Interior Design: Lawless & Meyerson
Jo Lawless is an interior designer with over 20 years industry experience having worked on a variety of retail, hospitality and luxury residential commissions throughout Australia, the USA and Asia. With experience working globally, Jo has developed an innate style of relaxed sophistication, combining a clean modernist aesthetic with vintage finds, ethnic pieces and fine art.
Drawing on Randwick’s enviable position, close to the CBD and Eastern Suburb’s beaches, Jo designed La Maison Randwick residences with a formality to them that is broken down by more informal finishes. Light, parquetry timber floor is juxtaposed by striking, black joinery in the kitchen and living, while handmade tiles are paired with Carrara marble in the bathroom. Each area balances clean details with organic lines as a result.
“We’re expanding what apartment living can be by creating sanctuaries for people to live in, work in, and enjoy.”
Architect: MHN Design Union
Brian Welch, MHN Design Union
Brian Welch, Director of MHNDU has over 20 years’ of architectural experience.
Brian’s collaborative approach, experience, and strategic thinking results in a legacy of quality design, and practical, enduring and sustainable buildings. Over the years, Brian has amassed a timeless portfolio of over a hundred works, specialising in developments ranging from bespoke houses and small to medium size multi-residential projects to large scale urban renewal projects within the Eastern Suburbs and Greater Sydney area.
Brian’s projects are characterised by their confident, modernist statements tempered with an intimate knowledge of local climate, lifestyle and culture. For La Maison, this meant designing a façade that leaves a striking impression, but also compliments Randwick’s existing signature streetscape.
“Essential ingredients of good architectural design are the ordering and handling of space, light and materials, in a respectful, sustainable, and elegant way.”