ownworld Presents an All-Australian Showcase

Visitors to the showcase experienced Derlot’s sleek designs, including the brand’s showstopping Pipeline modular lounge, a minimalist piece referencing space-age design.

The installation also marked the launch of ownworld’s latest local partnership, with design studio Derlot. Led by Australian-Argentinian designer Alexander Lotersztain, Derlot’s pieces are globally influenced and imbued with a commitment to sustainability. Visitors to the showcase experienced a range of Derlot’s sleek designs, including the showstopping Pipeline modular lounge, a minimalist piece referencing space-age design with its unique cylindrical backrest and versatility. Those retro-futuristic curves also grace Biggie, a robust and bold lounge chair, as the name suggests.

Encapsulating Derlot’s approach to both design and sustainability is the minimalist S1 Low stool, which can also be used as a side table. Crafted from 100 per cent recyclable materials, the piece can be recycled again once no longer in use. The Strap chair is similarly minimal and eco-conscious. Its spartan, strap-like design evokes woven sunlounges of the 1970s, and it’s crafted from 70 per cent recycled aluminium that is highly durable and can be recycled again.

Sitting alongside Derlot’s contemporary designs were pieces from ownworld’s stellar line-up of other local brands: Aplós, ARNOLD studio, Dowel Jones and Remington Matters.

Sitting alongside Derlot’s contemporary designs were pieces from ownworld’s stellar line-up of other local brands: Aplós, ARNOLD studio, Dowel Jones and Remington Matters. Work on display by Aplós design director Helen Kontouris included The Village Plump, an intricately crafted and elegant seating system, and Ripple, a distinctive table whose undulating timber top nods to the waves that gently lap in the Aegean Sea.

ARNOLD Studio, an interior and product design studio headed by Kathy Arnold, is committed to high-quality craftsmanship and materials. That ethos was encapsulated in two products shown during the Local Talent installation: the A_SOP lounge chair and the Stand Three Ways occasional table. The former, upholstered using Kvadrat Maharam fabrics, demonstrates Arnold’s timeless approach to design, while the latter, crafted from marble, is a testament to her fidelity to extraordinary materiality.

Both Dowel Jones and Remington Matters offer different interpretations of stools, each reflecting their own design vernacular.

Both Dowel Jones and Remington Matters offer different interpretations of stools, each reflecting their own design vernacular. The Pool high stool from Dowel Jones, a Victorian-based design studio, reveals its makers’ ability to wield a classic silhouette into something more playful via an exaggerated upholstered seat and colourful coated-steel base. Remington Matters’ Ovo stool exemplifies the practice’s dedication to unique, functional furniture. The stool’s folded aluminium top and timber dowels cut a strikingly contemporary figure, and height and colour options ensure versatility.

The installation was set off with a bright palette rooted in lemon yellow and tactile fabrics from Kvadrat Maharam, the Australian-based joint partnership between Danish fabric house Kvadrat and US-based company Maharam. Bringing the concept to life were fabrics available from Kvadrat: the wool-based Reflex upholstery fabric by Prada co-creative director Raf Simons, which beautifully upholsters Derlot’s Pipeline lounge, and the vivacious Steelcut Trio 3 fabric. Fabrics from Kvadrat’s Sahco range were also harnessed, including the understated Cifrado and the bold Cuba. Tying the space together was Wästberg lighting supplied by Euroluce and the 25 / CONNECT power and data system from ZETR.