celebrates a decade of design and 2020’s winners with an elegant dinner soiree.
Australia’s top design talent were celebrated at a lush dinner marking the 10th edition of the Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards in 2020.
THE DECADE OF DESIGN shared by Belle and Coco Republic had a vastly different finale and awards night than anyone would have expected. Previously, the Awards evenings have seen Coco Republic’s Sydney headquarters bursting at the seams with established and up-and-coming interior design stars at a swanky party for hundreds of guests. This year the pandemic delivered us a different celebration in the form of a beautiful sit-down dinner for finalists, winners and sponsors expertly prepared by the team at Coco Republic’s in-house restaurant, Americano. It was an elegant and serene evening and thankfully our design friends from interstate tuned in via Zoom, in true 2020 style, as the teams from Melbourne scored lots of gongs. Thank you once again to Anthony Spon-Smith, Jeremy Byrne and Caitlin Nagle of Coco Republic for all of your amazing support of the awards and the interior design industry over 10 years. And big thank you to sponsors Signorino, Fisher & Paykel, Wedgwood, Sub-Zero Wolf, Armadillo and Liebherr, and one last giant congratulations to all our winners!
1 Table styling by Steve Cordony, candles by Tony Assness, floral by My Violet 2 Gillian Khaw, Tania Handelsmann 3 Travis Walton’s winning video 4 Anthony Spon-Smith 5 BKH’s Jose Ortiz-Muñoz 6 Tess Glasson, Jeremy Bull 7 Nicolette Farrell, Dylan Farrell
8 Dylan Farrell receiving a denHolm trophy for Best Bathroom Design category, with Tanya Buchanan and Harry Roberts.
9 Steve Cordony, Tanya Buchanan, Anthony-Spon Smith, Jeremy Byrne 10 Entrée of eggplant mousse, dried basil, crispy eggplant and pancetta by Americano 11 Belle’s reveal of the new December/January issue at the entrance of the Coco Republic Alexandria showroom 12 Greg Natale, Jason Greenhalgh 13 Alexandra Donohoe Church, Kirstin Tarnawski 14 Roseanna Langtry 15 Claire Driscoll Delmar, Karen Dunn 16 Mattia Bondanza, Cathryn Zhang, Josh Britt 17 Alexandra Ponting, Lucy Montgomery 18 Justine Hugh-Jones, Katrina Mackintosh 19 Doherty Design Studio’s winning video – Mardi Doherty, Phoebe Lipscombe.
20 Handelsmann + Khaw’s Tania and Gillian winning three categories 21 Karen McCartney, Jeremy Bull, William Dangar 22 Brendon Hill 23 Anthony Spon-Smith, Emma Spon-Smith, Jo Byrne, Jeremy Byrne 24 Jeremy Bull 25 Steve Cordony, Karen McCartney 26 David Flack in his winning video 27 Coco Republic team Alarna Kirby, Diana Ribarevski, Charlotte Dub, Jordan Quill, Daniel Bemrose 28 Meryl Hare 29 Dylan Farrell 30 James Watts, Lucy Madden
31 Guests watching winner announcement, Shane Sutton, Brendon Hill, Diana Ribarevski
32 Dessert by Americano of Aperol and Campari marscapone with pistachio, candied orange, freeze-dried bloodorange and balsamic walnuts.