
Neue Luxury • Issue 1 • Design • Feature • BY Ray Edgar SHARE
Australian High Commission
Design history in the making
One of Australian design’s most ambitious ventures, Broached Commissions is unusual in curating and commissioning its own designs. Using a core group of designers—Trent Jansen, Adam Goodrum and Charles Wilson—Lou Weis’s Melbourne-based venture is an exercise in design history. It explores how ideas arrived and evolved in Australia.

Neue Luxury • Issue 1 • Architecture • Feature • BY Neue Luxury SHARE
Hotel Otherworldly
The luxurious and the site specific
One does not often use the terms ‘guerilla’ and ‘anarchy’ to describe a luxury hotel experience. In much the same way you don’t typically imagine architects moving in secret, planning and scheming the reconfiguration of luxury hotel suites under the thin veil of a ‘do not disturb’ sign. But, Australian based architect Matthew Bird has never really viewed the world of luxury through a conventional lens.