# Mary Featherston

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Architect John Henry - Talking Design 2013 - Ep04

Architect John Henry first came to attention with his unusual warehouse style home in Research. Inspired by Architect Robin Boyd's Featherston house designed for Mary and Grant Featherston in 1967, Henry's house includes multi-level platforms hovering above dirt floors. Henry's love of designer fur…

What makes open plan spaces actually work

This week celebrated designer Mary Featherston and architectural researcher Rory Hyde layout the pros and cons of open plan work and school environments, and the benefits of when they are designed well. With the gig economy here to stay, we speak with food critic Besha Rodell on the etiquette of ti…

Mary Featherston AM: Interior & furniture designer, early childhood environmental designer

Mary Featherston, together with her husband Grant, have been seminal figures in Australian Design, delivering high-profile projects over decades in mid-century Australia. Mary has been celebrated in the field of children’s early-learning environments, working with schools, childcare centres and mus…

How to better plan open plan environments for school and work

A lot of us have experience of open plan designs. Like any design, there are some wonderful examples and some troublesome ones. In recent months, open plan schools, otherwise known as innovative learning environments, have been pulled into the debate.       In this week’s episode, we speak with Mar…

What makes open plan spaces actually work

This week celebrated designer Mary Featherston and architectural researcher Rory Hyde layout the pros and cons of open plan work and school environments, and the benefits of when they are designed well. With the gig economy here to stay, we speak with food critic Besha Rodell on the etiquette of ti…

Graham Readfearn With A Global Environment Update; Rembrandt: True To Life – His Prints, Drawings & Paintings At The NGV; Tim Ross On Why He Loves Modernist Architecture

Amy Mullins returns to the airwaves. The Guardian Australia's Graham Readfearn delves into the latest global environment news, including a mass coral bleaching event happening across the Americas, UNESCO's determination on the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctic sea ice at historic lows, an…

Legendary designer Mary Featherston: how school classrooms stunt our wondrous natural-born curiosity

Interior designer Mary Featherston is famous for many things. Her trailblazing creations with her late husband Grant Featherston. Their extraordinary Melbourne house designed by the iconic modernist architect Robin Boyd, which has housed four generations of their family. But what Mary's most driven…

Mary Featherston: Design, disruption and advocacy

When we think about design in Australia today, it’s impossible not to trace its evolution back to pioneers like Mary Featherston, AM. A leading force in shaping a more human‑centred approach, Mary has spent decades reimagining design as something embedded in our everyday environments — not just obj…

S3 Ep 1 – Mary Featherston A Home That Lifts The Spirit

Tim and Kevin head to Melbourne for a special conversation with celebrated Australian designer Mary Featherston in her groundbreaking home, designed by Robin Boyd in 1967 - an intergenerational house where family life and creative work have been intertwined for almost six decades. One of Australia…