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Leading Australian furniture and lighting brand Ross Gardam has created an impressive new digital pavilion space to showcase its expanding product range. This digital space is designed to transport visitors into a unique spatial experience that challenges convention.
It is a carefully crafted concept that explores the emotional connection between people, objects and their environment, and also serves as a platform for collaborations with other creative minds. The pavilion, which is credited with longevity, is intended to be a living space that annually exhibits new collections and creates new creative collaborations. Ross Gardam and his eponymous, talented design studio is a collaboration of designers, engineers and makers dedicated to creating contemporary furniture, lighting and objects. The Australian founder is driven by a deep desire to engage people emotionally with distinctive designs that challenge the norm. He combines traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques, with materials and methodologies crucial to each design. This leads to carefully crafted concepts that explore people's personal connection with objects and their surroundings. All the brand's products are produced with the utmost care and attention to detail in Melbourne, Australia. 
Sustainability is a core value for Ross Gardam. Every product is designed to last, with ethical manufacturing that maintains high quality standards from idea and design to material selection, manufacturing, packaging and customer support. All lighting products are assembled, wired and packaged in the Melbourne studio, using modern energy-efficient technologies. The upholstered products are GECA certified, demonstrating their sustainability and environmental friendliness. This methodology for the selection and use of materials forms the basis of the design and production process and is essential to the success of all products. 
‘Many of my products are inspired by brutalist structures’
The pavilion, one of Ross Gardam's inspiring projects, is truly breathtaking. The Pavilion, one of Ross Gardam's inspiring projects, is truly breathtaking.The inspiration for the pavilion stems from his long-standing fascination with Brutalist architecture, particularly its honesty and monolithic sense of grandeur. ‘I have always been charmed by Brutalist structures, the volume and scale of what is usually a single gesture in form. Many of my products are inspired by this, and it was an easy choice as inspiration for the pavilion,’ we hear from Gardam. This reflects his belief that objects are not meant to exist in isolation, but rather in relation to ourselves and our surroundings.
The interior of the pavilion consists of four rooms with interconnected views to each other, to the courtyard and outside. This simultaneous view of each adjacent room adds to the intrigue and makes people curious to explore the entire interior, leading into the Australian landscape. The idea of integrating nature outside to inside was intrinsic to the pavilion's architecture. The external environment reveals the site as unmistakably Australian, full of eucalyptus trees, native ferns and other foliage around the exterior, offering unique portals from the pavilion's large openings. The landscape flows into the base of the building and into the open atrium, softening the relationship between the pavilion and its surroundings. 
Want to read more about this impressive talent? You can read about it in the Summer 2024 edition of Imagicasa Magazine.
Photography by Mr. P (Pavilion) & Haydn Cattach (Hemera)
Text by Elke Aerts