Land of Plenty 1.17.07
In the past few years I have started to turn to the internet for almost all my "need to know" questions. Phone numbers, definitions of words, a speedy search for an obscure fact (that I can use to belittle my family and closest friends during a trivial pop culture conversation). This has also proven to be my outlet for everything I want or desire from a modern design perspective. Many many ventures into the world of the web has left me to one glaringly obvious discovery, Australia is truly the land of plenty when it comes to modern design. In America when I refer to the term modern home design I am as likely to find anything built in the past 10 years featuring indoor plumbing as I am to anything who's attributes actually reflect the modern design movement. However in Australia these ideas seem to be one in the same. Modern design (the conceptual movement) and modern housing (those built in the past decade) seem to be synonymous. Inevitably when I find a cool product (that is not sold on some highly over priced design driven site aimed at the upper 1% of home buyers) It's from — You guessed it — Australia.
There even appear to be entire neighborhoods filled with highly thoughtful modern contemporary houses. It's almost as if you were to plop down a two-story craftsman in the middle of Australia the people there would stare at as if it were the landing of some alien craft.
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Australia is definitely the mecca of modern residential design. Nearly every interesting product/material seems to be readily available down here.
Check out 'Houses' magazine the next time you are at the bookstore. It's like Dwell but from Australia and without all the non-architecture crap that fills Dwell these days.
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