/* global */ /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */ /* Projects registry */ /* */ /* Single source of truth for every Derlot project case study. */ /* Each entry follows the Adelaide Airport flagship template: */ /* */ /* - slug (project-adelaide, project-cairns, …) */ /* - name display name */ /* - location "Adelaide, Australia" */ /* - city / country for filter rendering */ /* - year number */ /* - category Aviation / Civic / Education / … */ /* - sector long-form sector label */ /* - architect designer / studio */ /* - photographer */ /* - collections [{ slug, name, note, image }] */ /* - hero cover image src */ /* - heroAlt */ /* - thumb index card thumbnail (defaults to hero) */ /* - brief [paragraphs] */ /* - response [paragraphs] */ /* - quote { text, name, role } | null */ /* - gallery [{ src, alt }, …] */ /* - featureA { image, alt, eyebrow, title, body } */ /* - singleImage { src, alt } | null */ /* - featureB same shape as featureA */ /* - metrics [{ value, label, note }] | null */ /* - outcome [paragraphs] */ /* */ /* Placeholders are wrapped in [brackets] so they're easy to grep */ /* and replace as real copy / imagery arrives. */ /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */ const PLACEHOLDER_HERO = "images/_legacy/projects/cairns-airport.webp"; const PROJECTS = [ /* ============== 01 — Adelaide Airport (flagship) ============== */ { slug: "project-adelaide", name: "Adelaide Airport", location: "South Australia, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/adelaide/cover.jpg", hero: [ "images/projects/adelaide/hero/01.jpg", "images/projects/adelaide/hero/02.jpg", "images/projects/adelaide/hero/03.jpg", "images/projects/adelaide/hero/04.jpg", ], heroAlt: "Adelaide Airport gate lounge — Gateway and Twig seating by Derlot, 2025. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Adelaide Airport briefed a gate lounge refresh that had to absorb rising passenger volumes inside an existing footprint. More seats per square metre. Integrated power at a meaningful proportion of positions. An inclusive specification — wheelchair zones integrated, not bolted on. And a visual language that read as considered architecture, not as transit furniture.", "\n", ], response: [ "From day one the studio worked alongside Woods Bagot as co-designers rather than a product supplier. Our industrial team sketched alongside their interior leads, testing Gateway's modular logic against the gate cluster plan. Linear runs anchor the primary holding areas; rounded-end configurations soften the transition between gate and concourse; compact circular pods pick up the smaller satellite areas.", "Every seat position was specified against the passenger behaviour the airport wanted to enable. GPO and USB-C integration runs at every third module — roughly forty percent of all positions — chosen as the density that serves charging demand without cluttering the run with outlets. Wheelchair Zones are integrated at every gate cluster: clear access, open ends, seat heights tuned for easy transfer.", "The upholstery palette was tuned to Woods Bagot's material board across three earth-forward neutrals. A custom stitching detail was developed in collaboration between our workshop and their interior studio, visible in the seam lines running along the beam's top edge. Frames are powder-coated mild steel; every upholstered module is designed for on-site replacement without lifting the frame.", "Seats were manufactured in Brisbane and commissioned across a phased fit-out schedule that kept every gate live during install. The install team worked gate-by-gate through operational windows, with the design lead present for sign-off at each cluster handover.", ], quote: { text: "Derlot came to the table as co-designers. Not as a vendor trying to fit an existing product into our plan. Every decision that matters at Adelaide Airport happened in the room with their team.", name: "\n", role: "Woods Bagot · Interior Design Lead", }, gallery: [ // — Wide context openers { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Linear Gateway runs with the runway beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Symmetric Gateway clusters anchoring a holding area." }, // — Connectivity / charging cluster — flows into Feature B callout { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Twin armrest beams in profile against a runway haze." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/04.jpg",alt: "Curved Gateway end with integrated USB-C charging at a window position." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Phone charging on the armrest USB-C socket." }, // featureB.image (51) lives in the flow here — callout inserts right after it { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Charging in use with a Rimowa case at the seat." }, // — Concourse rhythm { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/07.jpg", alt: "Gate 10 lounge with rounded-end Gateway clusters." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/08.jpg", alt: "Rows of Gateway clusters with a single waiting traveller." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/09.jpg", alt: "Curved Gateway configuration in front of First Nations artwork." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/10.jpg", alt: "Priority Seating embroidery along a Gateway curve." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/11.jpg", alt: "Priority Seating embroidery — cane, walking stick, sunflower." }, // — Accessibility cluster — flows into Feature A callout { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/12.jpg", alt: "Wide view of accessible cluster with wheelchair parked alongside." }, // featureA.image (56) lives in the flow here — callout inserts right after it { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/13.jpg", alt: "Embroidered accessibility icon detail on the seat back." }, // — Closing context { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/14.jpg", alt: "Concourse vista down the spine of gates 13–14." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/15.jpg", alt: "Soft moss-green Gateway form near the duty-free entry." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/16.jpg", alt: "Moss-green soft form against a parked Qatar Airways aircraft." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/17.jpg", alt: "Curved Gateway end against a Qantas regional aircraft." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/18.jpg", alt: "Empty bench row showing the modular beam logic." }, { src: "images/projects/adelaide/gallery/19.jpg", alt: "Adelaide Airport exterior at dusk — welcome signage." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/adelaide/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Wheelchair Zone integrated at an Adelaide Airport gate cluster.", eyebrow: "Integrated, not added", title: "Wheelchair Zones specified at every cluster.", body: "Gateway demonstrates how inclusivity can be beautiful. Clear access zones with open ends, seat heights tuned for easy transfer, and sight lines that place every traveller — regardless of ability — at the centre of the lounge rather than the edge of it.", }, singleImage: { src: "images/projects/adelaide/feature/02.jpg", alt: "Wide view of an Adelaide Airport gate lounge with sweeping Gateway clusters.", }, featureB: { image: "images/projects/adelaide/feature/03.jpg", alt: "Gateway armrest with integrated USB-C and GPO charging.", eyebrow: "Connectivity", title: "Power and USB-C integrated into the armrest.", body: "Modern travel is connected. Gateway integrates GPO and USB-C charging directly into the armrest shell, allowing passengers to recharge devices and themselves at roughly forty percent of positions across the terminal — the density the airport specified as the right balance of demand and visual calm.", }, metrics: [ { value: "2,400", label: "Seats installed", note: "Across 14 gate clusters." }, { value: "1,860", label: "Charging positions", note: "GPO + USB-C integrated into the armrest." }, { value: "12,000", label: "Passengers / day", note: "Mean terminal throughput, 2025." }, { value: "100%", label: "Made in Australia", note: "Manufactured locally for the project." }, ], outcome: [ "The refreshed gate lounges opened in phases through 2025. The replaceable-module design is already earning its specification — individual seats in the first commissioned cluster have been refreshed without taking a gate out of service, proving out the long-cycle logic the airport invested in.", "Adelaide Airport was recognised at the 2025 Good Design Awards with the Gateway collection, acknowledged for the collaborative design process that made it possible.", ], collections: [ { slug: "gateway", name: "Gateway", note: "Modular beam, 2022", image: "images/_legacy/collections/gateway.webp" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Upholstered, 2020", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 02 — Cairns Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-cairns", name: "Cairns Airport", location: "Queensland, Australia", city: "Cairns", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Studio Spillane", photographer: "ALS", photographer: "Derlot & Studio Spillane", indexImage: "images/projects/cairns/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/cairns/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Cairns Airport — a curved Gateway bench in Queensland maple beneath Nar, the traditional canoe by Toby Cedar, in the departures hall, 2025. Photography Derlot & Studio Spillane.", brief: [ "Cairns International Airport is a key gateway to Tropical North Queensland, and Studio Spillane's refresh of the 1990s terminal set out to create a clearer, calmer and more welcoming experience for travellers while respecting the existing structure. Rather than reinvent the building, the studio simplified the palette, improved sightlines, chose durable local materials and made the journey through the terminal feel intuitive — and, above all, feel like Cairns.", "The design draws on the meeting of rainforest and reef, the presence of Country, and the diverse communities passing through every day. The central atrium — already strong with its rainforest planting — became the orienting device, with Nar, the traditional canoe by Toby Cedar, anchoring the departures hall as a cultural touchstone.", ], response: [ "Derlot worked with Studio Spillane to develop custom Gateway seating tailored to the atrium, focused on durability, comfort and adaptability for airport use while feeling connected to place through Queensland maple — plantation-grown locally, with a warmth that suits the tropics. The curved, modular benches help shape the experience of moving through the hall: they create smaller pockets of refuge within a vast space, guide movement and define dwell zones.", "Beneath Nar, the furniture layout reinforces the feeling of being within a mangrove landscape, supporting the artwork's story so the seating becomes part of the architecture rather than a collection of objects placed inside it. Specifying Australian-made furniture in an international gateway also tells a story of local manufacturing before travellers even leave the terminal.", ], quote: { text: "Derlot's understanding of the brief and the operational needs of the airport made the collaboration very successful.", name: "Angela Spilane", role: "Studio Spillane", }, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — green Gateway lounge seating in the food court." }, { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — a curved Gateway bench in Queensland maple." }, { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — Gateway benches threading the renewed food court." }, { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — Queensland maple and integrated charging detail." }, { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — lounge chairs and Gateway benches beneath Nar." }, { src: "images/projects/cairns/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Cairns Airport — maple-clad check-in desks along the departures hall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "gateway", name: "Gateway", note: "Custom maple bench seating", image: "images/projects/cairns/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 03 — DFW International Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-dfw", name: "DFW International Airport", location: "Dallas–Fort Worth, USA", city: "Dallas–Fort Worth", country: "USA", year: 2024, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "DFW", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/dfw/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/dfw/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "DFW International Airport — Gateway gate seating with integrated power, 2024. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "DFW International Airport is undergoing a massive $9 billion-plus expansion and renovation — highlighted by the construction of a new $4 billion Terminal F and major upgrades to Terminals A and C — aimed at accommodating growth toward 100 million annual passengers.", "Key projects include adding nine new gates to Terminal C by mid-2026 and developing Terminal F with 31 gates, opening in phases from 2027. Across these renewed holding rooms, the seating had to carry enormous daily throughput while keeping every traveller powered and comfortable.", ], response: [ "Gateway furnishes the gate lounges as long, low beams of navy upholstery on slim black frames — continuous runs that follow the glazed terminal edge and curve around the gate columns. Cantilevered tray-and-power arms sit at every seat, paired with custom charging occasional tables, so a phone or laptop is always within reach of a socket. Robust, linear and quietly resolved, Gateway scales the vast terminal floors into orderly, usable seating without visual clutter.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "DFW — Gateway runs beneath the blossom trees of the renewed gate hall." }, { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "DFW — Gateway benches beneath the C36 gate signage." }, { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "DFW — Gateway tray-and-power arm detail." }, { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "DFW — custom charging occasional tables in the red-leather lounge zone." }, { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "DFW — custom charging occasional table with integrated USB and power." }, { src: "images/projects/dfw/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "DFW — American Airlines tails on the apron beyond the terminal." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [ "[Outcome — replace.]", ], collections: [ { slug: "gateway", name: "Gateway", note: "Gate beam seating with power", image: "images/projects/dfw/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 04 — Jubilee Place ============== */ { slug: "project-jubilee-place", name: "Jubilee Place", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Blight Rayner Architects", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/jubilee-place/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/jubilee-place/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Jubilee Place, Brisbane — custom green and speckled-grey Mochi seating in the stone lobby, Blight Rayner 2022. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "The iconic Jubilee Place, designed by award-winning architecture firm Blight Rayner, offers a striking 14-level office tower with expansive ground-floor public spaces, a rejuvenated heritage-listed Jubilee Hotel and a destination dining precinct.", "Mochi brings a soft, sculptural counterpoint to the building's stone-and-timber palette across the lobby and amenity spaces.", ], response: [ "Derlot collaborated directly with architects Blight Rayner on the creation of custom Mochi units for the project — the collection reimagined in extended lengths and tailored heights to suit the lobby's scale. Pebble-like in speckled grey, soft green and ivory, the bespoke pieces gather across the stone-and-travertine floor and the planted window ledges, bringing an organic, tactile softness to the building's monumental material palette.", "The 17,500 sqm A-grade building pairs expansive floorplates and operable façades with a rooftop terrace and panoramic city views, anchored at ground level by the restored 133-year-old heritage-listed Jubilee Hotel, a destination dining precinct, and a 7-metre custom artwork by acclaimed Australian artist Ben Quilty.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — custom Mochi seating and green planter cushions along the travertine ledge." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — green and grey Mochi by the escalator void." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — a long ivory Mochi bench beneath the Ben Quilty artwork." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — ivory Mochi beneath the mirrored stone feature stair." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — a round green Mochi ottoman and side table by the curved window." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — green and grey Mochi benches across the marble lobby floor." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/07.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — green and speckled Mochi seating by the lift lobby." }, { src: "images/projects/jubilee-place/gallery/08.jpg", alt: "Jubilee Place — ivory Mochi against the mirrored stone wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Soft seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mochi.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 05 — Australia Post HQ ============== */ { slug: "project-australia-post", name: "Australia Post", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Cox Architecture", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/australia-post/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/australia-post/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Australia Post National Support Office, Melbourne — Pipeline acoustic booths along the glazed perimeter, 2024.", brief: [ "Australia Post's new National Support Office brings the organisation's Melbourne teams together into a single, activity-based workplace — pointedly conceived as a network of working neighbourhoods rather than a traditional corporate headquarters.", "Designed by Cox Architecture, the fit-out layers exposed services, raw concrete, brick and timber with bursts of Australia Post red, blue and orange — a robust, characterful backdrop for focused work and informal collaboration.", ], response: [ "Pipeline defines the breakout zones — high-backed acoustic booths in Australia Post blue and orange that thread along the glazed perimeter and between desk neighbourhoods, giving teams enclosed places to meet without closing down the open floor. Tetromino Soft adds low, reconfigurable seating to the social hubs, scaling the vast plates down to human, gatherable moments.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — Pipeline acoustic booths in blue and orange with city views." }, { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — green-and-terracotta Pipeline booth beside the workstations." }, { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — Pipeline booths threading through the desk neighbourhoods." }, { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — grey lounge seating on a tartan rug by the MyIT Hub." }, { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — the timber feature stair and presentation steps." }, { src: "images/projects/australia-post/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Australia Post — the red P logo on recycled brick at the entry." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Acoustic booth seating", image: "images/projects/australia-post/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Modular soft seating", image: "images/projects/australia-post/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 06 — BNY Mellon · Gilead ============== */ { slug: "project-bnym-gilead", name: "BNY Mellon · Gilead", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Living Edge", indexImage: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "BNY Mellon — Mochi tub chairs and Biggie stools in a Melbourne workplace breakout with city views, 2024. Photography Living Edge.", brief: [ "BNY Mellon's Melbourne workplace pairs a calm, biophilic palette — sage greens, warm timber and cork flooring — with sweeping views across the Yarra and the city's cultural precinct. The breakout and lounge zones needed soft, characterful seating to soften the corporate floor without competing with the outlook.", ], response: [ "Mochi tub chairs in green and oatmeal gather around oval tables in the window lounges, their rounded forms echoing the soft architectural curves, while Biggie stools double as occasional seats and side surfaces between the workpoints. Together they bring a quiet, tactile warmth to the open floor — comfortable, durable and tonally at home in the muted green scheme.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "BNY Mellon — green and oatmeal Mochi tub chairs by a timber planter divider." }, { src: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "BNY Mellon — a green Biggie stool beside the lounge seating and city view." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Tub chairs", image: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "biggie", name: "Biggie", note: "Stool & side", image: "images/projects/bnym-gilead/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 07 — Computershare Melbourne ============== */ { slug: "project-computershare", name: "Computershare Head Office", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Hassell", photographer: "Eric Carter", indexImage: "images/projects/computershare/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/computershare/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Computershare Head Office, Melbourne — curved green Caterpillar lounges on green carpet beneath a skylit atrium, Hassell 2022. Photography Eric Carter.", brief: [ "Computershare's Melbourne head office, designed by Hassell, is a light-filled adaptive re-use of a heritage warehouse — exposed brick, white-painted timber trusses and sweeping skylights over a biophilic palette of forest greens and pale ply. The breakout and collaboration zones needed soft, sculptural seating to animate the generous open floor and its bush outlook.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar curves through the atrium as serpentine green lounge runs, nested into ply joinery pods and circled by sage Strap stools — informal islands for gathering across the floor. Strap stools also line the café and meeting tables, while Rio furnishes the rooftop terrace in pale powder-coat. Tonally married to the green carpet and planting, the collections turn a vast workplace floor into a series of intimate, walk-around rooms.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/computershare/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Computershare — serpentine green Caterpillar lounges nested in ply joinery." }, { src: "images/projects/computershare/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Computershare — green Caterpillar banquette with sage Strap stools by the window." }, { src: "images/projects/computershare/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Computershare — curved Caterpillar lounge and Strap stools on green carpet." }, { src: "images/projects/computershare/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Computershare — Strap stools at café tables along the window banquette." }, { src: "images/projects/computershare/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Computershare — Rio table and chairs on the stone rooftop terrace." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular lounge", image: "images/projects/computershare/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Stools", image: "images/projects/computershare/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Terrace table & chairs", image: "images/projects/computershare/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 08 — Ipswich Rail Museum ============== */ { slug: "project-ipswich-rail", name: "Ipswich Railway Museum", location: "Ipswich, Australia", city: "Ipswich", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — red Cup ring benches, Strap chairs and Rio tables along the workshop floor beside a heritage locomotive, 2024. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "The North Ipswich Railway Workshops is a heritage-listed Australian railway workshop on North Street, North Ipswich, Queensland — built from 1878 into the 1980s and now home to the Queensland Museum Rail Workshops. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 1997, the vast steel-trussed shed displays heritage locomotives alongside a public café and event space.", ], response: [ "A wash of signal red unifies the visitor zone against the raw industrial fabric. Cup ring benches — rotomoulded into circular settings with integrated tables — march down the centre of the hall beside the heritage engines, while Strap chairs and Rio café tables in matching red fill the colonnade. Robust, weatherable and unmistakably bold, the all-red family turns the workshop floor into a lively, welcoming gathering place that holds its own against the locomotives.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — a run of red Cup ring benches down the workshop floor." }, { src: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — overhead view of Cup rings, Strap chairs and Rio tables." }, { src: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — red Strap chair detail with a heritage locomotive beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — locomotive No. 444 beneath the Queensland Museum Rail Workshops sign." }, { src: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Ipswich Railway Museum — the red Cup-form tickets desk before a blue heritage diesel." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Ring bench", image: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Chair", image: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Café table", image: "images/projects/ipswich-rail/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 09 — University of Melbourne ============== */ { slug: "project-uni-melbourne", name: "University of Melbourne", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Albert Mo", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "University of Melbourne main campus — blue Strap benches and white Strap chairs at timber study bars beneath trailing planters, students working along the glazing. Albert Mo, 2025. Photography Derlot.", brief: [ "A new student amenity and food precinct on the University of Melbourne's main campus needed flexible, hard-wearing furniture to thread its indoor study bars, food-court tables and outdoor terraces — settings that students could occupy from a quick coffee to a long study session, across a heritage campus and a raw, services-exposed new fit-out.", ], response: [ "Strap leads the social spaces: blue benches and white wire chairs gather at timber-topped study bars and food-court tables, light enough to rearrange and tough enough for constant student use. Tonne tables drop in alongside, and green and charcoal Stump stools scatter through the precinct — on the brick terraces beneath the heritage Peter Hall building, and at the cork-floored stair where black Stump stools cluster with side tables against the recycled-timber screen.", "Robust, stackable and weather-ready, the rotomoulded and wire pieces let one material family run from the planted interior out to the campus terraces — a calm, durable kit of parts for a busy university crossroads.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "White Strap chairs at a timber study bar beneath linear lights, students working along the glazing." }, { src: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Blue Strap benches and white chairs around food-court tables in the services-exposed precinct." }, { src: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Green Stump stools and Tonne tables with a timber bench on the brick terrace beneath the heritage Peter Hall building." }, { src: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Black Stump stools and side tables on the cork floor beside the recycled-timber stair screen." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/uni-melbourne/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Green Stump stools and Tonne tables on the brick campus terrace at the University of Melbourne.", eyebrow: "Strap · Tonne · Stump", title: "One kit, indoors to terrace.", body: "Blue and white Strap seating, Tonne tables and scattered Stump stools run from the planted study bars out to the heritage brick terraces — robust, rearrangeable pieces tuned to the constant movement of a campus crossroads.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "tonne", name: "Tonne", note: "Tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tonne.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Benches & chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/strap.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 10 — Buho Cocina y Cantina ============== */ { slug: "project-buho", name: "Buho Cocina y Cantina", location: "Honolulu, USA", city: "Honolulu", country: "USA", year: 2014, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Preen", photographer: "Client", indexImage: "images/projects/buho/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/buho/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Buho Cocina y Cantina, Honolulu — a Coral pendant cluster glowing over the cantina, 2014.", brief: [ "Buho Cocina y Cantina is a rooftop Mexican cantina in Honolulu, a warm, convivial room built for long evenings of mezcal and shared plates. An early international commission for Derlot, the project needed a sculptural lighting gesture to anchor the bar and set the mood across the dining room.", ], response: [ "Coral answers as a glowing cluster suspended over the cantina — multiple rotomoulded LDPE modules joined into a single organic light sculpture. Its soft, diffused glow gives the room its atmosphere after dark, an early showcase of Derlot's lighting register and a piece that has become part of Buho's identity.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/buho/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Buho Cantina — Coral pendant cluster glowing over the bar and open kitchen." }, { src: "images/projects/buho/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Buho Cantina — Coral light sculpture over the dining room." }, { src: "images/projects/buho/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Buho Cantina — dining tables beneath the Coral cluster." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "coral", name: "Coral", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/buho/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 11 — Brookfield Place ============== */ { slug: "project-brookfield", name: "Brookfield Place", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Client", photographer: "Client", indexImage: "images/projects/brookfield/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/brookfield/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Brookfield Place Sydney — Guell booth seating with integrated planters in the Wynyard precinct, 2019.", brief: [ "Brookfield Place Sydney forms the new heart of a rejuvenated Wynyard precinct, bringing 75,000 sqm of space for blue-chip tenants, a diverse array of retailers, and a stunning new entrance to Wynyard Station. The centrepiece is a 27-level Premium Grade office tower at 10 Carrington Street, integrated seamlessly with the historic, fully modernised Shell House in the heart of the Sydney CBD.", "The precinct joins a distinct group of assets worldwide carrying the iconic Brookfield Place brandmark — with sister locations in Toronto, New York, Perth, Dubai and Calgary — distinguished by world-class amenity, unparalleled transport access, leading sustainability credentials, and year-round activation through Brookfield Properties' commitment to placemaking.", ], response: [ "Guell furnishes the precinct's public realm — serpentine modular seating that shapes generous, walk-around gathering points across the lobby and amenity spaces. Its sinuous geometry softens the scale of the Premium Grade tower's circulation, giving tenants and visitors a sociable place to pause within one of the CBD's busiest new thresholds.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/brookfield/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Brookfield Place Sydney — Guell booth seating with planter dividers and high-back chairs." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Serpentine modular seating", image: "images/projects/brookfield/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 12 — Living Edge Sydney ============== */ { slug: "project-living-edge", name: "Living Edge Sydney Showroom", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2021, category: "Retail", sector: "Retail", architect: "Woods Bagot / Living Edge Design Studio", photographer: "Sebastian Mrugalski", indexImage: "images/projects/living-edge/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/living-edge/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Living Edge Sydney Showroom — an undulating Caterpillar sofa system in olive and sand beneath the Alexandria Woolstores trusses, 2021. Photography Sebastian Mrugalski.", brief: [ "Living Edge — a leading design destination for architects, designers and design enthusiasts — completed a full redesign of its Sydney showroom office in the Alexandria Woolstores complex, creating a 'post-pandemic' workspace built to support employee autonomy, collaboration and wellbeing. Originally designed by Woods Bagot, the Living Office was reimagined by Living Edge's in-house Design Studio.", "Aligned with the Herman Miller Living Office concept of 'placemaking', the floor is sectioned into purposeful zones — The Hive, The Haven, The Clubhouse and the high-traffic Plaza — each furnished to suit its intended use across community, collaboration and individual focus.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar by Derlot frames the Workshop zone, coming together to form a continuous, undulating sofa system that offers flexible, walk-around seating beneath the warehouse's heritage timber trusses. In a calm palette of olive, sage, charcoal and sand, the modular run curves through the heart of the floor — soft, sculptural and endlessly reconfigurable — giving the showroom a relaxed social anchor among the workstations, boardroom and history wall.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/living-edge/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Living Edge Sydney — the Caterpillar sofa, boardroom and walnut shelving under the trusses." }, { src: "images/projects/living-edge/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Living Edge Sydney — Caterpillar curving toward the Eames boardroom table." }, { src: "images/projects/living-edge/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Living Edge Sydney — Caterpillar beside the workstation neighbourhood." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Undulating modular sofa", image: "images/projects/living-edge/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 13 — Sydney Contemporary ============== */ { slug: "project-sydney-contemporary", name: "Sydney Contemporary", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Installations", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Living Edge", photographer: "Fiona Susanto", indexImage: "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/cover.jpg", hero: [ "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/hero/01.jpg", "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/hero/02.jpg", "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/hero/03.jpg", ], heroAlt: "Sydney Contemporary 2019 VIP lounge — a powder-blue Caterpillar booth wrapping a planted palm, Tonne side tables, Stump stools and white Strap chairs. Living Edge. Photography Fiona Susanto.", brief: [ "Billed as one of the most celebrated events on Australia's cultural calendar, Sydney Contemporary is a must-attend art fair, drawing thousands of visitors across its five days at Carriageworks. Living Edge has been the exclusive VIP lounge sponsor — creating a much-needed escape from the crowds at the heart of the fair.", "Furnishing an event lounge is not merely about functional seating; it is about crafting an environment that evokes comfort and relaxation, and — most importantly — a connection to the event's theme and purpose.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar curves through the VIP lounge as soft modular seating in a tonal blue-and-putty palette, wrapping planted palms into circular booths that read as calm islands within the busy fair. Stump stools and Tonne side tables drop in alongside, while white Strap chairs and tables extend the setting out to the Carriageworks brick courtyard and Yeti tables anchor the standing points.", "Soft, sculptural and endlessly reconfigurable, the collections give visitors a considered place to pause and reset — an environment that reads as part of the art experience rather than apart from it, against the venue's raw concrete and heritage brick.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The VIP lounge — tonal-blue Caterpillar booths, grey Stump stools, Tonne side tables and white Strap chairs beneath raw concrete." }, { src: "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "A blue Caterpillar run with Stump stools and round Tonne side tables against a backlit wall." }, { src: "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "White Strap chairs and tables with terrazzo Stump stools in the Carriageworks brick courtyard, planted with palms." