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, we explore this week’s latest design news from SKUPA, Josee Vesely-Manning, Pierre Yovanovitch, David/Nicolas & Ronan Bouroullec for Mutina.
Photography by Gavin Green
In Addition Wins SKUPA’s Colour Study 26
Six Australian studios each developed a colour for SKUPA’s Spula Stool in solid oak, put to public vote. Melbourne studio In Addition’s mineral blue took the win and joins SKUPA’s permanent collection from October, alongside the brand’s founding red and black.
Photography courtesy of Pierre Yovanovitch
Pierre Yovanovitch Releases Eighteen Interiors With Rizzoli
The French designer’s second monograph gathers eighteen recent projects from Paris to Istanbul and the Swiss Alps, with a foreword by Luca Guadagnino, published this September to mark his practice’s anniversary.
Photography by Pier Carthew
Josee Vesely-Manning Debuts Cult Vessel at Useful Objects
Developed with Canberra Glassworks, a suite of hand-blown glass perfume bottles explores the vessel as a container for ritual, alongside large painted banners in mineral pigment and three new fragrances by Sweet Caroline. At Useful Objects, Collingwood, Wednesday to Saturday, until 10 October.
Photography by Piergiorgio Sorgetti
David/Nicolas Redefine La Boiserie for Modern Listening
David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem’s latest evolution of La Boiserie explores how the modular wood-panelling system can absorb hi-fi equipment without disrupting a room’s architectural coherence, unveiled during a listening session in Nicolas Moussallem’s own Milan apartment.
Photography courtesy of Mutina
Ronan Bouroullec’s Adagio for Mutina
A series of ceramic modules designed to be assembled by hand, Adagio generates scenic wall sculptures whose reticular structure recalls a woven fabric, available in five glossy colours and five two-colour combinations.
Photography courtesy of Mutina