others, to demonstrate sustainable principles.

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Pato Paez is a Director of The Commission Project. Based in New York and founded by artist Michael Souter, The Commission Project fuses together art and architecture, predominantly in commercial settings. Some installations can even be audio based. Working closely with architects and artists, the results literally transform a space, based strongly on research.

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The name Signature Prints has become synonymous with wallpapers in Australia. At the helm is owner David Lennie, who started his wallpaper business in the late 1980s. Now working with leading designers, as well as overseas companies, his Sydney-based business has grown, with many of the designs from the company’s extensive archives.

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Described by the media as ‘arguably the most creative force in Australian fashion’, and ‘the man responsible for teaching us how to wear black’, Joseph Saba is an icon of Australian fashion.
Joe opened his first store, the ‘Joseph Saba Shirt and Sweater Shop’ in Flinders Lane in 1965. He went on to create the famous Staggers jeans label, which revolutionised jeans in Australia in the 1970’s. He introduced his now famous Saba brand in 1974, building the business up to 17 stores, including a store in New York, before selling the Saba business in 2002.
Joe’s most recent success was with his online and wholesale label Joseph Saba, a lifestyle range of womens clothing consisting of Joe's signature knitwear and jersey pieces, for easy relaxed dressing.

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Tony Newsham came from the United Kingdom in the early 1970s not knowing what to do as a career. Five years later, he opened Trellini in Melbourne and later in Sydney. After almost 20 years forging a path, Newsham went onto become Vice President of Comme des Garcons in New York, where he resided for 13 years. An extraordinary fashion trajectory!

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