Belle

Belle is an interior design and decoration magazine, with a focus on Australia and the world’s finest homes. Belle keeps readers up to date with local and international news and trends in design, interiors, art, architecture, furniture, fabrics and wallpaper, food, travel and luxury goods.

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Editor’s Letter

Right Now • What’s taking shape in the ever-evolving worlds of luxury architecture and interior design?

Brut Force • Seeing Brutalist masterpieces of the 20th century up close ignited Shaun Carter’s career in architecture.

Faithful Design

Clear Winner

Wooded Wonder

Viewpoint

Stepping Up

Thinking caps • Inspired ruminations on life’s joys and challenges manifest in external artforms.

Belle fanuli Interior Design Awards Ida 2023 • The talented winners of 2023 celebrated at a Mediterraneaninspired soiree with a big designloving crowd.

Chic Agenda • Belle’s seeker of luxe, style editor-at-large Steve Cordony, reports from the frontline of la dolce vita.

Luxe Files

Village Greens • Washed inside and out in white with liberal swatches of emerald, olive and jade all about, this is a flourishing niche for a designer and her young family.

Fresh start

Mediterranean Magic • A love of timeless Italian design drew Alex and Trahanas to share their vision of sun-dappled days on faraway shores and, now, a freshly chiselled collaboration with designer David Caon dovetails with their tabletop dreams.

Reign supreme • Take command with tailored suits, opulent accessories and ornate decor.

Dress to empress • Embrace soft silhouettes, sparkling jewels and filigree details in revolutionary style.

Whimsical Weekender • Hitting the sweet spot with interiors for The Gables homestead the Duet designers turn their inspired hands to the reception, cabana, pool and spa.

Heaven Scent • Tamsin Johnson’s divinely inspired interiors for Libertine Parfumerie’s first Sydney retail presence have a liberal spritz of French style.

Beauty Therapy • Prestige cosmetics retailer Mecca called on interior designers Studio Tate to re-imagine its mid-century warehouse offices. The result? Super-stylish premises that radiate the brand’s values.

Clothes Encounter • Perri Cutten has been dressing stylish Australian women for over 40 years. When its Mosman store was ready for a revamp Brahman Perera was the man to fashion it.

Smart Spaces • These eight now-fabulous homes, from Melbourne to the Gold Coast and Sydney, capitalised on their potential and made assets of constraints.

Homes • Embedded in the beauty of their stunning dress-circle locations, these freshly refurbished homes enjoy a rich inner life as well.

Glass act • A pavilion-style Sydney penthouse receives a loving makeover by two designers who have created an inner-city oasis in the clouds.

On solid Ground • Terra firma hues and a muted palette bring this house back down to earth.

Fine Vintage • A significant heritage property in Victoria has been given a polished new persona by its dedicated owners which seamlessly integrates antiquity and modernity.

Double vision • A grand home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs receives an inspired makeover that honours the past while looking to the future.

On The Edge • Cascading down a steep slope to the water this new home in Sydney’s North Shore keeps a discreet profile enveloped by the lush garden that cradles it.

Top Level • Glamour and opulence abound in this Sydney home designed by Greg Natale that answers the owners’ desire for modern apartment-style living.

Champagne taste • Sydney publicist Alice Moore says her workspace is “like a gift shop”, flooded with samples of the...