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eat your greens

haiko cornelissen architecten
I stumbled across this little piece of creative thinking recently and I have to say, I think it’s genius. Bringing the outdoors in has never been quite so literal! Based around the idea of making the rural picnic accessible to city dwellers this great structure, called the picNYC table was launched by the Dutch firm [...]
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eco outdoor showcasing qut graduates’ design

Eco Outdoor Brisbane
Eco Outdoor Brisbane were honoured last Friday evening to showcase QUT’s (Queensland University of Technology) landscape architecture graduates’ work. We had a great turn out of over 250 people to view the final works of the fourth year students and congratulations to all those students who received awards. We wish all of you the very [...]
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eco outdoor at alowyn gardens

Eco Outdoor at Alowyn Gardens
Last weekend the Melbourne team was lucky enough to get a guided tour of the spectacular Alowyn Gardens, created by John Vandelinde of Jay Vee Landscaping. John, who created the gardens with his wife Prue, walked us through each section of the garden and gave us an insight into the motivation behind and beauty of [...]
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deep green landscaping in-store this sat

perth blog
For those of you kicking around the western side of this great land we’ve got two fantastic Spring Experts in-store at our Osborne Park showroom this Saturday. Julian Rose and Stewart Windsor of Deep Green Landscaping are our experts on hand to answer any of your landscape design or gardening questions. If you haven’t met [...]
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hugh burnett from good manors in-store saturday

Hugh Burnett - Good Manors
This Saturday, November 5 Hugh Burnett from Good Manors will be in our Brookvale Showroom to chat with you about landscape design and garden ideas. Come on in with pictures of your gardens, rough drawings or even plans and take away expert advice from one of the best in the business. Drop by between 10am [...]
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tealight wit!

Tealights
We all love a bit of mood lighting while entertaining with good mates, cuddling up with a good movie or a lovie dovie night in. One designer that I really love is London based Martha Freud who works with a very natural ascetic. Her designs have a very natural feel which is what I love [...]
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Quietly looking for another job?

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Are you quietly looking for another job? Not wanting to make a splash this close to Christmas but secretly hoping that you stumble across the perfect gig that will allow you to throw in the towel and get moving onto a new career path or maybe you’re just looking for somewhere new to plant your [...]
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new retail concepts that last

Pure and General - Map
While I was out walking my dog Darcy (or Percy to some),  I discovered the ’Pure and General’ store in Potts Point. This is the creation of Linda Gregoriou and architect Dale Jones-Evans of dje.com.au. This store brings a fresh new retail concept to the Sydney market and first began when Linda, who was a [...]
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emerging artist

orb - damianvick.com
Melbourne based Artist Damian Vick creates some amazing sculptural pieces as you see below and we are lucky enough to stock a few of his designs in our Melbourne showrooms. Working with metal, timber and other natural materials ‘Damian’s aesthetic is bold and structured, tempered by a casual and refined chaos’. Winning 1st prize recently [...]
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interview with peter fudge

Peter Fudge
Our Danks St Waterloo showroom will be hosting the well known ‘Peter Fudge’ from ‘Peter Fudge Gardens’ on the October long weekend. So if you are in town make sure you swing in and introduce yourself as we are really excited about having Peter join us and can’t wait to hear his design advice for [...]
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