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........

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