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/sydney-contemporary/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A powder-blue Caterpillar booth wrapping a planted palm at the Sydney Contemporary VIP lounge.", eyebrow: "Caterpillar · Strap · Tonne · Stump · Yeti", title: "A gallery-calm room within the fair.", body: "Caterpillar wraps planted palms into soft blue islands, Stump and Tonne pull up alongside, and Strap and Yeti carry the setting out to the courtyard — a considered place to pause that reads as part of the art experience, not apart from it.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, { slug: "yeti", name: "Yeti", note: "Tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/yeti.webp" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Chairs & tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/strap.webp" }, { slug: "tonne", name: "Tonne", note: "Side tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tonne.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 14 — 61 Mary Street ============== */ { slug: "project-61-mary", name: "61 Mary Street", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Design Nest", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/61-mary/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/61-mary/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "61 Mary Street, Brisbane — grey high-back Homework booths in the timber-and-terracotta lobby, 2022.", brief: [ "61 Mary Street is a premium commercial tower in Brisbane's CBD, its ground-floor lobby a warm composition of timber-batten ceilings, terracotta granite walls and pale terrazzo. The brief called for breakout and waiting seating that could carve moments of privacy out of an otherwise open, free-flowing foyer.", ], response: [ "Homework answers in a soft grey wool, its raised acoustic backs and timber legs forming semi-enclosed booths that line the lobby. Set back-to-back and against the terracotta walls, the high backs give each perch a sense of enclosure — a quiet spot to wait, take a call or hold an informal meeting — while keeping the sightlines and material warmth of the surrounding architecture intact.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/61-mary/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "61 Mary Street — high-back Homework booths and a low sofa in the lobby lounge." }, { src: "images/projects/61-mary/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "61 Mary Street — Homework booths beside a communal table against the terracotta wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "homework", name: "Homework", note: "High-back booth seating", image: "images/projects/61-mary/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 15 — 110 Arthur Street ============== */ { slug: "project-arthur-st", name: "110 Arthur Street", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/arthur-st/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/arthur-st/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "110 Arthur Street, Brisbane — Derlot's co-working showroom, with Pinto, Caterpillar and Mochi across a whitewashed warehouse floor, 2025. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "110 Arthur Street is Derlot's own co-working showroom and studio in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane — a working office that doubles as a living catalogue of the range. The brief was to specify the studio for ourselves: a real workplace where every collection is in daily use, not staged.", "A whitewashed brick warehouse, polished concrete and blush-pink drapery set a calm, gallery-like backdrop for colour — green, red, terracotta and speckled recycled finishes — to do the talking.", ], response: [ "The floor reads as a cross-section of the studio's thinking. Pinto's rounded modular lounge and a red pouffe gather on a green rug; Caterpillar snakes the length of the gallery as a long bouclé bench; Mochi task chairs in red and oxblood leather ring a walnut meeting table; recycled Stump stools anchor the kitchen bar; and Homework desks — fitted with integrated TUF-R power — run the working studio. Used together, every day, the range proves itself in the one place that matters most.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — a green Caterpillar bench snaking the length of the gallery." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — Mochi task chairs in red and oxblood leather around a walnut table." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — speckled recycled Stump stools at the kitchen bar." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — the green Caterpillar run beside the cork material library." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — Mochi leather seat-shell detail." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — Homework desk with integrated TUF-R power and data." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/07.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — red Mochi chairs and a round meeting table by the pink drape." }, { src: "images/projects/arthur-st/gallery/08.jpg", alt: "110 Arthur Street — Homework desks in the open studio." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "pinto", name: "Pinto", note: "Modular lounge", image: "images/projects/arthur-st/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular bench", image: "images/projects/arthur-st/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Task & soft seating", image: "images/projects/arthur-st/feature/03.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Recycled stool", image: "images/projects/arthur-st/feature/04.jpg" }, { slug: "pillar", name: "Pillar", note: "Lighting", image: "images/_legacy/collections/pillar.webp" }, { slug: "wombat", name: "Wombat", note: "Plush object", image: "images/_legacy/collections/wombat-single.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 16 — Auckland University of Technology ============== */ { slug: "project-aut", name: "Auckland University of Technology", location: "Auckland, New Zealand", city: "Auckland", country: "New Zealand", year: 2013, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Jasmax Architecture", photographer: "Jasmax Architecture", indexImage: "images/projects/aut/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/aut/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Auckland University of Technology, Sir Paul Reeves building — Tetromino Soft in the campus heart, 2013. Photography Jasmax.", brief: [ "Since its completion in 2013, the Sir Paul Reeves building at AUT has influenced the design of campus heart developments across Australasia. The multiple-award-winning project embedded the ground-breaking concept of 'sticky space', uniting event, teaching, study, research, hospitality and student support services within a well-connected centralised hub.", "The Sir Paul Reeves building was designed to encourage students to remain on campus before, between and after lectures — an attribute proven to contribute to improved academic outcomes.", ], response: [ "Tetromino Soft furnishes the campus heart with angular, interlocking modules in AUT's red and grey, scattered across the timber-lined commons beneath the building's sculptural cantilever. Backless and endlessly reconfigurable, the puzzle-piece forms let students cluster, regroup and settle in for the day — the physical embodiment of the building's 'sticky space' idea.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/aut/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "AUT — Tetromino Soft study clusters along the glazed campus frontage." }, { src: "images/projects/aut/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "AUT — red and grey Tetromino Soft beneath the timber-batten ceiling." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Modular soft seating", image: "images/projects/aut/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 17 — Australian Broadcasting Corporation ============== */ { slug: "project-abc", name: "Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2017, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Cox Architecture", photographer: "John Gollings", indexImage: "images/projects/abc/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/abc/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "ABC Southbank, Melbourne — Prisma modular seating in the atrium lobby, 2017. Photography John Gollings.", brief: [ "As the National Broadcaster, the ABC is a vital public institution integral to the social, cultural and political life of the state and nation. Occupying a key Southbank site, the ABC building forms part of a dynamic cultural, arts and education precinct which has reshaped the strategic inner-city area and become a focus for an increasing program of events and public activities.", "The design of the new building reflected the broadcaster's intention to consolidate all Melbourne operations under one roof by re-purposing their existing Southbank building to create a unified, integrated and collaborative professional environment in a functionally efficient and contemporary setting.", ], response: [ "Prisma animates the soaring glass atrium and arrival lobby — angular, faceted modules in the ABC's blue, green and yellow, scattered like cut gemstones across the terrazzo floor. Robust and endlessly reconfigurable, they give the vast public volume informal places to perch and gather without interrupting its sightlines.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/abc/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "ABC Melbourne — Prisma seating by the spiral stair and welcome desk." }, { src: "images/projects/abc/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "ABC Melbourne — aerial view of the atrium with Prisma and the gallery levels above." }, { src: "images/projects/abc/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "ABC Melbourne — Prisma in the full-height glazed atrium void." }, { src: "images/projects/abc/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "ABC Melbourne — the welcome desk and café with Prisma seating." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/projects/abc/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 18 — Australian Space Discovery Centre ============== */ { slug: "project-space-discovery", name: "Australian Space Discovery Centre", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2023, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "ASDC", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/space-discovery/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/space-discovery/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Australian Space Discovery Centre, Adelaide — orange Prisma booth seating in the starfield gallery, 2023.", brief: [ "The Australian Space Discovery Centre in Adelaide is the public face of the nation's space agency — an immersive, interactive visitor experience that takes guests from the Earth to the stars across a sequence of starfield galleries, mission displays and hands-on exhibits.", "The seating needed to hold its own in a theatrical, dark-and-starry interior — providing places to pause, read and gather between exhibits without competing with the displays.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the centre in a bold orange leather, its angular, faceted booths and benches echoing the geometry of the building's diamond timber walls and the marble welcome desk. Robust and sculptural, the modules give visitors clear places to rest within the dramatic starfield galleries — public seating that reads as part of the exhibition design.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/space-discovery/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Australian Space Discovery Centre — orange Prisma seating at the gallery entry." }, { src: "images/projects/space-discovery/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Australian Space Discovery Centre — Prisma booth beside the astronaut display." }, { src: "images/projects/space-discovery/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Australian Space Discovery Centre — the 'Welcome to Space' starfield wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular booth seating", image: "images/projects/space-discovery/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 19 — Bank of New Zealand ============== */ { slug: "project-bnz", name: "BNZ Christchurch", location: "Christchurch, New Zealand", city: "Christchurch", country: "New Zealand", year: 2023, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Client", indexImage: "images/projects/bnz/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/bnz/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "BNZ Christchurch — Prisma modular ottoman seating in the timber-and-blue banking hall, 2023.", brief: [ "BNZ's Christchurch branch reimagines the bank as an open, retail-style space — a warm composition of oak panelling, deep BNZ blue and a playful, colour-popped pendant ceiling. Rather than tellers behind glass, the floor is an inviting concourse of self-service points, perch tables and informal lounge zones.", "The seating had to do real work in that openness: defining lounge and waiting moments across a busy mall-front floor while staying light, mobile and on-brand.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the concourse as a run of upholstered modular ottomans in a soft check, threaded between acoustic high-back dividers in BNZ blue. Faceted and low, the modules carve casual perch and waiting spots out of the open plan — clustered around the oak community tables and self-service stands without ever closing the space down. Their geometry answers the branch's angular blue wall graphics and timber-batten ceiling.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/bnz/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "BNZ Christchurch — Prisma ottomans and acoustic dividers around the oak perch table." }, { src: "images/projects/bnz/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "BNZ Christchurch — community table with colourful stools and Prisma ottoman seating." }, { src: "images/projects/bnz/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "BNZ Christchurch — iPad perch table and Prisma ottomans by the self-service wall." }, { src: "images/projects/bnz/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "BNZ Christchurch — the colourful play and lounge zone with acoustic dividers." }, { src: "images/projects/bnz/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "BNZ Christchurch — the bnz branch entry and banking hall from the mall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular ottoman seating", image: "images/projects/bnz/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 20 — Blacktown Exercise Sports & Technology Hub ============== */ { slug: "project-best-hub", name: "Blacktown Exercise Sports and Technology Hub (BEST)", location: "Blacktown, Australia", city: "Blacktown", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Civic", sector: "Civic", architect: "ARM Architecture", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/best-hub/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/best-hub/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Blacktown Exercise Sports and Technology Hub — ARM Architecture's scalloped façade and red arched colonnade, 2025. Photography Derlot.", brief: [ "The Blacktown Exercise Sports and Technology Hub (BEST) is a landmark high-performance sports and research facility in Western Sydney, designed by ARM Architecture. Its exuberant form — a rippling, mirror-tiled black skin peeled back to reveal a vivid red arched colonnade — wraps a public realm of cafés, gathering steps and outdoor play.", "The furniture had to match that boldness: hard-wearing, colour-saturated pieces for high-traffic indoor and outdoor zones across a civic sports destination.", ], response: [ "Derlot furnished the hub across its public spaces. Tonne — the rotomoulded dome bases — anchor the café tables along the red arched colonnade; Stump stools in teal cluster around blue play benches in the outdoor forecourt; and Twig benches thread the circulation. Robust, weatherable and unmistakably playful, the mix holds its own against ARM's dramatic architecture while standing up to the daily wear of a busy sports precinct.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — Tonne dome table bases and chairs along the red arched colonnade." }, { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — the red arched colonnade and scalloped black façade." }, { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — blue play benches and teal Stump stools in the forecourt." }, { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — blue benches with teal Stump stools against the mirror-tiled wall." }, { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — café tables on Tonne bases beneath the red vaulted ceiling." }, { src: "images/projects/best-hub/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "BEST Hub — the scalloped façade meeting the red colonnade." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "tonne", name: "Tonne", note: "Dome table bases", image: "images/projects/best-hub/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/projects/best-hub/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Bench seating", image: "images/projects/best-hub/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 21 — Birubi Street Studio ============== */ { slug: "project-birubi-st", name: "Birubi Street Studio", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/birubi-st/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/birubi-st/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Birubi Street — Derlot's Brisbane co-working studio, blue Pinto stools at the tiled bar, 2019. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Birubi Street is Derlot's own co-working studio in Brisbane — a playful, colour-saturated workplace that doubles as a living showroom for the studio's furniture. Cork-clad walls, a terracotta-and-tile bar, lush planting and a dartboard set the tone: a workspace built for collaboration, hospitality and the occasional Friday slammer.", ], response: [ "The studio is furnished entirely in Derlot's own pieces. Blue Pinto stools line the tiled bar; Mass benches in signal yellow anchor the communal tables; and a cluster of Prisma modular ottomans in orange, blue, grey and yellow breaks the open floor into a loose, reconfigurable lounge. The mix shows the range working exactly as intended — robust, colourful and endlessly rearrangeable in a real working environment.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/birubi-st/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Birubi Street — the tiled bar with blue Pinto stools and yellow Mass benches." }, { src: "images/projects/birubi-st/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Birubi Street — colourful Prisma modular ottomans in the studio lounge." }, { src: "images/projects/birubi-st/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Birubi Street — Prisma ottoman bench against the cork feature wall." }, { src: "images/projects/birubi-st/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Birubi Street — the bar, dartboard and Pinto stools across the studio." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "pinto", name: "Pinto", note: "Bar stool", image: "images/projects/birubi-st/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "mass", name: "Mass", note: "Bench seating", image: "images/projects/birubi-st/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular ottomans", image: "images/projects/birubi-st/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 22 — BY.ARTISANS ============== */ { slug: "project-by-artisans", name: "BY.ARTISANS", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Retail", sector: "Retail", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/by-artisans/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/by-artisans/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "BY.ARTISANS, Brisbane — cream Pipeline sofas and white tub chairs amid greenery in the white-tiled distillery bar, 2024. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "BY.ARTISANS is a working distillery and tasting bar in Brisbane — a soaring, white-tiled warehouse where polished stills sit behind the bar and a forest of greenery softens the industrial shell. The brief was for a calm, plant-filled lounge that could host tastings and events while keeping the distillery itself the centrepiece.", ], response: [ "Derlot furnishes the lounge in a tonal off-white palette that lets the stainless stills and foliage lead. Pipeline curves through the room as continuous cream sofa runs; white Bolet dome pendants hang in a row above the bar; and Strap aluminium bistro chairs line the café tables along the still. Soft, sculptural and weatherable, the family gives the cavernous space an intimate, garden-like calm.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/by-artisans/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "BY.ARTISANS — a continuous cream Pipeline sofa run framed by fiddle-leaf figs." }, { src: "images/projects/by-artisans/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "BY.ARTISANS — Strap aluminium bistro chairs along the white-tiled still bar." }, { src: "images/projects/by-artisans/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "BY.ARTISANS — the corner Pipeline lounge beside the bottle display wall." }, { src: "images/projects/by-artisans/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "BY.ARTISANS — white Bolet pendants over the polished copper-and-steel still." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Curved modular sofa", image: "images/projects/by-artisans/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/by-artisans/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Aluminium bistro chair", image: "images/projects/by-artisans/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 23 — Canadian Academy ============== */ { slug: "project-canadian-academy", name: "Canadian Academy", location: "Kobe, Japan", city: "Kobe", country: "Japan", year: 2022, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Takumi Associates", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/canadian-academy/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/canadian-academy/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Canadian Academy, Kobe — an orange Tetromino modular chair beneath the timber-louvred library skylight, 2023. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "Canadian Academy — known as CA — is an independent, not-for-profit pre-K–12 international school in Kobe, Japan, founded in 1913. The day and boarding school brings its elementary, middle and high schools together on a single campus on Rokkō Island, a man-made island in Osaka Bay.", ], response: [ "Tetromino furnishes CA's libraries and learning commons as bright, faceted modular seating in orange and red — angular booths, corner chairs and back-to-back runs that students reconfigure through the day. Paired with grey Mass stools and timber tray tables, the puzzle-piece geometry breaks the open floors into informal study clusters, giving the academic heart of each division a playful, adaptable character.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/canadian-academy/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Canadian Academy — a red Tetromino booth in the fiction library." }, { src: "images/projects/canadian-academy/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Canadian Academy — orange and red Tetromino with grey Mass stools across the commons." }, { src: "images/projects/canadian-academy/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Canadian Academy — the mountain-mural façade on Rokko Island." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Compact lounge", image: "images/_legacy/collections/cup.webp" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Upholstered", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Side table", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 24 — Casa de Cultura ============== */ { slug: "project-casa-cultura", name: "Casa de Cultura", location: "Girona, Spain", city: "Girona", country: "Spain", year: 2012, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Daniel Mòdul", photographer: "Rodrigo Rabaco", indexImage: "images/projects/casa-cultura/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/casa-cultura/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Casa de Cultura — an illuminated white serpentine bench beneath red-shade balanced floor lamps, Girona 2012.", brief: [ "La Casa de Cultura is a service of the Diputació de Girona — the provincial council — within its Culture department, created to run the Casa de Cultura centre with the aim of promoting and disseminating culture in all its forms, and to support the Diputació in its cultural policy and the initiatives it develops across the Girona province.", ], response: [ "An illuminated white bench winds through the centre's public foyer — a soft, glowing serpentine form that doubles as wayfinding and gathering point at the foot of the stair, beneath globe pendants and balanced red-shade reading lamps. Low and sculptural, it gives the civic threshold a warm, welcoming focus that holds its own against the building's raw concrete and timber.", ], quote: null, gallery: [{ src: "images/projects/casa-cultura/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Casa de Cultura — the illuminated bench by the lobby stair and globe pendants." }], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Upholstered", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 25 — Chester Street Bakery ============== */ { slug: "project-chester-bakery", name: "Chester Street Bakery", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2013, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/chester-bakery/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/chester-bakery/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Chester Street Bakery, Brisbane — three white Bolet pendants over the kitchen island, teal splashback and timber joinery. Derlot, 2013. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "An early Derlot hospitality commission, Chester Street Bakery needed a soft, characterful lighting gesture over its central counter and kitchen — a warm register that would carry the room across morning trade and into the evening.", ], response: [ "Bolet answers with a trio of opal pendants hung over the island — rounded, glowing forms whose diffused light warms the bakery's crisp white joinery, teal splashback and timber cabinetry. Simple and quiet, the pendants give the compact room its anchor and a soft, domestic warmth.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/chester-bakery/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Chester Street Bakery — white Bolet pendants over the island with stools and a framed gallery wall beyond." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/chester-bakery/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 26 — Chester Street Residence ============== */ { slug: "project-chester-residence", name: "Chester Street Residence", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2012, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Residential", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/chester-residence/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/chester-residence/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Chester Street Residence, Brisbane — white Bolet pendants over the open-plan living and kitchen, teal splashback beyond. Derlot, 2012. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "A residential penthouse in the heart of Brisbane. A home specified with Bolet pendants across its central living and dining spaces — a soft, sculptural light to anchor the open-plan interior.", ], response: [ "Bolet's rounded opal forms hang through the living and kitchen zones, their diffused glow warming the home's white surfaces, timber joinery and teal accents. The same quiet lighting language as the neighbouring bakery, tuned here to a domestic register — gentle, ambient and sculptural.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/chester-residence/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Chester Street Residence — Bolet pendants over the kitchen island and living area." }, { src: "images/projects/chester-residence/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Chester Street Residence — a Bolet pendant detail against the timber and white interior." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/chester-residence/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 27 — Coca-Cola ============== */ { slug: "project-coca-cola", name: "Coca-Cola", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2011, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/coca-cola/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/coca-cola/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Coca-Cola HQ, Sydney — rooftop terrace with Stump stools and sculptural benches overlooking the Harbour Bridge, 2011. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Coca-Cola's Sydney head office crowns the building with a rooftop terrace overlooking the harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge — a generous indoor-outdoor staff retreat of timber decking, pergola shade and lawn, framed by one of the city's great views.", ], response: [ "Stump stools in bright green dot the deck as movable perches, while sculptural benches sit out on the lawn facing the bridge — durable rotomoulded pieces built for sun, wind and constant use. Low and informal, they turn the rooftop into a place to gather and unwind above the city without competing with the spectacular backdrop.", ], quote: null, gallery: [{ src: "images/projects/coca-cola/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Coca-Cola HQ — rooftop terrace with Stump stools and the Harbour Bridge beyond." }], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stool", image: "images/projects/coca-cola/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Bench seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 28 — Currumbin Surf Club ============== */ { slug: "project-currumbin-surf", name: "Currumbin Surf Club", location: "Currumbin, Australia", city: "Currumbin", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Currumbin SLSC — the 'Dingoes' Masters lifesavers gathered at a yellow Mass picnic table above the beach, 2020. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club is one of the Gold Coast's most storied clubs. Its older, most experienced members — the early-morning swimmers who have been part of the club for decades, some reportedly into their nineties — are known affectionately as the 'Dingoes'. Their daily ritual is a swim followed by coffee and conversation on the oceanfront deck.", "The brief was simple: a hard-wearing, weatherproof communal table for that deck — somewhere the Dingoes, and everyone else, could gather in the salt air, day after day.", ], response: [ "Mass answers in signal yellow — a monolithic folded-aluminium picnic table built as a single sculptural gesture, bench and top in one. Powder-coated for the marine environment and effectively indestructible, it has become the social heart of the deck: a bright, generous surface that holds the morning coffee crowd against the backdrop of surf and rock. More civic monument than furniture, it carries the warmth and longevity the club's community deserves.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — the Dingoes sharing coffee along the yellow Mass table." }, { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — members laughing around the yellow Mass table after a swim." }, { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — the Mass table on the deck with the beach beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — three members at the Mass table, towels and surf behind." }, { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — folded-aluminium detail of the yellow Mass table." }, { src: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Currumbin SLSC — the Mass picnic table on the oceanfront deck." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "mass", name: "Mass", note: "Picnic table", image: "images/projects/currumbin-surf/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 29 — Department of Immigration ============== */ { slug: "project-immigration", name: "Department of Immigration & Border Protection", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2014, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "IA Group", photographer: "Courtesy of MCI", indexImage: "images/projects/immigration/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/immigration/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Department of Immigration & Border Protection, Adelaide — yellow and charcoal Prisma seating in the self-service waiting hall, 2014. Photography courtesy of MCI.", brief: [ "The Department of Immigration and Border Protection's new office occupies six levels and 600 square metres in one of Adelaide's major new office buildings on Franklin Street. The department's 400 staff relocated at the end of July 2014 to the 5-star Green Star–rated building, with public waiting and self-service halls that needed bright, hard-wearing seating to organise high daily visitor traffic.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the waiting and self-service zones as faceted modular seating in citrus yellow, charcoal and teal — angular runs and back-to-back clusters that echo the triangulated carpet and signage graphics. Robust and reconfigurable, it brings warmth and order to a busy government interior while meeting the demands of constant public use.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/immigration/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Department of Immigration — Prisma clusters across the waiting hall." }, { src: "images/projects/immigration/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Department of Immigration — Prisma seating by the reception desk." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/projects/immigration/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 30 — Embassy of Australia ============== */ { slug: "project-embassy-au", name: "Embassy of Australia", location: "Washington D.C., United States", city: "Washington D.C.", country: "United States", year: 2023, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Bates Smart", photographer: "Joe Fletcher", indexImage: "images/projects/embassy-au/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/embassy-au/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Embassy of Australia, Washington DC — the Autobahn ring bench in the timber-lined central atrium, Bates Smart 2023. Photography Joe Fletcher.", brief: [ "The new Embassy of Australia showcases the very best in Australian design, materials and architectural excellence, designed by prominent Australian studio Bates Smart — who also designed the original Embassy on the same site over half a century ago. The design stands as both an integral civic space and an enduring symbol of Australia, honouring the legacy of its predecessor and continuing the special relationship between allies, partners and friends.", "Located at the heart of the U.S. capital, the embassy remains contextually respectful of Capitol Hill's architecture, completing Scott Circle and addressing the axes to 16th Street, the White House and Massachusetts Avenue — Embassy Row. The building's transparency manifests the inherent Australian values of welcomeness and trust, while the interior's expansive atmosphere is representative of the vastness of the Australian landscape, evoking a sense of something greater than ourselves, carved out through the enormity of time.", ], response: [ "At the heart of the building, a large atrium serves as an organising and orientating space — a powerful connection between the ground and the sky, giving rise to an axial arrangement of representational spaces where every visitor is granted an equally immersive experience. Derlot's Autobahn ring wraps the centre of this atrium in a single continuous run of soft leather bench seating on slender splayed legs, paired with low drum tables. Its calm, organic geometry gives the monumental volume a human centre — a place to gather, wait and orient beneath the soaring timber screens, equally at home in the building's civic register and its open, welcoming atmosphere.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — the Autobahn ring beneath the full-height timber screens." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — timber-slatted atrium and bronze ceremonial doorway." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — Autobahn ring, reception desk and lounge beyond the timber wall." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — reception with the Autobahn ring in the foreground." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — Autobahn bench and globe lamp against the timber slat wall." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — bench and globe-lamp detail against the slatted timber." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/07.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — the copper-and-glass façade at golden hour on Embassy Row." }, { src: "images/projects/embassy-au/gallery/08.jpg", alt: "Embassy of Australia — cast lettering and Aboriginal artwork at the entry." