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Annie Paxton is a multidisciplinary designer based between Naarm/Melbourne and Berlin. She works as an architect alongside her creative practice which navigates the juncture between architecture and furniture/object, with a keen interest in how design drives and is driven by the poetics of everyday life. With the tendency to imbue works with patina and the trace of the hand, the interrogation of time/process as a material is often a salient driver in her practice.


PROFESSIONAL

ARCHITECT 
Kennedy Nolan Architects, Fitzroy VIC

SESSIONAL STUDIO LEADER
Studio Defpoints
MSD, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC

EDUCATION


2020 - MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE (Dist)
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
2020 - Dean’s Hons Award
2019 - Dean’s Hons Award
2019 - Nell Norris Scholarship
2019 - Regalia Group Award
2019 - SJB Michael Bialek Award

2016 - BACHELOR OF DESIGN (Dist)
UNIVERSITY OF WA
2016 - JCY Prize
2015 - JCY Prize
2015 - ARM Design Prize

AWARDS


VOGUE LIVING 50 2025
Product Designer of the Year ‘On the Ascent’ Award - Winner

VOGUE LIVING 50 2025 LIST
VL50: Australia’s top 50 interior designers, architects, product designers and artists

VOGUE LIVING 50 2024 LIST
VL50: Australia’s top 50 interior designers, architects, product designers and artists
VIVID DESIGN AWARDS 2023
 Object Award - Winner
Lighting Award - Winner
Judges Choice Award - Winner
Furniture Award - Commendation

SELECTED PRESS + PUBLICATION

PROUD SOUTH CRAFT
by Lidewij Edelkoort and Lili Tedde
March 2025 

VOGUE LIVING March/April 2025
‘VL50: Australia’s top 50 interior designers, architects, product designers and artists’

THE LOCAL PROJECT Issue. 15 / August 2024
‘Art of the Maker: Annie Paxton’ 

ARCHITECTURE AU April 2024
‘New platform launches to promote responsible design’


VOGUE LIVING March/April 2024
‘VL50: Australia’s top 50 interior designers, architects, product designers and artists’

WOMEN OF NOTE January 2024
‘Women of Note: Annie Paxton’

SIGHT UNSEEN YEAR BOOK
2023 Superlatives

ARTICHOKE Issue 85 / December 2023
‘Multi-Disciplinary Designers: Annie Paxton’
ELLE DECOR FRANCE Issue 311 / November 2023
‘Australian Creators: Encounters at the End of the World’
THE DESIGN FILES
‘The Sculptural Fabric + Metal Works Of Architect-Trained Artist, Annie Paxton’

HARPER’S BAZAAR
‘Be inspired by all the curious and creative trends at the Melbourne Design Fair: Heavy Metal’

YELLOWTRACE
‘From Unique Objects to Thought-Provoking Ideas: Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2023’
YELLOWTRACE
‘Our Ultimate Guide to Melbourne Design Week 2023’

YELLOWTRACE
‘A Peculiar Beauty: Deiji Studios Byron Bay by Pattern Studio’

YELLOWTRACE
‘Highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2022’


EXHIBITED WORK


COLLECTIBLE 
‘in a form, of a function’
13-16 March 2025
Vanderborght Building, Brussels

FABLES & FOLKLORE
14 November 2024
Craft Victoria

SYNTHESIS
02 August 2024
Curated by Lupine Studio

ALUMINIUM
16 May 2024 [Melbourne Design Week 2024]
Curated by Craft Victoria as part of Conscious Craft

HOLDER
30 May 2024  [Melbourne Design Week 2024]
Curated by Trove 

ELEMENTAL
01 March 2024
Curated by Studio Gardner

AT THE ABOVE PRESENTS
05-13 August 2023
Curated by At the Above

DISCOVERY
18-21 May 2023 [Melbourne Design Fair 2023]
Curated by NGV

TRADE BETWEEN
18-28 May 2023 [Melbourne Design Week 2023]
 Curated by Do Works

GLOAM
27-30 October 2022 [Craft Contemporary 2022]
Curated by Misc Objet & It’s Nice Inside

VESTIGE
17-20 March 2022 [Melbourne Design Week 2022]
Curated by Annie Paxton & Old Four Legs