Stephen Crafti

Stephen Crafti is a leading architecture and design writer with more than 40 books to his name. He has been writing about design and architecture since the early 1990s. Inspired by the architecture around him in Melbourne, Australia, he is keen to share the things he sees so he started Architours, which run architectural private tours four times a year through some of Melbourne’s best and often award-winning homes.

Stories By Stephen Crafti

Cutting through the coastal scrub

The triangular form of this coastal home emerges from nature, while timber and brick ground it to the site.

Seaside luxury at The Continental Sorrento

The Continental Sorrento is open for business, and Stephen Crafti takes us on a walk-through the beautiful seaside spot.

Surfside curves

Referencing both its pine tree namesake and the local surf culture, Koichi Takada Architect’s Norfolk is a nine-level apartment on the Burleigh Heads waterfront.

Three Peaks House

The Landscape House

Contemplation House

The Bespoke House

A Special Pocket of Birchgrove

Located in Sydney’s Birchgrove, this period house conceals a contemporary addition by architect Brian Zulaikha, founding partner of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer.

Creating a Sanctuary

While jetting off to tropical resorts and spas across South East Asia might not be as easy as it once was, a sense of escape can still be found in one’s bathroom, as Stephen Crafti reports.

New Nostalgia at Next Hotel

Woods Bagot serves up the nostalgia of ‘now’ at Melbourne’s new Next Hotel.

Unpacking what it means to be a ‘good client’

Reflecting on his own journey to create his dream home, writer and design lover Stephen Crafti muses on what makes a ‘good client’ and ultimately what makes a good design outcome.

Inside Sydney’s Most Well Endowed Home Office

This substantial home in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, was completed in December 2019, just a few months short of the pandemic that has changed the way we now work.

Jeff Provan Treats Collaboration As A Way Of Life

Jeff Provan’s latest home exemplifies a collaborative approach, much like the developments he does with Neometro.

Artist Hedy Ritterman In Her Natural Habitat

Art and architecture are beautifully interwoven in this warehouse-style abode in South Yarra. Home of an installation and photographic artist, everything has been curated with an exacting eye.