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Curved ring bench seating", image: "images/projects/embassy-au/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 31 — Flinders University, Festival Plaza ============== */ { slug: "project-flinders-fest", name: "Flinders University, Festival Plaza Towers", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Shannon McGrath", indexImage: "images/projects/flinders-fest/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/flinders-fest/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Flinders University, Festival Plaza Towers, Adelaide — a white Mass picnic table on the terrace overlooking Adelaide Oval, Woods Bagot 2025. Photography Shannon McGrath.", brief: [ "Flinders University's new home in the Festival Plaza Towers brings the university into the heart of Adelaide's CBD, with workplace and learning floors designed by Woods Bagot. Terraces overlooking Adelaide Oval and the parklands give staff and students generous indoor-outdoor space, while the interior layers warm timber, terracotta acoustic baffles and planted breakout zones.", ], response: [ "Mass picnic tables in crisp white anchor the sky terraces — robust, sculptural communal benches built to weather the outdoor setting while framing the Oval view. Inside, Tetromino Soft furnishes the collaboration zones as terracotta modular booths with integrated power and planter ends, scaling the open floors into intimate, reconfigurable settings beneath the wave-like acoustic ceiling.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/flinders-fest/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Flinders Festival Plaza Towers — terracotta Tetromino Soft booth with planter and power." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "mass", name: "Mass", note: "Picnic table", image: "images/projects/flinders-fest/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Modular booth", image: "images/projects/flinders-fest/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 32 — Flinders University ============== */ { slug: "project-flinders", name: "Flinders University", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2016, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Peter Barnes", indexImage: "images/projects/flinders/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/flinders/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Flinders University Plaza & Student Hub, Adelaide — a yellow Twig bench and Stump stools in the light-filled mall, Woods Bagot 2016. Photography Peter Barnes.", brief: [ "The $63 million redevelopment of the Flinders University Plaza and Student Hub in Adelaide, designed by Woods Bagot, officially opened in March 2016. It includes over 11,000 m² of enhanced facilities together with an improved terraced plaza — a dynamic precinct created from the engagement of students, teachers and staff around 'owned' spaces for study, recreation, socialisation, teaching and student services.", "Viewed as the new 'front door' to the campus, the plaza and central core draw students into a contemporary education environment with a diversity of spaces for active learning — a new four-storey administration building with a sustainable rooftop garden, a three-storey enclosed mall, a refurbished Union building, and a terraced amphitheatre for learning, socialising and relaxation.", ], response: [ "Twig benches and Stump stools — designed by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot — feature throughout the enclosed mall, their bright yellow, branching forms activating flexible learning spaces and giving the circulation heart its energy. As Woods Bagot Director Thomas Masullo put it, with 'a focus on student interaction, engagement and services, the new Student Hub and Plaza is a vibrant place to learn, connect and play.'", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/flinders/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Flinders University — yellow Twig benches and Stump stools by the 'Experiment bravely' wall." }, { src: "images/projects/flinders/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Flinders University — Twig benches across two levels of the enclosed mall." }, { src: "images/projects/flinders/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Flinders University — top-down view of a star-shaped Twig bench in use." }, { src: "images/projects/flinders/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Flinders University — serpentine yellow Twig bench and Stump stools in the mall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Bench seating (TWG-01)", image: "images/projects/flinders/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Stool (STM-02)", image: "images/projects/flinders/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 33 — Green Square Library ============== */ { slug: "project-green-square", name: "Green Square Library", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Stewart Hollenstein", photographer: "Tom Roe", indexImage: "images/projects/green-square/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/green-square/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Green Square Library, Sydney — blue Prisma modular seating before the colour-sorted book wall, Stewart Hollenstein 2018. Photography Tom Roe.", brief: [ "Sydney-based architecture firm Stewart Hollenstein, in partnership with Stewart Architecture, won the 167-strong international competition for the Green Square Library and Plaza in 2013. The result is a learning epicentre for the community — featuring an underground reading garden, amphitheatre, music room and multiple reading areas across the six-level building — which has achieved a 5-Star Green Building Council of Australia rating for its sustainable design.", ], response: [ "Prisma 2 Modular System by Derlot features in an open reading area, with power incorporated into the elements for library users' convenience. Its blue, faceted modules pair with the room's colour-sorted book wall to give the space its bright, contemporary character. The modular nature of the selection ensures longevity in the design — crucial for the rapidly growing population forecast for the Green Square precinct.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/green-square/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Green Square Library — blue and teal Prisma modules with timber storage cubes curving along the colour-sorted book wall beneath circular skylights." }, { src: "images/projects/green-square/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Green Square Library — blue Prisma modules and timber side tables in the curved reading room." }, { src: "images/projects/green-square/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Green Square Library — Prisma seating and a reading nook against the timber stacks." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Prisma 2 modular system", image: "images/projects/green-square/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 34 — HappyCo ============== */ { slug: "project-happyco", name: "HappyCo", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "IA Design", photographer: "Brad Griffin", indexImage: "images/projects/happyco/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/happyco/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "HappyCo Head Office, Adelaide — peach Mochi lounge seating beneath the green neon sign, IA Design 2022. Photography Brad Griffin.", brief: [ "Since their beginnings in 2011 in Adelaide, HappyCo has become one of the fastest-growing property-management software companies in the world. With a stronghold on the US market, they set their sights on a permanent Adelaide home alongside the state's growing technology sector. The creative approach, by IA Design, was unavoidable in its definition — HappyCo is happy.", "The concept began with varied forms of the smiling 'happy face', extrapolated into the form, texture and movement of the space. Expressed through curves, circles and squiggles, the design pushes the boundaries of typical office design — bold colour, indoor swings, a hidden bookshelf door to relaxation lounges — responding to HappyCo's values of connection, flexibility and happiness.", ], response: [ "Mochi soft seating brings the brief's curves to life — pebble-like lounges in peach and powder blue that gather across the colour-blocked floors, their rounded, tactile forms echoing the 'happy face' motif. Paired with green Stump stools at the communal tables, they give the ground-floor hospitality zones a convivial, residential warmth that entices people back into the workplace.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/happyco/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "HappyCo — blue Mochi lounges and green Stump stools in the colour-blocked breakout." }, { src: "images/projects/happyco/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "HappyCo — a powder-blue Mochi sofa on the green floor circle." }, { src: "images/projects/happyco/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "HappyCo — Mochi seating beneath the green high-five neon." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Soft lounge seating", image: "images/projects/happyco/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Stool", image: "images/projects/happyco/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 35 — IPC Shopping Centre ============== */ { slug: "project-ipc", name: "IPC Shopping Centre", location: "Selangor, Malaysia", city: "Selangor", country: "Malaysia", year: 2018, category: "Retail", sector: "Retail", architect: "Hames Sharley", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/ipc/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ipc/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "IPC Shopping Centre, Selangor — orange and charcoal rotomoulded pebble ottomans in the family play commons, 2018.", brief: [ "IPC Shopping Centre is a shopping centre anchored by IKEA near The Curve in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia. It opened on 18 December 2003 across five floors — formerly known as the Ikano Power Centre — and reopened in November 2017 as IPC Shopping Centre following extensive renovations.", ], response: [ "Rotomoulded pebble ottomans in orange and charcoal furnish the family commons and play zones — soft, robust forms that scatter across the patterned concourse carpet for parents and children to perch and gather. Timber-louvred Twig pods and benches give the public seating quieter nooks within the busy retail floors, scaling the renewed centre down to a warm, human rhythm built for constant use.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ipc/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "IPC Shopping Centre — a timber-louvred Twig pod and bench, top-down." }, { src: "images/projects/ipc/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "IPC Shopping Centre — public seating in the renewed retail commons." }, { src: "images/projects/ipc/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "IPC Shopping Centre — clustered ottomans and benches in the concourse." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular geometry", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "seed", name: "Seed", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mass.webp" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Modular soft seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tetromino-s.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 36 — Ipswich Courthouse ============== */ { slug: "project-ipswich-court", name: "Ipswich Courthouse", location: "Ipswich, Australia", city: "Ipswich", country: "Australia", year: 2012, category: "Civic", sector: "Civic", architect: "Cox Architecture", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-ipswich-facade.png", hero: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-ipswich-facade.png", heroAlt: "Ipswich Courthouse — Coral cascading through the glass atrium at dusk, Ipswich 2022.", brief: [ "The Ipswich Justice Precinct was conceived to respond to the project's overall design, with artwork integral throughout — its value ranging from cultural engagement to spatial definition and connection. Interior spaces are inseparable from the exteriors, both in sequences of movement and in their spatial relationship to the outside world.", "Programmatically, the design effortlessly resolves an unusually complex set of movement systems — even for a justice building — while generating the stature and dignity indispensable to a court facility. The Courthouse offers a significant contribution to this richly textured regional city.", ], response: [ "Coral answers as a suspended light work cascading the full height of the glazed atrium — rotomoulded LDPE modules joined into a single luminous fall that draws the eye between levels and reads from the street at dusk. As both artwork and wayfinding, it gives the precinct's most public volume a warm, human focus, holding the building's civic dignity while softening its scale for the people moving through it.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-ipswich-facade.png", alt: "Ipswich Courthouse — Coral in the lit atrium, dusk." }, { src: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-ipswich-atrium.png", alt: "Ipswich Courthouse — Coral cascading down the glass façade." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "coral", name: "Coral", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-ipswich-facade.png" }, ], }, /* ============== 37 — James Cook University ============== */ { slug: "project-jcu", name: "James Cook University", location: "Cairns, Australia", city: "Cairns", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "James Cook University", photographer: "Andrew Rankin", indexImage: "images/projects/jcu/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/jcu/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "James Cook University, Cairns (Nguma-bada) — red Stump stools at study benches against the green-glass fin pavilion, 2018. Photography Andrew Rankin.", brief: [ "James Cook University's Nguma-bada campus in Smithfield, Cairns is home to around 2,300 students in one of Australia's most spectacular natural settings, with world-class facilities including Australia's first dental school outside a major metropolitan centre. Nguma-bada — a Yirrgay word from the Djabugay language meaning 'belonging to tomorrow' — reflects JCU's deep respect for Country and its commitment to future-focused education.", ], response: [ "Stump stools in signal red dot the campus's open-air study pavilions — a curving, green-glass-finned shelter set among the gum trees and reflecting pools. Rotomoulded and weatherproof, they're light enough for students to pull together into impromptu study groups, their bright red a deliberate jolt against the green louvres and tropical canopy.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/jcu/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "JCU Cairns — red Stump stools and the mirrored soffit above the reflecting pool." }, { src: "images/projects/jcu/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "JCU Cairns — the green-finned study pavilion among the gum trees." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stool", image: "images/projects/jcu/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 38 — Kyocera Museum of Art ============== */ { slug: "project-kyocera", name: "Kyocera Museum of Art", location: "Kyoto, Japan", city: "Kyoto", country: "Japan", year: 2020, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Jun Aoki", photographer: "Alexander Lotersztain", indexImage: "images/projects/kyocera/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/kyocera/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto — timber-topped Pinto stools at the cork-clad café counter, 2023. Photography Alexander Lotersztain.", brief: [ "The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art — formerly the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art — sits in Okazaki Park and is one of Japan's oldest public art museums, established in 1933. Reopened in 2020 after a major renovation by architects Aoki Jun and Nishizawa Tezzo, it blends the classical 'Imperial Crown Style' with contemporary design, hosting collections of modern Kyoto art and special exhibitions.", ], response: [ "Timber-topped Pinto stools line the museum café's cork-clad counter — slim grey-framed perches whose warm oak seats echo the pale wood floor and the renovation's restrained material palette. Robust and quietly resolved, they suit the steady visitor traffic while deferring to the architecture, giving the café a calm, considered character in keeping with the galleries beyond.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/kyocera/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Kyocera Museum of Art — café seating and timber detail." }, { src: "images/projects/kyocera/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Kyocera Museum of Art — stools and counter, alternate view." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "volar", name: "Volar", note: "Upholstered armchair", image: "images/_legacy/collections/volar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 39 — Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary ============== */ { slug: "project-lone-pine", name: "Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Rachael Baskerville", indexImage: "images/projects/lone-pine/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/lone-pine/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane — sage-green Cup ring benches, Strap chairs and Tonne tables under the trees, 2020. Photography Rachael Baskerville.", brief: [ "Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is an 18-hectare sanctuary in the Brisbane suburb of Fig Tree Pocket. Founded in 1927, it is the oldest and largest koala sanctuary of its kind in the world, home to around 80 species of Australian animals. Its riverside café and gathering terraces needed weatherproof, family-friendly furniture that could sit quietly within the bushland setting.", ], response: [ "A family of Derlot pieces in soft sage green furnishes the sanctuary's outdoor dining. Cup ring benches curl around the tree trunks; Strap chairs and Tonne dome-base tables fill the shaded terraces; and Twig benches line the ticketing forecourt. Rotomoulded and powder-coated for the elements, the tonal green family disappears into the canopy — hard-wearing enough for constant visitor traffic, gentle enough to let the bushland stay the hero.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/lone-pine/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Lone Pine — sage Strap chairs and Tonne tables beneath a frangipani." }, { src: "images/projects/lone-pine/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Lone Pine — green Cup ring benches and Tonne tables in dappled light." }, { src: "images/projects/lone-pine/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Lone Pine — a family at a green Cup ring booth by the river." }, { src: "images/projects/lone-pine/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Lone Pine — children on a green Twig bench by the ticket booth." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Ring bench", image: "images/projects/lone-pine/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Chair", image: "images/projects/lone-pine/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "tonne", name: "Tonne", note: "Dome table", image: "images/projects/lone-pine/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Bench", image: "images/projects/lone-pine/feature/03.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 40 — Longueville Hotel ============== */ { slug: "project-longueville", name: "Longueville Hotel", location: "Lane Cove, Australia", city: "Lane Cove", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Paul Kelly Design", photographer: "Paul Kelly", indexImage: "images/projects/longueville/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/longueville/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Longueville Hotel, Lane Cove — white Picket stools and chairs across the pink-terrazzo terrace, Paul Kelly Design 2020. Photography Paul Kelly.", brief: [ "Established in 1929, the Longueville Hotel at 80 Longueville Road, Lane Cove holds a rich history as a modern pub that has stood the test of time — a charming terrace for al fresco drinking, a vibrant sports bar, a gaming room, a relaxed lounge and a bistro-style family dining area. The renewal, by Paul Kelly Design, preserves that tradition while embracing contemporary comfort.", ], response: [ "Picket furnishes the bright terrace and 'Villa' garden bar — white powder-coated stools and tub chairs paired with blush-pink tables across the striped terrazzo floor. Light, weatherable and endlessly rearrangeable, the collection suits the venue's playful, palm-filled palette of pinks, greens and breeze-block screens, giving every zone a fresh, sociable, all-day character.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/longueville/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Longueville Hotel — the 'Villa' garden bar with Picket stools and pink tables." }, { src: "images/projects/longueville/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Longueville Hotel — pink banquette, breeze-block screen and white Picket stools." }, { src: "images/projects/longueville/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Longueville Hotel — the terrace at night under neon and hanging planters." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Stool & chair", image: "images/projects/longueville/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 41 — Macquarie University ============== */ { slug: "project-macquarie", name: "Macquarie University — C7A Maze", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2017, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Architectus", photographer: "Architectus", indexImage: "images/projects/macquarie/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/macquarie/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Macquarie University C7A Maze — curved grey Guell pods on triangulated blue carpet beneath a feather-blade ceiling, Architectus 2017.", brief: [ "Architectus transformed 6,000 m² of Macquarie University's Building C7A into a temporary staff and student hub — converting the original campus library and levels 3, 4 and 5 in a project designed to last around five years. The brief was an opportunity to challenge current paradigms for student and staff environments and to take occupants out of their comfort zones with new ways of working and interacting.", "Building on the success of Baseline and MUSE on the floors below, Level 3 'MAZE' provides a highly interactive space for student groups — open lounges, café-style spaces, whimsically themed environments, workshop and brainstorm areas, event space and private rooms. Built space is avoided where possible, with zones defined by meeting pods of coloured glass, modular furniture and reusable ceiling panels. C7A is the first phase in a sequence of Architectus projects transforming the Central Courtyard precinct.", ], response: [ "Guell shapes the MAZE as continuous, curving pods that snake across the triangulated carpet — grey modular runs and full circular booths, each fitted with timber tray tables, that carve the open floor into informal lounges without building walls. Custom Hext tiles, formed in raw cardboard, pattern a sculptural acoustic wall to one side. Together they let the floor stay open and reconfigurable while giving every group a clear place to gather, study and meet.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/macquarie/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Macquarie C7A — a full circular Guell pod amid plant screens and yellow chairs." }, { src: "images/projects/macquarie/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Macquarie C7A — a circular Guell booth beside the red-glass meeting room and custom Hext cardboard wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Modular pod seating", image: "images/projects/macquarie/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "hext", name: "Hext", note: "Custom acoustic tile wall", image: "images/projects/macquarie/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 41b — Macquarie University City Campus (Central Hub) ============== */ { slug: "project-macquarie-hub", name: "Macquarie University — Sydney City Campus", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2017, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "DWP Suters", photographer: "Rodrigo Vargas", indexImage: "images/projects/macquarie-hub/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/macquarie-hub/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Macquarie University Sydney City Campus Central Hub — teal and magenta Tetromino modules in the student hub, DWP Suters 2017. Photography Rodrigo Vargas.", brief: [ "Macquarie University's Sydney City Campus (MUSCC) 'Central Hub' is a high-end fit-out by DWP Suters incorporating reception, boardroom, meeting rooms, large kitchens and breakout areas, training rooms, a common room and general open-plan office space.", "The reception, waiting and student-hub zones were developed for flexibility — operable walls and modular furniture let the space open up and serve multiple functions across a single floor.", ], response: [ "The Tetromino Modular System by Derlot anchors the reception and student-hub zones — interlocking, puzzle-piece seats and benches in teal, magenta and cream, paired with timber tray tables and high-back booths. Backless and endlessly reconfigurable, the modules move with the operable walls to reshape the room from waiting lounge to event space, giving the high-end fit-out a playful, adaptable heart.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/macquarie-hub/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Macquarie City Campus — Tetromino modules and pink lounge chairs by the marble reception under red pendants." }, { src: "images/projects/macquarie-hub/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Macquarie City Campus — Tetromino booths beside the operable timber wall and dining tables." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino", note: "Modular system", image: "images/projects/macquarie-hub/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 42 — Mirabilia 851 ============== */ { slug: "project-mirabilia", name: "Mirabilia 851", location: "Buenos Aires, Argentina", city: "Buenos Aires", country: "Argentina", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Mirabilia Desarrollos", photographer: "Mirabilia", indexImage: "images/projects/mirabilia/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/mirabilia/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "851 Mirabilia — continuous olive Twig seating across the travertine foyer beneath a raw concrete soffit, Buenos Aires 2024.", brief: [ "851 Mirabilia is a landmark office precinct in the heart of Buenos Aires — a 40,000 m² building by Mirabilia Desarrollos that redefines corporate amenity and sets a new benchmark for workplace design in Argentina.", "Mirabilia Desarrollos is a leading developer known for innovative, high-end residential and commercial projects across the country, with a focus on sustainability, design and world-class amenity.", ], response: [ "The Twig system anchors the building's foyer — continuous, curving runs of olive-toned upholstery that snake across the travertine floor beneath the board-formed concrete. Backless and endlessly configurable, Twig turns the vast lobby into a sculptural landscape of informal seating. 851 Mirabilia marks a milestone for Derlot: its first project in Argentina, the home country of director Alexander Lotersztain.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/mirabilia/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "851 Mirabilia — olive Twig benches and a white floor lamp against the timber-batten foyer wall." }, { src: "images/projects/mirabilia/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "851 Mirabilia — curving Twig runs and a turned-timber stool beneath the concrete columns." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Modular foyer seating", image: "images/projects/mirabilia/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 43 — Macpherson Kelley ============== */ { slug: "project-mk-lawyers", name: "Macpherson Kelley", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "GroupGSA + Artillery", photographer: "Nicole England", indexImage: "images/projects/mk-lawyers/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/mk-lawyers/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Macpherson Kelley — brown leather Prisma seating and tub chairs in a timber-framed collaborative lounge, Melbourne 2019. Photography Nicole England.", brief: [ "A new Melbourne office for law firm Macpherson Kelley was an opportunity to change the way the practice works, in line with the latest thinking on workplace. The result, by GroupGSA and Artillery, accommodates staff mobility today and adapts as the business evolves.", "The design enables a progressive legal workplace where everyone is fully agile across all levels of the team.", ], response: [ "The Prisma 2 modular system by Derlot — designed and manufactured in Australia — anchors a collaborative area framed by timber panelling and greenery. Interlocking geometric modules in dusty pink, grey and brown step and tier through the space, pairing with timber tray tables to give the agile floor a series of soft, reconfigurable settings to meet, talk and work.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/mk-lawyers/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Macpherson Kelley — tiered Prisma banquette in grey and mauve beside a window booth of swivel chairs." }, { src: "images/projects/mk-lawyers/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Macpherson Kelley — dusty-pink and grey Prisma modules with a timber coffee table and turned side tables." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Prisma 2 modular system", image: "images/projects/mk-lawyers/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 44 — Mobo Co ============== */ { slug: "project-mobo", name: "Mobo Co", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2023, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Mobo Co", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/mobo/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/mobo/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Mobo Co — a cream Pipeline modular lounge on travertine beneath green arches and a café counter, South Brisbane 2023.", brief: [ "Mobo Co is a premium serviced-office address in South Brisbane — over 3,500 m² of fully furnished, flexible workspace in the heart of South Bank, built for businesses of every size.", "Beyond a traditional office, the fit-out offers a comfortable, professional environment with a range of shared services and amenity — from a first business address to a home for an established company.", ], response: [ "Pipeline shapes the arrival lobby — a long, low run of cream modular seating that curves across the travertine floor, its rounded backs softening the double-height volume beneath the café's green arches. Paired with slender black side tables, the lounge reads as a single sculptural gesture: a calm, generous threshold that sets the tone for the floors above.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/mobo/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Mobo Co — cream Pipeline lounge against full-height glazing and the café counter." }, { src: "images/projects/mobo/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Mobo Co — Pipeline modules facing the lobby's striped media wall and LED display." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Modular lounge", image: "images/projects/mobo/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 45 — Monash College ============== */ { slug: "project-monash", name: "Monash College", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "JCB Architects + Jackson Interiors", photographer: "Shannon McGrath", indexImage: "images/projects/monash/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/monash/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Monash College city campus — grey Twig star-shaped benches and timber stools on a plywood-lined study floor, Melbourne 2018. Photography Shannon McGrath.", brief: [ "JCB Architects engaged Jackson Interiors to collaborate on the design and delivery of Monash College's city campus in Melbourne — a learning environment for the university's pathway students.", ], response: [ "Twig defines the open study floors as branching, star-shaped islands of grey upholstery that thread between plywood-lined walls and glazed teaching rooms. Backless and low, the benches pair with timber stools and pedestal tables to host solo study and group work alike, carving the large floorplate into a soft, continuous landscape that students can occupy however they choose.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/monash/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Monash College — Twig benches and stools beside glazed tutorial rooms with perforated screens." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Modular study seating", image: "images/projects/monash/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 46 — Moore College ============== */ { slug: "project-moore", name: "Moore College", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2015, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "AJC Architects", photographer: "Tyrone Branigan", indexImage: "images/projects/moore/cover.png", hero: "images/projects/moore/hero/01.png", heroAlt: "Moore Theological College — yellow Tetromino benches on a green checkerboard carpet along the library window, Sydney 2015. Photography Tyrone Branigan.", brief: [ "AJC Architects delivered a world-class library and teaching facility for Moore Theological College in the heart of Sydney's inner city.", ], response: [ "Tetromino modular seating gives the library a place to sit, read and relax. Interlocking puzzle-piece benches in citron and chartreuse run the length of the glazed reading edge and thread between the stacks, their backs doubling as low screens. Backless and reconfigurable, the modules animate the green checkerboard floor and let students settle wherever the light and the books lead them.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/moore/gallery/01.png", alt: "Moore College — yellow Tetromino benches among the library stacks on the green checkerboard carpet." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino", note: "Modular library seating", image: "images/projects/moore/feature/01.png" }, ], }, /* ============== 47 — Morning After ============== */ { slug: "project-morning-after", name: "Morning After", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2015, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/morning-after/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/morning-after/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Morning After — a white circular Cup booth and timber communal tables in the sunlit West End café, Brisbane 2015. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Morning After opened in West End in 2015 with one aim: to create a café that felt fresh, thoughtful and genuinely welcoming — a place where locals gather, visitors seek it out, and mornings start on the right note.", "It was the first venue in what is now Espresso & Eats by Studio P, a small, family-run hospitality group built on quality, creativity and memorable dining — today joined by Yolk and PingPong.", ], response: [ "Derlot shaped the room around two of its own pieces. A sculptural white Cup booth — a moulded circular banquette — sits at the heart of the floor, while a long communal table is lined with Picket: turned-timber stools on slender white legs. Together they give the café its rhythm of perch-and-linger seating, keeping things simple and genuine in the way the venue set out to.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/morning-after/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Morning After — a guest works at the white circular Cup booth by the folding café windows." }, { src: "images/projects/morning-after/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Morning After — a row of timber-topped Picket stools along the communal table against the white brick wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Moulded booth seating", image: "images/projects/morning-after/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Timber stool", image: "images/projects/morning-after/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 48 — National Australia Bank, Adelaide Head Office ============== */ { slug: "project-nab", name: "National Australia Bank, Adelaide Head Office", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Alexander Lotersztain", indexImage: "images/projects/nab/cover.webp", hero: "images/projects/nab/hero/01.webp", heroAlt: "NAB Adelaide Head Office — sculptural white Twig benches on the rooftop terrace of 60 King William Street, overlooking the city, 2024.", brief: [ "60 King William is Adelaide's largest future-focused precinct and the new home of NAB's Adelaide head office — a workplace designed to elevate the human experience, invigorate the senses and foster authentic connections.", "Welcoming staff and visitors onto Kaurna land, the building sets out to heighten creativity and collaboration, connecting ideas, wellbeing and possibility across its floors.", ], response: [ "On the rooftop terraces, sculptural white Twig benches branch across the pavers like a continuous landscape, their low Y-shaped forms turning the open-air decks into places to gather above the city. Rendered in a hard-wearing outdoor finish and embossed with the Derlot mark, the benches pair with powder-coated café stools and planting to give the precinct's amenity levels a calm, generous social heart.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/nab/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "NAB Adelaide — a white Twig bench on the terrace with the RAA tower beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/nab/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "NAB Adelaide — the embossed Derlot mark on the moulded white Twig bench." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Outdoor terrace seating", image: "images/projects/nab/feature/01.