RUSSH Home

A multi-disciplinary environment, RUSSH Home is a glimpse inside the spaces and internal worlds of creative minds within our global community who are uninterested in aesthetic conventions. Documenting creativity through intimate and original content, for which RUSSH has become known, RUSSH Home is the beginning of our conversation in the world of design.⁠

RUSSH Home

EDITOR’S LETTER

Daniel Boyd

COVETED • Objects reflect the feelings inside. Forever holding the story of why they were made, they serve us as tangible reminders of the life we hope for. Something we should never give up on…

It feels very intimate and special to have this space to call home. • Each door in LUCY FOLK’s newly created Boreen Point home is a different colour as it relates to the sunset. There’s also mustard cupboards, terracotta tiles, custom ceramic lights and Spanish robe curtains that could be kind of bonkers if it wasn’t all so tonally complimentary. Here, she talks to writer and film director Sophie Edelstein about how her most personal project yet is about connecting to nature and community. And comes with a garden, just right for mixing a mezcal in.

Here is a man with a library and a garden, who appears to want for nothing. • When the master of darkness, enigmatic Australian photographer BILL HENSON, meets with his tailor, Tom Riley, the cloth they discover is a stimulant for conversation around the physical things in the world – especially how one’s imagination navigates just those things. From his home in the inner Melbourne suburb of Northcote, Henson recognises the spirit of place, his deep connection with his garden and the impossibility of Opera. “At least it recommends the truth, which is what all great art does.”

It is what unites us, as one being in a common celebration of coming together to share a meal. • Sharing and cooking a meal – the most ancient carrier of culture of all time – is at the heart of what LAILA GOHAR has crafted as her way of living, her purpose in this world.

I think we are both challenging ourselves and in the end, we are both wrong and right. • Architect and designer, SOPHIE DRIES, and her sculptor and architect boyfriend, MARC LESCHELIER, believe that once you know a language, you should deconstruct it. They explore their home in the 11th Arrondissement with photographer and friend, Adrian Meško, reflecting on how it has evolved from a space in-between with almost next to no furniture, to a full-blown conversation around the cosmic essence of matter.

While model and aesthete ALEXANDRA AGOSTON is a fixture of downtown New York, it has always been all about Paris.

For photographer ROB TENNENT, it’s all about going with the flow and following the process – because it is there that the magic happens.

Melbourne artist BRENDAN HUNTLEY stepped out from a punk band and into primordial sculptures. Now, it’s all white noise.

For ENY PARKER, her world abounds in colour, shape and texture, with art an inherent part of her being.

Illustrator and film maker QUENTIN JONES is the kind of woman who will dine out alone. Wine and a bowl of a pasta – that’s her hedonism now.

For Maison Balzac’s Director, ELISE PIOCH, living is all about spending time by the sea, collecting chairs and never ceasing to dream.

BOOKS

PORTFOLIO • Artists need to create: their vitality and life force depends on it and our world in turn becomes more expansive. Here are some of our most contagious contemporary Australian artists of the moment.

Masters of Design

FRANK wears GUCCI® Pet Collection • Frank is a Sydney-based Beaglier. A Scorpio, he loves long naps in front of the fire and bird watching in his garden. Where was the best meal of your life? 10 William Street, Paddington. Item you are most coveting… A mid-century dog bed. The...