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We are celebrating Australia’s homewares retailers with the newly launched Giftguide Awards. Our Retailer of the Year will be representing Australia on the global stage at the gia Awards 2022 in Chicago. Meet this year’s winner and finalists.
MAKE DESIGNED OBJECTS Make Designed Objects (Make) opened its doors in 2003 and over 18 years the business has grown
Winner AWARDS 2021
to become one of Australia’s finest design stores. Providing its customers with an ever evolving
makers on product development and has
range of well-designed products is central to
partnered with major institutions in collaborative
Make’s DNA, says owner Patrick Coppel.
retail installations including the National Gallery
“We currently stock almost 4,500 products from
of Victoria and the Museum of Applied Arts and
over 150 brands—the work of over 300 different
Sciences (Powerhouse) in Sydney. A six-month
designers, refreshing up to 1,500 products per
retail collaboration at the NGV to coincide with
year,” he says.
the gallery’s Nordic Cool exhibition was extended
“This constant curation of the product range is a significant factor in keeping Make’s customers engaged and expanding in number. “The Carlton store’s six metre wide façade belies the 240 square metres that unfold over seven
to over a year due to the project’s success. Make has been an omnichannel business since before the term omnichannel was a part of the retail lexicon, adds Coppel. “The first Make website was launched on the
separate but interconnected spaces. The labyrinthine
first day of bricks and mortar trading in 2003. The
nature of the Make store experience provides
current website launched in 2016, built from the
customers with a sense of adventure and discovery.”
ground up with no off the shelf platform.”
Make regularly consults with designers and 18 giftguideonline.com.au
Pre-pandemic, Make’s online channel accounted