Marion Hall Best: Interiors

Overview

An exhibition charting the electrifying work of Marion Hall Best is coming to town on August 5. The interior design aficionados amongst you will undoubtedly know her as one of Australia's most influential independent interior designers. She's a champion of colour who embraced modern, refreshingly avant-garde decorating schemes, and introduced the Australian market to modernist furniture, which she imported from all over the world.

Taking place as part of A Modernist Season, the Marion Hall Best: Interiors exhibition will display original furniture, fabrics, furnishings and vibrant design schemes (a signature of her work was vibrant, glazed and painted finishes on ceilings and walls) in celebration of the four-decade-long career of a defiant designer who scorned the period's restrained, subdued approach and instead grabbed hold of colour with both hands. "Best had a love of colour and an uncanny ability to use it to transform a room…Her work, once seen, was seldom forgotten," says curator Michael Lech.

True fans of Marion Hall Best can also attend the exhibition talk on Monday, August 7 at 2pm. You'll learn more about the show's origins, hear stories discovered throughout the curatorial process, delve deeper into the key ideas behind Marion Hall Best and hey, maybe even come away with a few inspirations for transforming your own abode. Warning: the resulting trip to IKEA is probably going to be pretty epic.