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Tag: Melbourne
These items have all been tagged with the tag "Melbourne", You can see other tags in the Tag Cloud| AESOP - Skin Care That Thinks Outside The Box |
| 2008-04-02 16:33:15 |
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Since being established by Dennis Pahitis twenty years ago, Aésop skin care has become an uncontested success story in the notoriously fickle beauty industry – focused on providing its worldwide clientele with the highest quality botanical skin care, rather than subscribing to mainstream-cosmetic anti-aging hype. Aésop now have 78 international stockists, plus 20 signature stores including stores in Paris, London, Sydney and their most recent Melbourne addition, Flinders Lane. In keeping with Aésop tradition – that every store is different; conceived and designed individually so as that each store is a reflection and celebration of its location – the Flinders Lane store does not disappoint, providing its customers with a design and infrastructure that is just as alternative as Aésop’s skin care products. Located in one of Melbourne’s most interesting precincts, the Flinders Lane store interior is made entirely of industrial-grade cardboard; from the display shelving, to the massive eastern façade, and even the counter tops– proving that cardboard can be both striking and structurally sturdy if it’s engineered well. Designed by local interior architects Rodney Eggleston and Anne-Laure Cavigneaux of March Studios, the ambient new store has drawn attention from all sorts of passers by. Store manager, Kate, says she wasn’t expecting how amazed customers would be by the store’s design. “It’s clear it’s a very tactile environment. Most people come in and tend to want to touch it all.” The Flinders Lane store is located at Shop 1C, 268 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. For a full list of Aésop products and stockists visit www.aesop.net.au. By Anna Byrne. |
| Kids in The Kitchen |
| 2008-03-04 15:26:13 |
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Aspiring mini-chefs take note: now there’s no excuse not to get the kids involved in the kitchen with this sweet range of kids cookware made specially for little fingers. Created by Melbourne based brand, Little Kitchen, the range will inspire little people everywhere to help mum with dinner. The innovative brand also runs a kids' cooking school from their North Fitzroy retail store in Melbourne, Australia. The space features a custom-built kitchen designed specially for children where kids can learn basic cooking techniques and the joys of cooking with fresh, organic produce. They also hold cooking parties; a great choice for parents looking for interesting (and healthy!) ways to celebrate their little one’s birthday. By Lisa Evans |
| Cut Copy - 'Lights And Music' |
| 2008-02-27 22:22:22 |
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With their new album 'In Ghost Colours' to be released next month, Cut Copy are going to be everywhere very soon. Radio, TV, car stereos and who knows - maybe they’ll go down the Pnau path and put their tracks on slick commercials. 'In Ghost Colours' is certainly one of the most hyped Australian electronic albums ever. With the release of the first single 'Hearts On Fire' followed soon after by 'So Haunted', musical appetites were whetted worldwide. Then came a freely downloadable mixtape which dropped Cut Copy gems in between indie classics like Panda Bear's 'Bros'. Backed up by a world tour and a support slot at Daft Punk’s Neverland shows, Cut Copy have well and truly done the groundwork to build the excitment. Now when we can't take any more, the clip for 'Lights And Music' emerges. The tension is palpable. People are dying to hear the record in its entirety. Bring on March! By Nick Christie |
| Phooey Architects - Children's Activity Center (Melbourne) |
| 2008-02-11 16:46:22 |
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We’ve told you before about some of the creative uses for abandoned shipping containers – and we wouldn’t keep bringing it up if we didn’t think that design recycling is still essential. Also, we have never before found a project where the principles underlying sustainability have been so successfully achieved. Phooey Architects completed work on Skinners Playground, a backyard for children living in public housing in South Melbourne, Australia – and a low cost, environmentally sound, and socially responsible solution. Setting design aside for a second, we need to acknowledge that the architects created a place to find a community support network; a place for children to learn and grow; a place that provides a place to escape; and a place where families know children are safe. The result is similar to the Danish concept of allowing children within a community to build their own play space. Although the children in South Melbourne did not actually build this