Two hundred and seventy-seven Australian projects have been shortlisted across 13 categories and five special awards in the 2018 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
The high calibre awards program is now in its 16th year and has continued to grow in scale each year.
The selection of shortlisted entries was announced at a sold-out event at Melbourne’s Canvas House on Thursday 16 August, against a backdrop of delicious food, wine, beer and mingling.
The evening also provided the Designer of the Year entrants the chance to present their work to the jury. This year six potential winners took to the stage, including Architects EAT, DesignOffice, Doherty Design Studio, Hassell, Luchetti Krelle and Russell & George.
Now the shortlist has been finalised, each project will be assessed by the jury with a winner and highly commended selected for each category. The winners will be announced at the IDEA Gala, which will take place in November.
Aqueous – SJB + ZIP
Design Canberra design showcase – Design Community
House of Food and Wine – Fiona Lynch
Lexus Design Pavilion 2017 – Etic
Miss Angie Mobile Cocktail Bus – Matt Derrick
Space & Time – Russell & George
Space & Time by Russell & George
10 Minutes by Tractor – Cox Architecture
8Bit Little Collins – Architects EAT
Angus & Bon – Bergman & C0.
Bar Carolina – Chris Connell Design
Bentwood – RITZ&GHOUGASSIAN
Bouzy – Jason M Jones & Brahman Perera
Brunetti Flinders Lane – Technē Architecture + Interior Design
Chandon Australia – Foolscap Studio
Congress – DesignOffice
Fonda Bondi – Studio Esteta
Freycinet Lodge – Coastal Pavilions – Liminal Architecture; Liminal Spaces; Liminal Objects
Hanoi Hannah Richmond – Ewert Leaf
Hellenic Republic Brighton – Kavellaris Urban Design
InterContinental Perth City Centre – Woods Bagot and CHADA
Ishizuka – Russell & George
Kingsleys Woolloomooloo – SJB
Larmont Sydney – HASSELL
Lights in the Attic – Architects EAT
Longsong – Jackson Clements Burrows (in Association with John Van Haandel)
Market Grounds Perth – Woods Bagot
McDonald’s Kitchen in the Sky – Landini Associates
Mercedes Me – Jackson Clements Burrows
Mermaids at SBCC – Luchetti Krelle
Mitchelton Hotel – Hecker Guthrie
Mode Kitchen & Bar – Luchetti Krelle
Palace Central – DesignOffice
Park House Food Merchants Mona Vale – Alexander&CO.
Piccolina – Hecker Guthrie
Pt Leo Estate – Jolson
Q le Baker – Adele Bates
Raku – Facet Studio
Rosetta Ristorante – Melissa Collison Interior Design
Shoal Bay Country Club – Luchetti Krelle
Shobosho – studio-gram
Space & Time – Russell & George
Stanton&CO. – Alexander&CO.
Sunda_ on Punch Lane – Kerstin Thompson Architects & Figureground Architecture
The Collectionist – The World is Round, Pattern Studio, Amber Road and Willis Sheargold
The Garden @ The Lord Dudley – Amber Road
The Kitchen at SBCC – Luchetti Krelle
Toby’s Estate Darling Square – Studio Tate
Tribe Hotel – Perth – Travis Walton Architecture
Vacation – Therefore
West Hotel – Woods Bagot
Willow Urban Retreat – MEME
Wilson & Market – Kestie Lane Studio
Workshop Brothers, Glen Waverley – Studio Esteta
Tribe Hotel, Perth by Travis Walton Architecture
ASK Library Upgrade La Trobe University – Harmer Architecture
Bendigo Hospital – Silver Thomas Hanley in collaboration with Bates Smart
Caulfield Library Refurbishment, Monash University – John Wardle Architects
Dudley Foord House – Gilmore Interior Design
Frankston Primary School Early Learning Centre Refurbishment – Chaulk Studio
Goodstart Early Learning Adelaide Street – Gray Puksand + Greenedge Design
Guardian Early Learning Centre – Kings Co-Op – BVN
Learning Teaching Building – Monash University – John Wardle Architects
Monash University, Sir Louis Matheson Library – Cox Architecture
NARROGIN COTTAGE HOMES – MAXWELL DEMENTIA WING – SPH Architecture + Interiors
PLC Performing Arts – Cox Architecture
Quaine Library – Branch Studio Architects
Somerville House Seymour Library – ThomsonAdsett
The Spot Teaching Spaces, for the Faculty of Business and Economics, at the University of Melbourne – PTID
The Terraces at Paddington – Gilmore Interior Design
UTS Blackfriars Children’s Centre – DJRD with Lacoste & Stevenson Architects
VCA School of Art Former Mounted Police Stables – Kerstin Thompson Architects