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 49 — Ownworld Showroom, Darlinghurst ============== */ { slug: "project-ownworld", name: "Ownworld Showroom, Darlinghurst", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Retail", sector: "Retail", architect: "Ownworld", photographer: "Tom Ferguson", indexImage: "images/projects/ownworld/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ownworld/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Ownworld Showroom, Darlinghurst — a Derlot vignette on a coloured plinth against dark drapery: cream Twig chair and stool with an upholstered tub chair. Sydney 2024. Photography Tom Ferguson.", brief: [ "Ownworld — Derlot's Sydney retail partner — presents the collection across its Darlinghurst showroom. The brief was a gallery-like setting that lets each piece read as an object: spotlit vignettes on coloured plinths against dark drapery and raw concrete, curated to show the breadth of the Derlot range to architects and designers.", ], response: [ "The showroom stages Derlot's collections as a series of considered still-lifes. Biggie and Pipeline soft seating, S1 stools, Stump Recycled and Twig are grouped on saturated colour plinths under tight spotlighting — the dark, theatrical backdrop letting the forms and finishes of each piece take centre stage. A retail environment designed less like a shop than an exhibition of the range.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ownworld/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Ownworld Showroom — a Derlot vignette spotlit on a coloured plinth." }, { src: "images/projects/ownworld/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Ownworld Showroom — Derlot seating staged against dark drapery." }, { src: "images/projects/ownworld/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Ownworld Showroom — a curated grouping of Derlot pieces under gallery lighting." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "biggie", name: "Biggie", note: "Soft seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/biggie.webp" }, { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Modular lounge", image: "images/_legacy/collections/pipeline.webp" }, { slug: "s1", name: "S1", note: "Stool & side table", image: "images/_legacy/collections/s1-hero-group.webp" }, { slug: "stump-r", name: "Stump Recycled", note: "Recycled stool", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump-r.webp" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 50 — Passenger Terminal World 2026 ============== */ { slug: "project-ptw-2026", name: "Passenger Terminal World 2026", location: "London, United Kingdom", city: "London", country: "United Kingdom", year: 2026, category: "Installations", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "—", indexImage: "images/projects/ptw-2026/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ptw-2026/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Passenger Terminal Expo 2026, London — Derlot's stand with a red rotomoulded Trio Recycled bench-and-planter and a grey Cocoon modular sofa beneath the derlot wordmark. ALS, 2026.", brief: [ "Passenger Terminal World Expo is the global gathering point for airport design, operations and technology. For the 2026 edition in London, Derlot brings its airport-seating portfolio to the show floor — a stand built to let specifiers test the range that now furnishes terminals across Australia and North America.", ], response: [ "The stand presents Derlot's transit family together: the Trio, Platform and Gateway beam systems alongside Twig benches, Stump stools, Stump Recycled and Rio. Visitors can sit the seating, handle the finishes and integrated power, and see how the modular logic configures from linear runs to clustered lounges — the breadth of the airport offer in one place.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ptw-2026/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Passenger Terminal Expo 2026 — Derlot's airport-seating range staged on the show floor." }, { src: "images/projects/ptw-2026/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Passenger Terminal Expo 2026 — beam seating and rotomoulded pieces on the Derlot stand." }, { src: "images/projects/ptw-2026/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Passenger Terminal Expo 2026 — visitors testing the Derlot transit collection." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "trio", name: "Trio", note: "Modular bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/trio.webp" }, { slug: "platform", name: "Platform", note: "Beam seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/platform.webp" }, { slug: "gateway", name: "Gateway", note: "Beam seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/gateway.webp" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Upholstered", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Side table", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "stump-r", name: "Stump Recycled", note: "Recycled side table", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump-r.webp" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/guell.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 51 — Penfolds Magill Estate ============== */ { slug: "project-penfolds", name: "Penfolds Magill Estate", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Studio Gram", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/penfolds/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/penfolds/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Penfolds Magill Estate, Adelaide — a long cream Pipeline modular sofa on the cellar-door floor, full-height glazing onto the vineyard beyond. 2025. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Penfolds Magill Estate — the historic Adelaide home of Australia's most famous winemaker — needed soft, generous seating for the visitor and cellar-door spaces of its Magill Estate Kitchen, where guests gather among the vines with views back to the city. The brief called for a piece with the comfort and warmth of residential furniture, scaled to a hospitality setting.", ], response: [ "Pipeline answers with a long, low modular sofa in a soft oat bouclé — rounded bolster forms that link into a continuous run along the glazing, turning the cellar-door lounge into a relaxed, residential room. Paired with a sculptural timber table and the estate's bar stools, the sofa lets guests settle in for a tasting while the vineyard and the Adelaide hills fill the windows beyond.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/penfolds/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Penfolds Magill Estate — the cream Pipeline modular sofa and timber table, vineyard beyond the glass." }, { src: "images/projects/penfolds/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Penfolds Magill Estate — Pipeline modular seating in the cellar-door lounge." }, { src: "images/projects/penfolds/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Penfolds Magill Estate — detail of the oat-boúclé Pipeline sofa against the estate interior." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/penfolds/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A long cream Pipeline modular sofa at Penfolds Magill Estate.", eyebrow: "Pipeline · modular lounge", title: "A residential calm at the cellar door.", body: "Pipeline's soft bolster forms link into a continuous oat-boúclé run along the glazing — the comfort and warmth of residential furniture scaled to the Magill Estate cellar door, with the vineyard filling the windows beyond.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Modular lounge sofa", image: "images/projects/penfolds/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 52 — Perth Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-perth-airport", name: "Perth Airport", location: "Perth, Australia", city: "Perth", country: "Australia", year: 2012, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/perth-airport/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/perth-airport/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Perth Airport — charcoal Guell modular benches and red Stump stools in the food court beneath a copper-mesh ceiling sculpture, 2012. Woods Bagot.", brief: [ "Perth Airport's terminal refurbishment needed durable, flexible seating for its food court and concourse dwell zones — furniture that could take constant traveller traffic while bringing colour and a sense of place to the busy retail floor.", ], response: [ "Guell anchors the food court as charcoal modular booth seating — curved, upholstered runs that gather diners around timber tables beneath the terminal's copper-mesh ceiling sculpture. Bright red Stump stools scatter alongside as quick, hard-wearing perches, their pop of colour lifting the dark palette.", "Backless, robust and easily rearranged, the pairing lets the airport reshape the dining and waiting zones as passenger flows shift, while keeping the concourse feeling warm and considered rather than purely transactional.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/perth-airport/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Perth Airport — charcoal Guell benches and red Stump stools along the food-court dining zone." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-airport/gallery/02.webp", alt: "Perth Airport — Guell modular seating in the renewed terminal concourse." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Modular booth seating", image: "images/projects/perth-airport/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 53 — Perth Children\'s Hospital ============== */ { slug: "project-perth-childrens", name: "Perth Children\'s Hospital", location: "Perth, Australia", city: "Perth", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Civic", sector: "Civic", architect: "JCY Architects · Cox Architecture · Billard Leece Partnership with HKS", photographer: "Dion Robeson", indexImage: "images/projects/perth-childrens/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/perth-childrens/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — red and orange Prisma modular lounging running alongside the blue play-water and whale shark in the atrium, Perth 2018. Photography Dion Robeson.", brief: [ "The $1.2 billion Perth Children\'s Hospital in Nedlands opened to its first patients as one of the most anticipated civic projects in Western Australia. The 298-bed hospital replaces Princess Margaret Hospital, adding clinical, research and education facilities, overnight space for parents, indoor and outdoor play, a beanbag cinema and support services.", "With architecture and interiors by JCY Architects, Cox Architecture and Billard Leece Partnership with HKS, PCH brings a new level of advanced healthcare to future generations across the state. Its atrium is crowned by an installation of floating petals, programmed to move in a calming, fluid manner for patients, families and staff.", ], response: [ "Prisma and Pill appear at the main entrance and prominently on every level of the atrium, adding to the visual spectacle of the space. The modular lounging works as both a wayfinding cue through the vast building and a splash of striking colour — red, orange and yellow runs that snake across the floors, and green and blue settings that anchor the quieter waiting rooms. Custom modular pieces were created by Derlot to suit specific waiting and reception areas.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — an orange and red Prisma star module beneath the green atrium balconies." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — orange Prisma lounging by the whale-shark play sculpture and the green atrium." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — an orange and yellow Prisma run snaking across the atrium floor, seen from above." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — colourful Prisma modular seating on a hospital floor." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — Prisma modular lounging in a bright waiting area." }, { src: "images/projects/perth-childrens/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Perth Children\'s Hospital — a green Prisma lounge and striped ottomans by a ward kitchenette." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: null, collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular lounging", image: "images/projects/perth-childrens/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "pill", name: "Pill", note: "Custom modular seating", image: "images/projects/perth-childrens/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 54 — Piccadilly Arcade ============== */ { slug: "project-piccadilly", name: "Piccadilly Arcade", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Retail", sector: "Retail", architect: "Blight Rayner Architects", photographer: "Alexander Lotersztain", indexImage: "images/projects/piccadilly/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/piccadilly/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Piccadilly Arcade, Brisbane — a Coral light cascade glowing through the three-storey glass façade at night. Alexander Lotersztain, 2024.", brief: [ "Piccadilly, at 340 Queen Street, is a small office building with a basement restaurant designed by JAR Architects. The interior design by Blight Rayner focuses on the atrium foyer — a three-storey-high space that acts as threshold to the office levels and enables glass-lift access to the restaurant and offices. The ethos is one of restraint: stripping layers of change back to original surfaces and complementing them with an industrial aesthetic.", "This relatively spartan approach set the scene for two artist works — one by Kenji Uranishi inhabiting a 'showcase' that abstracts the original Piccadilly merchandise display, and one a suspended light work by Alexander Lotersztain. The works resonate with each other in thematic content; the atrium foyer is an inspiring space, rich with meaning associated with the building's history.", ], response: [ "Coral is the suspended light work — a cascade of rotomoulded LDPE modules falling through the three-storey atrium, glowing in the street façade at night. Against the foyer's stripped-back, industrial surfaces it reads as a singular luminous gesture, holding its own beside Uranishi's showcase and giving the building's historic threshold a warm, contemporary focus.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/piccadilly/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Piccadilly Arcade — the Coral cascade falling through the three-storey atrium foyer." }, { src: "images/projects/piccadilly/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Piccadilly Arcade — Coral modules detail against the stripped-back industrial surfaces." }, { src: "images/projects/piccadilly/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Piccadilly Arcade — the glowing Coral light work seen from the street." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "coral", name: "Coral", note: "Suspended light work", image: "images/projects/piccadilly/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 55 — Ping Pong ============== */ { slug: "project-ping-pong", name: "Ping Pong", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/ping-pong/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ping-pong/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Ping Pong, Brisbane — bubblegum-pink bar under a ceiling cloud of Bolet pendants, with Picket chairs, Cup stools and terrazzo-topped Mass tables. Derlot, 2020. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Ping Pong arrived as a brief for joy — a Thai street-food diner and late cocktail bar in Brisbane that asked its fit-out to be the headline act. A room guests would photograph before they ordered. The operators wanted two moods under one roof: a saturated, high-energy front bar, and a quieter planted room behind it. Furniture had to survive nightly turnover while reading as set design rather than hospitality stock.", ], response: [ "The studio answered colour with colour. The front room commits entirely to a single bubblegum pink — painted brick, poured floor, joinery and seating tuned to one chroma — so the furniture dissolves into the architecture and the space reads as a single gesture. Picket chairs and Cup stools were finished to match the walls; Mass tables carry terrazzo tops cast with a confetti of recycled chip, the one place the palette is let off the leash.", "Overhead, a drift of Bolet pendants gathers into a cloud across the ceiling — opal spheres at shifting heights that soften the hard colour and give the room a horizon. A neon wordmark anchors the bar. Behind it, the mood inverts: a deep-green, densely planted dining room — the venue's \"secret oasis\" — where curved Cup banquettes wrap intimate tables under dimpled-glass Bolet pendants and a low, foliage-filtered light.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ping-pong/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Pink banquette run with terrazzo-topped Mass tables and gloss Picket chairs, the brick wall washed in pink." }, { src: "images/projects/ping-pong/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Gloss-pink Picket chairs around terrazzo-topped Mass tables — tonal pink throughout the front room." }, { src: "images/projects/ping-pong/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "The pink bar head-on, Cup stools at the counter beneath the drift of Bolet pendants." }, { src: "images/projects/ping-pong/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "The Ping Pong wordmark over the bar, beneath the cloud of Bolet pendants, with Cup stools at the counter." }, { src: "images/projects/ping-pong/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "An intimate green booth — curved Cup banquette, walnut table and a dimpled-glass Bolet pendant in the planted rear room." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/ping-pong/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Ping Pong's green dining room — curved Cup banquettes, dimpled-glass Bolet pendants, dense planting and a Buddha mural.", eyebrow: "Two rooms, one building", title: "A green oasis behind the pink.", body: "Where the bar is loud and luminous, the rear dining room is dim and overgrown — forest-green Cup banquettes, walnut tabletops, and a canopy of dimpled-glass Bolet pendants. The contrast lets one venue carry a whole evening, from a fast slushie at the bar to a slow dinner in the green.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant cloud", image: "images/_legacy/collections/bolet.webp" }, { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Stools & green banquettes", image: "images/_legacy/collections/cup.webp" }, { slug: "mass", name: "Mass", note: "Terrazzo communal tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mass.webp" }, { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Dining chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/picket.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 56 — Portland International Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-portland", name: "Portland International Airport", location: "Portland, USA", city: "Portland", country: "USA", year: 2025, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "ZGF Architects", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/portland/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/portland/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Portland International Airport main terminal — Twig branching benches and stone-form stools beneath ZGF's mass-timber roof, among live trees. Derlot, 2025.", brief: [ "Portland International Airport's new main terminal set a living forest beneath one of the largest mass-timber roofs in the world. ZGF's nine-acre canopy — a lattice of regionally sourced Douglas fir — curves over real trees, daylight and a terrazzo-and-timber floor. The brief for seating was singular: furniture that belonged to this forest, not to an airport.", ], response: [ "Twig answered the canopy in kind. Its branching, tree-like geometry — upholstered limbs that fork and meet — was specified in a warm tan leather that holds its own against the timber overhead and the teal floor field below. Set in loose clusters between live trees and stone-form stools, the benches scatter like fallen branches across the lounge, giving travellers a place to perch without closing down the openness of the hall.", "The forms are continuous and backless, so sightlines through the terminal stay clear and each piece reads from any angle. Every cluster pairs with planting and pebble stools to compose a small landscape — a moment of pause beneath the timber lattice.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/portland/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Twig clusters on the teal floor field, framed by timber walls with the terminal's beer hall beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/portland/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Twig benches and stone-form stools at the balcony overlook, live trees rising into the timber lattice." }, { src: "images/projects/portland/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "A Twig bench at the mezzanine edge, overlooking security screening below and the terminal's media wall." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/portland/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Twig branching benches beneath the Douglas-fir canopy at Portland International Airport.", eyebrow: "Seating as landscape", title: "Twig branches beneath a mass-timber sky.", body: "Under ZGF's Douglas-fir canopy, Twig's forking forms echo the trees they sit among — a continuous, backless geometry that lets the eye travel straight through the hall. Tan leather grounds the cool teal floor and warms the daylight pouring through the roof.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching benches", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 57 — Brisbane Powerhouse ============== */ { slug: "project-powerhouse", name: "Brisbane Powerhouse — P.S.", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/powerhouse/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/powerhouse/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Brisbane Powerhouse P.S. store — punch-orange carpet and curtains, raw aluminium counter with Kink handles, beneath the building's concrete structure. Brisbane 2022. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "P.S. — the Powerhouse Store — is the 'postscript' to a visitor's experience at Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland's home of contemporary art and culture, set in a 1920s power station on Maiwar, the Brisbane River. The building once supplied power to the city's tram network; the brief was to draw on that industrial past and turn a section of the former box-office floor into a minimal, sophisticated retail store and concierge experience.", "Brisbane-based designer Alexander Lotersztain answered with clean lines and a restrained palette: raw aluminium with exquisite welded edges as the hero material, set against punch-orange carpet, velvet curtains and custom lighting that nods to the building's history as a power supplier — a 'futuresque' aesthetic intended to develop its own patina over time.", ], response: [ "Kink details the cabinetry and the 15-metre custom aluminium concierge counter that runs through the space. Its press-brake-folded handles — designed by Martin Mogilski for Derlot — are left in raw aluminium to match the welded-edge counters, so every drawer and door reads as part of the same industrial gesture rather than an applied fitting.", "Against the orange floor and the raw concrete structure overhead, the handles turn each touchpoint into a small designed moment — the considered, locally made character of what's on the shelves carried right down to the way a drawer is opened.", ], quote: { text: "Our approach was to marry the industrial past of the building with a minimal, 'futuresque' aesthetic — one that with time will develop its patina.", name: "Alexander Lotersztain", role: "Designer · Derlot", }, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/powerhouse/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The raw aluminium concierge counter in the Powerhouse turbine hall, the orange P.S. store glowing beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/powerhouse/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Kink handles on the brushed-aluminium concierge cabinetry, against a felt-lined upstand." }, { src: "images/projects/powerhouse/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Overhead view of the aluminium counter, a vitrine of memorabilia set into its welded face." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/powerhouse/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Detail of Kink press-brake-folded aluminium handles on the Powerhouse cabinetry.", eyebrow: "Kink · Martin Mogilski for Derlot", title: "A folded handle, left raw.", body: "Kink is a single sheet of aluminium press-brake-folded into a faceted pull. Specified here in raw metal to match the counter's welded edges, it lets the cabinetry speak the building's industrial language — utilitarian, precise, and made to weather into its own patina.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "kink", name: "Kink", note: "Door & cabinet handles", image: "images/_legacy/collections/kink-array-wide.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 58 — Pricewaterhouse Coopers ============== */ { slug: "project-pwc", name: "PwC Melbourne & Sydney", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Futurespace", photographer: "Nicole England", indexImage: "images/projects/pwc/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/pwc/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "PwC Sydney — Prisma modular seating in coral, blush and powder blue clustered around a timber-stepped client landing. Futurespace, 2019. Photography Nicole England.", brief: [ "Designed by Futurespace, PwC's new Melbourne and Sydney headquarters set out to challenge the ideology of the traditional client showroom. To keep innovating and stay leaders in their field, PwC understood that the client engagement paradigm had to be the key focus of the brief.", "Futurespace embraced the challenge with a design that places priority on access to cutting-edge technology and an array of collaborative working spaces — and that deliberately breaks down the barriers between staff and clients.", ], response: [ "The furniture aimed to combine proven elements from hospitality and retail design with a residential appeal. The Prisma modular system by Derlot has a two-fold effect: it enables interaction between clients and staff, while opening the opportunity to introduce unexpected colour combinations across the floor.", "Prisma's faceted modules — coral, blush, powder blue and forest green, paired with raw-timber wedges — scatter across the client landings and stepped timber forums, reconfigured cluster by cluster so no two settings read the same. Tetromino soft forms extend the same logic into the technology and demonstration zones, where VR and presentation spaces sit openly among the seating rather than behind closed doors.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/pwc/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "PwC Sydney — Prisma and Tetromino modules among bag-screen pods and a VR demonstration zone by the curved window line." }, { src: "images/projects/pwc/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Coral and powder-blue Prisma settings beside the timber stepped forum and feature stair at PwC Sydney." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/pwc/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Prisma modular seating in coral, blush and powder blue clustered at a PwC client landing.", eyebrow: "Prisma · Derlot", title: "Unexpected colour, configured to connect.", body: "Prisma's faceted modules and raw-timber wedges let one system do two jobs at PwC — staging informal client conversations while colour-blocking each landing in a different key. Hospitality comfort, retail confidence, residential warmth.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular client seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Technology & demo zones", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tetromino-s.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 58b — Prince Street Cafe ============== */ { slug: "project-prince-street", name: "Prince Street Cafe", location: "York, USA", city: "York", country: "USA", year: 2021, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "—", photographer: "Client", indexImage: "images/projects/prince-street/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/prince-street/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Prince Street Cafe, York PA — black Volar stools at maple counter tables beneath a planted steel screen, in the historic Rupp Building. Photography client.", brief: [ "Prince Street Cafe is a bright, community-focused coffee shop in downtown York, Pennsylvania, set right on Continental Square inside the historic Rupp Building. It is known for a modern, minimalist and spacious interior — an inviting room that works equally well for remote work, a casual date, or a family breakfast.", ], response: [ "The fit-out keeps the palette quiet so the furniture and planting carry the room: a turquoise service counter and warm maple tabletops set against soft sage and white walls. Volar stools in black perch at the high counter tables beneath a steel-framed plant screen, while Picket chairs in natural timber gather the lower tables — two registers of seating that let the café shift from solo laptop sessions to shared meals across the day.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/prince-street/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Black Volar stools with sage seats at maple counter tables, beneath a steel plant screen, natural Picket chairs beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/prince-street/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Baristas at the turquoise service counter under opal globe pendants at Prince Street Cafe." }, { src: "images/projects/prince-street/gallery/03.png", alt: "A living green wall beside a maple communal table and black Picket chairs in the café's rear room." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/prince-street/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Volar stools and Picket chairs beneath a planted steel screen at Prince Street Cafe.", eyebrow: "Volar · Picket", title: "Two seats, one calm room.", body: "Black Volar stools take the high counter tables; natural Picket chairs hold the low tables. Against maple, turquoise and a screen of trailing plants, the seating stays quiet — letting the historic Rupp Building and the greenery set the mood.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "volar", name: "Volar", note: "Counter stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/volar.webp" }, { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Dining chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/picket.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 59 — Pulteney Grammar School ============== */ { slug: "project-pulteney", name: "Pulteney Grammar School", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2015, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Walter Brooke & Associates", photographer: "Sam Noonan", indexImage: "images/projects/pulteney/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/pulteney/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Pulteney Grammar Centre for Senior Learning, Adelaide — cobalt, teal and grey Prisma modular seating with timber wedge tables on the spotted-gum floor of a warehouse-conversion learning commons. Walter Brooke & Associates, 2015. Photography Sam Noonan.", brief: [ "Situated in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, Pulteney Grammar opened a new Centre for Senior Learning. Designed by Walter Brooke & Associates, the new campus for Year 10–12 students opened to coincide with the start of Term 1, 2015.", "The space feels more like a modern warehouse interior — the kind you might expect to house an advertising agency — than a traditional classroom block. Its open-plan areas were developed to encourage and facilitate student collaboration.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the learning commons that knit the floors together. Its faceted modular seats, ottomans and side tables — specified in cobalt, teal, sky and grey with raw-timber wedges — cluster into loose, reconfigurable settings between the glazed learning studios, so students can group and regroup as the work demands.", "The angular geometry answers the building's industrial bones: painted brick, polished concrete, exposed services and spotted-gum floors. Seen from the floor above, the modules read as a scattered composition across the carpet — colour and form turning circulation space into a place students want to occupy.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/pulteney/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Overhead view of grey-and-timber Prisma modules composed across a blue carpet field between the glazed studios and stair." }, { src: "images/projects/pulteney/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Prisma seating in the double-height atrium beneath the steel-and-glass stair at Pulteney Grammar." }, { src: "images/projects/pulteney/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "A student working on a green Prisma ottoman against a painted-brick arch, with further Prisma clusters in the collaborative zone beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/pulteney/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Cobalt, teal and grey Prisma modular seating with timber wedge tables in the Pulteney learning commons.", eyebrow: "Prisma · modular geometry", title: "Collaboration, configured.", body: "Prisma seats, ottomans and side tables in cobalt, teal, sky and grey let one system stage the Centre for Senior Learning — loose clusters that students rearrange to suit the task, set against the warehouse conversion's brick, concrete and timber.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seats, ottomans & side tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 60 — Qanstruct Head Office ============== */ { slug: "project-qanstruct", name: "Qanstruct Head Office", location: "Kew, Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Nicole England", indexImage: "images/projects/qanstruct/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/qanstruct/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Qanstruct head office, Kew — a cream bouclé Caterpillar modular sofa on a round rug beneath a circular skylight, with timber joinery and the open workfloor beyond. Melbourne, 2025. Photography Nicole England.", brief: [ "Qanstruct's Kew head office sets a calm, residential register for a construction company's working floor. Beneath a circular skylight and a coffered ceiling disc, a central lounge anchors the open-plan space — warm timber joinery, a spotted-gum floor and a planted reception edge softening the transition between hospitality and workstation.", ], response: [ "A Caterpillar modular sofa in cream bouclé curves through the lounge — its soft, pebble-like forms a deliberate counterpoint to the building's structural columns and the precision of the joinery wall behind. Backless and continuous, it lets the seating read as one sculptural gesture at the heart of the floor, a place to gather or pause that belongs more to a living room than an office.", ], quote: null, gallery: [], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Modular lounge sofa", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 61 — Queensland Art Gallery, Exhibition Hall ============== */ { slug: "project-qag-hall", name: "Queensland Art Gallery, Exhibition Hall", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2012, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Architectus", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/qag-hall/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/qag-hall/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Queensland Art Gallery, Exhibition Hall — Autobahn sweeping through the gallery, Brisbane 2012. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "For a temporary exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery, Derlot was asked for gallery seating that could hold its own in a long, darkened hall hung with major works — furniture that gave visitors somewhere to rest and contemplate without competing with the art on the walls.", ], response: [ "Autobahn answers with a single sweeping line. Its modular leather-topped benches link end to end into a continuous snake that winds the length of the hall — curving, doubling back, and opening into seats that face the work from every angle. Tan saddle leather over a fine black steel frame keeps each module light and low, so the run reads as one drawn gesture across the timber floor rather than a row of separate seats.", "Integrated side tables drop into the curve where the line turns, and select modules carry a low back for longer dwelling. The detailing is deliberately quiet: twin-needle stitching tracing the leather, slim splayed legs, and a warm material palette that sits in calm contrast to the dark walls and the art they hold.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/qag-hall/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "QAG Exhibition Hall — Autobahn snake winding through the gallery." }, { src: "images/projects/qag-hall/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "QAG Exhibition Hall — Autobahn bench with integrated side table in front of an Aboriginal painting." }, { src: "images/projects/qag-hall/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "QAG Exhibition Hall — Autobahn side-table integration." }, { src: "images/projects/qag-hall/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "QAG Exhibition Hall — twin-needle stitching on the tan saddle leather, macro detail." