Design Anthology, Asia Pacific Edition

Design Anthology, Asia Edition is a luxury interiors, design, art and architecture magazine, with a strong focus on Asia and it's burgeoning creative scene. Aimed at a sophisticated, well-travelled audience, we aim to provide a reading experience that will transport and inspire you.

FROM THE EDITOR

DESIGN ANTHOLOGY

OUR WORLD

Dossier • People, products and places to know

OPENINGS

PRODUCTS

Reading List

Forging Ahead • David Caon’s career has taken him to the other side of the globe and back. The Sydney-based industrial designer grew up in Adelaide, then relocated to Paris to work with fellow Australian Marc Newson. Caon returned to Australia in 2009 and established his own multidisciplinary practice, Caon Design Office. In the years since, his small yet skilled team has come to count names such as Australian flag carrier Qantas and chef Neil Perry among its loyal clients.

Brass Tacks • Working exclusively with brass sheet, Indian designer Vikram Goyal explores and celebrates the country’s metalwork traditions, refining age-old techniques to create collectible design pieces.

All in Place • A Place Where is a former printing facility turned experimental retail incubator, community space and creative hotbed.

At Play • Emerging Korean designers Soowon Chae and Seok-Hyeon Yoon met as students in Eindhoven, recognising in each other a playful spirit that would eventually take form as design studio The Naive Side.

New Threads • These ateliers are pushing boundaries with unconventional materials to produce innovative, beautiful textiles.

Style • Fashion for the design-conscious

Artistic Approach • Philippine designer-artist Jerome Lorico studied under British design legend Alexander McQueen before returning home to weave his own legacy.

Form & Function • Utility meets style in these pieces, which are as hard-working as they are good-looking.

Wanderlust • Designer destinations

Community Roots • SOIL is a new community revitalisation initiative that launched its pilot project in Setoda on Ikuchijima island.

Majestic Mustang • Bill Bensley brings Nepal’s Mustang region to life for adventurous travellers with the Shinta Mani Mustang.

Openings

Vernissage • Perspectives from the art world

Liquid Gold • Lacquer art is being revived in its traditional heartland of China, Japan and Korea, but not necessarily in traditional ways.

Home • Spaces that inspire

Feeling Over Form

City Sanctum

Rural Romance

Cool Curves

Australian Charm

Architectonics • Surveying the built environment

Melbourne Made • BAR Studio’s newly repurposed warehouse studio is cleverly sewn into the creative fabric of Collingwood, full of thoughtful detail and ideas gleaned from two decades of exceptional hospitality design.

The Prawoto Legacy

The Breath of Bijoy Jain

The Price of Progress