Design Insiders x Keith Chee

In our latest interview for the Design Insiders series we meet Keith Chee, whose love of art, design and architecture began at an early age, guided by friends, artists and designers, and a career that started in graphic design and music.

Luxury personified

With an award-winning design team and one of Sydney's best locations, the new Opera Residences is a significant contemporary addition to Sydney's skyline. Embracing views to the Sydney Opera House and The Royal Botanic Gardens, the building's softly sculptural form responds to the beauty found in the surrounding landscape.

Eight sofas that will change the way you live

What started back in the late 17th century as a stretched-out armchair to accommodate the commodious dresses of the time, slowly grew longer and longer to serve more and more people. Flash forward to the 1970’s and everything changed. With an emphasis on a more casual way of living and the rejection of sofas that forced users to sit side-by-side in a long row, innovative 70’s designers like Mario Bellini and Cini Boeri used modularity to create more organic and flexible sofa concepts with no limits to size or shape. This radical approach still works wonders today. The 'upholstered landscape' allows for a range of sitting and lying positions, making it possible to work, rest and play, without leaving the comfort of the lounge room.

Camaleonda through the photographer’s lens

Art, fashion, design and multimedia cultural platform ‘Nowness', recently invited four Chinese photographers to interpret B&B Italia’s iconic Camaleonda sofa. It's a move that reverberates the creative spirit of designer Mario Bellini's 1970 classic. Re-edited by Bellini to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2020, photographers Yi Tuo, Luo Yang, Feng Li and Jumbo Tsui have used the lens to describe the shape and function of the iconic sofa, "transporting it to a space of free imagination”. Each photographer explores the language of the Camaleonda in a personal way, highlighting its unique aesthetics and dynamic versatility.

Design Insiders x Eileen Rickerby

In our latest interview for Design Insiders, a series that introduces the creative minds behind the Space brand, Eileen Rickerby discusses the early influence of the family furniture business that would begin her love of design from the age of seven. Joining the Space team 25 years ago, it was a visit to the Milan Furniture Fair in the mid-1990s, meeting designers Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola and Massimo Morozzi, and learning "something different and personal from each of them”, that began her passion for contemporary design. "There was furniture wall to wall, acres of it, and what struck me was that Space had the best brands in the world on offer, bar none." Hi Eileen, you joined Space in 1996 and rema

Design Insiders x Michelle McEwen

In our continuing series featuring the creative thinkers behind the Space brand, More Space meets Michelle McEwen whose journey into the world of design began at Space working with iconic brands and designers in a dream role that continues to inspire.

The mercurial world of Bocci

From molten wax set in beautiful, frozen motion, a bolt of lightning fused into droplets of metal, and experimentation with glass in a myriad of unusual ways, Omer Arbel likes nothing more than to explore the hidden secrets of materials – in particular glass for his internationally celebrated lighting brand Bocci.

Happy Birthday SP01!

Its debut drew the attention of editors, designers and architects and now, five year on, SP01's highly crafted furniture collections have gained wide international support with projects from New York to Cologne, Singapore, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Sydney.

Design Insiders x Kriszta Gabor

Where practicality goes, good design follows, remarks designer Kriszta Gabor who joins us for Design Insiders. For Kriszta, it was growing up amongst Budapest's modernist architecture that sparked her fascination with design and the storied histories behind the objects around us.

Inside Singapore's design studios – Fahrenheit

Named after the book Fahrenheit 451, Mel Yeo launched the studio in the late 1990s with a friend from university and a passion for exploratory design projects. Today, Fahrenheit has a reputation for beautifully detailed residential interiors Yeo describes as “serene" with "a sense of inner peace".

The magic inside Jacopo Foggini's Milanese laboratory

Inside Singapore's design studios – Topic Design Studio

More Space meets Tan Sze Ling who founded Topic Design Studio on the success of two bungalows at Ocean Drive in Sentosa Cove and a swathe of new clients. Now a team of seven designers, the studio balances a range of residential projects for expats that "sometimes leads us to unexpected and exciting design results”, and clients whose homes are now places for corporate entertaining too.

The language of clay inside Italian ceramics studio Rometti

Born and raised in Umbertide, a small town “immersed in the Umbrian countryside, among woods, streams and medieval walls,” since 1927 the Italian ceramics studio Rometti has adapted and re-formed artisan practice, shaping ancient clay with bold expressiveness and opening up the studio to visiting artists from around the world.

Athena Calderone explores the ‘swoonyness’ of the Camaleonda

"The modern girl’s Martha Stewart" wrote the New York Times when describing Brooklyn-based Athena Calderone, the multidisciplinary creative behind EyeSwoon's love of design, food and entertaining. Athena recently teamed up with B&B Italia to explore the "swoonyness" of the classic Camaleonda.  

Design Insiders x David Hartikainen

Visiting architect Moshe Safdie’s groundbreaking Habitat 67 building in Montreal had a big impact on David Hartikainen whose design career is richly layered. More Space meets David for Design Insiders, a series that introduces the creative thinkers behind the Space brand.

Maxalto and the rituals of design

The classics by B&B Italia

Since the 1960s, B&B Italia has led a trailblazing mission to open up new furniture typologies by revolutionising craft through innovation. Now after more than 50 years working with Mario Bellini to Patricia Urquiola, Antonio Citterio and Jean-Marie Massaud, the furniture powerhouse has become synonymous with award-winning classics that connect with us way beyond their function.

Design Insiders x Alexandra Charnock

This month we launch Design Insiders, a More Space series that introduces the creative thinkers behind the Space brand. Here we meet Alexandra Charnock, a graduate of interior architecture who is fascinated by design and the architects, buildings and furniture that define the industry.

Italian brand Baxter arrives at Space

The combination of experience and passion and a desire not to follow the rules, Italian brand Baxter works closely with designers Piero Lissoni, Paola Navone and Studiopepe, innovating the traditions of leather production to make it the hero of every collection.

Inside Singapore's design studios – Wolf

Wolf cofounder Brandon Liu was drawn to Singapore to explore workplace design in a city where established corporations rub shoulders with tech startups. In the following interview, More Space and Liu discuss Netflix, Uber, Toyota and Bytedance, and the cultural changes to the workplace status quo that are opening up new possibilities for design.

The many faces of a design icon

The Original Ptolomeo bookshelf is a truly inventive design. Both playful and practical, it is described as a mix between “magic, art and function” and has been awarded the world’s highest accolade for design – the Compasso d’Oro.

A new collaboration for B&B Italia and Yabu Pushelberg

Yabu Pushelberg’s work is focused on “how they make people feel” and for their first design collection for B&B Italia, the studio drew inspiration from nature, creating a sophisticated sofa collection that balances softness with design rigour.

The 'Architects' Apartment' launches at Space Asia Hub

With the arrival of leading Italian design brand Living Divani at the Space Asia Hub in Singapore, the team at Space has launched the 'Architects' Apartment’ a dedicated interior merging art and design and created in collaboration with Living Divani.

A return to craft through the lens of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna

Drawing on the past but not getting lost in it, the Gebrüder Thonet Vienna group has a 160 year history of innovation working with the world's best designers and a palette of materials transformed through pure craftsmanship and ingenuity.