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/qag-hall/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Autobahn bench with integrated side table in front of an Aboriginal painting at QAG.", eyebrow: "Autobahn · modular system", title: "One line, drawn through the hall.", body: "Autobahn's leather-topped modules link into a single continuous bench that curves the length of the gallery — integrated side tables falling into the turns. Tan saddle leather on a fine black frame keeps the seating quiet, deferring to the work on the walls.", }, singleImage: { src: "images/projects/qag-hall/feature/02.jpg", alt: "QAG Exhibition Hall — wide gallery perspective." }, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Modular system, 2012", image: "images/_legacy/collections/autobahn.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 63 — San Diego International Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-san-diego", name: "San Diego International Airport", location: "California, USA", city: "San Diego", country: "USA", year: 2025, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Gensler", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/san-diego/cover.jpg", hero: [ "images/projects/san-diego/hero/01.jpg", "images/projects/san-diego/hero/02.jpg", "images/projects/san-diego/hero/03.jpg", "images/projects/san-diego/hero/04.jpg", ], heroAlt: "San Diego International Airport, new Terminal 1 — sage-green, ochre and slate-blue Prisma modular seating with faceted Hext side tables in a gate lounge, grey swivel tub chairs along the airfield glazing. Gensler, 2025. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "San Diego International Airport's new Terminal 1, designed by Gensler, is the centrepiece of the airport's largest-ever redevelopment — a daylit concourse of full-height glazing, terrazzo floors and warm timber soffits opening directly onto the airfield. The brief for the gate lounges asked for seating that could carry high passenger volumes while feeling closer to a hospitality lounge than a transit hall.", "The furniture had to hold its own in vast, light-filled rooms — flexible enough to compose distinct settings at each gate, durable enough for an international airport, and colourful enough to give travellers a sense of place and orientation across the long concourse.", ], response: [ "Prisma answers with faceted modular seating grouped into open clusters at every gate. Specified across a Californian palette — sage green, warm ochre, slate and powder blue — the angular modules and raw-timber wedges configure into back-to-back islands, L-settings and loose pinwheels, so no two gate lounges read the same while the system stays unmistakably one family.", "Faceted Hext side tables drop into the clusters in black and white, their hexagonal geometry echoing Prisma's angles and giving every seat a surface within reach. Set against grey swivel tub chairs lined along the airfield glazing, the colour-blocked islands break the scale of the concourse into human-sized rooms — places to wait, work or gather with the planes and the San Diego hills beyond.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A sage-green Prisma setting and ochre cluster by the airfield glass, a Southwest aircraft beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Slate-blue and ochre Prisma modules with a Hext side table, swivel tub chairs along the glazing." }, { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Ochre Prisma cluster and green seating with faceted Hext tables, grey swivel chairs at the window line." }, { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Powder-blue and ochre Prisma settings against the gate glazing, the San Diego hills beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "A green Prisma run beneath the timber-slat soffit at Gate 119, ochre and slate clusters opposite." }, { src: "images/projects/san-diego/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "An ochre Prisma sofa below the Gate 119 sign, slate and blue modules behind." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/san-diego/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Faceted Hext side tables among green and ochre Prisma seating at San Diego Terminal 1.", eyebrow: "Hext · faceted side tables", title: "Angles that echo the seating.", body: "Hext's hexagonal, faceted geometry was specified in black and white to drop into the Prisma clusters — a surface within reach of every seat, drawn in the same angular language as the modules it serves.", }, singleImage: { src: "images/projects/san-diego/feature/02.jpg", alt: "Wide ochre Prisma cluster with faceted Hext table and grey swivel chairs at San Diego Terminal 1, a Frontier aircraft beyond.", }, featureB: { image: "images/projects/san-diego/feature/03.jpg", alt: "Colour-blocked Prisma islands across a San Diego Terminal 1 gate lounge.", eyebrow: "Colour as wayfinding", title: "A Californian palette, gate by gate.", body: "Sage, ochre, slate and powder blue let one modular system colour-block the concourse — breaking a vast daylit hall into human-scaled rooms and giving travellers a sense of place along the length of Terminal 1.", }, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular gate-lounge seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "hext", name: "Hext", note: "Faceted side tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/hext.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 64 — Santa Monica College ============== */ { slug: "project-santa-monica", name: "Santa Monica College", location: "Santa Monica, USA", city: "Santa Monica", country: "USA", year: 2026, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Yazdani Studio", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/santa-monica/cover.jpg", hero: [ "images/projects/santa-monica/hero/01.jpg", "images/projects/santa-monica/hero/02.jpg", "images/projects/santa-monica/hero/03.jpg", ], heroAlt: "Santa Monica College, Math & Science Building — sculptural white Twig benches branching across the curved concrete atrium beneath an oval skylight. Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign, 2025. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "The Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign designed the new 110,000-square-foot Math & Science Building at Santa Monica College, which opened in late 2025. Led by Mehrdad Yazdani, the state-of-the-art facility integrates earth sciences, mathematics and life sciences, earning a CCFC Award of Honor for design excellence.", "The building brings together Santa Monica College's largest and fastest-growing programs under one roof to spark interdisciplinary collaboration and discovery — interactive classrooms, science labs, a library, a planetarium and a rooftop observatory. Serving both as a new campus crossroads and a welcoming gateway to the community, it is a striking new centrepiece.", ], response: [ "Twig answers Yazdani's sculptural architecture in kind. Its branching, tree-like benches — moulded, seamless and continuous — were specified in two registers: crisp white for the curved, top-lit circulation atriums, and charcoal for the daylit ground-floor lobby beneath the SMC mathematics-and-science wall. Backless and open on every side, the forms scatter like fallen branches across the concrete, letting students perch, gather and pass through without ever closing down the openness of the architecture.", "The geometry reads from above as much as from the seat — forking arms that meet and split, echoing the building's faceted curves and oval light-wells. Hard-wearing and freestanding, Twig suits the constant movement of a community-college crossroads while giving every junction a sculptural place to pause.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "White Twig benches branching across the curved atrium beneath an oval skylight at Santa Monica College." }, { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Overhead view of a white Twig bench's forking, tree-like geometry on the concrete floor." }, { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Macro detail of the seamless moulded Twig form with embossed Derlot mark." }, { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Charcoal Twig benches in the ground-floor lobby beside the planted courtyard glazing." }, { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/05.jpg",alt: "Charcoal Twig seating against a spectrum-coloured glass wall in the Math & Science Building." }, { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "Charcoal Twig cluster beneath the scattered linear lighting and the SMC mathematics-and-science wall." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/santa-monica/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Charcoal Twig benches beneath scattered linear lights and the SMC Mathematics + Science wall.", eyebrow: "Twig · branching benches", title: "Seating as landscape, in two registers.", body: "White in the top-lit atriums, charcoal in the lobby — one branching, backless form scatters through Yazdani's sculptural building like fallen branches, giving a busy community-college crossroads a place to pause without closing down the openness of the architecture.", }, singleImage: { src: "images/projects/santa-monica/feature/02.jpg", alt: "White Twig benches in the curved concrete atrium beneath an oval skylight, classroom levels rising beyond.", }, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching benches", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 65 — St Leonard\'s College ============== */ { slug: "project-st-leonards", name: "St Leonard\'s College", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "ARM Architecture", photographer: "Living Edge", indexImage: "images/projects/st-leonards/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/st-leonards/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "St Leonard\'s College, Melbourne — emerald and charcoal Prisma modular seating in a green-toned senior commons with glazed tile and botanical wallpaper. ARM Architecture, 2020. Photography Living Edge.", brief: [ "St Leonard\'s College briefed a senior commons that could read as a social heart rather than a classroom — a place for students to gather, study and break between classes. ARM Architecture answered with a saturated green interior: glazed emerald tile, botanical wallpaper, herringbone timber floors and clerestory views back to the college\'s heritage roofs.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the room in a tonal-green and charcoal palette that locks into ARM\'s colour scheme. Its faceted modular seats and low backs cluster with bentwood café chairs and round tables, pulling apart into single pads against the green-painted columns and the banquette under the leaf-print wall.", "Backless and easily moved, the modules let students shape the commons through the day — a tight study group, a loose social sprawl, or a quiet corner by the window — one system flexing to the rhythm of senior school life.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/st-leonards/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Emerald Prisma ottoman and charcoal tub chair beside glazed green tile and botanical wallpaper at St Leonard\'s College, high tables and stools beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/st-leonards/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Emerald and charcoal Prisma modular seating in the green senior commons at St Leonard\'s College.", eyebrow: "Prisma · modular geometry", title: "A green heart for senior school.", body: "Tonal-green and charcoal Prisma modules lock into ARM\'s saturated interior — clustering, splitting and regrouping so students can shape the commons to the moment, from focused study to a loose social sprawl.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 66 — State Library of Tasmania ============== */ { slug: "project-state-lib-tas", name: "State Library of Tasmania", location: "Hobart, Australia", city: "Hobart", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Liminal Studio", photographer: "Liminal Studio", indexImage: "images/projects/state-lib-tas/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/state-lib-tas/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "State Library of Tasmania, Hobart — a soft grey Caterpillar modular sofa on the terracotta floor of the renewed foyer, with a row of tan Stump stools along the timber wall. Liminal Studio, 2024. Photography Liminal Studio.", brief: [ "The State Library and Archives of Tasmania, in central Hobart, asked Liminal Studio to renew its mid-century foyer — the threshold to the library, the Allport Museum and the archives. The brief was to make a generous, welcoming public room out of the heritage interior: its terracotta floor, perforated coffered ceiling and timber-and-steel stair intact, but the space brought back to life for contemporary visitors.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar answers the room\'s soft mid-century geometry. Its pebble-like modular sofa — specified in a quiet putty grey — curves through the centre of the foyer, a continuous backless form that visitors can settle into from any side without interrupting the sweep of the floor or the sightline to the museum beyond.", "A row of tan Stump stools, designed by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot, lines the timber wall beneath the perch shelf — light, rotomoulded and easily moved, they offer quick informal seating for a busy public threshold. Together the two collections sit comfortably against the library\'s heritage palette, adding comfort without competing with the architecture.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/state-lib-tas/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The renewed foyer — a grey Caterpillar sofa and a row of tan Stump stools along the timber wall, the Allport Museum beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/state-lib-tas/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Caterpillar sofa and Stump stools on the terracotta floor beneath the heritage timber-and-steel stair." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/state-lib-tas/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A grey Caterpillar modular sofa on the terracotta floor of the State Library of Tasmania foyer.", eyebrow: "Caterpillar · Stump · Derlot", title: "Comfort against a heritage room.", body: "Caterpillar\'s soft, continuous form curves through the mid-century foyer while a row of tan Stump stools lines the timber wall — quiet putty and tan tones that warm the public threshold without competing with the library\'s terracotta floor and coffered ceiling.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Modular sofa", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 67 — Stokehouse Q ============== */ { slug: "project-stokehouse", name: "Stokehouse Q", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/stokehouse/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/stokehouse/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "STOKEBAR Q, Brisbane — the cantilevered riverside pavilion at dusk, a long Volar banquette and white café settings on the terrace above the Brisbane River. Derlot, 2018. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "The refreshed Stokehouse Q reopened after extensive works — the much-loved restaurant remaining, with its stunning views across the Brisbane River and al fresco dining all year round. The reopening introduced a new venue to the family: STOKEBAR Q, within the same building, focused on riverside drinking and snacking through the day and late into the night — music, sunshine, cocktails, icy-cold beers and tasty bites, at tables for two, groups, or in private spaces.", "Interiors were designed by Derlot — also responsible for Halcyon House — with brand identities for both venues developed with Inhouse Design, the iconic Stokehouse scale-bar logo now carried across both the St Kilda Beach and Brisbane River marks.", ], response: [ "Coral anchors the riverside bar as a glowing cluster of rotomoulded LDPE pendants — a warm, sculptural light that holds the room through the long transition from afternoon drinks to late-night snacking. Its soft, diffused glow gives STOKEBAR Q its convivial after-dark character against the backdrop of the river.", "Below the Coral cloud, white Stump stools pull up to the Carrara bar and gather on the terrace, while Volar lounges and armchairs — slim white frames with citrus-and-pastel cushions — furnish the planted balcony as an open-air sitting room above the water. Hard-wearing and weather-ready, the pieces let one material language run from the marble bar out to the deck.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/stokehouse/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "STOKEBAR Q — the Coral pendant cluster glowing over the Carrara marble bar, planting trailing along the back gantry." }, { src: "images/projects/stokehouse/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "The riverside bar beneath a Coral cloud and timber soffit, white Stump stools at the marble counter." }, { src: "images/projects/stokehouse/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "The Coral cluster reflected in the glass beside the orange Stokehouse scale-bar wordmark." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/stokehouse/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Volar lounges and armchairs with citrus cushions and white Stump stools on the planted Stokehouse balcony.", eyebrow: "Volar · Stump · Derlot", title: "An open-air sitting room above the river.", body: "Volar's slim white frames and citrus-and-pastel cushions turn the planted balcony into a riverside lounge, while weather-ready Stump stools pull up alongside — one hard-wearing material language running from the marble bar out to the deck.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "coral", name: "Coral", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/stokehouse/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Bar & terrace stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "volar", name: "Volar", note: "Lounges & armchairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/volar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 68 — Student One ============== */ { slug: "project-student-one", name: "Student One", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Residential", architect: "Arkhefield", photographer: "Arkhefield", indexImage: "images/projects/student-one/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/student-one/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Student One, Adelaide Street — white S1 side tables on a magenta floor beneath a triangulated red feature wall and a sculptural light cluster, Brisbane. Arkhefield, 2023.", brief: [ "Student One on Wharf Street is one of three locations designed by Arkhefield in the heart of Brisbane, offering premium student accommodation geared for learning and lifestyle. The housing provides a student-centric experience — unique in design — focused on spaces where residents can relax, study, engage, shop, connect and play.", "Capturing 753 rooms over 40 levels, the design answered a brief for a tower that was safe and secure, compact, robust, fun and collaborative. The mixed-use tower actively engages Wharf and Adelaide Street through generous entrances and four busy food-and-beverage offerings, with open recreation spaces breaking the form vertically and blurring the line between inside and outside in the principles of sub-tropical design.", ], response: [ "S1 runs through the social spaces as the building's playful constant. The rotomoulded stool-and-table — an I-beam profile in solid colour — appears in hot magenta at the reception bar, electric blue in the games room, and crisp white as occasional tables in the lounges. Hard-wearing and stackable, it shrugs off the heavy traffic of student life while carrying the building's honest, playful character.", "Specified to the colour scheme of each location, S1 ties the lobbies, lounges and recreation floors together — bright, robust and endlessly rearranged by the residents who live with it.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/student-one/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Hot-magenta S1 stools at the Student One reception bar beneath a suspended kinetic sculpture and terrazzo stair." }, { src: "images/projects/student-one/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Electric-blue S1 I-stools around the pool table in the Student One games room, city towers beyond the glass." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/student-one/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Hot-magenta S1 stools at the Student One reception bar.", eyebrow: "S1 · rotomoulded I-stool", title: "One robust form, every colour of the building.", body: "S1's I-beam profile takes hot magenta at reception, electric blue in the games room and white in the lounges — a hard-wearing, stackable stool-and-table that carries Student One's honest, playful character through the heavy traffic of student life.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "s1", name: "S1", note: "Stools & side tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/s1-hero-group.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 69 — Suncorp Bank Head Office ============== */ { slug: "project-suncorp", name: "Suncorp Headquarters", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Hassell", photographer: "David Chatfield", indexImage: "images/projects/suncorp/cover.jpg", hero: [ "images/projects/suncorp/hero/01.jpg", "images/projects/suncorp/hero/02.jpg", "images/projects/suncorp/hero/03.jpg", ], heroAlt: "Suncorp Headquarters, Brisbane — a curved petal-form Caterpillar booth wrapping a planter beside the sculptural spiral stair, seen from above. Hassell, 2022. Photography David Chatfield.", brief: [ "Backed by its \u2018better, together\u2019 ethos, Suncorp\'s new headquarters in Brisbane puts people at its heart and galvanises its workforce with an experience-rich workplace. The award-winning project cements a partnership between Suncorp and Hassell that goes back more than a decade — recognised as \u2018Brisbane\'s top workplace\u2019 by global workplace-experience analysts Leesman.", "Hassell guided the design journey from the start, delivering the workplace strategy alongside FreeState\'s experience master plan and ensuring Mirvac\'s base-building \u2018Heritage Lanes\u2019 aligned with Suncorp\'s business strategy, with flexibility built in to future-proof the long-term occupation. At the 2023 Australian Institute of Architects\' Queensland Chapter Awards, Suncorp Headquarters won the GHM Addison Award for Interior Architecture for \u2018creating a flexible, collaborative, and wellness-centred workplace\u2019.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar gives the headquarters its signature gathering form. Specified in warm tan, peach and grey, its pebble-like modules link into full circles and petals that wrap planters and float on the connecting floors beside the building\'s sculptural spiral stair — soft, backless landscapes that read beautifully from the levels above and invite teams to settle in from any side.", "The continuous geometry suits a workplace founded on wellness and togetherness: integrated timber armrests and side surfaces turn each booth into a place to work or pause, while the rounded forms soften the scale of the connecting voids and carry Suncorp\'s \u2018better, together\u2019 ethos into the furniture itself.", ], quote: { text: "Like so many businesses Suncorp is working harder than ever to attract and retain talent. Creating a multi-dimensional workplace like Suncorp HQ reflects this ambition to go above and beyond for their employees.", name: "Carolyn Solley", role: "Principal · Hassell", }, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/suncorp/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A tan Caterpillar circular booth in use, and an overhead view of a petal booth with wire side tables on the floor beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/suncorp/gallery/02.jpg",alt: "A grey Caterpillar curved lounge at the window line, city towers beyond, timber worksetting alongside." }, { src: "images/projects/suncorp/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Suncorp Headquarters street frontage — the timber-framed Heritage Lanes entry with the Suncorp wordmark at dusk." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/suncorp/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Top-down view of a tan petal-form Caterpillar booth wrapping a planter at Suncorp Headquarters.", eyebrow: "Caterpillar · modular landscape", title: "A gathering form, read from above.", body: "Caterpillar\'s pebble-like modules link into full circles and petals around planters and stairs — soft, backless landscapes with integrated timber surfaces that look as considered from the levels above as they feel to sit in.", }, singleImage: { src: "images/projects/suncorp/feature/02.jpg", alt: "A grey Caterpillar petal booth beside the white sculptural spiral stair at Suncorp Headquarters.", }, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Modular booth seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 70 — Sydney Olympic Park ============== */ { slug: "project-syd-olympic", name: "Sydney Olympic Park", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2011, category: "Civic", sector: "Civic", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/syd-olympic/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/syd-olympic/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Sydney Olympic Park — a bright-green branching Twig bench sited beneath young trees on the granite-paved public plaza, office towers beyond. Derlot, 2011.", brief: [ "Sydney Olympic Park needed robust public seating for its hard-wearing urban plazas — street furniture that could take constant outdoor use and rough handling while still bringing a moment of colour and play to the granite-paved civic realm.", ], response: [ "Twig answers as outdoor public sculpture. Its branching, backless form — rotomoulded in a vivid lime green — sits beneath the plaza's young trees like a fallen branch, catching dappled shade across its seamless surface. Hard-wearing, weatherproof and continuous, it reads from every angle and invites people to perch wherever they land.", "The single-piece moulding has no joints to fail and no fixings to loosen, standing up to the wear of a busy public precinct — the embossed Derlot mark the only detail on an otherwise pure, sculptural form.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/syd-olympic/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The lime-green Twig bench branching across dark granite paving, dappled tree-shadow across its surface." }, { src: "images/projects/syd-olympic/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Macro of the embossed Derlot mark on the green Twig bench, leaf shadows playing over the rotomoulded surface." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/syd-olympic/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A lime-green branching Twig bench beneath young trees on the Sydney Olympic Park plaza.", eyebrow: "Twig · rotomoulded bench", title: "Public sculpture you can sit on.", body: "A single seamless rotomoulding in vivid green, Twig branches across the plaza like a fallen limb — weatherproof, jointless and backless, bringing colour and play to a hard-working civic realm.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Rotomoulded public bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 71 — Telethon Kids Institute ============== */ { slug: "project-telethon", name: "Telethon Kids Institute", location: "Perth, Australia", city: "Perth", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Corporate", sector: "Health", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Dion Robeson", indexImage: "images/projects/telethon/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/telethon/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Telethon Kids Institute, Perth — blue Prisma modular booths with black Stump stools beneath a cloud of circular ceiling discs, study nooks beyond. Woods Bagot, 2018. Photography Dion Robeson.", brief: [ "The new headquarters for Telethon Kids Institute, Western Australia's leading paediatric health and research organisation, is housed within the Perth Children's Hospital and QEII medical precinct in Nedlands. Situating the headquarters in close proximity to the new Perth Children's Hospital aims to enhance research collaboration and the exchange of clinical knowledge within the WA medical community.", ], response: [ "Derlot furnishes the institute's collaborative heart with a family of soft, reconfigurable pieces. Prisma modular booths in tonal blues — cobalt, sky and slate with timber-topped inserts — cluster into casual islands beside the workstations and locker wall, while black Stump stools pull up wherever an extra seat is wanted. Guell curved booths and pink Picket chairs gather around the kitchen island, turning the breakout into a relaxed, residential space.", "Hard-wearing and easily rearranged, the collections let researchers regroup through the day — from a quick stand-up to a long shared lunch — softening a clinical research environment without losing its order.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/telethon/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Orange and grey Guell booths with pink Picket chairs and white Stump stools around the kitchen island at Telethon Kids Institute." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/telethon/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Guell booths, pink Picket chairs and white Stump stools at the Telethon Kids Institute breakout.", eyebrow: "Guell · Prisma · Picket · Stump", title: "A residential heart for a research institute.", body: "Blue Prisma booths, curved Guell seating, pink Picket chairs and rotomoulded Stump stools cluster and regroup through the day — softening a clinical research environment into a warm, collaborative place to gather.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Curved modular booths", image: "images/_legacy/collections/guell.webp" }, { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular booth seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Dining chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/picket.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 72 — Tertiary Education Management Conference 2019 ============== */ { slug: "project-temc-2019", name: "Tertiary Education Management Conference 2019", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Installations", sector: "Education", architect: "Living Edge", photographer: "Peter Barnes", indexImage: "images/projects/temc-2019/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/temc-2019/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Tertiary Education Management Conference 2019, Adelaide — green Twig benches, grey and green Stump stools, beige Caterpillar booths and white Strap chairs in a planted conference lounge. Living Edge, 2019. Photography Peter Barnes.", brief: [ "For the Tertiary Education Management Conference 2019 in Adelaide, Living Edge created a planted breakout lounge at the heart of the convention floor — a place for delegates to meet, recharge and talk between sessions, set apart from the busy exhibition halls.", ], response: [ "Derlot's collections shape the lounge into a soft, green landscape. Green Twig benches branch through the centre, grey and sage Stump stools scatter around Tonne tables, and beige Caterpillar booths curve into intimate settings — all threaded with palms and planting. White Strap chairs and stools mark the standing points at the room's edge.", "Loose, backless and endlessly rearranged by the delegates themselves, the furniture turns a temporary convention space into a calm, garden-like room — comfortable enough to hold a conversation, robust enough for five days of constant use.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/temc-2019/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A green Twig bench branching between grey and green Stump stools and a white Tonne table, palms around it." }, { src: "images/projects/temc-2019/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Wide view of the conference lounge — Twig, Stump, Caterpillar and Strap among planting beneath draped ceiling sails." }, { src: "images/projects/temc-2019/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Delegates gathered on Caterpillar booths and Stump stools around the planted lounge during a conference break." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/temc-2019/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A green Twig bench among Stump stools and a Tonne table at the TEMC 2019 lounge.", eyebrow: "Twig · Strap · Tonne · Stump · Caterpillar", title: "A garden room on the convention floor.", body: "Green Twig benches, scattered Stump stools, Caterpillar booths and white Strap chairs thread through palms and planting — turning a temporary conference space into a calm, rearrangeable place to pause between sessions.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching benches", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Chairs & stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/strap.webp" }, { slug: "tonne", name: "Tonne", note: "Side tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tonne.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Modular booths", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 73 — The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James ============== */ { slug: "project-cathedral", name: "The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James", location: "Townsville, Australia", city: "Townsville", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "—", photographer: "Megan Marano", indexImage: "images/projects/cathedral/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/cathedral/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "The Cathedral School, Townsville — blue, yellow and grey Prisma modular booths with white hexagonal Hext tables in the double-height library. 2019. Photography Megan Marano.", brief: [ "The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James, in Townsville, North Queensland, briefed a new library and learning resource centre as the social and academic heart of the campus — a light-filled, double-height space opening to playing fields and tropical gardens, built for the way contemporary students read, gather and study.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the library as a colour-blocked landscape of modular booths — cobalt, sky, teal, grey and a flash of yellow — that cluster into back-to-back islands and high-backed nooks among the bookstacks and full-height glazing. Faceted white Hext tables drop into the settings, their hexagonal geometry echoing Prisma's angles, while Rio chairs add a softer seat at the room's quieter edges.", "Outside, Stump Recycled stools — rotomoulded from 80% recycled LDPE in a speckled blue terrazzo finish — gather on the shaded undercroft for outdoor study, carrying the school's material story of reuse into the furniture itself. Together the collections let students shape the space to the task, from solo reading to group work.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/cathedral/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A circular Prisma booth in blue, teal and grey beside the library bookstacks and full-height glazing." }, { src: "images/projects/cathedral/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Overhead view of the double-height library — Prisma booths, study tables and bookstacks with playing-field views." }, { src: "images/projects/cathedral/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Speckled-blue Stump Recycled stools on the shaded undercroft, students studying on the concrete step beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/cathedral/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Blue terrazzo Stump Recycled stools on the Cathedral School undercroft.", eyebrow: "Stump Recycled · 80% recycled LDPE", title: "A material story of reuse.", body: "Stump Recycled stools — rotomoulded from 80% recycled LDPE in a speckled blue terrazzo finish — gather on the shaded undercroft for outdoor study, carrying the school's sustainability story right down to where students sit.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "hext", name: "Hext", note: "Hexagonal tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/hext.webp" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/rio-oak-set.webp" }, { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular library booths", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "stump-r", name: "Stump Recycled", note: "Recycled stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump-r.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 74 — The Hedberg ============== */ { slug: "project-hedberg", name: "The Hedberg", location: "Hobart, Australia", city: "Hobart", country: "Australia", year: 2023, category: "Civic", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Liminal Studio", photographer: "Liminal Studio", indexImage: "images/projects/hedberg/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/hedberg/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "The Hedberg, Hobart — a cluster of rounded red Mochi modular ottomans on a crimson rug in a timber-lined foyer of the Theatre Royal precinct. Liminal Studio, 2023. Photography Liminal Studio.", brief: [ "The Hedberg is a $117 million cultural and creative-industries precinct in the heart of Hobart, co-located with the Theatre Royal — the oldest operating theatre in Australia. Designed by Liminal Architecture with Singaporean architects WOHA, it brings together the University of Tasmania's creative studies, a world-class recital hall, studio theatre and salon, and universal access to every level of the historic theatre for the first time.", "Its folded, opalescent facade and cascading public foyers were conceived as a gathering place — a heart for stories, celebration and exchange that weaves the site's deep heritage, including the ancient history of the palawa, into a contemporary creative landmark.", ], response: [ "Mochi furnishes the cascading foyers with soft, pebble-like modular seating in a warm theatre red. Its rounded, low forms cluster on crimson rugs against the Tasmanian Blackwood veneer and recycled-brick walls — informal islands where audiences gather before a performance or linger between acts.", "Backless and sculptural, Mochi reads as a set piece in its own right: the deep red picks up the drama of the theatre's purpose while the soft geometry softens the raw, salvaged materials of the heritage interior, giving the public foyers a relaxed, residential warmth.