Each week, we highlight a selection of global design headlines, from standout projects to innovative product launches and industry moments. Celebrating craftsmanship, creativity, and contemporary design, this week’s highlights include new releases and must-visit from the 2025 Rigg Design Prize unveiled at the NGV, KEEP presented at Cult Sydney bringing together six leading Australian architects from Kennedy Nolan to Richards Stanisich and Edition Office, the unveiling of Pallion Garden Terrace at AGNSW, and Ferm Living‘s latest collection launch.
Ferm Living Launches AW25
Embracing Neo-Romanticism, the new collection weaves Art Deco, Victorian and pre-Bauhaus references into sculptural, tactile forms rooted in memory and emotion.
KEEP Opens at Cult Sydney
Presented by AHEC and curated by David Clark, KEEP brings together six leading Australian architects—Kennedy Nolan, Virginia Kerridge, Lineburg Wang, Richards Stanisich with Meg Ashforth, Edition Office and Neil Durbach—to reimagine furniture through timeless design and sustainable American hardwoods.
Pallion Garden Terrace Unveiled at AGNSW
A landmark gift from Pallion, the new Garden Terrace at the Art Gallery of NSW transforms Sydney’s cultural landscape. Designed by Kathryn Gustafson, the civic-scale space is conceived as a living gallery—connecting architecture, nature, and contemporary art. The unveiling also marks the next chapter of the Pallion Arts Program, with Guido Maestri’s Old Man Banks sculpture installed as the terrace’s first public artwork.
NGV Presents the 2025 Rigg Design Prize: Next in Design
Australia’s highest accolade for contemporary design returns with Next in Design, spotlighting leading creatives under 35 working across furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and metalwork.