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Jewellery and optical designer Şener Besim has teamed with Fitzroy’s Oigall Projects to create a boutique of edgy elegance.

Unhampered by pandemic restrictions for the first time in three years, the festival’s director has had free rein to showcase the city’s creative dynamic.

A Melbourne studio started as a “bit of a laugh” has become a one-stop shop for collectors of unusual Australian works. 

Hewn from sandstone, fashioned from travertine, crafted from aluminium slabs, these hefty lamps, tables and chairs have cultural gravitas, too.

Brud Studia combines Brutalist, primitive design methods with digital technology to create meticulous objects whose simple techniques become its own design language.