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

CHIC AGENDA • There are things to see, places to be: the latest destinations and designs unfailingly fire the creative mind of style director-at-large Steve Cordony. Here’s what he has his eye on now…

INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS • It was a soiree to honour the winners of this year’s Belle Fanuli Interior Design Awards. Glamorous guests dressed up for the occasion and celebrated a return to fun.

RIGHT NOW • Feast your eyes on the latest design books, architecture and art, focus on luxury goods, and explore the Belle Bazaar.

Different stripe • Fostering revolutionary ideas, image makers animate our visual world.

ROLE MODELS • Channeling its ground-breaking DNA, this practice pursues the expression of the serene, timeless and ephemeral.

Universal STUDIO • Materialising his dream of an ultra-luxe atelier for high-end furniture, fine art and objets from the world’s finest artisans, gallerist Jack Freeman of Freeman Gallery established an exclusive showroom in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

Crowning glory • Romantic flourishes challenge tradition in a right royal drama.

Princely player • Old-school ties, tweedy gear and racy motors inspire a monarch-in-waiting.

INFLUENCES • CAPTURING HAPPINESS IN HER NOSTALGIC, PAINTERLY WORKS, NEW ZEALAND-BORN SYDNEYSIDER PHOTOGRAPHER POPPIE PACK IS NOW ALSO A GALLERIST IN WILLIAM STREET, PADDINGTON NSW, WHERE YOU’LL FIND HER ‘SALTY’ PRINTS WITH EVOCATIVE TITLES SUCH AS DECEMBER STARDUST (WHIMSICAL SCENE OF SURFERS UNDER A CANDY-TONED HORIZON), LIKE LEMONADE (BEACHGOERS SPLASHING IN A FROTH OF CRYSTAL-CLEAR WATERS AT TAMARAMA BEACH), STONE WASH WAIHEKE (YACHT SAILING ON THE GLISTENING WATERS OF WAIHEKE ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND) AND POST COAST COFFEE AND DIP (SUNSEEKERS ON THE STEPS OF BONDI ICEBERGS). CLASSIFIED ON HER WEBSITE UNDER DESTINATION (FROM BONDI AND BYRON TO INDIA AND HAWAII), COLOUR (PASTEL-PERFECT PINKS, BLUES AND GREENS TO MONOCHROME) AND VIBE (SURF, BEACH, OCEAN), POPPIE’S WORKS ARE OF SUBJECTS SHE LOVES AS SHE SHOOTS BEAUTY WHERE SHE FINDS IT, INCLUDING IMAGES OF FLOWERS AND PALM TREES ALONG WITH THE AMBIENCE OF A LATE-NIGHT FRENCH CAFÉ. HERE, SHE SHARES HER FAVOURITE THINGS. POPPIEPACK.SHOP

At HOME • Beautifully adorned with a carefully curated selection of Louis Vuitton desirables and Objets Nomades, Sydney’s historic Ginahgulla, built for the Fairfax publishing family in 1854, looks resplendent, demonstrating the art of living Vuitton style.

Words of wisdom • Designers share their know-how.

belle bazaar • Poised to bring a lightness of heart to interiors, sculptural forms with a mid-century heritage softened with nubbled upholstery, lashings of marble or drizzled in gilt.

ACCIDENTALLY FABULOUS [Sydney] • Seeking change, these owners made a quantum leap, making more of less and using every trick in the book to conjure a bewitching slice of heaven to call home.

TIME HONOURED [Point Piper]

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PAST MASTERY [Melbourne]

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA [Sydney]

LIGHTNESS OF BEING [Melbourne]

WAKE-UP CALL [Darlinghurst]

HOMES • The threads of fine design weave through this rich seam of world-class homes, from our shores and beyond.

TEQUILA SUNRISE • A playful sunny vibe spliced with intimations of chic resorts in exotic locations underpins the...