Inside Out January 2020

Finally! The best four weeks of the year are here. It’s January. If you’re reading Inside Out stretched out on some beach or sun lounger, in-between dips and languidly working your way through the magazine, planning big changes or small purchases for your place this year, we want you to know that our team made this issue especially for you. Intrepid interiors reporter Sarah Pickette spent the month deep in background research for our Trends 2020 story on page 40, unearthing what our most-admired designers are planning across their projects this year. We are not interested in fake news; we want to know what is really going on globally. Regardless of whether you decide to take or leave the big trends of 2020, you can pick your way through our guide…

Finally! The best four weeks of the year are here. It’s January. If you’re reading Inside Out stretched out on some beach or sun lounger, in-between dips and languidly working your way through the magazine, planning big changes or small purchases for your place this year, we want you to know that our team made this issue especially for you. Intrepid interiors reporter Sarah Pickette spent the month deep in background research for our Trends 2020 story on page 40, unearthing what our most-admired designers are planning across their projects this year. We are not interested in fake news; we want to know what is really going on globally. Regardless of whether you decide to take or leave the big trends of 2020, you can pick your way through our…

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INSPIRED DESIGN NEW WAVES With soft rolling waves in mind, architect Daniel Boddam has designed his striking new Coast furniture collection. Shown here are the Wave bed, Malibu side table and Celeste wall sconce – all clean, calm pieces with clear beachside references. The curved bedhead is a soft-structured marvel inspired by waves, and the sconces suggest pearls in an oyster – just the ticket for a bedroom with a beach view. See more at DANIELBODDAM.COM BOOKS McCAHON COUNTRY This beautiful book, featuring some of the best work by New Zealand landscape artist Colin McCahon, is a journey through his life’s work. Writer and curator Justin Paton delves into Colin’s different eras and styles — all moody and earthy — making it very seductive coffee-table material. $59.99, Penguin. HEAVEN SCENT TOMATO The cult fragrance of the moment is…

Natalie Rosin SCULPTOR, SYDNEY Working with a temperamental material like clay might seem counterintuitive for the exacting mind of an architecture student, but for Natalie Rosin, who undertook a ceramics subject in the last two years of her study and never looked back, the unpredictability was strangely attractive. “I don’t know why I chose clay, but it’s like family; you can’t choose them yet you unconditionally love them.” Although she put aside a career in architecture to pursue art full-time in 2017, her background still has a strong influence on her practice, with Modernist architects such as Le Corbusier, Harry Seidler and Robin Boyd informing her design aesthetic. What Natalie loves most about creating art is the process. “The constraints of clay really interest me,” she says. “I love how the material…

A painting by British artist Faye Toogood inspired this handmade rug so it’s only fitting the larger, softer sister has her own wall show. Part of the six-piece Doodles Collection from cc-tapis, which is described as “painterly, abstract and free-thinking”, Seated Nude is captured here with a Driade chair affectionately known as Roly Poly, also by the multi-disciplinary design star. Faye, we salute you. Seated Nude, $14,580, from Poliform; poliformaustralia.com.au…