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/hedberg/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Rounded red Mochi modules clustered on a crimson rug beside a concrete column in the Hedberg foyer." }, { src: "images/projects/hedberg/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Detail of a red Mochi module's soft folded form on the crimson rug against blonde timber flooring." }, { src: "images/projects/hedberg/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "The Hedberg's folded, opalescent gold facade above the mirrored Theatre Royal entry, from the corner of Campbell and Collins Streets." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/hedberg/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Macro of the soft red Mochi modular seating fabric and folded form.", eyebrow: "Mochi · soft modular seating", title: "A red set piece for the foyer.", body: "Mochi's rounded, pebble-like modules in deep theatre red cluster on crimson rugs against Blackwood veneer and salvaged brick — soft, sculptural islands that pick up the drama of the Theatre Royal and warm the heritage foyers.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Soft modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mochi.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 75 — Tonsley Innovation District ============== */ { slug: "project-tonsley", name: "Tonsley Innovation District", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2017, category: "Civic", sector: "Public", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Sam Noonan", indexImage: "images/projects/tonsley/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/tonsley/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Tonsley Main Assembly Building, Adelaide — lime, blue and green Twig benches and orange Cup planter-stools across the concrete floor of the adaptive-reuse hall, beneath the retained Mitsubishi sawtooth roof. Woods Bagot, 2017. Photography Sam Noonan.", brief: [ "The objective of the Main Assembly Building (MAB) was to create a highly flexible, mixed-use precinct under an 'umbrella' of the existing structure. Respecting the MAB in its current form, Woods Bagot created a comprehensive design for the adaptive re-use — celebrating the industrial heritage of the former Mitsubishi Motors building and creating a unique destination and contemporary public space.", "Woods Bagot led the master-plan consortium for the 61-hectare Tonsley Park redevelopment and was lead architect for the adaptive reuse of the MAB and its demonstration-pod tenancies. The internal demonstration 'pods' sit under the retained roof, showing future tenants adaptable, highly functional building configurations.", ], response: [ "Derlot's rotomoulded family animates the vast public floor with colour and play. Lime, blue and green Twig benches branch across the polished concrete like fallen limbs, while orange and charcoal Cup planter-stools cluster around them and Pill seating drops in as low, soft islands — bright, hard-wearing forms that read against the raw steel and sawtooth glazing overhead.", "Weatherproof, jointless and easily moved, the pieces give the cavernous heritage hall a human scale — informal places to perch, gather and pause amid the ping-pong tables, food pods and circulation of a working innovation precinct.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/tonsley/gallery/01.webp", alt: "Lime and blue Twig benches and orange Cup planter-stools across the Tonsley MAB hall, food pods and retained structure beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/tonsley/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Lime, blue and green Twig benches and orange Cup planter-stools in the Tonsley Main Assembly Building.", eyebrow: "Twig · Cup · Pill", title: "Colour and play under a heritage roof.", body: "Branching Twig benches, orange Cup planter-stools and soft Pill islands scatter across the polished concrete — bright, weatherproof rotomoulded forms that bring human scale and play to the cavernous Mitsubishi assembly hall.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching benches", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Planter-stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/cup.webp" }, { slug: "pill", name: "Pill", note: "Soft modular seating", image: "images/projects/tonsley/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 76 — University of Queensland ============== */ { slug: "project-uq", name: "University of Queensland", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2021, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "UQ Procurement", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/uq/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/uq/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "University of Queensland, St Lucia — three bright-yellow Mass picnic tables on the lawn before the UQ Art Museum's colourful glass-mural facade. 2021. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Tradition meets innovation. Situated on 114 hectares of Brisbane River-bound land, UQ's main campus at St Lucia is a vibrant mix of majestic sandstone buildings and contemporary architecture, landscaped gardens and lakes. Fanning out from the heritage-listed Great Court are modern teaching and research facilities, museums, cafés and those famous Jacaranda trees.", "Only seven kilometres from Brisbane's city centre, the campus is an appealing place to study, work or visit — and needed hard-wearing outdoor furniture to match: durable, sustainable and confident enough to hold its own on the open lawns.", ], response: [ "Mass answers with bold, monolithic picnic settings in a single vivid yellow. Fabricated from folded steel into a clean, structural profile, the tables sit in a confident row on the lawn before the UQ Art Museum — their saturated colour playing off the museum's glass-mural facade and the green of the grass.", "Robust and weatherproof, the tables take constant outdoor campus use while reading as considered objects rather than utilitarian furniture — bolted, faceted and built to last in the Queensland sun.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/uq/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Three yellow Mass tables casting hard shadows on the green lawn, seen from directly above." }, { src: "images/projects/uq/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Two people working at a yellow Mass table on the UQ lawn, seen from above." }, { src: "images/projects/uq/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "A yellow Mass table in profile, its folded-steel structure casting a crisp shadow on the grass." }, { src: "images/projects/uq/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Detail of the bolted folded-steel slats of a Mass table." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/uq/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Yellow Mass picnic tables before the UQ Art Museum mural facade.", eyebrow: "Mass · folded-steel tables", title: "Bold colour on the open lawn.", body: "Mass's monolithic folded-steel picnic settings in vivid yellow sit in a confident row before the UQ Art Museum — weatherproof, structural and saturated, considered objects that hold their own against the campus's sandstone and green.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "mass", name: "Mass", note: "Folded-steel picnic tables", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mass.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 77 — University of the Sunshine Coast ============== */ { slug: "project-usc", name: "University of the Sunshine Coast", location: "Buderim, Australia", city: "Buderim", country: "Australia", year: 2020, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Living Edge", photographer: "Tom Ross", indexImage: "images/projects/usc/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/usc/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "University of the Sunshine Coast Foundation Building, Buderim — red and ochre Homework study booths with timber posts set into a tiered timber learning amphitheatre. Living Edge, 2020. Photography Tom Ross.", brief: [ "The Foundation Building at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Buderim is built around a vast tiered timber amphitheatre — a central social and learning stair rising through the heart of the building, lined with study settings and looking out across the campus. The brief was for furniture that could turn these timber steps into a place to study, meet and dwell.", ], response: [ "Homework gives the amphitheatre its rhythm. The high-backed, acoustically-lined study booths — upholstered in deep red and ochre, framed by pale timber posts — are set into the timber treads as semi-private pods, their colour glowing against the blonde oak and orange recessed floors. Some open into the steps, others turn to face the room, shaping focused nooks within the open volume.", "Ochre and red Stump stools scatter across the treads alongside slim café tables, pulling up wherever a quick perch is wanted. Together the collections let students claim the stair — from a heads-down study session in a booth to an impromptu group on the steps — across one warm, considered landscape.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/usc/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The full tiered timber amphitheatre from above — red Homework booths, ochre Stump stools and café tables stepping down through the volume." }, { src: "images/projects/usc/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "A row of red high-backed Homework booths with timber posts set into the timber steps beneath the stair." }, { src: "images/projects/usc/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Two ochre Homework pods with timber posts against a mustard wall, a felt pendant overhead." }, { src: "images/projects/usc/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Detail of red Homework booths with a black café table on the orange recessed floor." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/usc/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Red Homework study booths with timber posts in the USC amphitheatre.", eyebrow: "Homework · Stump", title: "Study pods set into the stair.", body: "Homework's high-backed, acoustically-lined booths in red and ochre are built into the timber amphitheatre as semi-private study pods, while ochre Stump stools scatter across the treads — turning a social stair into a landscape for focused and shared learning alike.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "homework", name: "Homework", note: "High-back study booths", image: "images/projects/usc/feature/02.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 78 — Western Sydney University ============== */ { slug: "project-wsu", name: "Western Sydney University", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Nicole England", indexImage: "images/projects/wsu/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/wsu/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Western Sydney University, One Parramatta Square — grey Twig branching benches and pod chairs on a purple patterned carpet, students working across the vertical-campus floor. Woods Bagot, 2019. Photography Nicole England.", brief: [ "Just as modern workplaces embrace a diversity of workstyles, the five-star Green Star rated Western Sydney University campus known as One Parramatta Square (1PSQ) facilitates a wide diversity of learning styles. Situated in the heart of the Parramatta CBD, 1PSQ offers a vertical learning environment designed to foster interaction and collaboration and to break down traditional campus hierarchies.", "The interiors concept, developed by Woods Bagot, deliberately blurs the lines between a traditional commercial office tower and a functional university campus — a stacked, city-scaled environment where students and educators co-mingle.", ], response: [ "Modular seating systems Twig and Prisma by Derlot create opportunities for students and educators to co-mingle and interact across the floors. Grey Twig benches branch across the patterned carpet of the open learning commons, scattered with pod chairs and side tables, while Prisma modules in WSU's blue, magenta and grey furnish the media rooms, lift lobbies and breakout lounges.", "Cup stools and ottomans drop in alongside, light enough to move between settings. Backless and endlessly reconfigurable, the collections let each floor be reshaped to the task — from a heads-down study session to an impromptu group — knitting the vertical campus together with one consistent, durable language.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/wsu/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A blue Prisma setting with blue Cup stools facing a screen on a textured blue wall in a WSU media room." }, { src: "images/projects/wsu/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Blue Prisma benches in the WSU lift lobby beneath a timber coffered ceiling, students seated along the OSB wall." }, { src: "images/projects/wsu/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Magenta, grey and charcoal Prisma modules and pod chairs in a breakout lounge beside a timber screen and purple meeting pods." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/wsu/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Grey Twig branching benches and pod chairs on purple carpet at WSU One Parramatta Square.", eyebrow: "Twig · Prisma · Cup", title: "A vertical campus, co-mingled.", body: "Twig branches across the learning commons while Prisma furnishes the media rooms and lounges and Cup stools move between them — modular systems that break down campus hierarchies and let students and educators interact across every floor of 1PSQ.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching benches", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Stools & ottomans", image: "images/_legacy/collections/cup.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 79 — Whittlesea Tech School ============== */ { slug: "project-whittlesea", name: "Whittlesea Tech School", location: "Whittlesea, Australia", city: "Whittlesea", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Clarke Hopkins Clarke", photographer: "Dianna Snape", indexImage: "images/projects/whittlesea/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/whittlesea/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Whittlesea Tech School, Epping — a turquoise Autobahn curved bench with coral Stump stools in a timber-lined STEM learning commons. Clarke Hopkins Clarke, 2019. Photography Dianna Snape.", brief: [ "Whittlesea Tech School is part of a 10-school initiative by the Victorian Department of Education and Training, focused on developing critical science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills in secondary students. Located on the Melbourne Polytechnic Epping campus, it connects 10,000 secondary students from 14 schools across the region to a technology-rich, industry-focused learning framework.", "Designed to inspire curiosity and deep learning, WTS provides a responsive, learner-centric environment that celebrates presentation and display at its core. Taking a theme of 'connectivity', Clarke Hopkins Clarke's spatial and aesthetic response forges a unique school identity, generates excitement for STEM, and creates a welcoming, inclusive environment for all learners.", ], response: [ "Autobahn gives the learning commons its connective thread. Its modular leather-and-upholstery benches — specified in a bright turquoise that picks up the school's identity — link end to end into long, curving runs that wind through the space, echoing the 'connectivity' theme traced as a circuit line across the walls. Backless and continuous, they let students gather on either side, around the central island and along the STEM timeline.", "Coral Stump stools scatter alongside with slim café tables, their warm pop of colour set against the turquoise and the blonde-ply joinery. Hard-wearing and easily moved, the collections turn the commons into a flexible, collaborative heart — built for the problem-solving, critical thinking and teamwork the WTS model champions.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/whittlesea/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A turquoise Autobahn bench curving along the STEM timeline wall, coral Stump stools alongside." }, { src: "images/projects/whittlesea/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Turquoise Autobahn benches and coral Stump stools beneath sculptural black pendants in the double-height atrium." }, { src: "images/projects/whittlesea/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Students at the entrance of Whittlesea Tech School, the timber-screened facade and signage beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/whittlesea/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Turquoise Autobahn benches and coral Stump stools in the Whittlesea Tech School commons.", eyebrow: "Autobahn · Stump", title: "Seating drawn as a circuit.", body: "Autobahn's modular benches link into long turquoise curves that wind through the commons — echoing the school's 'connectivity' theme — while coral Stump stools pop against the blonde ply, turning the heart of the STEM school into a flexible, collaborative landscape.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Modular bench system", image: "images/_legacy/collections/autobahn.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 80 — Woodcroft College ============== */ { slug: "project-woodcroft", name: "Woodcroft College", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "WD", photographer: "Brad Griffin", indexImage: "images/projects/woodcroft/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/woodcroft/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Woodcroft College, Adelaide — rounded yellow and ochre Mochi modular seating with coral and tan Rio leather stools on a blue rug, a sculptural white stair beyond. WD, 2024. Photography Brad Griffin.", brief: [ "Woodcroft College's new Junior School building in Adelaide centres on a bright, double-height learning hub — a sculptural white stair, soft acoustic ceilings and landscape-mural walls wrapping informal gathering spaces for its youngest students. The brief called for soft, playful, hard-wearing furniture to make the hub a welcoming heart for the school.", ], response: [ "Mochi gives the hub its soft, sculptural character. Its rounded, pebble-like modular forms — in warm mustard, ochre and terracotta — cluster onto blue island rugs beneath the curved acoustic ceiling, low and bouncy seating scaled to younger students. The smooth, jointless forms invite perching, leaning and gathering without a hard edge in sight.", "Round Rio leather stools in coral and tan drop in alongside with slim pedestal tables, adding firmer perches and surfaces for work. Durable and wipe-clean, the collections turn the circulation heart into a colourful, tactile landscape — equal parts play space and learning commons.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/woodcroft/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Overhead view of a yellow and terracotta Mochi cluster with coral Rio stools and pedestal tables on a blue rug." }, { src: "images/projects/woodcroft/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "The Woodcroft College Junior School building exterior, students walking beneath the cantilevered entry among gum trees." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/woodcroft/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Rounded yellow and ochre Mochi seating with coral Rio stools at Woodcroft College.", eyebrow: "Mochi · Rio", title: "Soft, playful, hard-wearing.", body: "Mochi's rounded, jointless forms in mustard, ochre and terracotta cluster on blue island rugs while coral Rio stools add firmer perches — turning the Junior School's circulation heart into a colourful, tactile landscape scaled to its youngest students.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "mochi", name: "Mochi", note: "Soft modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/mochi.webp" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Leather stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/rio-oak-set.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 81 — Woods Bagot Studio, Perth ============== */ { slug: "project-wb-perth", name: "Woods Bagot Studio, Perth", location: "Perth, Australia", city: "Perth", country: "Australia", year: null, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Dianna Snape", indexImage: "images/projects/wb-perth/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/wb-perth/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Woods Bagot Studio, Perth — long timber-topped Autobahn benches threading the white-painted heritage workfloor of the Palace Hotel, black pendants overhead. Photography Dianna Snape.", brief: [ "Architecture firm Woods Bagot has taken residence in the historic Palace Hotel on St Georges Terrace, Perth. The firm was tasked with restoring the 1897 building to its former glory while ensuring its interior suited a modern workplace, with the atrium serving as a communal social and events lounge.", "The new studio takes on an agile nature. As Woods Bagot Associate Andrew Tang-Smith puts it, 'This is our future — being able to work anytime, anywhere, in a place with different functionalities.'", ], response: [ "Autobahn threads the agile workfloor as a connective spine. Its modular benches — timber-topped and tan-leather, on fine black frames — link end to end into long, curving runs that weave between the white-painted heritage columns and the desking, doubling as informal meeting perches and circulation seating beneath the building's restored ceilings.", "Set against polished concrete, sheer curtains and a monochrome palette of black pendants and white joinery, the warm timber and leather of Autobahn soften the industrial-heritage shell — a flexible, contemporary counterpoint that lets the studio work, gather and host across one continuous gesture.", ], quote: { text: "This is our future — being able to work anytime, anywhere, in a place with different functionalities.", name: "Andrew Tang-Smith", role: "Associate · Woods Bagot", }, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/wb-perth/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Tan-leather and timber Autobahn benches curving around tables beneath black pendants, an orange chair alongside, in the Woods Bagot Perth atrium." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/wb-perth/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Long timber-topped Autobahn benches threading the Woods Bagot Perth studio.", eyebrow: "Autobahn · modular benches", title: "A warm spine through a heritage shell.", body: "Autobahn's timber-and-leather benches link into long curving runs that weave between the Palace Hotel's restored columns — informal meeting perches and circulation seating that soften the monochrome, industrial-heritage workfloor.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Modular bench system", image: "images/_legacy/collections/autobahn.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 82 — Woolly Mammoth ============== */ { slug: "project-woolly-mammoth", name: "Woolly Mammoth", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2014, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Woolly Mammoth, Brisbane — patchwork Tetromino floor seating, white Picket bar stools and green Cup and Stump stools beneath a planted sawtooth roof on the venue's rooftop. Alexander Lotersztain, 2014. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Woolly Mammoth is a multi-level live-music venue and bar on Brisbane's Fortitude Valley, designed by Alexander Lotersztain. The brief was for a series of distinct, characterful rooms across the building — from a dark, theatrical ground-floor bar to a bright, planted rooftop — each needing hard-wearing, playful furniture that could survive a nightclub's punishment while setting a clear mood.", ], response: [ "Derlot's rotomoulded family runs riot across the venue. On the planted rooftop, patchwork-upholstered Tetromino blocks build into low lounging islands, white Picket bar stools line the astroturf rails, and green Cup and Stump stools scatter across the floor — a saturated, garden-party palette beneath the sawtooth roof and hanging ferns.", "Downstairs, the mood inverts: a black Kono curved booth wraps a red-topped table in the dark, brick-and-timber bar, lit by the glow of the 'THE WORLD IS YOURS' neon and the venue's namesake mammoth. One family of pieces, pushed from playful to theatrical, gives each room its own distinct character while keeping the whole building unmistakably Woolly Mammoth.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "White Picket bar stools and a green Cup stool on the astroturf rooftop terrace, giant Jenga and hanging ferns around them." }, { src: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "A black Kono curved booth around a red-topped table in the dark ground-floor bar, the mammoth and 'THE WORLD IS YOURS' neon beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A black Kono curved booth in the dark Woolly Mammoth bar beneath the neon sign.", eyebrow: "Kono · Tetromino · Cup · Picket · Stump", title: "One family, playful to theatrical.", body: "Patchwork Tetromino, white Picket and green Cup and Stump stools throw a garden-party palette across the planted rooftop, while a black Kono booth sets the dark, theatrical mood of the bar below — one rotomoulded family giving every room its own character.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "kono", name: "Kono", note: "Curved bar booth", image: "images/projects/woolly-mammoth/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino", note: "Patchwork floor seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tetromino-s.webp" }, { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Bar stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/picket.webp" }, { slug: "cup", name: "Cup", note: "Stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/cup.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 83 — Yolk ============== */ { slug: "project-yolk", name: "Yolk Cafe", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/yolk/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/yolk/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Yolk Cafe, Brisbane — white Stump stools and white Rio wire chairs at the cafe's concrete shopfront, white Bolet pendants and a yellow 'Stay Golden' neon within. Alexander Lotersztain, 2019. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Yolk is a grab-and-go cafe set into a Brisbane retail concourse, designed by Alexander Lotersztain. The brief was for a crisp, all-white espresso bar with a strong, photogenic identity — a small footprint that could spill out into the public concourse and read clearly against the polished-concrete surrounds.", ], response: [ "The fit-out commits entirely to white. White Stump stools and white Rio wire chairs gather at slim pedestal tables across the terrazzo concourse and along a timber perch rail, against a microcement counter and a 'Stay Golden' neon. Overhead, glossy white Bolet pendants cast a warm pool of light over the bar.", "Tonal and restrained, the all-white furniture lets the architecture, the neon and the food do the talking — hard-wearing pieces that read as one clean gesture and turn a compact cafe into a recognisable, repeatable identity.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/yolk/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "White Rio wire chairs at pedestal tables along a timber perch rail, glossy white Bolet pendants over the microcement counter." }, { src: "images/projects/yolk/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Two white Bolet pendants and the yellow 'Stay Golden' neon above white tables and Rio chairs against the concrete wall." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/yolk/feature/01.jpg", alt: "White Stump stools and Rio chairs at the Yolk Cafe shopfront.", eyebrow: "Stump · Rio · Bolet", title: "All-white, all the way out.", body: "White Stump stools, white Rio wire chairs and glossy white Bolet pendants commit the cafe to a single tonal gesture — hard-wearing pieces that spill onto the concourse and let the neon and the food provide the colour.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Wire chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/rio-oak-set.webp" }, { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/_legacy/collections/bolet.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 81 — Norman Disney Young ============== */ { slug: "project-ndy", name: "Norman Disney Young", location: "Auckland, New Zealand", city: "Auckland", country: "New Zealand", year: 2017, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Silverstone Photography", indexImage: "images/projects/ndy/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/ndy/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Norman Disney Young, Auckland — tan-leather Autobahn benches threading the reception beside a planted wall and sustainability display. 2017. Photography Silverstone Photography.", brief: [ "Engineering consultancy Norman Disney Young's Auckland office needed a warm, welcoming reception and breakout that reflected the firm's sustainability focus — flexible seating to greet visitors and host informal meetings in a compact, daylit floor.", ], response: [ "Autobahn threads the reception as a run of modular leather-topped benches — tan saddle leather on fine black frames that curve past a planted green wall and the firm's sustainability display. Backless and continuous, the benches double as waiting seating and casual meeting perches, bringing a warm, residential note to the consultancy's front of house.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/ndy/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "NDY Auckland — Autobahn benches with the planted green wall behind reception." }, { src: "images/projects/ndy/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "NDY Auckland — reception seating beside the sustainability display screen." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Modular bench system", image: "images/projects/ndy/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 82 — &pizza Hyattsville ============== */ { slug: "project-and-pizza", name: "&pizza — Hyattsville", location: "Hyattsville, Maryland, USA", city: "Hyattsville", country: "USA", year: 2017, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Owner", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/and-pizza/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/and-pizza/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "&pizza Hyattsville — Prisma modular lounge in charcoal against cyan geometric wall graphics, 2017.", brief: [ "&pizza — styled with the ampersand and pronounced \"and pizza\" — is a Washington, D.C.-born shop where culture comes first and the pizza follows. No two locations are alike; each is designed hyper-locally so its neighbourhood feels true ownership of the space, around a base palette and a \"refined urban edge.\"", "For the Hyattsville shop — Unit 1250 at University Town Center, just outside the District — that edge is drawn in bold cyan and charcoal: angular wall fields slicing across the concrete shell.", ], response: [ "Derlot supplied Prisma, the prismatic modular lounge seating, in a deep charcoal. Its faceted geometry echoes the diagonal wall graphics rather than fighting them, and clustered into armchairs and two-seat runs it breaks the long fast-casual floor into rooms-within-the-room — a place to sit and stay in a format usually built only to move people through. Low and robust, Prisma suits the wipe-down reality of a high-traffic pizza shop while carrying the architectural intent of the brand.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/and-pizza/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "&pizza Hyattsville — charcoal Prisma lounge along the glazed Unit 1250 frontage." }, { src: "images/projects/and-pizza/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "&pizza Hyattsville — charcoal Prisma lounge beside the cyan built-in bench." }, { src: "images/projects/and-pizza/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "&pizza Hyattsville — clustered charcoal Prisma armchairs under the angular wall fields." }, { src: "images/projects/and-pizza/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "&pizza Hyattsville — cyan bench tucked into the geometric corner." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular lounge seating", image: "images/projects/and-pizza/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 83 — +81 ============== */ { slug: "project-plus81", name: "+81", location: "West End, Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/plus81/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/plus81/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "+81 West End, Brisbane — a circular Caterpillar lounge in indigo under a cove-lit drape, 2024. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "+81 — Japan's international dialling code — is a West End listening lounge built around Japanese whisky, vintage hi-fi and a wall of city-pop vinyl. The brief was for a single, enveloping room: somewhere to sink in, slow down and stay a while after dinner.", "The palette is drawn almost entirely in indigo — cove-lit drapery, deep pile carpet and denim-toned upholstery — a nod to Japanese aizome dye, with warm walnut joinery and turntable cabinetry as the only counterpoint.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar curves the full perimeter of the room. Specified in a deep indigo bouclé, the modular sofa is arced into a continuous conversation pit that follows the circular plan — a single sweeping run with no visible joins, gathered around a cluster of walnut drum tables. Its soft, ribbed geometry turns the lounge into one uninterrupted invitation to sit close and listen.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "+81 — Caterpillar sofa run beside the Japanese vinyl wall and vintage turntable." }, { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "+81 — backlit walnut cabinet of Japanese whisky beside a Caterpillar module." }, { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "+81 — Nikka Yoichi single malt on a walnut drum table against indigo Caterpillar." }, { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "+81 — Togouchi whisky on a walnut drum table within the curved Caterpillar lounge." }, { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "+81 — city-pop records and turntable beside the indigo Caterpillar lounge." }, { src: "images/projects/plus81/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "+81 — vintage turntable and amplifier detail beneath the record wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular sofa", image: "images/projects/plus81/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 84 — 4 Times Square ============== */ { slug: "project-4-times-square", name: "4 Times Square", location: "New York, USA", city: "New York", country: "USA", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Evenson Best", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/4-times-square/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/4-times-square/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "4 Times Square, New York — a serpentine Guell modular sofa in teal beneath a web canopy and living green walls, 2019.", brief: [ "4 Times Square — the landmark Condé Nast tower on the edge of Times Square — needed a tenant amenity lounge that could hold a crowd without feeling like a cafeteria. The brief leaned biophilic: living plant walls, a woven web canopy overhead and a patchwork of vintage rugs, all wrapped around a generous, free-flowing social floor.", "The seating had to organise that openness — defining a centre to the room while staying soft, low and endlessly walk-around.", ], response: [ "Guell forms the heart of the lounge. Specified in a deep teal, the modular seating is curved into a long serpentine spine that snakes through the centre of the floor — back-to-back runs that let people sit facing out in every direction, paired with slim perch tables for laptops and coffee. Its sinuous geometry answers the circular plan and the web ceiling above, turning a large open floorplate into an intuitive, sociable room.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/4-times-square/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "4 Times Square — the serpentine teal Guell spine beneath the living green wall." }, { src: "images/projects/4-times-square/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "4 Times Square — the Guell lounge in use beneath the web canopy ceiling." