A light-filled jewel announces Space Singapore's flagship renewal by WOHA

Space Asia Hub’s Singapore flagship has received a major renovation by the award-winning team at WOHA architects that further enhances the building’s dynamic interiors, and, as Space’s CEO Leighton Clarke remarks, develops the richly layered spatial experiences allowing pieces by designers from Piero Lissoni to Patricia Urquiola to sing.

Summer reading – From science fiction to social dynamics, how the 70s shaped the sofa

It was 1972 when the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened the exhibition, ‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape,’ headlined by designers including Mario Bellini, Cini Boeri and Tito Agnoli. Radical in both concept and ambition, it pinpointed design’s shifting landscape and the invention of the modular sofa system, a design that 50 years later continues to shape how we connect.

Colour forward at Gebrüder Thonet Vienna

First presented in Milan 2023, the softly rounded Luftballon collection designed by Vatler Cagna for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna is inspired by the voluminous contours of a balloon. Carefully balanced in size and proportion, the armchair and sofa are quirky and full of personality, with sinuous lines and soft curves distinguished by large sculptural cushions. The range highlights the company’s ancestral know-how, its punchy colours adding a contemporary layer to the traditional blonde or dark-stained wood.

Creating Space: Inspired by...

In the final of More Space's Creating Space series, we look at Space's focus on sharing interiors that inspire. Launching A Life Individual almost 10 years ago, the film and print campaign would explore the evolving spaces we live in and the uniquely creative ways we shape our homes. Featuring stylist Megan Morton and artist Andrea Sullivan, along with creative directors, designers, doctors, and the playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, each interior revealed how the objects chosen provided joy and beauty.

Creating Space: The designers...

As More Space takes a look at the early days of Space, we revisit the design festivals, award programs, talks, workshops and Space+Design Residency that have shaped Space’s modus operandi. Opening the doors to designers from Milan, Paris, São Paulo, London, Amsterdam and New York to share background stories behind design collections, and take part in curated local events, has added an important cultural layer and fostered a broader understanding of how design shapes our lives.

Creating Space: The early days...

To help celebrate Space’s 30th birthday, More Space is taking a design ride back to the early days in a three-part series. From the launch of Space’s architecturally designed showrooms in Sydney and Melbourne in 1993, to the bold SPACE identity and cache of campaigns, the design festivals, installations and international design guests, architects, designers and clients who have embraced design icons for their projects and homes, we explore Space’s design journey across South East Asia, and talk to some of the people instrumental in shaping who Space is today.

Capella Hotel Sydney

The recipient of a World’s Best Award from readers of Travel + Leisure magazine this year, the new Capella Sydney hotel involved the renewal of the former Department of Education, a grand heritage-listed Edwardian Baroque sandstone building in Sydney's CBD.

Whipbird, a house in balance with nature

When Space Atelier began a collaboration with Jayden Zernich and his award winning firm, Zerni, the approach to a new house on the Sunshine Coast by architects Minnow Studio, would take shape around soaring volumes, natural light, raw materials, fine details and timeless furniture, and create connection with the interior, the site’s natural landscape and views over the region's famous hinterland.

Allianz Stadium

The completion of Sydney’s Allianz Stadium interior was the first collaboration between the Space Commercial team and Venues NSW. Working closely with Tara Alcom at Venues NSW, the project brief focused on the selection of commercial furniture pieces that would elevate and transform the spaces across all of the stadium’s public areas and beyond the traditional stadium interior aesthetic. This approach allowed the introduction of Spanish brand Viccarbe, along with Space’s trusted brand partners including B&B Italia, Moooi, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH, SP01, Arflex and Kartell, a collection of world-leading brands that design for the rigour of the public space environment without compromising elegance or finesse.

Foscarini, beginning with light

Founded in 1981 on the Venetian Island of Murano, the Italian lighting brand Foscarini is known for their collaborations with Patricia Urquiola and Rodolfo Dordoni, the iconic design collections Caboche, Buds and Twiggy, and an innovative approach to materials and manufacturing. In a two-part series, More Space dives into Foscarini’s distinctive vision and creativity hub, that now includes the evocative lighting group Ingo Maurer, and their deep interest in our emotive responses to light. 

A Night at the Opera

In an enviable position nestled between The Royal Botanic Garden and the meandering foreshore of Sydney historic Macquarie Street, this grand residence on Sydney Harbour does justice to its location and outlook. Recently featured on Belle Magazine, with an exclusive interview with David Hartikainen, our Head of Interiors & Atelier Design Service, we gained an intimate glimpse into the creative process behind the scenes.

