Hotel Find: United Places Melbourne

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Attention to detail is certainly not spared at United Places Melbourne, one of the city’s recent additions to the hotel scene. Melbourne’s upscale South Yarra neighborhood is the perfect backdrop for the thoughtfully designed property, which offers high-end amenities and a personalised concierge service. Darren Rubenstein, property developer, and first-time hotelier, dreamt of United Places […]

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The Curators: Broached Commissions’ Lou Weis on rethinking Australia’s cultural aesthetic

Australia’s aesthetic identity has at times been defined by its imperial British heritage (at best) or an insipid form of exoticism (at worst). More recently, however, the island nation’s isolation from the international design scene has been inspiring a new generation of Australian creatives to use design to delve into Australia’s historical and cultural identity; […]

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Café Find: Brother Baba Budan Melbourne

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Competition is rife in Melbourne’s specialty coffee scene but Brother Baba Budan, named after the world’s first coffee smuggler, has built a highly regarded reputation that has lasted ever since it opened 2007. The pint-sized gem of a café has a reputation inverse to its size, meaning you can almost always expect to queue for […]

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