Introducing Modulo. collaboration with @thewoolmarkcompany
A revolutionary aircraft seat design that reimagines the future of premium cabin travel. Modulo is a concept born from the desire to challenge the status quo of aircraft cabin interiors by addressing key issues such as weight reduction, sustainability, and the need for frequent cabin refreshes. Modulo combines an ultra-light framework of forged composite, titanium and aluminium with a fabric membrane 3D-knitted from a blend of luxurious Merino Wool, elastic polymers and integrated technology.
Caon Team:
@danielgriffinn@steven.burgess
🎬 @rodrigorabaco
Carl Sagan. Joe Colombo. Buckminster Fuller. Matti Suuronen.
The Powerhouse Parramatta time capsule design draws from a lineage of thinkers and objects that dared to speak across time. Objects that believed in the future when the future was entirely unknown.
A project we are very excited about. To be unveiled later this year.
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A few days in South Australia last week. Time with family, a stop into @jamfactoryau to check in on the chair project we’ve been developing with them (more on that soon), and our usual pilgrimage to McLaren Vale — it’s a happy place for our family. @samuels_gorge was gorge as always. We go for the Grenache. I went into the ocean with my jeans on. Ended the week being reminded by someone much smaller and wiser than me to stop and smell the roses.
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Third Floor
A private bar we designed for a residence in Sydney, in collaboration with @bradswartzarchitects .
The brief was to create a dedicated space for entertaining. What we found interesting was how much that single idea could hold. A temperature controlled wine cabinet, a bar, a fireplace, a sitting room. Each part distinct, but the whole reading as one considered interior.
The space is defined by solidity and softened edges. A robust selection of materials runs throughout, and much of the careful detailing is concerned with how those materials meet each other.
Photography @tomross.xyz
Styling @_roomonfire
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Time is a luxury. This project made us think about it in an entirely new way.
Typically we think of our projects in terms of years, sometimes decades. This one is measured in generations. The 100-year time capsule we designed for @powerhousemuseum Parramatta is expressly designed for people who do not yet exist.
That shift in perspective changes everything about how to approach crafting this object. My thinking is less about conventional functionality, but about permanence, memory, and the optimism of projecting forward. The capsule is conceived in advanced alloys and realised in collaboration with @amrf.sydney through advanced manufacturing techniques, ready for 2125.
We’ve been developing some updated imagery and are sharing some of it here: renders, details, and one of the initial hand sketches. We’re looking forward to seeing the final curation of objects selected by the team at The Powerhouse before this one goes into the ground later this year.
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Designing a business class seat for a narrowbody aircraft brought some of the most interesting industrial design challenges we've worked through.
This is the @qantas Business Class seat we designed for the new @airbus A321 XLR. There have been many articles written and many nice things said, which is lovely. So we thought we’d share some of our internal renders and design studies — quick images produced to explore details in different lights and material combinations. The kind of work that happens before anything gets built.
This seat has been in the air for a couple of years now and was manufactured by @recaro in Germany.
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The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza, Tokyo has long been one of my favourite buildings. Designed by Metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa as an exercise in modular architecture, it always existed for me in a kind of liminal space between optimism and dystopia — due to the way it fell into disrepair and was ultimately demolished. I’m still fascinated by it, and it was exciting to see a fully restored module at @themuseumofmodernart in NYC, as well as some of the original sales collateral. I particularly like the commemorative lamp given to original buyers of capsules.. (last slide)
A tremendous honour to be awarded Creative of the Year for 2026 at the @vogueliving VL50 awards last night. A sincere thank you to @beccaratti and the team at Vogue Living for everything they do to support design in Australia. Congratulations on such an amazing evening. Thank you to @mobilia_ for sponsoring the VL50, making this incredible evening for us all and to Mirella for her beautiful words in presenting the award. Congratulations go out to all the winners last night and indeed everyone selected in the VL50. I share this award with the whole @caondesignoffice team and our amazing collaborators!
📸 Lucas Jarvis | Eventive Photographer
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An honour to be included once again in the @vogueliving VL50 for 2026. Australia’s design landscape is built on the dedication, vision and generosity of so many talented designers, artists, architects and makers. It’s incredibly special to be recognised alongside them, many of whom I collaborate with.
Much love and thanks to @beccaratti the teams at @vogueliving and @mobilia_ for the acknowledgment and for continually elevating and supporting design in Australia. #VL50
The brief was to design a sculptural metal shank for a denim collection launching on the New York runway.
The answer was a sometimes-two-toned domed button with a thumbprint embedded into the face — minimal enough to sit quietly on the garment, considered enough to be noticed up close. Sometimes steel, sometimes steel and brass.
Congratulations to @ossou on their Fall 2026 RTW Collection. Thank you to @ninakix and @taliashuvalov for trusting us with the detail work — this one will always be a favourite.
Save this if you're working at the intersection of fashion and industrial design.
The brief that sounds simple is rarely the one that is.
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