Milan Furniture Fair 2012

The Milan furniture fair has come and gone for another year. For those who don’t know much about this, it is the most anticipated event on the international design calendar. It is a time where designers from all disciplines get together to live and breathe all things ‘Design’.

This year the current trend was looking at the well designed classics and tapping into the current trends of colour, graphics and sculptural architecture.

The Artek stand at the main Milan fairground clearly represented this idea. The installation by designer Christian Meiré used colour in a way that made us look again at classics such as the Alvar Aalto designed ‘Stool 60′, a design that has become more popular in the near 90 years since its release.

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Best Renovations & Additions

As an architectural design practice it is always a thrill to be featured in publications. Here at Boddam Whetham we are delighted to have two of our residential architectural projects featured in ‘Best Renovations & Additions’ by Abode and Think Publishing. Read more →

Our approach to heritage projects

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Alberto Campo Baeza

The Australian Institute of Architects’ International Speaker Series brought an inspiring Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza to Sydney.

Baeza gave a passionate speech about the architect’s role as a creator, investigator, and poet. His work deals with light and gravity. “Gravity constructs space, establishes the order of the space and that light constructs time.” Read more →

El Bulli Hotel ‘Hotel Benazuza’, Seville

El Bulli Hotel ‘Hotel Benazuza’ Seville

Chef Ferran Adria from El Bulli has created a sensorial boutique hotel where food can be enjoyed in an exotic environment. The setting in a 19^th century Olive Oil refinery, that has been converted into a five star hotel with Moorish and Renaissance architecture influences. The typical Hispanic courtyard has exquisite manicured gardens. As a practicing Heritage Architect in Sydney I really appreciated the built history of the building that has been preserved and enhanced with the subtle alterations.

Kelly and I went there for her birthday. We had a degustation meal of opposites, from salted ice cream to seafood spumes. The meal commenced b Read more →

Interior Architecture – Additional Elegance for Point Piper Apartment

We recently completed this interior alteration and addition to a waterfront apartment in the Sienna building in Point Piper. Elegance was achieved through a combination of dark and light finishes creating a calming backdrop for furniture and art.

The reading room at the rear of the apartment creates an intimate break out space for reading. The bespoke joinery incorporates mood lighting combined with black gloss polyeurathane and upholstered walls create an ambient setting for reading. The walls are lined with horizontal bookshelves that incorporate display boxes with integrated lighting in different sizes as structural elements proving a focal point and pause between books.

You find more information on this  project within the Interior Architecture section of our main website.

Picasso, Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris

Picasso
Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
Art Gallery of New South Wales demonstrates Pablo’s immense body of work – a must see!
Whether a great artist or architect, one thing is common in the creative endeavour – critics often try and define your work in terms of a style or a period. Pablo often defied such notions much to his critic’s dismay. During his cubist periods he would sometimes paint a neoclassical work at the same time. Pablo covered a range of periods from his Blue, Rose, impressionist, expressionist, cubist, neoclassical and abstract. To him “painting is just another way of keeping a diary” and ‘’If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme’’. Pablo Picasso.
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Belle the Decorating Issue

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