Saskia Neacsu

Australia

Assistant Editor at Luxury Travel Magazine (Australia)

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The quiet return to enduring design

2 weeks ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

The balance between work and life has always been a complicated one in the modern world. The monotonous 9-5 can feel trite and can have a pernicious effect on our creativity. Since 2018, McMullin have positioned themselves as a conduit for artistic output, where the team is encouraged to explore “as many external influences as they can… from architecture, old interiors books, antique galleries and even their travels or experiences,” comments Alice McMullin, Founder of McMullin.
NO SUCH THING - Mountain Soil

2 weeks ago | indesignlive.com | Saskia Neacsu

NO SUCH THING by Mountain Soil is a concept store in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, that presents a response to its local context and functional needs. The space – spanning 300 square-metres – integrates fashion, accessories, footwear, home goods and art derivatives in a curatorial environment that respects its commercial nature and architectural surroundings. The approach introduces dual rectangular volumes, assigning the outer glass views to distinct spatial units.
Atelier 024 - Nicola Lucas

3 weeks ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

We spoke with Atelier 024 founder Nicola Lucas about permanence in design, Australia’s evolving design landscape, and curating and designing as two sides of the same coin. While the influx of stainless-steel tableware continues to populate our social media pages and tablescapes, perhaps few will know the story of Arne Jacobsen’s cutlery.
FK - Sofitel Sydney Wentworth

3 weeks ago | indesignlive.com | Saskia Neacsu

“The past is not dead. It is not even past,” William Faulkner once penned. There is a certain poetry in restoration. In cities shaped by time, the act of revisiting a landmark is about recalibration. What do we keep? What do we let go? What does it mean to occupy heritage without romanticising it? The Sofitel Sydney Wentworth has never been a neutral building. From its inception in 1966, this curved monolith of sandstone brick and steel carried the aspirations of an emerging global city.
Carr - Como Terraces

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

Landscape ArchitectureT.C.LComo Terraces elevates the very notion of what it means to live on the land, making an audacious statement about the future of design in Melbourne. There is something inherently transient about our relationship with land – a constant ebb and flow between permanence and the impermanence of human endeavour. As cities evolve, so must our approach to living with the land, acknowledging its immutable characteristics and the fluidity of our role within it.
Alexander &CO. - The Workshop

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

There are few modern dilemmas so persistently romanticised – and tediously moralised upon – than the pursuit of equilibrium between work and life. Somewhere between corporate sloganeering and wellness culture, the concept of separation has become gospel: compartmentalise, protect your personal time and close the laptop. But for those who build the world, such binary thinking rarely holds. Life and labour often draw from the same breath.
J.AR Office - The Warehouses

1 month ago | indesignlive.com | Saskia Neacsu

In the industrial periphery of Currumbin, where utilitarian sheds flank the streets, J.AR Office has reinterpreted a civic precinct with aplomb. The reconfiguration of five pre-existing sheds has been assiduously redesigned into The Warehouses. At the core of the industrial estate lies a human-centric internal vestibule demonstrating the importance of providing space for public life to occur even in the most unlikely of places — a shed.
J.AR Office - The Warehouses

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

Photography David ChatfieldJ.AR Office has redesigned the traditional warehouse typology into a paradisiacal, contemporary precinct. In the industrial periphery of Currumbin, where utilitarian sheds flank the streets, J.AR Office has reinterpreted a civic precinct with aplomb. The reconfiguration of five pre-existing sheds has been assiduously redesigned into The Warehouses.
Art in Residence - Nicole England

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

There’s a certain silence that falls in homes where art lives — not the sterile hush of a gallery, but a hum of presence. In the book Art in Residence, Nicole England invites us to witness it. It might be the way a painting alters the circulation of a cloister, how a well-worn sculpture softens a modernist line or how the shape of a room bends — almost imperceptibly — towards its most enamoured object.
Christian Ernemann on the architecture of inheritance

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

While Wendelbo is currently under the stewardship of its third generation, the company’s evolution feels less like a handover and more like a deliberate continuation. After a thirty-year tenure, the previous generation has just stepped back from hands-on responsibilities, retaining a seat on the board and a design advisory role.