Architecture, interior design, furniture and fashion are intrinsically linked – with a movement in one spurring interest in another.

Whether it’s the return of big shoulder pads or the Memphis movement from the early 1980s, sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint when and where there’s a shift in direction.

Athan House in Monbulk, on the outskirts of Melbourne, circa 1986.

While post-war modernist architecture from the 1950s started to gain traction in the mid-to-late 1990s, with the advent of magazines such as wallpaper*, in the past five years there’s been a greater focus on 1970s design.

And love it or loathe it, architecture from the 1980s is starting to gain traction – think of architects such as Michael Graves, who made his indelible mark on the period with his architecture, furniture and objects.

Architects such as Peter Corrigan and Maggie Edmond created not just a ripple but an avalanche with their buildings from this period, including RMIT University’s Building 8 in Melbourne’s Swanston Street, were completed in the early 1990s.

Recognised for their theatres, churches, galleries, townhouses and detached homes, their designs captured the energy of a city looking for direction; not just in architecture but also in fashion. As with some of Graves’ designs, Edmond’s and Corrigan’s buildings........

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