Australian House & Garden - April 2016_

H&G INSIDER

68 / AUSTRALIAN HOUSE & GARDEN

NoFrost technology

eliminates the need

to defrost fridges.

1954 1987

The fridge company

is founded by Hans

Liebherr in Germany.

DESIGN EVOLUTION

Liebherr fridge

1966

The FrostSafe

system improves

frozen food storage.

TASTE OF HOME

Interior designer Adele

Winteridge of Melbourne’s

Foolscap Studio gave

pop-up restaurant Noma

Australia (pictured below)

a local fl avour.

I love what chef René

Redzepi and Noma

stand for. René’s brief for

Noma Australia was that

the design should be

uniquely Australian. It

should incorporate the use

of fi re in the cooking and

focus on coastal regions.

From a design perspective,

we distilled this into

simply ‘Land and Water’.

The colours speak of the

meeting point between

land and water: earth

tones and dark timbers,

light-golden curtains

and fl ecks of green to

signify new growth.

In a restaurant, you fi rst

experience the space on a

macro scale – things such

as light and architectural

forms – and then at a very

personal level when you’re

seated at the table. With a

degustation, you can be

sitting at the table for up

to four hours, so the detail

is vital. The experience all

comes down to the senses

• tactility, smell,
  acoustics, ergonomics
  and aesthetics.
  Foolscap Studio;
  (03) 9012 6637 or
  foolscapstudio.com.au. >

A

s the heart of the home, the

kitchen is the place where

households gravitate to eat,

socialise and, increasingly, to work.

So it’s timely that Australian industrial

designer Charles Wilson (inset) has

developed the versatile Carafe table,

a dining table that responds beautifully

to the needs of modern living. “In my

apartment, the dining table is the most-used piece of furniture,”

says Wilson. “A good dining table should be able to seamlessly

segue from functional work area to elegant entertaining surface

and back again.” The perfectly proportioned table features

cantilevered shelves at either end and a faceted

drawer: just the thing for stashing electronic

devices, homework, reading material and

stationery when it’s time to dine. Discreet

cut-outs for cables in the base of the drawer

keep you connected so you can pick up where

you left off after dinner. Available in white

oak, cherry wood (left) or black-stained ash

(above). From $5360 (1340x860cm).

Living Edge; 1300 132 154 or

http://www.livingedge.com.au.

WORK/LIFE BALANCE

Text by Christina Gee (Charles Wilson) & Georgia Madden (Adele Winteridge). Photography by Maree Homer (Charles Wilson) & LendLease (Noma Australia).