Belle

Belle is an interior design and decoration magazine, with a focus on Australia and the world’s finest homes. Belle keeps readers up to date with local and international news and trends in design, interiors, art, architecture, furniture, fabrics and wallpaper, food, travel and luxury goods.

Belle

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Winter magic • Make plans – and a few purchases – to beat the brrs.

SPY Belle • Join a moveable feast of kitsch objets and retro styling made fabulous, with theatrical flourishes but nothing affected: here are our notes on camp.

RIGHT NOW Belle

WHAT WE LOVE RIGHT NOW

Best in show • Spot these attention-winning works.

DRAWING FIRE • A passion for ink rendering set architect Luigi Rosselli on a trajectory to building success.

Big love • Follow your desires in fiery tones and trippy patterns.

The Anatomy of a Laundry • Transforming your laundry into a stylish, efficient hub of home organisation and cleanliness is easier than you think. All it takes is a little planning, some creative thinking and the right appliances. Follow these tips to learn to love your laundry again.

Melodrama! • Act out with high-octane looks sparked by the 90s.

Winning combo • The creative potential is limitless when art and design cross paths.

CREATIVE movement • A new breed of wellness spaces are a far cry from the dank, dark gyms and impersonal health facilities we were once forced to frequent.

Take the floor • As co-founder of ethical rug label Armadillo & Co, Jodie Fried takes a socially conscious approach to life.

Inner beauty • Delve into the diversity of design styles on offer.

Ahead of the curve • Defined by a flowing facade, No. 6 Sydney Street inhabits a desirable location in leafy Stonnington.

Layered living • Melissa Penfold talks cosy, comforting interiors for winter.

TARTAN life style • No longer off the grid, plaid embraces its checkered history and comes in from the cold.

Bright future • Creative agency Raft chose a heritage location for their Melbourne studio and created a bespoke workspace that, like their work, is bold, adventurous and anything but bland.

Perfect harmony • In its skillful melding of public and private worlds, Guy Sebastian’s stylish home in Sydney’s east never misses a note.

SMART SPACES Belle • Rising to the challenges of a smaller footprint, these 11 designers hatched clever schemes that have made for ultra-chic city abodes with an eye to the future.

COLLECTED STORIES

SHELTERING SKY

SHARP EDGES

BIGGER PICTURE

SHIP SHAPE

LIGHT THINKING

GREEN WITH ENVY

CRYSTAL PALACE

HIGH TIDE

CURVES AHEAD

OUT OF THE BLUE

Home Comforts • Create your dream bedroom with the new My Design and Venus collections of bespoke furniture at Snooze.

Warm hearted • Harmony reigns when timber bedroom furniture is teamed with deliciously deep-toned linen. Embrace the bespoke beauty of the My Design collection from Snooze to create your ultimate bedroom.

Rich seams • Let texture do the talking with the luxuriously quilted Venus headboard from Snooze. Complete the look with bold bed linen. Such a striking piece of bedroom furniture demands it.

Tailored for you • Create bedroom furniture that’s practical yet perfectly personal with the new, customisable My Design and Venus collections from Snooze.

HOMES Belle • Light, air, flow and the views: five stunning homes by Australian designers that have been opened up to the peak of city living.

A TOUCH OF ZEN • A harmonious fusion of Japanese, contemporary and Victorian influences instils a sense of effortless...