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Playa del Palo is a beach on the western coastline of Málaga, Spain. It is about three-quarters of a mile long (1.2 km) and its fine sand, moderate swells and shallow waters make it a popular swimming spot for families. Playa del Palo is one of many beaches in Spain’s Costa del Sol (“Coast of the Sun”) region, a world-renowned tourist destination.

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Lava flows from Cumbre Vieja volcano on the coast of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The image, taken around midnight on September 30th, shows the volcano’s vent at the top and smoke billowing at bottom, where lava enters into the Atlantic Ocean roughly five miles (8 km) away. As this process continues, the area of La Palma has already grown several hundred acres.

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The Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, USA contains an aircraft boneyard with more than 150 retired planes. Because the demand for jumbo jets has dropped significantly in the last two decades in favor of smaller, more affordable twin-engine planes, many large aircrafts such as Boeing 747s have been retired. The dry conditions in Victorville – located on the edge of the Mojave Desert – limits the corrosion of metal, meaning planes can be stored here for years while they are stripped for spare parts.

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They say the best things come in small packages, but is that really the case when we’re talking about people’s homes? As someone who grew up in a family of four and lived in a 56 square metre apartment (this was, clearly, not in Australia), I can unquestionably say – yes. Small spaces make us use and appreciate every single room, corner, available surface, piece of furniture. There’s zero room for wastage, not to mention that compact spaces make for close families. Ok, I may have made the last bit up, as it probably also makes for frustrated families in equal measure, but you catch my drift.

While Adele McNab‘s Riley’s Terrace in Sydney‘s Redfern is a far cry from my small childhood apartment, it too works super hard on a narrow and modest site. At just 3 metres wide and a 60 square metre footprint, this home utilises space to full advantage while creating an illusion of a larger area.

“Riley’s Terrace is a deeply personal project as it was the chance to be my own client during a time when I was heavily pregnant with my first child,” says Adele. “It was also a time of not only personal uncertainty, but global uncertainty, and this shaped various design decisions.”

Adele lived in the terrace before undertaking the alteration, so she approached the project with a clarity that can only come from intimately understanding the existing building. Her design addressed three critical areas — providing natural light, maximising the useable space and establishing a connection to the local Redfern community.

To make matters more interesting, it wasn’t just the available space that was modest. The budget was limited too, especially when considering the extent of the alteration and the potential unknowns that typically arise with terrace renovations.

“Certain design elements such as re-using existing floorboards, re-purposing original bricks and using a raw material palette all helped to keep the budget on track,” explains Adele. “The integration of more expensive materials, such as cedar and marble were specified for detailed areas to complement the existing materials. Exposing the structural elements reinforce the material transparency and simplicity of the building elements.”

Riley’s terrace features two distinct buildings connected by the courtyard — the one facing the street contains all the spaces for living, while the back laneway building is flexible and can be converted into accommodation for visiting parents and friends, an additional living room, or — as was the case during the current pandemic — a studio to work from.

The micro nature of the site made the design of the circulation incredibly challenging, particularly in accommodating the ergonomics of the kitchen in a narrow, small space. “Space efficiency techniques such as the inclusion of an in-situ bench seat in the kitchen with awning windows doubling as rain protection enable year-round use and increase the indoor kitchen space out into the courtyard,” says Adele.

Speaking of the courtyard — it is perhaps the most poetic and unexpected resolution of the entire project. With an established Grass Tree proudly anchoring the site, Cowra Gold pebbles tonally link the two internal spaces on either side. The outdoor shower offers tranquilly and cools down the occupants on a hot day. This deliberately uncovered outdoor space creates a strong connection to the elements when moving between the front and back.

“With the project being sandwiched in the middle of the terrace row meant that cleaver ways of accessing light deeper into the home was vital,” explains Adele. “Centralising the courtyard on the site elongates the spaces and provides a feeling of expansion as you move through the house. It also helps to establish the heart of the house. Enabling natural light to filter into all parts of the terrace throughout the day was incredibly important, not only for practical reasons but particularly to help nurture my family’s mental wellbeing.”

Punching well above its weight in terms of size, Adele McNab delivers a beautiful renovation that’s not only space-smart, it also provides a series of delightful surprises along the way.