playground, they will take an active role in how the activity center will develop and grow. Beginning with the desire to produce zero waste from conception to completion, Phooey architects staggered, sliced and arranged four unpainted shipping containers on the site of the playground. Any additional material including windows, decking, carpet tiles and joinery had to be durable, recycled, reclaimed, reused, plantation or salvaged from demolition. Even parts that were cut off or unassembled from the containers were used to make a staircase with a balustrade, overhangs providing external shading, and various decorative features. Through the successful stacking of the shipping containers, a variety of indoor and outdoor, intimate and public spaces are created. Areas are provided for study, art, dance, play and general hang out. Every interior space has visual and physical connections to its surroundings by opening up onto sandpits, play spaces and even a pond and reed bed that receives much of the roof’s runoff rainwater. The containers are fully sealed and insulated allowing continued use through Melbourne’s temperate winter months. And in the summer, cool ocean breezes help prevent overactive children from overheating. By Andrew J Wiener. |
| Fur Hairdressing, Melbourne |
| 2007-07-17 14:10:02 |
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Some are happy to just get a haircut and some relationship advice from their stylist, but we want more. If stylists actually have a sense of style, why are hair salons mostly boring, sterile and cookie-cutter, we wonder? Our hunt for cool hair salons has yielded a few exceptions. One is Fur Hairdressing at City Square in Melbourne. It is Fur’s second salon; the first is in Greville St, Prahran. The new salon is an expression of Fur creative director Frank Valvo’s inimitable flair that has earned him a semi-permanent perch on the list of Melbourne’s best-dressed men. Combining their talents with Melbourne-based Six Degrees, Fur stylists created a salon that appears much larger than its 24 square meters. The eclectic interior is a flexible set up changeable for one to seven clients. Imagine walls made of a recycled basketball court – one camouflaging a huge set of drawers -- add 70s disco kitsch, flexible sets of angled and rotating mirrors and you are all set for a new kind of hair salon experience. Fur’s custom-designed lighting and sound (using a BOSE system) will maximize your enjoyment. By Tuija Seipell. See also Pimp and Pinups |
| New Gold Mountain - Melbourne |
| 2007-04-17 03:40:08 |
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A new week, a hot new bar: Melbourne. Some cities put their drinking holes on bold display, all glass frontage and brazen invitation. Some don't. Melbourne is certainly in the latter camp, and, not surprisingly, its latest bar offering, New Gold Mountain, is a hole-in-the-wall affair found down a cobble-stoned lane way and somewhat reminiscent of a womb. Or the inside of 'I Dream of Jeannie's bottle. New Gold Mountain, is brought to us by a team of four locals who've worked in leading bars in Melbourne and London. They've teamed with young Australian architect Cassandra Fahey, who (for those who follow such things) designed the controversial house for Australian football sensationalist Sam Newman back in 2000 (the one with the two story glass frontage embedded with Pamela Anderson's face). For this project, Fahey took the old tailor's studio on the outskirts of the city's Chinatown district and created a space that works to a distinct opium-den theme. Downstairs speaks of colonial-era Shanghai, with two fireplaces decorated with the Chinese zodiac. Upstairs is the Poppy Room featuring plush pink fabrics suspended from the ceiling. And nana-esque furniture. Pretty and comforting. Just as Jeannie would like it. And the drinks? They specialize in sours. The music? Something described as "nouvelle-vague Joy Division revisions". Which certainly pegs the clientèle into a certain age bracket. A space you might have to track down yourself, but will certainly envelop you once you're in. Sarah W |
| SNOW BUSINESS |
| 2005-08-26 09:31:21 |
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Falls Creek in Victoria, Australia prides itself on being a very inclusive resort and this year became the world's first alpine resort to be benchmarked by Green Globe 21 - the international accreditation scheme for ecologically and socially sustainable tourism. An oasis in the heart of the Australian Alps, our award for the coolest new place to open in the mountains must go to Huski Boutique Apartments and Day Spa. Huski has stepped away from traditional alpine architecture with a radical, modern design based on the segments of a snowflake. The apartments have mountain views to the spectacular Spion Kopje range and are lavishly decked out with kitchen and dining accoutrements, luxury linen and video and music systems. |
