Melanie Katsalidis’ New Retailer Is A Life-Sized Jewellery Area

Stepping into jeweller Melanie Katsalidis’ new Objects of Eight retaileris like stepping proper right into a life sized jewellery area.

The intimate, richly coloured and welcoming space inside Melbourne’s iconic Royal Arcade is a treasure trove of Australian-made objects, along with a fragile pendant by inside designer Brahman Perera; hand stable concrete sculptures by 5 Mile Radius; and, on the centre, a life-sized jewellery holder, dubbed the ‘ripple bench’, designed by Adele Winteridge of Foolscap Studio.

This ‘stroke of genius’ was impressed by the presentation trays with curved channels for rings used to indicate jewellery to purchasers, Melanie explains. Adele designed the bench with exaggerated and enlarged curves to behave as a modular present system for small objects, which when upholstered in ‘Yves Klein blue’ neoprene by native enterprise Camm Upholstery, grew to turn into the centrepiece of the store.

‘Now we’ve got so many good creatives in our metropolis, it’s a pleasure to connect with them and work with them on good outcomes’, says Melanie. ‘I see it as one among many benefits of being part of creative Melbourne. With out these connections, it’s going to all actually really feel a lot much less non-public and joyous.’

It’s an concept Melanie is familiar with. The jeweller works with Australian artisanal miners and stonecutters in her collections, and is eager on championing Australian gems.

‘I make all my work in Melbourne and these elements of my comply with are very rather a lot attuned to my core values, which embody supporting native commerce and makers,’ she  says.

The store’s location, beneath the arcade’s magnificent Gaunt’s Clock, helped encourage the design by Foolscap Studio throughout the thought of ‘Future Histories’—one factor Melanie moreover likes to copy in her devotion to honouring the standard and helpful gems and metals in her jewellery designs.

Foolscap Studio have expertly tailor-made elements of the earlier space to work with their daring and classy match out, celebrating every the store’s historic previous and the beautiful collections of the artisans and jewellery designers featured inside the retailer.

‘I truly love our genuine Victorian retailer residence home windows and checkerboard floor inside the arcade,’ says Melanie. ‘I actually like being part of an prolonged story of Melbourne retail and historic previous, together with our private new chapter to what bought right here sooner than.’

Objects of Eight
Retailer 27 Royal Arcade, Melbourne
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