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Guadalajara is the capital of and largest city in the Mexican state of Jalisco, with upwards of 5 million people living in its metropolitan area. It is also the second most densely populated municipality in in Mexico, behind Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. Guadalajara is a cultural hub, considered by many to be the home of mariachi music.

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Volker Haug Studio’s Tableton lamps — tall and small — in semi-polished gunmetal bronze. Styling by Marsha Golemac. Photography by Morgan Hickinbotham.

Small Tableton lamp by Volker Haug Studio, seen here in raw aluminium. Styling by Marsha Golemac. Photography by Morgan Hickinbotham.

One of the most striking things about Volker Haug Studio is not, in fact, the elegant lighting collections it’s best known for, nor its gorgeous collaborations with interior designers all across the world. It’s unexpectedly a quite understated characteristic — the studio’s output is, wholeheartedly and incomparably, collaborative.

Within the form of lighting design, their series of products — refined works of lighting from chandeliers to pendants to sconces to surface fittings — are produced as a collective mind from the converted 1940s industrial building that houses their workshop and studio in Melbourne. With the team’s diverse creative prowess behind each design, and guided by the artistic momentum the studio has built up over a decade and a half, they delve into novel manipulations of materials and processes in ways that create the distinct and distinguished feel of their collections.

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Volker Haug Studio’s Tableton lamp collection is shown here in two available finishes (semi-polished gunmetal bronze and raw aluminium) and sizes (small and tall). Photo by Haydn Cattach.

This season, the studio collaborated on Tableton (see it here and here). An expansion in multiple regards, the introduction of Tableton marks an addition to the highly regarded Anton series, which is made up of striking sconces. And, most excitingly, it debuts as the studio’s first-ever table lamp.

In line with the ethos of the Anton series (first released in 2018), Tableton presents a visual and tactile investigation of material and light. Classic processes of melting and pouring capture the integrity and purity of each of the metals — it currently comes in gunmetal bronze or aluminium — with the material itself boasting individual characteristics that draw the eye to the textural qualities of each piece.

Tableton is handmade in Melbourne, poured as a single piece of metal using traditional sand casting methods that impress textural elements into the solidified object. The table lamps come in Small or Tall sizes, and can be left with the cast surface either untreated or semi-polished.

From a metaphoric perspective, the idea that Tableton is the studio’s inaugural product that’s within arm’s reach and directly touchable, speaks to the larger statement on where the studio has been taking its practice in the last, crisis filled year and a half.

Last March, for Melbourne Design Week, the studio engaged the local design scene by inviting other homebound designers into the studio for a group exhibition. This new venture spoke, both publicly and artistically, to the under-the-radar communal spirit of their practice.

With their steadfast ethos of collaboration and a team contributing all different sorts of artistic practices to the vernacular of lighting design, Volker Haug Studio’s Tableton is both a product and a process whose introduction is to be celebrated.

Related: After Hours at Volker Haug Studio during Melbourne Design Week 2021.

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Manhattan, seen at center, is the most densely populated borough in New York City and is home to roughly 1.6 million people. With a land area of roughly 23 square miles (59 square kilometers) and about 1.6 million residents, there are approximately 72,000 people here for every square mile.

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Large chunks of ice float offshore Severny Island in the Russian Arctic. Almost half of the 18,882-square-mile (48,904-sq-km) island is covered by the Severny Island ice cap, which — if considered part of Europe — is the largest glacier by area on the continent. The ice cap spans 7,900 square miles (20,500 sq km), making it about the same size as the entire country of Wales.

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The Serrania de Hornocal is a range of colorful mountains in northern Argentina. The peaks reach an elevation of 15,620 feet (4761 meters) above sea level and get their incredible colors and patterns from an exposed limestone formation known as Yacoraite. The visual variations within the rock layers results from historical changes in sea levels.

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Shelter Cove is a small, remote community located along the “Lost Coast” of northern California, where the King Range meets the Pacific Ocean. Due to its rugged terrain, the Lost Coast region has no major highways and is mostly natural and undeveloped. The one-runway Shelter Cove Airport, seen at the bottom of this Overview, helps visitors access the area when weather permits.

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