Waranara Early Learning Centre – Fox Johnston
Bendigo Hospital by Silver Thomas Hanley in collaboration with Bates Smart
Butterfly House – Biasol
Footprints – HASSELL
GSK Asia House – HASSELL
Longrain Tokyo – Luchetti Krelle
Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera – Alexander&CO. in collaboration with Tribe Studio
Viettel R & D – PTW Architects
Woods Bagot New York Studio – Woods Bagot
The Budapest Café – Biasol
The Budapest Café by Biasol
Adapt Collection – Ross Gardam
Apollo 1906 – Amber Road and Jonathan West
Botanical Planter Screens – Helen Kontouris Design
Cabin Lounges – DesignByThem
Common Resources – Dale Hardiman
Crash Series – Ben-Tovim Design
Dining Chair No. 1 – Fourth Leg Furniture
Gallery Chair – Schiavello & MAP
Gunzel collection – rD by Ross Didier, for James Richardson
Herodutus – BARBERA
Jolly – Kate Stokes for nau design
Mena – Franco Crea
MITO Light – Tom Fereday Design / Rakumba Lighting
muylatina (coming together) – Liminal Objects in collaboration with Vicki West
Ocean Plastic Hardware – Vert Design and Spark and Burnish
Pi Tray – Chris Connell Design
Piper Range of Inside Out Furniture – DesignByThem
Sia chair – CULT
The Office Collection by Ergomazing and Dylan Walsh Custom Furniture & Design – Ergomazing Pty Ltd and Dylan Walsh Custom Furniture & Design
Trimless Outlets & Switches – ZETR
Typography Lighting System – CILON – Rakumba x Studio Truly Truly
Zaza – Charles Wilson & King Living
Typography Lighting System – CILON by Rakumba x Studio Truly Truly
Cart Lamp – Charlotte May
Chroma Pendant – Dean Toepfer
Ernest Lamp – Kurt Bouvy
Franz Chaise – Michael Gittings Studio
Jaak Chair – Narie Whitby for BY&KO
Kowan – Makiko Ryujin
Melo – made by michael
Ripple light – Jelz Dalman
Sunday Bed – JDLee Furniture
Swell Pendant – Geoffrey Cameron Marshall
tde. Flagship – Pattern Studio
The Daily Edited Flagship – Pattern Studio
tde. Flagship – Pattern Studiotde. Flagship by Pattern Studio
661 Chapel Street – Bird de la Coeur Architects
Bunjil Place – fjmt
Classic Cinema – ITN Architects
Collins Street Undercroft – peckvonhartel
Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre – BVN
Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together – Design Studio, Museums Victoria
Jordan Springs Hub – Davenport Campbell & Partners Pty Ltd
Rabbit Hole – Architects EAT
Salamanca Building – fjmt
Space & Time – Russell & George
Willinga Park – Reception Building – Cox Architecture & Sally Hieatt Interiors
Rabbit Hole by Architects EAT
Amarelo Terrace – Arent&Pyke
Armadale Residence – Simone Haag
Beach House – SJB
Blue Ivy House – mcmahon and nerlich
Brighton Residence – Simone Haag
Centennial Park House – Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Clark House – SJB
Curatorial House – Arent&Pyke
Domain – Watts Studio
Elwood Residence – Doherty Design Studio
HAINES – Carole Whiting
HAVELOCK – R.L.D.O. (Regina Levine Design Office)
Hawthorn Residence – Doherty Design Studio
Kew Residence – Doherty Design Studio
Killcare House – Decus Interiors
Max – SJB
Mt Buller Chalet Penthouse – Henry Francis Design
NETHERLEE – Carole Whiting Interiors and Design
North Bondi Home – Decus Interiors
Pacific Bondi – Amber Road
Paddington House – Fiona Lynch
The Glasshouse – Nina Maya Interiors
Toorak Residence – Simone Haag
Treetop House – Arent&Pyke
Treetop House by Arent&Pyke
105 Macquarie Street Apartments – Preston Lane Architects
Banksia Apartments, NewQuay – McBride Charles Ryan
Beyond by Fridcorp – Woods Bagot
Campbell Street – DKO Architecture + SLAB
Elwood House – Hecker Guthrie/Woods Bagot
Hornsby Residence – Conrad Architects Pty Ltd
Manteau – Studio Tate
Nightingale 1 – Breathe Architecture
Peel By Milieu – DesignOffice
Penthaus – Biasol
South Yarra Residences – Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors
Waymouth Street Student Accommodation – Hayball
105 Macquarie Street Apartments by Preston Lane Architects
1906 – Amber Road
Albert Park Residence – Kestie Lane Studio
Amarelo Terrace – Arent&Pyke
Andubh House – MCK Architects
Armadale Residence – Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors
Armadale Residence – Travis Walton Architecture
Barney – BayleyWard
Beach House – SJB
Beechworth Residence – Doherty Design Studio
