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2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists Announced

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If you are looking for colour and architectural design inspiration, you’ve just struck gold.

Roll out the red carpet, err, sofa…

Australia’s brightest stars have just been announced, with the iconic 2020 Dulux Colour Awards Finalists revealed. And there is some serious talent stirring those paint pots. Luminous, in fact.

Budge Over Dover By YSG. Photography by Prue Ruscoe.
Budge Over Dover By YSG. (Credit: Photography by Prue Ruscoe.)

Cream of the beige Royale crop 

The prestigious awards, now its 34th year, received over 400 entrants. Professionals were encouraged to submit entries that demonstrate their exceptional use of colour across a range of categories. There is also a category for students.

Finalists for the program were chosen across six categories

  • Commercial Interior: Public and Hospitality (23 finalists)
  • Commercial Interior: Workplace and Retail (21 finalists)
  • Commercial and Multi-Residential Exterior (15 finalists)
  • Residential Interior (27 finalists)
  • Single Residential Exterior (10 finalists)
  • Student (11 finalists).
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Victoria Road Project By Alexandra Kidd Design. (Credit: Photography by Pablo Veiga.)

Creative genius

The entrants combined projects are a goldmine of colour, style, mood, design, and interiors and exterior inspiration. And if you are partial to a design trend, you’ll see a fantastic array of reinterpretations in their work.

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Sunny House By Cloud Dwellers and Diana Azzarello. (Credit: Photography by Andy Macpherson.)

And the winners are…

The winners will be determined by leading figures in the design industry, Adele Winteridge, Director of Foolscap Studio; Jean-Pierre Biasol, Director of Biasol Design Studio; Jonathan Richards, Director of Richards Stanisich Architecture; Kathryn Robson, Director of Robson Rak Architects & Interiors; and Toni Brandso, Director of New Zealand’s Material Creative.

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St Kilda Residence By Doherty Design Studio. (Credit: Photography by Derek Swalwell.)

Winners of the 34th Dulux Colour Awards will be announced in the coming months.

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Writer Franki Hobson

Franki Hobson is a women’s lifestyle journalist and editor with more than twenty years’ experience. Her areas of expertise include homes, health, parenting, relationships and wellbeing. Franki has two gorgeous boys, Maxwell, 10, and Louis, 1 ½.

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