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SUSTAINABLE LIVING:
Left: Steve Cordony
Right: Green ceramic dining table
Sustainability Mirvac is leading the property

the trend setter industry push to find more
sustainable ways to build. Through its
collaboration with the UNSW SMaRT
Centre, led by world-leading engineer
Professor Veena Sahajwalla, it recently
revealed a world first apartment
in interior design at Pavilions Sydney Olympic Park,
constructed using green ceramics,
a revolutionary new product made
from waste glass and textiles.
To drive home the zero waste
philosophy Mirvac Design created
the Green Ceramics apartment and
invited Interior Designer Steve
Cordony to style it using furnishings
with a recycled or sustainable
provenance.
Interior design trends can Cordony’s impeccable eye for style

be a fickle thing; what’s in led him on a journey of discovery
in which he tapped a rich vein of
one season is out the next. creative designers and makers
putting sustainability first without
But the biggest design compromising on looks or luxe.
“Sustainability is the biggest trend in
trend to emerge in recent interior design today,” says Cordony. “I
wanted to express through the styling
years shows no sign of of this apartment and the furniture
selection that you can choose
going out of favour. If sustainable and recycled pieces that
are really interesting and beautiful.
anything, the shift towards
sustainable, ethical, closed

loop design is set for even
greater popularity as more

consumers reject the “Sustainability is a huge driving influence in the design
disposable fast furniture community right now and it has to be. Given everything

credo and embrace that’s going on in the world, overproduction and over
furnishings and homewares

that don’t cost the earth. consumption, we really need to focus and create more
beautiful pieces like this and give them to the consumer.”

STEVE CORDONY
Interior Designer

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