We are pleased to announce that we are co-hosting alongside Cantilever for this year’s Saturday Indesign in our Richmond showroom. This one-day event across Melbourne will bring together the best in Australia’s design scene, featuring workshops, product launches, food and drinks, interactive installations and more.
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Product Launch
Discover Kett's latest furniture collections Portland, Bellbrae & Feathertop.
Kett is an Australian furniture brand led by the renowned designer Justin Hutchinson. Based in a design studio in Melbourne, Kett collaborates with craftspeople from Australia, Italy, and Indonesia to produce furniture with timeless quality and technique. Discover their latest collections Portland, Feathertop & Bellbrae, and exciting additions to the popular Erskine collection.
Design Talk
Australian Designed & Made: Successful Collaborations.
As part of Saturday InDesign, Cantilever's founding Director, Travis Dean, and Kylie Forbes, Creative Director, will join Justin Hutchinson of Kett Furniture in an open conversation about successful design collaborations, along with the challenges and rewards of local manufacturing in 2023.
EDIT Kitchen
EDIT serves as a meeting place—a kitchen that fosters companionship, life, and cherished memories. Crafted in collaboration with KETT, in a unique partnership with Cosh Living, EDIT stands as a boutique, highly refined kitchen that embodies the craftsmanship of our local industry. It captures refined materiality in a finely.
Gin Tasting
The Melbourne Gin Company strives to pay homage to a city celebrated for its culture and deserving of its distinct spirit. Crafted in stills originally designed for perfume-making, they produce a timeless gin with a Melbourne twist. Their distillation process is marked by innovation, incorporating locally grown and native botanicals and fresh local rainwater into their gin. For Saturday Indesign, The cantilever team has organised a gin-tasting to enjoy after the design talk.
All Day
Start your morning with Padre Coffee as our showroom opens at 9 am, catering will be available all day from our favourite inner North café, Small Axe Kitchen.
We'll be hosting a pop-up workshop where you can watch as our local Cosh Living makers repurpose fabric from our Melbourne workshop, creating tote bags for you to take home alongside a limited-edition art print by Kylie Forbes.
Design precincts in Collingwood, Richmond, CBD, Fitzroy, and Abbotsford are interconnected by design trails and a free shuttle bus, running regularly throughout the day.
Join us on Saturday, September 2nd. To take part, register online HERE and check in via QR code at each showroom.