Milanese maestras: Bernhardt-Vella, Chiara Andreatti and Patricia Urquiola

In the final of our series that celebrates International Women’s Day through the work of world-renowned designers, More Space explores the design catalogues of four design studios based in Milan: Ellen Bernhardt and Paola Vella of Bernhardt-Vella, Chiara Andreatti and Patricia Urquiola’s Studio Urquiola.

Eileen Gray, taming the avant-garde

A contemporary of Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray was a painter, photographer, designer and self-taught architect who moved to Paris in 1917 and became known for an avant-garde approach to furniture and architecture, and a thoroughly modern view that design should lead to ‘a complete harmonious, and logical life’.

Cini Boeri, design trailblazer

The remarkable career of designer and architect the late Cini Boeri, who was affectionately known as the "lady of Italian design”, is an important legacy. One of the first women to graduate in architecture, then working with Gio Ponti and Marco Zanuso before setting up her own studio, Boeri was at the forefront of the groundbreaking ideas coming out of Italy in the 1960s and 70s.

Ettore Sottsass: architect, poet and master of Memphis

A career designing buildings, furniture, electronics, ceramics, lighting, jewellery and textiles, Ettore Sottsass was a man of the world who wrote poetry and collected friends including Allen Ginsberg, Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso. His colourful, evocative work pushed and pulled the design industry's toy, industrialisation, to create pieces that expressed an attitude that still connects today.

The high tech, hand made world of Edra

With legendary art director Massimo Morozzi, founders Valerio and Monica Mazzei launched Edra in the final days of the Memphis movement, developing a research hub where designers Francesco Binfaré and Fernando and Humberto Campana helped establish Edra's reputation for art, innovation and a fascination for the avant-garde. 

Eternally Yours – Lily Goodwin

Paring back without losing 'interest, joy or a sense of poetry,' Pattern Studio's Lily Goodwin and Josh Cain are naturally drawn to refinement, their interiors honed and textured and evoking the 'essence' of each brief. Here, More Space chats with Lily about Pattern's design approach, the projects that define their studio, and why Mario Bellini’s Camaleonda Sofa makes all of their 1970s dreams come true.

Turning the tables

With open plan living the table is at the heart of the home. It is the place where we sit with family and friends to eat, drink and talk about our day, and it has become a workspace for children and adults alike as many of us navigate a home/work balance for at least part of the week.

Toorak House

The owners of this grand house in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak, filled the rooms with antique furniture. But they were ready for a change of direction, engaging Larritt-Evans to simplify the spaces and bring in a strong contemporary feel. This house now features pristine white walls, steel and glass windows that increase the natural light and, importantly, new streamlined furniture throughout. Pivotal to the new furniture is the SP01 Yee Storage, which is recognised for its exquisitely detailed furniture and unique storage solutions.

The House on Lizard Island

On the northern point of the Great Barrier Reef, the World Heritage-listed Lizard Island is one of the most private places on earth. Here, More Space catches up with The House’s owner Steve Wilson and interior designer, Sophie Hart, to chat about their creative collaboration that has produced a robust holiday home that balances aesthetic rigour with relaxed comfor

Visiting One Barangaroo with Babak Moini

Up high in the One Barangaroo tower we meet Babak Moini, whose collaboration with Space began with an open brief and full 'artistic freedom'. The project would dig deep into the collection, drawing out dynamic pieces that create a layered and personal collection that's fun and adventurous and the perfect foil to the dramatic panoram

The Cliffhanger, a balance between fortress and retreat

Perched high above Toowoomba with views to Tabletop Mountain, Picnic Point and Brisbane, the Cliffhanger House by Joe Adsett Architects is both a fortress and a retreat where the vastness of the landscape is tempered by a finely detailed interior softened by texture, scale and light.

How Jane Chuck created her new 'MotherQuarters'

When Jane Chuck, the influential founder of beauty and lifestyle brands Chuck's and Motherchucker's, first saw the work of Jun Ong of POW, it was at the light installation 'Star,' a huge LED sculpture inspired by nature and outer space. More Space catches up with two of the busiest creatives in the business to discuss the design DNA behind the transformation of the former APW printing factory and how colour and detail have shaped the soul of her new HQ.

Twomorrow Jewellery

Situated within the conservation shophouses of Duxton Hill and recently awarded Silver at the Singapore Interior Design Awards 2022, the project involved interior planning and branding by Right Angle Studio and features the Meteor collection by Serralunga.