Platinum sponsor profile

Brighton Australia

Brighton Australia is a Sydney-based Australian company specialising in lightweight internal lining construction and internal fitouts. The company has been contracted to work for a majority of Australia's leading builders including Multiplex, Baulderstone Hornibrook, Bovis Lend Lease, Leighton Contractors, Westfield, Watpac, Abigroup, Mirvac, Amalgamated, Thiess and Grocon.

We have been involved in many major residential, commercial, retail and public building construction projects during a history of over 15 years. Some of the major projects include: Sydney University's Faculty of Law, Centre Court North Ryde, the national headquarters for Optus Australia; the Centrelink National Support Office in Canberra; Westpac Place, the head office for Westpac Bank; Gosford and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals; Westfield Bondi shopping centre; Lumiere Apartments; and a host of other major residential developments.

Skills and expertise developed by the company through this work include the installation of proprietary hebel, plasterboard and glazed partition systems, suspended plasterboard ceiling systems, suspended acoustic ceiling tile systems and external fibre cement cladding systems.

The company has also been required to install many customised plasterboard, timber, glass, composite aluminium and MDF ceiling and wall linings, some of which have been manufactured in-house by Brighton's factories. The factories also manufacture our access panels.

As the management subcontractor for major fitouts Brighton has been contracted to supply and install doors, door hardware, roller shutters, operable walls, joinery, internal stairs, custom balustrades & handrails, smoke curtains, automatic doors, toilet partitions, cement rendering, as well as internal & external painting.

3 weeks to go!

Come share a well-earned drink with us on exhibition night - Wed 30 Nov from 6-9 pm - and enjoy the fruits of our labour!

In order to raise the $55,000+ needed to stage the CO|LAB exhibition for 70 students, all graduating Interior Designers and Decorators students have worked tirelessly throughout the year.

We found over 70 generous industry sponsors. We held a hugely successful designer auction hosted by Stylecraft. We were sponsored to run (well, walk…) the City to Surf. We sold raffle tix at Café Culture as part of Saturday In Design. Together, we have given ourselves the opportunity to stage an unforgettable exhibition for graduating students this year - CO|LAB.

In order to make the exhibition as environmentally responsible a process as possible, the majority of materials purchased will be kept to be re-used by students at Design Centre Enmore.

A huge thanks to all of our sponsors, in particular to our Platinum sponsors - Aspect Designs, Stylecraft, Brighton Australia and Sunscreen.

Sponsor profile

Find out about another of our great sponsors... Baresque

'We are Baresque. Our imaginative products unlock the potential in our clients, partners and staff to be creative and exceed expectations, ensuring outstanding outcomes in bespoke, high-end built environments.

Whilst our business offers a multifaceted range of products and services, we’re united in our goal of being an interior solutions partner for those that seek to create impressive spaces.

We are valued for our exuberance and flair, and trusted for our dedication to getting it right, no matter how high the sights are set.'

Wall-coverings - Fabrics - Translucent Surfaces - Cladding - Horizontal Surfaces

Visit Baresque at www.baresque.com.au

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Another of our wonderful sponsors...

'Designer Rugs has a successful history, operating since 1986 in the Australian and International flooring market. We carry a unique range of hand tufted and hand knotted rug collections designed by some of Australia’s leading designers and artists. In addition, we are Australia’s leading manufacturer of high quality custom-made rugs and carpets.'

Visit Designer Rugs at www.designerrugs.com.au

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Jardan is one of our generous sponsors - find out more about their beautifully made and sustainably designed furniture by visiting their site, address below.

Comfy sofas, desirable chairs, versatile tables, detailed beds; all designed and made in Melbourne.

For more than 20 years, Jardan has been producing beautiful, well made furniture. Each piece is custom made to the exacting standards of their experienced craftspeople. A dynamic, family-owned and run Australian company, the team at Jardan takes a friendly and collaborative approach resulting in inspirational design and a world class finished product.

The in-house design studio develops each new product with a focus not only on design but the highest environmental standards. Jardan’s full range is currently accredited to the Good Environmental Choice Australia Level A.

Visit Jardan at www.jardan.com.au

You're invited!

YOU’RE INVITED! With only 4 weeks to go until our graduate exhibition on Wed 30 Nov we'd love you to save the date

This week’s newsletter post is all about the design development of the CO|LAB exhibition spaces.

As budding interior designers + decorators, we understand the importance of exploring all facets of the design process, from concept stage to spatial realisation. A crucial part of this process is prototyping - testing how our ideas apply to built forms, materials, spaces and lighting at full scale.

Through consultation, re-design and prototyping, the CO|LAB design team have refined what they pitched to ensure that the exhibition design is functional for the exhibitor and impactful for visitors.

The CO|LAB Team

CO|LAB - the concept

5 weeks out, we thought we’d share with you a little about the CO|LAB concept and exhibition design selection process.

Over our 3 or more years at Design Centre Enmore the professional interior designers, architects, decorators and draftspeople who teach us have emphasised the importance of a strong concept in realising quality design.

At the beginning of this year, all graduating Interior Design and Decoration students came together to explore the idea of ‘stretch’ and how it applied to design in general, our own design work and our future in the industry. Split up into 16 teams, we then had the task of teasing out a concept from this starting point for the design of our graduate exhibition.

In one night of presentations and voting, all kinds of concepts were presented - from thinking about the materiality of skin to pushing beyond the everyday. Students and teachers voted to select one design, with the CO|LAB concept coming up the winner. The winning team behind CO|LAB is: Sanova Amiri, Connie Condylios, Alan Foster, Tuyen Le, Elizabeth Phan and Kelly Silm.

Their unique and challenging concept is that the exhibition will be…

“an anatomic manifestation of form and function. It is an opportunity to explore our selves as single cells that collaborate for a common purpose. CO|LAB as an event will invite guests to enter and experience students’ work as individuals and as a collective.”

Based around the idea of collaboration being integral to all design processes, students’ work will be displayed on custom-designed mega-light boxes – as a collective - or intimate stands - as individual cells linked together. Multi-media and light will play important roles in the creation of the exhibition spaces and experience.

Next week we’ll post more about the process of developing the exhibition design – stay tuned!