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Serpentine modular seating", image: "images/projects/4-times-square/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 85 — 45 Pirie Street ============== */ { slug: "project-45-pirie", name: "45 Pirie Street", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Studio Nine", photographer: "David Sievers", indexImage: "images/projects/45-pirie/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/45-pirie/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "45 Pirie Street, Adelaide — a serpentine Twig Backrest bench in tan leather wrapping the lobby column beneath the moss wall, 2024. Photography David Sievers.", brief: [ "45 Pirie Street is a new premium-grade, highly sustainable tower in the heart of Adelaide's CBD. Its ground-floor lobby and café — a calm composition of dark stone, pale terrazzo and a sweeping preserved-moss wall carrying the building's mark — needed a single sculptural gesture to animate the generous floor and invite tenants to linger.", "The seating had to flow with the architecture rather than block it: low, continuous and walk-around, holding the centre of the room without crowding the circulation.", ], response: [ "Twig Backrest answers in a warm tan leather, curved into a long serpentine bench that meanders through the lobby — wrapping the structural column and threading between the café tables in one continuous, sculptural run. The added backrest makes it a place to settle rather than perch, while the hard-wearing leather suits the daily traffic of a major commercial foyer. Its organic line is a soft counterpoint to the building's crisp stone shell.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/45-pirie/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "45 Pirie Street — tan Twig Backrest bench before the preserved-moss feature wall and reception." }, { src: "images/projects/45-pirie/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "45 Pirie Street — the serpentine Twig Backrest bench in the glass-roofed atrium." }, { src: "images/projects/45-pirie/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "45 Pirie Street — Twig Backrest weaving through the café tables in use." }, { src: "images/projects/45-pirie/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "45 Pirie Street — moss wall and reception desk with the tan bench in the foreground." }, { src: "images/projects/45-pirie/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "45 Pirie Street — café seating against the moss wall and dark stone." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig Backrest", note: "Serpentine bench seating", image: "images/projects/45-pirie/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 87 — 459 Collins Street ============== */ { slug: "project-459-collins", name: "459 Collins Street", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/459-collins/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/459-collins/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "459 Collins Street, Melbourne — refurbished tower foyer with Caterpillar curved seating, oak floors and a sculptural star-light wall, 2025.", brief: [ "459 Collins Street is a landmark commercial tower in the Melbourne CBD. Its ground-floor foyer was reworked into a destination in its own right — a warm, hospitality-grade arrival lounge of pale oak floors, ink-blue joinery and a glittering wall of sculptural star lights, threading café-style perches between the North and South tower lift cores.", "The seating had to give the vast foyer human scale: places to perch, wait or meet without breaking the long, open sightlines to the street.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar curves through the lounge in soft grey, its continuous modular form drawing relaxed islands of seating out of the open floor and softening the building's hard stone-and-glass shell. Set among communal bar tables and tub chairs, it turns the foyer into a place to linger rather than simply pass through.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/459-collins/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "459 Collins Street — foyer lounge by the North Tower lifts with the star-light wall." }, { src: "images/projects/459-collins/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "459 Collins Street — grey Caterpillar bench and communal tables along the glazed frontage." }, { src: "images/projects/459-collins/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "459 Collins Street — a communal round table and stools against the star-light joinery." }, { src: "images/projects/459-collins/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "459 Collins Street — the long communal bar and bench in use." }, { src: "images/projects/459-collins/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "459 Collins Street — the tower frontage on Collins Street." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular seating", image: "images/projects/459-collins/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 88 — Auckland Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-auckland-airport", name: "Auckland Airport", location: "Auckland, New Zealand", city: "Auckland", country: "New Zealand", year: 2011, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "Auckland Airport Corporation", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/auckland-airport/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/auckland-airport/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Auckland Airport, New Zealand — sculptural Twig benches with integrated tables in the international terminal, 2011.", brief: [ "Auckland Airport's international terminal needed terminal seating that could carry the architecture of a major gateway — sculptural enough to hold the soaring, daylit retail concourse, yet generous and hard-wearing for constant traveller use.", ], response: [ "Volar threads through the terminal as a series of faceted, sculptural benches, each integrating slim café-height tables along its length. Their fluid, angular geometry gives travellers places to perch, wait and gather across the wayfinding carpet, reading as considered public furniture rather than standard transit seating.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/auckland-airport/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Auckland Airport — Twig benches in blue with integrated tables on the terminal carpet." }, { src: "images/projects/auckland-airport/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Auckland Airport — Twig bench run beside the terminal retail." }, { src: "images/projects/auckland-airport/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Auckland Airport — a traveller resting on a Twig bench by currency exchange." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Sculptural bench seating", image: "images/projects/auckland-airport/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 89 — BECA Wellington ============== */ { slug: "project-beca", name: "BECA", location: "Auckland, New Zealand", city: "Auckland", country: "New Zealand", year: 2025, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/beca/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/beca/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "BECA Auckland — Stump Recycled stools in confetti finish along the planted café banquette, 2025. Photography Derlot.", brief: [ "BECA's Auckland's workplace is a warm, plywood-lined fit-out with exposed services, lush green screens and generous café and breakout zones. The brief called for casual perch seating with a strong sustainability story to sit alongside the office's banquettes and communal tables.", ], response: [ "Stump Recycled answers on both counts. Moulded from recycled LDPE in a vivid confetti speckle, the stools line the café banquettes and gather beneath the 'Auckland 2040' mural — robust, lightweight and endlessly movable. Each stool diverts plastic waste from landfill, giving the breakout zones a playful, colour-flecked character that quietly carries BECA's environmental message.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "BECA — Stump Recycled stools and red-stem tables at the window banquette." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "BECA — banquette and Stump Recycled stools beneath the climbing green wall." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "BECA — a run of confetti Stump Recycled stools along the planted banquette." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "BECA — close detail of the recycled-LDPE confetti finish." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/05.jpg", alt: "BECA — café banquette and timber stair with Stump Recycled stools." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/06.jpg", alt: "BECA — Stump Recycled stools beneath the 'Auckland 2040' mural." }, { src: "images/projects/beca/gallery/07.jpg", alt: "BECA — the plywood reception desk and exposed-services entry." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump-r", name: "Stump Recycled", note: "Recycled-LDPE stool", image: "images/projects/beca/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 90 — Brentnalls SA ============== */ { slug: "project-brentnalls", name: "Brentnalls SA", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Studio Nine", photographer: "David Sievers", indexImage: "images/projects/brentnalls/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/brentnalls/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Brentnalls SA, Adelaide — blue Stump Recycled stools in the pink-and-terracotta office café, Studio Nine 2024. Photography David Sievers.", brief: [ "Brentnalls SA's Adelaide office, designed by Studio Nine, is a soft, tonal workplace of blush pinks, terracotta tile and pale timber — a warm, residential register for an accounting practice. The café and breakout zone needed perch seating that suited the gentle palette while bringing a sustainability story to the floor.", ], response: [ "Stump Recycled in a cool blue-and-white speckle anchors the café banquettes and communal tables. Moulded from recycled LDPE, the stools are hard-wearing and light enough to move as the space flexes through the day, and their flecked finish picks up the scheme's soft blues against the terracotta tiled bar — a quiet, considered sustainability gesture within a calm interior.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/brentnalls/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Brentnalls SA — blue Stump Recycled stools by the pink banquette and terracotta bar." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump-r", name: "Stump Recycled", note: "Recycled-LDPE stool", image: "images/projects/brentnalls/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 91 — Dartmouth College ============== */ { slug: "project-dartmouth", name: "Dartmouth College", location: "Hanover, New Hampshire, USA", city: "Hanover", country: "USA", year: 2022, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "—", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/dartmouth/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/dartmouth/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Dartmouth College, Hanover — a green Twig bench in the light-filled academic atrium, 2022. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire — established in 1769 and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. A new academic building gathers students around a soaring, light-filled atrium spanned by a sculptural timber stair, with colour-popped breakout zones on every level.", ], response: [ "Twig anchors the atrium floor as a sculptural green bench — its organic, branching form a playful counterpoint to the building's crisp geometry. Paired with clustered lounge seating in purple, teal and green, it turns the circulation heart into an informal place to meet and study between classes, a bright focal point read from every balcony above.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/dartmouth/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Dartmouth College — clustered lounge seating beside the timber atrium stair." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Sculptural bench", image: "images/projects/dartmouth/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 92 — Datacom HQ ============== */ { slug: "project-datacom", name: "Datacom HQ", location: "Wellington, New Zealand", city: "Wellington", country: "New Zealand", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Unison Workspaces", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/datacom/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/datacom/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Datacom HQ, Wellington — a curved Caterpillar lounge in reds and tan overlooking the harbour, 2024. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "Datacom's Wellington headquarters occupies the Asteron Centre at 55 Featherston Street in Pipitea — a modern, human-centred workplace accommodating roughly 1,300 employees across two floors. Its breakout zones make the most of sweeping views over the working harbour and the hills beyond.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar curves along the window line as a continuous run of modular lounge seating in warm reds, oranges and tan — a serpentine bench that follows the glazing and frames the harbour view, paired with Tonne dome tables. Soft, low and reconfigurable, it gives the floor a relaxed social heart that scales the large plate down to a human, gatherable moment.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/datacom/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Datacom HQ — curved Caterpillar lounge and Tonne tables overlooking Wellington harbour." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Curved modular lounge", image: "images/projects/datacom/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 93 — Deloitte Auckland ============== */ { slug: "project-deloitte", name: "Deloitte Auckland", location: "Auckland, New Zealand", city: "Auckland", country: "New Zealand", year: 2025, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Unison Workspaces", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/deloitte/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/deloitte/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Deloitte Auckland — a serpentine Caterpillar lounge in green, plum and pink against a botanical mural, 2025. Photography Derlot.", brief: [ "Deloitte's Auckland office — 'together makes progress' — is a warm, biophilic workplace of timber floors, botanical murals and planted breakout zones designed by Unison Workspaces. The collaboration and presentation areas needed soft, sculptural seating with real personality to animate the open floors.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar wraps the breakout zones as long serpentine runs in a playful mix of olive, plum, pink and oatmeal — modular benches that curve around the projector and TV walls, echoing the swirling botanical murals and the organic carpet. Low, soft and endlessly reconfigurable, the collection turns each floor's heart into an inviting, characterful place to gather.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/deloitte/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Deloitte Auckland — the colourful Caterpillar run curving past the presentation screen." }, { src: "images/projects/deloitte/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Deloitte Auckland — Caterpillar lounge against the green acoustic wall." }, { src: "images/projects/deloitte/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Deloitte Auckland — pink Caterpillar modules beside the planted leaf screen." }, { src: "images/projects/deloitte/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "Deloitte Auckland — the timber reception and 'Deloitte' wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Serpentine modular lounge", image: "images/projects/deloitte/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 94 — Denim Co ============== */ { slug: "project-denim-co", name: "Denim Co", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2017, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Derlot", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/denim-co/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/denim-co/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Denim Co, South Bank Brisbane — white Picket stools and turquoise seats at the café counter, 2017. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Denim Co is a café in the thriving neighbourhood of South Bank, on the banks of the Brisbane River — a crisp white-and-turquoise room with a fashion-editorial mural and a bright street-front counter, built for quick coffee and all-day grazing.", ], response: [ "Picket stools in white with turquoise seats line the counter and the banquette tables, paired with Stump as casual perches — a clean, hard-wearing pairing that matches the café's fresh palette. Light enough to rearrange as the room fills and empties, they give the compact space a crisp, sociable rhythm from morning to night.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/denim-co/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Denim Co — turquoise banquette and Picket chairs beneath the editorial mural." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "picket", name: "Picket", note: "Stool & chair", image: "images/projects/denim-co/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Side table", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 95 — Depo ============== */ { slug: "project-depo", name: "Depo", location: "West End, Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2013, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/depo/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/depo/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Depo, West End Brisbane — a curved purple Twig banquette in the loft-style restaurant, 2013. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Located in the thriving precinct of West End, Depo is more than a restaurant — it's a space for collaboration. A welcoming, loft-style interior, Depo is restaurant, bar, café, gallery and pop-up store in one. Designed in every detail, it focuses on creating an experience: a space to make guests feel welcomed, comfortable and intimate.", "The design uses the venue's location and volume to create atmosphere. By day the façade is flung open to visually include sprays of greenery and alfresco dining; at night, limited street lighting and low internal lighting make Depo feel set alone in space. The interior retains elements of the existing building — the exposed original block walls still show the markings of water once used to extinguish a fire — and much of the furniture is non-fixed, letting the interior morph for a variety of functions.", ], response: [ "A sculptural purple Twig banquette curves through the dining room as the room's centrepiece — soft, sinuous and unmistakable against the raw block walls and concrete floor. In Depo's adjoining operations office, Bolet pendant lights — white exteriors with a warm yellow glow within — hang over the studio desks, carrying the same considered Derlot hand from the restaurant through to the workspace behind it.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/depo/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Depo operations office — Bolet pendant lights over the studio desks." }, { src: "images/projects/depo/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Depo operations office — Bolet pendant and the black-brick studio wall." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Curved banquette", image: "images/projects/depo/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/depo/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 96 — Salone del Mobile: Euroluce 2025 ============== */ { slug: "project-euroluce", name: "Salone del Mobile: Euroluce 2025", location: "Milan, Italy", city: "Milan", country: "Italy", year: 2025, category: "Installations", sector: "Cultural", architect: "Rakumba Lighting and Derlot", photographer: "Rakumba Lighting", indexImage: "images/projects/euroluce/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/euroluce/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Euroluce 2025, Milan — Rakumba's Big Glow pendants over a serpentine Pipeline lounge on the deep-red stand, 2025. Photography Rakumba Lighting.", brief: [ "Euroluce, the international lighting biennale within Salone del Mobile in Milan, is the global stage for contemporary lighting. For 2025, Rakumba Lighting and Derlot collaborated on a stand built around Rakumba's 'Big Glow' pendants — a cloud of warm, woolen-skinned lanterns suspended over a deep-oxblood room hung with woolmark photography.", ], response: [ "Beneath the glowing canopy, a long serpentine Pipeline lounge in soft oatmeal winds through the room — a continuous run of modular seating with clip-on tray tables that invites visitors to sit, linger and look up. S1 Recycled stools in flecked cork line the bar, their recycled material story echoing the wool theme of the display. Together the pieces turn the stand into a calm, tactile lounge at the heart of the fair.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/euroluce/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Euroluce 2025 — Pipeline lounge and S1 Recycled stools beneath the Big Glow pendants." }, { src: "images/projects/euroluce/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Euroluce 2025 — serpentine Pipeline modular sofa with clip-on tray tables." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "pipeline", name: "Pipeline", note: "Serpentine modular lounge", image: "images/projects/euroluce/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "s1", name: "S1 Recycled", note: "Recycled-cork stool", image: "images/projects/euroluce/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 97 — Flinders University HMRB ============== */ { slug: "project-flinders-hmrb", name: "Flinders University Health & Medical Research Building", location: "Adelaide, Australia", city: "Adelaide", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Shannon McGrath", indexImage: "images/projects/flinders-hmrb/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/flinders-hmrb/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Flinders University Health & Medical Research Building, Adelaide — Stump stools around café tables with hills views, Woods Bagot 2025. Photography Shannon McGrath.", brief: [ "The Flinders University Health and Medical Research Building (HMRB) brings research, teaching and clinical collaboration together in a warm, daylit tower designed by Woods Bagot. Timber ceilings, terracotta floors and planted dividers create generous breakout and café zones with sweeping views across Adelaide to the hills.", ], response: [ "Stump stools — rotomoulded in a soft stone finish — gather around the café tables and the central staircase, light enough to move as the floors flex between focused work and informal gathering. Their durable, friendly form sits easily within the building's natural palette, giving researchers and students a relaxed place to pause and connect.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/flinders-hmrb/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Flinders HMRB — Stump stools and café tables beside the central stair." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stool", image: "images/projects/flinders-hmrb/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 98 — Frisco ISD VPAC ============== */ { slug: "project-frisco-vpac", name: "Frisco ISD Visual & Performing Arts Center", location: "Frisco, Texas, USA", city: "Frisco", country: "USA", year: 2026, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "Corgan/Tangram", photographer: "DGNA", indexImage: "images/projects/frisco-vpac/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/frisco-vpac/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Frisco ISD Visual & Performing Arts Center, Texas — a charcoal Twig bench in the glazed lobby, 2026. Photography DGNA.", brief: [ "The Frisco ISD Visual and Performing Arts Center (VPAC) is a brand-new, state-of-the-art fine-arts facility at 8600 Stockard Drive in Frisco, Texas. Funded by a voter-approved bond program, the $55 million, 65,000-square-foot building completed construction and celebrated its public debut with a week-long festival of student performances in May 2026.", ], response: [ "Twig benches in charcoal sweep through the double-height glazed lobby — sculptural, branching forms that organise the grand circulation space while inviting students and audiences to gather before and after performances. Their soft, organic geometry is a warm counterpoint to the building's crisp black mullions and terrazzo floor, giving the arts centre a distinctive social heart.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/frisco-vpac/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Frisco ISD VPAC — Twig benches across the glazed lobby seen from the stair." }, { src: "images/projects/frisco-vpac/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Frisco ISD VPAC — a run of charcoal Twig benches along the lobby glazing." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Sculptural bench", image: "images/projects/frisco-vpac/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 99 — Geneo Science Park ============== */ { slug: "project-geneo", name: "Geneo Science Park", location: "Singapore", city: "Singapore", country: "Singapore", year: 2025, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Cult Design", photographer: "Cult Design", indexImage: "images/projects/geneo/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/geneo/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Geneo, Singapore Science Park — an orange Twig bench in the circuit-board-graphic end-of-trip facility, Cult Design 2025.", brief: [ "Since its inception in the 1970s, Singapore Science Park has established itself as one of Asia's most prestigious addresses for R&D and technology — today home to more than 350 multinationals, homegrown companies, start-ups and laboratories. Anticipating the future of Singapore's knowledge economy, the park has embarked on a multi-stage rejuvenation, beginning with its first precinct, Geneo.", "A world-class hub for life sciences and innovation, Geneo welcomes healthcare, deep tech and digital transformation. With innovation, community and sustainability at its heartbeat, it offers a re-imagined, holistic lifestyle for change-makers — placing their needs at the forefront of its design.", ], response: [ "Twig benches in vivid orange punctuate Geneo's end-of-trip and amenity spaces — sculptural, branching forms that bring a jolt of warmth and play to the purple-and-orange, circuit-board-graphic interiors. Sited amid the bike stores, lockers and change facilities, they give cyclists and commuters a distinctive, friendly place to pause, signalling the precinct's community-first, active-lifestyle ethos.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/geneo/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Geneo — orange Twig bench amid the end-of-trip bike storage." }, { src: "images/projects/geneo/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Geneo — Twig bench detail with the embossed Derlot mark." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Sculptural bench", image: "images/projects/geneo/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 100 — Hames Sharley Studio ============== */ { slug: "project-hames-sharley", name: "Hames Sharley Studio", location: "Perth, Australia", city: "Perth", country: "Australia", year: 2021, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Hames Sharley", photographer: "Dion Robeson", indexImage: "images/projects/hames-sharley/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/hames-sharley/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Hames Sharley Studio, Perth — green and grey Stump stools across the warm industrial studio floor, 2021. Photography Dion Robeson.", brief: [ "Hames Sharley's own Perth studio is a warm, industrial workplace — polished concrete, exposed brick and services, plywood joinery and soft mesh screens, dotted with planting. The breakout and informal-meeting zones needed light, movable seating to flex through the studio's working day.", ], response: [ "Stump stools in forest green and stone grey drop through the studio as casual perches and side tables — beside the high communal bench, around the lounge chair, and against the planting. Rotomoulded and hard-wearing, they're light enough to move wherever a conversation forms, bringing a friendly jolt of colour to the calm, material-rich interior.", ], quote: null, gallery: [], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stool", image: "images/projects/hames-sharley/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 101 — Lion ============== */ { slug: "project-lion", name: "Lion", location: "Homebush, Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2013, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Project Control Group", photographer: "Tyrone Branigan", indexImage: "images/projects/lion/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/lion/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Lion, Homebush Sydney — a colourful curved Guell booth in the breakout lounge, 2013. Photography Tyrone Branigan.", brief: [ "Lion — formerly Lion Nathan — is a leading food and beverage company employing around 6,700 people, with a portfolio of Australia and New Zealand's favourite household brands including Heineken, XXXX Gold, Hahn Superdry, King Island Dairy, Daily Juice and Yoplait. Its Homebush office at 5 Murray Drive needed a vibrant, playful workplace to match the energy of the brands it represents.", ], response: [ "Derlot furnishes the breakout and lounge zones in full colour. Guell forms curved, multi-tone booths — red, yellow and patterned upholstery wrapped into conversation circles by the windows — while Hext hexagonal tiles pattern the feature walls and Lerod wire stools line the bar and café benches. Set beneath rainbow-panelled ceilings and against country-views glazing, the pieces give the office a confident, sociable character.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/lion/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Lion — the rainbow-panelled ceiling and breakout café with red banquette." }, { src: "images/projects/lion/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Lion — Lerod wire stools along the bar and grass-fronted servery." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Curved modular booth", image: "images/projects/lion/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "hext", name: "Hext", note: "Hexagonal tile", image: "images/projects/lion/feature/01.jpg" }, { slug: "lerod", name: "Lerod", note: "Wire stool", image: "images/projects/lion/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 102 — Hellmann Worldwide Logistics ============== */ { slug: "project-hellmann", name: "Hellmann Worldwide Logistics", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2018, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/hellmann/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/hellmann/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Brisbane Airport — blue, grey and yellow Tetromino modular benches in the office breakout, 2018.", brief: [ "Hellmann Worldwide Logistics' Brisbane operation is a major freight-forwarding and logistics provider at 45–47 Qantas Drive, Brisbane Airport — offering airfreight, seafreight, road & rail and contract logistics as a key hub for the company's Australian operations.", ], response: [ "Tetromino modular benches in Hellmann's corporate blue, grey and yellow furnish the office breakout — low, interlocking blocks that lock together into a casual island beside the workstations and meeting glazing. Backless and easily rearranged, they give the logistics floor a flexible, brand-coloured place to pause and regroup.", ], quote: null, gallery: [], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: ["[Outcome — replace.]"], collections: [ { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino", note: "Modular bench seating", image: "images/projects/hellmann/feature/01.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 103 — Cruise Terminal A, Port of Miami ============== */ { slug: "project-miami-terminal", name: "Cruise Terminal A, Port of Miami", location: "Miami, USA", city: "Miami", country: "USA", year: 2019, category: "Civic", sector: "Public", architect: "Broadway Malyan", photographer: "Hufton + Crow", indexImage: "images/projects/miami-terminal/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/miami-terminal/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Cruise Terminal A, Port of Miami — blue and grey Prisma modular seating beneath gold pavilion lamps and a suspended ship's propeller, against the terminal's full-height glass. Broadway Malyan, 2019. Photography Hufton + Crow.", brief: [ "Royal Caribbean's Cruise Terminal A at PortMiami — the sleek, ship-like \"Crown of Miami\" by Broadway Malyan — is the home berth for Symphony of the Seas and Allure of the Seas. Symphony, at 1,188 feet long, carries up to 6,680 passengers; the terminal was built to lift Royal Caribbean's throughput at the port toward two million passengers a year.", "Marking the cruise industry's growth in South Florida, the terminal had to move very large volumes of embarking and disembarking guests while still reading as a hospitality space — a first impression worthy of the world's largest cruise ships.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the soaring embarkation hall. Its faceted modular seats — banded in a tonal palette of navy, cornflower, sky and oatmeal with raw-timber side blocks — cluster into generous islands across the carpet, holding large numbers of waiting passengers without ever reading as rows of transit seating.", "Set beneath bespoke gold pavilion lamps and a suspended ship's propeller, against full-height glass framing the water, the modules group and regroup to suit families, couples and solo travellers alike — turning the wait to board into part of the journey.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/miami-terminal/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Cruise Terminal A — Prisma islands beneath gold pavilion lamps along the full-height glass, the propeller sculpture beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/miami-terminal/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "A bespoke gold pavilion lamp rising from a hexagonal table amid curved Prisma seating at Cruise Terminal A." }, { src: "images/projects/miami-terminal/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Tonal blue Prisma modules grouped into islands across the embarkation hall." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/miami-terminal/feature/01.jpg", alt: "The ship-like Royal Caribbean Cruise Terminal A lit at dusk on the PortMiami waterfront.", eyebrow: "The Crown of Miami", title: "Hospitality at the scale of the world's largest ships.", body: "Broadway Malyan's terminal resembles the vessels it serves. Inside, Prisma scales to match — tonal blue islands that seat thousands of embarking passengers while keeping the warmth and informality of a lounge, not a gate.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular embarkation seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 104 — The Salvation Army HQ ============== */ { slug: "project-salvation-army", name: "The Salvation Army HQ", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Bates Smart", photographer: "Michael Anderson", indexImage: "images/projects/salvation-army/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/salvation-army/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "The Salvation Army HQ, Redfern — a grey Twig branching bench on a crimson runner down the breakout spine, with round black side tables and Stump stools beyond. Bates Smart, 2019. Photography Michael Anderson.", brief: [ "The Salvation Army relocated its Sydney offices — including the headquarters formerly at 140 Elizabeth Street — to a redeveloped building at 261–265 Chalmers Street, Redfern. The new headquarters houses 400 staff across three levels, with South Sydney League Club and Woolworths continuing their tenancies on the other floors.", "Bates Smart, with construction group Grindley, reconstructed and designed the 8,000m² space for open-plan offices: workstations, meeting rooms, amenities and breakout kitchens, organised along a generous central spine.", ], response: [ "A statement in the breakout area is Twig by Derlot — its branching, tree-like form set on a crimson runner that draws the eye the length of the floor. Continuous and backless, the bench lets staff perch on either side and keeps sightlines open along the spine, a sculptural counterpoint to the building's exposed services and brick.", "Stump stools, designed by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot, feature across the workplace — rotomoulded, hard-wearing and easily moved, they pull up to meeting points and breakout tables wherever an extra seat is wanted.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/salvation-army/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The Salvation Army breakout spine — a grey Twig branching bench on a crimson runner with round black side tables, dining settings beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/salvation-army/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Grey Twig branching bench on a crimson runner down the Salvation Army breakout spine.", eyebrow: "Twig · Derlot", title: "A branching bench down the spine.", body: "Twig's continuous, backless geometry anchors the breakout zone — seating on every side, sightlines kept open, and a soft sculptural form set against the crimson runner and the building's industrial bones. Stump stools, by Alexander Lotersztain, move through the floor wherever an extra seat is needed.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Breakout branching bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 105 — Sheldon College ============== */ { slug: "project-sheldon", name: "Sheldon College", location: "Redland City, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2014, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "—", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/sheldon/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/sheldon/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Sheldon College, Redland City — tonal-blue Prisma modular seating and hexagonal ottomans in a daylit learning commons. 