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Issue 61 - Vintage Modern Issue

Issue 61

Vintage Modern Issue

The breadth and scope of Habitus has always been extraordinary. With how we live at heart of every issue, we have stepped it up with Guest Editor David Flack of Flack Studio shaking the ‘how’ and looking at new ways to make a house a home. With Vintage Modern as the issues theme, we look at the way iconic design has stayed with us, how daring pieces from the past can add the wow factor and how architecture and good design defy the pigeon hole of their era.

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Design Hunter Q+A with Darcy Clarke
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Design Hunter Q+A with Darcy Clarke

Our third instalment in the ‘Hightide – Queensland Design Now’ Design Hunter series is Darcy Clarke, who presents a genuine and slightly irreverent suite of design favourites.


Your name: Darcy Clarke

What you do: Designer / Businessman / Rogue entity – darcyclarke.com

Your latest project: A Photographic shoot in artist Michael Cusack’s Studio

Who are three people that inspire/excite you:

1) Sam Noguchi
2) Batman and Wonder Woman
3) Every person that does good things for others

What is your favourite…

Car/bike/plane/boat model: 69 valiant/my black fixie/jumbo jets/handmade wooden rowing boats.

Chair model: Exactly! I love naked models on chairs.

Residential space: Anything on cabinporn.com

Commercial space: Every space with Darcy Clarke products in them! Seriously!

Decorative product: Charles Rennie Mackintosh stuff.

Functional product: Apple Mac computers

Handmade good: African drums. Practical and good to look at.

Mass-produced good: Bitumen

meal: Pesto pasta

restaurant: Treehouse 

drink: Coffee is pretty much the best thing on earth. 

bar: Reo

item in your studio: Wooden mallet

piece of technology: My Camera in rocks

historical figure: Winston Churchill

fictional character: Captain Thunderbolt

vice: Liquid with alcohol in it.

virtue: Shoot from the hip.

What does the term ‘Design Hunter’ mean to you? Stalkers that hunt in packs, in the wilds of the woods. On finding a good design they whack it on the head and bring it home for the family to enjoy. That is a committed design hunter.

Darcy Clarke is featured in Hightide – Queensland Design Now
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Issue 61 - Vintage Modern Issue

Issue 61

Vintage Modern Issue

The breadth and scope of Habitus has always been extraordinary. With how we live at heart of every issue, we have stepped it up with Guest Editor David Flack of Flack Studio shaking the ‘how’ and looking at new ways to make a house a home. With Vintage Modern as the issues theme, we look at the way iconic design has stayed with us, how daring pieces from the past can add the wow factor and how architecture and good design defy the pigeon hole of their era.

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