Boneca Apartment – Brad Swartz Architects
Boneo Country House – John Wardle Architects
Bustle House – FMD architects
Centennial Park House – Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Clark House – SJB
Darlinghurst Residence – SJB
Eastwell House – Technē Architecture + Interior Design
Foreshore House – venn architects
Haines – Carole Whiting Interiors
Halo House – BayleyWard
Highbury Grove – RITZ&GHOUGASSIAN
Holroyd – Foomann Architects
House Howley – Mark Szczerbicki Design Studio
Italianate House – Renato D’Ettorre Architects
K2 House – FMD architects
Lune de Sang Pavilion – CHROFI
Merricks Guesthouse – Studio Esteta
Millswood House – studio-gram
North Bondi Penthouse – SJB
Oreo House – Taylor Pressly Architects
Parkside House – Cera Stribley Architects
Platform House – studioplusthree
Red Hill Farm House – Carr
Robinson Beach House – Cera Stribley Architects
Roscommon House – Neil Cownie Architect
Shrouded House – BKK Architects
Sibling House / City Fringe – Hare + Klein / Grove Architects
South Yarra Apartment – Workroom
St Vincents Place Residence – B.E Architecture
Station Street Residence – Robert Simeoni Architects
Swanston Street House – Robert Simeoni Architects
Treetop House – Arent&Pyke
Triangle House – Molecule Studio
Twig House – Leeton Pointon Architects + Interiors, with Allison Pye Interiors
Wildcoast – Rachcoff Vella Architecture
Wilston Project – Wrightson Stewart
York Street Residence – Jackson Clements Burrows
North Bondi Penthouse by SJB
85 Spring Street Display Suite – Bates Smart
Aésop Warringah – Russell & George
Aje Perth – We Are Triibe
Asian Grocer – T A SQUARE
Beyond Rest Collingwood – FMD architects
California Nails – Tom Mark Henry
Chandon Australia – Foolscap Studio
Christopher Hanna – Melissa Collison
Cult Showroom & Nau Gallery – DesignOffice
Dedece Melbourne – CO-AP (Architects)
Habitus – DKO
iKOU QVB – Pinto Tuncer
Jakadjari Hair – Preston Lane Architects
Jardan Sydney – IF Architecture
Masons – Cox Architecture
Milligram – Studio Y
Optus George Street – Collectivus
SARAH & SEBASTIAN FLAGSHIP – Landini Associates
Space & Time – Russell & George
Stylecraft – Woods Bagot
Tait Melbourne Showroom – DesignOffice
The Daily Edited Flagship – Pattern Studio
The Eye Piece – Ricci Bloch Architecture + Interiors
Wilkhahn Showroom – BVN ARCHITECTURE
California Nails by Tom Mark Henry
Co Work Me – Kalliopi Vakras Architects Pty Ltd
Commonwealth Bank Workplace – Davenport Campbell & Partners
Consulting and Professional Services Firm – Gensler
Deakin University Greenwood Park – WMK Architecture
Foreshore House Workplace – dwp | design worldwide partnership
Gandel Group Office – Hayball
Gold Coast Suns Elite Training and Administration Facility – BVN
Melbourne Architectus Studio – Architectus
NAB Place – Woods Bagot
Pelaco Workplace – CIA Designs
Pepper Sydney – HASSELL
Pernod Ricard – The Bold Collective
PwC Client Collaboration Floors, Sydney – Futurespace
Red Energy Melbourne – Carr
Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages – Plus Architecture
Roche – HASSELL
SIG – Gensler
Space & Co – BVN
Telethon Kids Institute (TKI) – Woods Bagot
Tract – Architects EAT
Unispace, Sydney – Unispace
United Co. – PTID
Pernod Ricard by The Bold Collective
101 Miller End of trip facilities – Enfold Projects
Agents of Spring – GroupGSA + Artillery
B&S HQ – buck&simple
Bresic Whitney Rosebery – Chenchow Little
Brickworks – Fringe Architects
Coastal Neurosurgery – Ricci Bloch Architecture + Interiors
Communico Workspaces – Pierce Widera
Conrad Architects Studio – Conrad Architects
Gensler Sydney Studio – Gensler
Gray Puksand Melbourne – Gray Puksand
GroupGSA + Artillery Office – GroupGSA + Artillery
Hayball Sydney Studio – Hayball
K&K Office – Architects EAT
Marbo Shirt Studio – INK interior architects
Plenary Office Fit-out – Woods Bagot
Riverlee Melbourne – Carr
Space & Time – Russell & George
The Cove Workspace – Collectivus
Typo – PTID
University of Technology Sydney – Institute for Sustainable Futures – GroupGSA (+Artillery)
Winten Property Group – Endrim
50 Miller Street Lobby/End of trip – Enfold Projects
The Cove Workspace by Collectivus
For more information, head over to the IDEA website.
Lead image: Mercedes Me by Jackson Clements Burrow.