2014. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "Sheldon College is a private day school in Sheldon, Redland City, Queensland, admitting students from 15 months of age through to Grade 12. Its learning commons needed flexible seating that could host collaboration, quiet study and the constant reconfiguration of a busy school day.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the commons in a tonal-blue palette — cobalt, slate and powder blue across faceted seats, low backs and hexagonal ottomans. The angular modules cluster into stepped islands beside the full-height glazing and pull apart into single pads for individual work, so students can shape the room to the task at hand.", "Backless and easily moved, the ottomans scatter like loose stones across the floor, while the higher-backed modules give pockets of enclosure within the open plan — one modular system carrying the whole range of a school's daily rhythm.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/sheldon/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Tonal-blue Prisma islands and hexagonal ottomans spread across the daylit Sheldon College learning commons." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/sheldon/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Cobalt and slate Prisma modular seating with hexagonal ottomans at Sheldon College.", eyebrow: "Prisma · modular geometry", title: "One system, every mode of the day.", body: "Cobalt, slate and powder-blue Prisma modules and hexagonal ottomans cluster, step and scatter to suit collaboration, quiet study or a quick regroup — flexible seating tuned to the constant reconfiguration of a busy school.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seats & ottomans", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 106 — St Vincent's Hospital, Young Adults Mental Health Unit ============== */ { slug: "project-st-vincents", name: "St Vincent\'s Hospital — Young Adults Unit", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: null, category: "Civic", sector: "Health", architect: "Woods Bagot", photographer: "Tyrone Branigan", indexImage: "images/projects/st-vincents/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/st-vincents/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "St Vincent\'s Hospital Young Adults Mental Health Unit, Sydney — a soft grey Twig branching bench winding through a daylit lounge with white café tables and orange chairs. Woods Bagot. Photography Tyrone Branigan.", brief: [ "The Young Adults Private Mental Health Unit at St Vincent\'s is the first mental health facility of its kind in Australia — a centre catering specifically for private patients aged 16 to 30, created to promote a non-threatening, open environment and reduce the need for this age group to be admitted into adult facilities.", "Woods Bagot\'s intention was to create calm surroundings — a \u2018home away from home\u2019 — through a series of spaces for \u2018hang-out\u2019 interaction, cocoon-like \u2018chill-out\u2019 areas, and multi-functional rooms for art and music, meditation or dance, or simply relaxation.", ], response: [ "Twig threads the social heart of the unit. Its soft, branching form winds through the lounge in a calm grey, backless and continuous so it never blocks a sightline or corners a room — qualities that matter in a mental-health setting. Students gather around it at white café tables, the bench bending to gather or separate without ever feeling clinical.", "Stump stools, designed by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot, move through the corridors and chill-out zones — rotomoulded, hard-wearing and light enough to carry anywhere, they pull up wherever an extra, informal seat is wanted, reinforcing the unit\'s residential, un-institutional character.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/st-vincents/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A grey Twig branching bench curving through the daylit lounge, white café tables and orange chairs around it, kitchenette beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/st-vincents/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Grey Stump stools against an orange feature wall in a timber-lined corridor of the unit." }, { src: "images/projects/st-vincents/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Paired grey Stump stools at a corner of the residential corridor, a patient bedroom and orange joinery beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/st-vincents/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A soft grey Twig branching bench winding through the St Vincent\'s Young Adults lounge.", eyebrow: "Twig · Stump · Derlot", title: "Calm, continuous, un-institutional.", body: "Twig\'s soft branching form keeps sightlines open and corners soft — qualities that matter in a mental-health setting — while Stump stools, by Alexander Lotersztain, move freely through the chill-out zones. Together they hold the unit\'s \u2018home away from home\u2019 intent.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching lounge bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 107 — Suncorp Carindale Training Hub ============== */ { slug: "project-suncorp-carindale", name: "Suncorp Carindale Training Hub", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: null, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Gray Puksand", photographer: "Tony Phillips", indexImage: "images/projects/suncorp-carindale/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/suncorp-carindale/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Suncorp Carindale Training Hub, Brisbane — blue and green faceted Prisma modular seating with white pedestal tables in a curtained training lounge. Gray Puksand. Photography Tony Phillips.", brief: [ "The result of a close collaboration between Suncorp and Gray Puksand, the Suncorp Carindale Training Hub set out to provide a workplace that positively impacts the experience of Suncorp employees. Through the concept of \u2018A Home Away from Home\u2019, Gray Puksand created a hub for Suncorp trainees — often experiencing their first taste of the corporate environment — that is comfortable and familiar.", ], response: [ "Prisma furnishes the training lounge as a flexible, collaborative landscape. Its faceted modular seats and wedges — specified in slate blue, moss green and grey — cluster with white pedestal tables and bentwood chairs, pulling apart and regrouping as training sessions shift between presentation, group work and informal breaks.", "Combined with the hub\'s key palettes, natural materials and sheer-curtained breakout pods, the angular modules reflect the collaborative approach to training Suncorp provides — soft enough to feel residential, robust enough for a constantly reconfigured corporate floor.", ], quote: null, gallery: [], featureA: { image: "images/projects/suncorp-carindale/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Blue and green Prisma modular seating with white pedestal tables in the Suncorp Carindale Training Hub.", eyebrow: "Prisma · modular geometry", title: "A home away from home, configured.", body: "Slate-blue and moss-green Prisma modules and wedges cluster with pedestal tables into a flexible training landscape — comfortable and familiar for trainees new to the corporate environment, and endlessly rearranged as the day\'s sessions change.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular training seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 108 — Sydney Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-sydney-airport", name: "Sydney Airport", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2013, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/sydney-airport/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/sydney-airport/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Sydney Airport — a long run of cream, grey and charcoal Prisma modular seating threading the terminal circulation against the terrazzo floor. Derlot, 2013.", brief: [ "Sydney Airport needed durable, flexible seating for the high-traffic circulation and waiting zones of its terminal — furniture that could absorb constant use, suit tight and irregular floor plates, and read as calm, neutral architecture rather than bulky transit furniture.", ], response: [ "Prisma answers with low, faceted modular seating banded in cream, grey and charcoal. The angular modules link into long runs that thread the terminal walls and ramp edges, and break into back-to-back and single settings where the plan tightens — a neutral, hard-wearing system that holds the line of the architecture against the terrazzo floor.", "Backless and reconfigurable, the modules let the airport reshape the seating as passenger flows change, while the restrained tonal palette keeps the busy circulation spaces feeling ordered and quiet.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/sydney-airport/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A run of cream, charcoal and grey Prisma modules along a dark terminal wall above the terrazzo floor." }, { src: "images/projects/sydney-airport/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "A tonal Prisma bench set against the charcoal wall of a quiet terminal lobby, terrazzo floor in the foreground." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/sydney-airport/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A long run of cream, grey and charcoal Prisma modular seating threading the Sydney Airport terminal.", eyebrow: "Prisma · modular geometry", title: "Neutral, durable, endlessly re-set.", body: "Faceted Prisma modules in cream, grey and charcoal link into long runs along the terminal walls and break apart where the plan tightens — a hard-wearing, reconfigurable system that reads as calm architecture in a high-traffic airport.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular terminal seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 109 — Tabcorp Sydney ============== */ { slug: "project-tabcorp", name: "Tabcorp Sydney", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: null, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "PTID", photographer: "Tyrone Branigan", indexImage: "images/projects/tabcorp/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/tabcorp/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Tabcorp Sydney — blue and grey Tetromino modular blocks with raw-timber planter and table inserts in an agile project zone, glass war-room beyond. PTID. Photography Tyrone Branigan.", brief: [ "PTID designed the new Sydney offices of gambling and gaming company Tabcorp. The relocation to a CBD site provides 5,400 square metres of open work environment supporting a diverse range of work styles and settings.", ], response: [ "Prisma and Tetromino furnish the agile floor as a kit of soft, reconfigurable parts. Tetromino\'s low modular blocks — banded in Tabcorp blues and greys with raw-timber planter and table inserts — cluster into casual islands beside the glass project rooms, where teams stand, perch and regroup around the work.", "Prisma extends the same modular logic into the window lounges, its faceted seats curving into corner settings that make the most of the city outlook. Together the collections let one material language flex across the diverse settings the brief called for — from stand-up scrums to quiet window-side conversations.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/tabcorp/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A blue Prisma corner setting and grey tub chairs at the window line of the Tabcorp floor, city skyline beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/tabcorp/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Blue and grey Tetromino modular blocks with timber inserts in a Tabcorp project zone.", eyebrow: "Prisma · Tetromino · PTID", title: "A kit of parts for an agile floor.", body: "Tetromino\'s low blocks with timber planter and table inserts cluster beside the glass war-rooms, while Prisma curves into the window lounges — one modular language flexing across Tabcorp\'s diverse work settings.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular lounge seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "tetromino-s", name: "Tetromino Soft", note: "Modular blocks & inserts", image: "images/_legacy/collections/tetromino-s.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 110 — Whitsundays Airport ============== */ { slug: "project-whitsundays", name: "Whitsundays Airport", location: "Whitsundays, Australia", city: "Whitsundays", country: "Australia", year: 2021, category: "Aviation", sector: "Aviation", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/whitsundays/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/whitsundays/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Taste Whitsundays, Whitsunday Coast Airport — a long white terrazzo bar with timber-topped stools beneath a row of cobalt-blue Volar enamel pendants and a pearl-shell tiled wall. Derlot, 2021.", brief: [ "Taste Whitsundays, the food-and-beverage offer at Whitsunday Coast Airport, sets a relaxed coastal Queensland tone for travellers passing through the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. The brief called for a bright, beach-toned bar that would feel a world away from generic terminal catering.", ], response: [ "Volar gives the bar its signature note — a run of cobalt-blue enamel pendants in classic spun-metal \u2018barn\u2019 form, hung the length of the white terrazzo counter against a pearl-shell tiled wall and pale timber joinery. The vivid blue picks up the colour of the surrounding sea and sky, turning a row of task lights into the room\'s defining gesture.", "Warm and hard-wearing, the enamel shades suit an airport\'s constant use while carrying the easy, sun-bleached character of the Whitsundays — a small, well-judged moment of colour at the coast\'s front door.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/whitsundays/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Cobalt Volar enamel pendants over the curved end of the white terrazzo bar, timber-topped stools beneath." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/whitsundays/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A row of cobalt-blue Volar enamel pendants over the white bar at Taste Whitsundays.", eyebrow: "Volar · enamel pendant", title: "Sea-blue light at the coast\'s front door.", body: "Volar\'s spun-enamel \u2018barn\u2019 pendants in cobalt blue run the length of the terrazzo bar — hard-wearing task lighting that picks up the colour of the reef and sky and gives Taste Whitsundays its relaxed, coastal character.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "volar", name: "Volar", note: "Enamel pendant lighting", image: "images/projects/whitsundays/feature/02.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== 111 — Torres Strait Regional Authority ============== */ { slug: "project-trsa", name: "Torres Strait Regional Authority", location: "Thursday Island, Australia", city: "Thursday Island", country: "Australia", year: 2022, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Alexander Lotersztain Studio", photographer: "Alexander Lotersztain", indexImage: "images/projects/trsa/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/trsa/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island — oak-shell Ivi counter stools at a white café table with grey Ivi task chairs beyond the glass, in a bright, minimal office. Alexander Lotersztain Studio, 2022.", brief: [ "Working with Alexander Lotersztain Studio, Derlot delivered a custom joinery and furniture package for the Torres Strait Regional Authority that supported and strengthened existing office structures — creating a series of interconnected spaces for the organisation's many administrative roles, responsive to the changing, post-COVID workplace and its need for flexible, adaptive settings.", "In collaboration with the client and key stakeholders, the result is a minimalist, future-proof work environment filled with natural light — a neutral palette of warm, natural materials layered throughout to create an inviting, enjoyable place to work, set to become the backdrop to important cultural artworks that showcase the islands' history and cultural identity.", ], response: [ "Ivi anchors the fit-out — its oak-shell seat on a fine white frame appears as counter stools at the café points, dining chairs in the meeting rooms, and around a bespoke curved oak boardroom table. Upholstered Ivi and Rio chairs add softness at the quieter settings, while white Strap chairs take the breezy timber balcony with its outlook to the Torres Strait.", "The restrained, pale-timber-and-white language lets the architecture and the cultural artworks lead — warm, natural and calm, with hard-wearing pieces chosen to suit a remote-island workplace built for the long term.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/trsa/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "A bespoke curved oak boardroom table ringed with grey upholstered Ivi chairs on white frames." }, { src: "images/projects/trsa/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Workstation pods with oak Ivi stools at a central table, a cultural wave graphic along the screens and sea beyond the glass." }, { src: "images/projects/trsa/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "White Strap bar chairs on the timber office balcony, looking out over the Torres Strait." }, { src: "images/projects/trsa/gallery/04.jpg", alt: "A dinghy on still water at dusk off Thursday Island, the sky streaked orange." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/trsa/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Grey Ivi chairs around the custom curved oak boardroom table at TRSA.", eyebrow: "Ivi · Strap · Rio", title: "Warm, natural, future-proof.", body: "Ivi's oak shell carries the fit-out from café stool to boardroom chair, Rio softens the quiet corners and Strap takes the sea-facing balcony — a calm, neutral language that lets the architecture and the islands' cultural artworks lead.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "ivi", name: "Ivi", note: "Oak-shell chairs & stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/ivi-green-trio-studio.jpg" }, { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Balcony chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/strap.webp" }, { slug: "rio", name: "Rio", note: "Upholstered chairs", image: "images/_legacy/collections/rio-oak-set.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 113 — University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business & Economics ============== */ { slug: "project-unimelb-fbe", name: "University of Melbourne — Faculty of Business & Economics", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2025, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "—", photographer: "Derlot", indexImage: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business & Economics — a long blue and grey serpentine Caterpillar sofa winding across the marble-floored lobby beneath a curved timber ceiling, tan leather benches along the stone wall. 2025. Photography Derlot.", brief: [ "The Faculty of Business & Economics building on the University of Melbourne campus needed a centrepiece for its grand, double-height entrance lobby — a generous social landing, beneath a curved timber ceiling and against marble walls, where students could gather, wait and study at the threshold between street and faculty.", ], response: [ "Caterpillar answers the curved architecture with a curve of its own — a long, serpentine run of modular seating in tonal blues and grey that winds the length of the lobby, integrated timber armrest-tables dropping into the bends. Backless and continuous, it reads as one sculptural gesture across the marble floor, holding large numbers of students without ever feeling like a row of chairs.", "Tan leather benches line the stone walls and amber lounge chairs anchor the corners, but the blue Caterpillar serpent is the room's defining move — soft, social and scaled to the architecture, turning the entrance into a place to stay rather than pass through.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The blue and grey Caterpillar serpentine sofa winding through the curved-timber-ceilinged lobby, tan leather benches and amber chairs around it." }, { src: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Low view along the curving blue Caterpillar run with integrated timber armrest tables." }, { src: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "The Caterpillar sofa curving across the marble floor toward the glazed entrance and street beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/unimelb-fbe/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A long blue serpentine Caterpillar sofa across the marble lobby of the Faculty of Business & Economics.", eyebrow: "Caterpillar · modular landscape", title: "A blue serpent for the lobby.", body: "Caterpillar winds the length of the double-height entrance in tonal blues and grey, integrated timber armrest-tables falling into its bends — one continuous, sculptural gesture that turns the faculty threshold into a place to gather and stay.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "caterpillar", name: "Caterpillar", note: "Serpentine modular sofa", image: "images/_legacy/collections/caterpillar.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 114 — UQ Central Campus ============== */ { slug: "project-uq-central", name: "UQ Central Campus", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2019, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "—", photographer: "Alexander Lotersztain", indexImage: "images/projects/uq-central/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/uq-central/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "UQ Central Campus, Brisbane — a sculptural white Twig bench on the timber-edged floor of a daylit student atrium, bentwood café settings and a glazed stair beyond. 2019. Photography Alexander Lotersztain.", brief: [ "UQ's central campus hub needed durable, sculptural furniture for its daylit student atriums and planted courtyards — pieces that could take constant outdoor and semi-outdoor use among the ferns and palms, while reading as considered objects in a warm timber-and-glass setting.", ], response: [ "Twig and Stump answer with Derlot's rotomoulded family in crisp white. A branching white Twig bench anchors the atrium floor, its continuous, backless form echoing the planting around it, while white Stump stools cluster with slim café tables among the tree-ferns of the courtyard — light enough to move, tough enough to live outside.", "Seamless, weatherproof and jointless, the pieces bring a soft, sculptural calm to the busy circulation of a campus crossroads — places to perch and pause that belong as much to the garden as to the building.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/uq-central/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "White Stump stools and a café table on the paved courtyard, students gathered in the planted plaza beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/uq-central/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "White Stump stools at a café table tucked among tree-ferns and foliage in the UQ atrium." }, { src: "images/projects/uq-central/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "Detail of a white Stump stool beside the broad leaves of a courtyard planter." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/uq-central/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A sculptural white Twig bench in the daylit UQ student atrium.", eyebrow: "Twig · Stump", title: "Sculptural calm among the ferns.", body: "A branching white Twig bench and clusters of white Stump stools bring Derlot's rotomoulded family into UQ's planted atriums — seamless, weatherproof forms that belong as much to the garden as to the building.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Branching bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 115 — Urbanest ============== */ { slug: "project-urbanest", name: "Urbanest", location: "Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2010, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Residential", architect: "AJ+C", photographer: "Florian Groehn", indexImage: "images/projects/urbanest/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/urbanest/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Urbanest student accommodation, Brisbane — a faceted Guell booth in magenta, orange and purple wrapping a white table on a blue rug, white Bolet pendants and Stump stools beyond. AJ+C, 2010. Photography Florian Groehn.", brief: [ "Urbanest is a student-accommodation provider, and its Brisbane building needed lively, hard-wearing common spaces — a ground-floor lounge and media room where residents could gather, socialise and unwind between classes. The brief asked for furniture with colour and personality, robust enough for the constant turnover of student life.", ], response: [ "Guell wraps the lobby in colour — its faceted modular booths in magenta, orange and purple curving into a circular island on a blue rug, anchored by a central table. Overhead, white Bolet pendants with warm orange interiors cast a soft glow, while rotomoulded Stump stools — crisp white in the lounge, bright yellow in the media room — pull up wherever an extra seat is wanted.", "In the darker media room, the same family turns playful against patchwork-denim beanbags and a feature wall: yellow Stump stools and a Bolet pendant keep the palette consistent across the building. Durable, colourful and easily rearranged, the collections give Urbanest a confident, social identity built to take the wear of a student residence.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/urbanest/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "The Urbanest media room — patchwork-denim beanbags and bright-yellow Stump stools on a dark rug beneath a screen, green feature wall beyond." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/urbanest/feature/01.jpg", alt: "A faceted magenta, orange and purple Guell booth with white Bolet pendants and Stump stools in the Urbanest lobby.", eyebrow: "Guell · Bolet · Stump", title: "Colour and personality for student life.", body: "Faceted Guell booths in magenta, orange and purple, glowing white Bolet pendants and rotomoulded Stump stools give Urbanest's common rooms a confident, social identity — durable, colourful and built for constant student use.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, { slug: "bolet", name: "Bolet", note: "Pendant lighting", image: "images/_legacy/collections/bolet.webp" }, { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Faceted modular booths", image: "images/_legacy/collections/guell.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 116 — Xavier College, Kostka Building ============== */ { slug: "project-xavier", name: "Xavier College — Kostka Building", location: "Melbourne, Australia", city: "Melbourne", country: "Australia", year: 2024, category: "Education", sector: "Education", architect: "MGS Architects", photographer: "Latreille Architectural Photography", indexImage: "images/projects/xavier/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/xavier/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Xavier College Kostka Building, Kew — teal and green Prisma modular seating and a high-backed Twig bench on an orange carpet field in the mass-timber learning street. MGS Architects, 2024. Photography Latreille Architectural Photography.", brief: [ "In a significant milestone for Xavier College, the completion of its strategic Master Plan paved the way for an innovative transformation of the Kew campus. Central to this vision is the new Year 7 and 8 building — the Kostka Building, designed by MGS Architects — a dynamic environment designed to support students at a critical stage in their educational journey, and intended as a learning tool in itself.", "Strategically integrated into the campus, the building features a multistorey learning street with stunning views of the College's iconic Memorial Chapel and sports fields. At the heart of the design is the concept of social connection, and furniture from Herman Miller and Derlot was selected to reflect this — bringing learning into the spotlight and sparking a culture of inquiry visible to the broader school community.", ], response: [ "Derlot's collections animate the mass-timber learning street. Teal, sage and grey Prisma modules cluster into low islands on the building's orange and purple carpet fields, paired with high-backed Twig benches that give pockets of enclosure within the open volume — soft, social seating set against the warm CLT columns and brick.", "Grey Stump stools pull up to pedestal tables in the window nooks framing the Memorial Chapel, while out on the planted rooftop terrace, green rotomoulded Twig benches scatter across the stepping-stone paving with the Melbourne skyline beyond. Hard-wearing and reconfigurable, the family lets students gather, study and pause across every level of the building.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/xavier/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Students reading on grey Stump stools at pedestal tables, the sandstone Memorial Chapel framed in the window beyond." }, { src: "images/projects/xavier/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Green Twig benches on the stepping-stone rooftop terrace, students seated with the Melbourne skyline behind." }, { src: "images/projects/xavier/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "The Kostka Building at dusk on the Xavier College campus, the domed Memorial Chapel rising beside it." }, ], featureA: { image: "images/projects/xavier/feature/01.jpg", alt: "Teal Prisma modules and a green high-backed Twig bench in the Xavier College learning street.", eyebrow: "Twig · Prisma · Stump", title: "Social connection, on show.", body: "Teal Prisma islands and high-backed Twig benches furnish the mass-timber learning street, Stump stools take the chapel-view nooks, and green Twig benches scatter across the rooftop — a soft, social family that makes learning visible across every level of the Kostka Building.", }, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Benches & branching seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, { slug: "prisma", name: "Prisma", note: "Modular seating", image: "images/_legacy/collections/prisma.webp" }, { slug: "stump", name: "Stump", note: "Rotomoulded stools", image: "images/_legacy/collections/stump.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== Nutrabolt — C4 Energy Global HQ ============== */ { slug: "project-nutrabolt", name: "Nutrabolt — C4 Energy Global HQ", location: "Bee Cave, Austin, Texas, USA", city: "Austin", country: "USA", year: 2024, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial", architect: "Client", photographer: "DGNA", indexImage: "images/projects/nutrabolt/cover.webp", hero: "images/projects/nutrabolt/hero/01.webp", heroAlt: "Nutrabolt C4 Energy global HQ, Austin Texas — magenta Guell modular lounges beneath a sculptural white Coral pendant in the lobby, 2024. Photography DGNA.", brief: [ "Nutrabolt — the company behind C4 Energy, Cellucor and XTEND — runs its global headquarters in the Bee Cave area of Austin, Texas, at 332 Grace Lane. The 75,000-square-foot campus is a hub for performance and innovation, anchored by a state-of-the-art C4 Performance Center and gym.", ], response: [ "Guell modular lounges curve through the double-height lobby in a vivid speckled magenta, set beneath a sculptural white Coral pendant, with a warm yellow Guell banquette anchoring the adjoining breakout — energetic, brand-forward furniture matched to the performance culture of the campus. Twig benches extend the family into the wider workplace.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/nutrabolt/gallery/01.webp", alt: "Nutrabolt — a curved yellow Guell banquette against the glazed atrium." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "guell", name: "Guell", note: "Modular lounge seating", image: "images/projects/nutrabolt/feature/01.webp" }, { slug: "coral", name: "Coral", note: "Sculptural pendant light", image: "images/_legacy/collections/coral-cluster-dark.jpg" }, { slug: "twig", name: "Twig", note: "Sculptural bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/twig.webp" }, ], }, /* ============== 133 Castlereagh Street (Piccadilly Tower) ============== */ { slug: "project-133-castlereagh", name: "133 Castlereagh Street", location: "Sydney, Australia", city: "Sydney", country: "Australia", year: 2023, category: "Corporate", sector: "Commercial lobby", architect: "Client design", photographer: "ALS", indexImage: "images/projects/133-castlereagh/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/133-castlereagh/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "133 Castlereagh Street (Piccadilly Tower) lobby, Sydney — a serpentine Autobahn bench in tan leather sweeping across the marble floor, 2023. Photography ALS.", brief: [ "133 Castlereagh Street — Piccadilly Tower — is a premier A-Grade commercial building in the Sydney CBD, bringing together Clarence serviced offices, premium workspaces and ground-level retail beneath a 4.5-star NABERS energy rating.", "Steps from the new Gadigal Metro and wrapped in retail, the tower looks out to Hyde Park and the harbour. Its double-height lobby — timber-battened, marble-floored and anchored by a bold red pixel artwork — needed seating that could hold the volume without breaking its calm.", ], response: [ "Autobahn answers the curve of the space. Its serpentine, modular benches in tan leather trace a long sweep through the lobby, turning a generous void into a sequence of landing and waiting moments — somewhere to pause between street, retail and lift core.", "Specified by the client's design team, the run pairs upholstered Autobahn modules on slim black steel legs with companion side and coffee tables, reading as considered lobby furniture rather than transit seating.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/133-castlereagh/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Autobahn benches and planters along the glass facade, looking through to Pitt Street." }, { src: "images/projects/133-castlereagh/gallery/02.jpg", alt: "Serpentine Autobahn run beneath the red pixel artwork, cool daylight across the marble floor." }, { src: "images/projects/133-castlereagh/gallery/03.jpg", alt: "133 Castlereagh entrance signage at the Piccadilly Tower." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: [ { value: "4.5★", label: "NABERS energy", note: "Whole-building energy rating." }, { value: "A-Grade", label: "Commercial", note: "Premier Sydney CBD tower." }, ], outcome: [], collections: [ { slug: "autobahn", name: "Autobahn", note: "Curved modular bench", image: "images/_legacy/collections/autobahn.jpg" }, ], }, /* ============== Marlowe ============== */ { slug: "project-marlowe", name: "Marlowe", location: "South Brisbane, Australia", city: "Brisbane", country: "Australia", year: 2026, category: "Hospitality", sector: "Hospitality", architect: null, photographer: "Marlowe", indexImage: "images/projects/marlowe/cover.jpg", hero: "images/projects/marlowe/hero/01.jpg", heroAlt: "Marlowe, South Brisbane — Strap stools in raw aluminium at the bar of a heritage Art Deco bistro, 2026.", brief: [ "Marlowe is an Australian bistro on Fish Lane, housed in a heritage-listed Art Deco apartment block in South Brisbane. The fit-out works within the bones of the building rather than over them, letting the original masonry, proportion and period detail carry the room. Seating had to hold its own in that company — lightweight enough to move with service, durable enough for daily commercial use, and quiet enough to sit beneath the architecture.", ], response: [ "Derlot's Strap Stool answers the brief. Designed by Alexander Lotersztain in 2019, Strap takes its geometry from the strapping of 1970s sun loungers — a clean, repeated line that reads as structure, not ornament. At Marlowe the stool is specified in a raw aluminium finish: left uncoated to show the material directly, it will develop a patina across its service life that settles in alongside the building's aged surfaces.", "Constructed from up to 70% recycled aluminium, Strap is naturally light and rated for both indoor and outdoor use — suited to a venue that opens onto the laneway. The collection carries a five-year structural warranty and is manufactured in Australia. Where the standard range runs to powder-coated white, black and custom Dulux finishes, the raw treatment here was specified to suit the room.", ], quote: null, gallery: [ { src: "images/projects/marlowe/gallery/01.jpg", alt: "Marlowe, South Brisbane — a Strap stool in raw aluminium drawn up to the counter against the heritage masonry." }, ], featureA: null, singleImage: null, featureB: null, metrics: null, outcome: [ "Strap stools in raw aluminium line the bar and counter and draw up to the dining and service edges — a consistent geometric line through the room that never competes with the heritage detail, left to patina against the Art Deco masonry over time.", ], collections: [ { slug: "strap", name: "Strap", note: "Counter & bar stool", image: "images/projects/marlowe/cover.jpg" }, ], }, ]; /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */ /* Lookup helpers */ /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */ const PROJECTS_BY_SLUG = Object.fromEntries(PROJECTS.map(p => [p.slug, p])); function getProject(slug) { return PROJECTS_BY_SLUG[slug] || null; } window.PROJECTS = PROJECTS; window.PROJECTS_BY_SLUG = PROJECTS_BY_SLUG; window.getProject = getProject;