Well hello there, good lookin’, and welcome to the August 2019 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Spring this weekend (finally!), you can catch up on a few local and international hospitality and commercial projects; a Chinese courtyard villa by ARCHSTUDIO, new dreamboat hotel in Santorini, a holistic skincare clinic by Golden; soap bottles made from cutting-edge sustainable packaging that can be reused at the end of its life; new product launches from cc-tapis, Dowel Jones & BCXSY. Plus SO. MUCH. MORE. Let’s go!

Laboratorium were inspired by Cycladic design, the purity of island life and Mediterranean sunlight for Parilio Hotel on the Greek island of Paros.

Traditional Chinese courtyard dwellings ‘Siheyuan’ inspired ARCHSTUDIO for Courtyard Villa, a holiday home surrounded by farmland in Tangshan, China.

Designed in collaboration with un-fold architecture, this Vaucluse family home by Tom Mark Henry marries both traditional and contemporary aesthetics.

Golden balanced the aspirational and authentic for the new Seen Skin clinic in Melbourne’s Prahran, aligned with the ethos of the holistic skincare clinic.

NZ fashion brand Superette has a new flagship store by DesignOffice set within an existing warehouse interior in the Auckland suburb of Newmarket.

Global communications company Havas Group have relocated their Sydney office to the former Bushells Tea Building in the historic Rocks heritage precinct.

Ivy Studio were inspired by Parisian apartments for the interior of the progressive dry cleaning start-up Les Nottoyeurs White’s in Montreal, Canada.

Lauded rug company cc-tapis presents their new 2020 campaign Spectrum, born out of reflecting on the relationship between colour, furniture and space.

Dowel Jones shot new their collections within a 19th century Fitzroy church hall, with contemporary furniture contrasting the stark, historic interior.

The new Smooth Impasto paint collection by Porter’s features 44 rich and textured colours with a velvety matte finish layered with subtle brush marks.

Kiev-based stylist Nadiia Shapoval’s first ceramics collection combines artist Masha Reva’s contemporary line drawings with traditional Ukrainian pottery.

Central Saint Martins student Mi Zhou has re-imagined toiletry bottles usually made from disposable plastic into sustainable and usable soap vessels.

BCXSY’s latest furniture collection ‘Bicolore’ for self-described ‘marble tailors’ Laboratorio Morseletto is crafted from special two-tone Vicenza Stone.