By Melissa Giuffrida - 19 May, 2021
With over 30 years of experience within the media and publishing industry, Eliza O’Hare, is now the Editor of Inside Out - Australia’s best interior magazine. Inside Out features incredible home inspiration, the latest trends, upcoming designers, expert renovation tips and fresh ideas for your home. Read more about Eliza’s interiors inspiration and Collécte style picks here…
Describe your style in 6 words or less.
Eliza: Inconsistent. Optimistic. Masculine. Always very 90s.
(is that 6??)
Which architects/designers/artists most inspire you?
Eliza: I adore Renzo Piano, Peter Stutchbury, Pettit +Sevitt, Glenn Murcutt and I could spend hours talking about making emotive houses for humans with the wonderful Tina Engelen.
I have also come to appreciate our Creative Director, Mia Daminato’s brother, architect Albano Daminato who I only discovered after we started working together on Inside Out. But also – there are so many more Australian architects and designers we feature every issue who are working with gorgeous local materials and mastering sustainable practices and who make our pages so exciting. There’s a lot of great stuff happening in houses in Australia right now.
Studio Daminato Lake Como Villa, photography Frederik Vercruysse.
What is your most cherished piece at home? (furniture, art, lighting or decorative)
Eliza: Really, it’s Mr. Douglas, my 13-year old Pug x Jack Russell, and he sort of looks like a cushion.
But I have to say the next most prized possessions would be my book collection that I have greedily hoarded and cherished over 30 years. I have all the literary clichés in there as well as lots of works by young Australian authors and really delicious oversized art, photography and travel books that still make my heart skip a beat when I pull them down from their (colour-coded) shelves.
Best piece of career advice you have ever received?
Eliza: Pat Ingram, Australian magazine legend who was the very chic Editor of Cosmopolitan in the 90s when I worked there once said to me “Always be darling, Darling.” That’s it.
What are you favourites:
Favourite Instagram account/s you follow?
Eliza: I love @mariashollenbarger who is an incredible travel writer, @tigmitrading to follow my lovely pal, Danielle McEwen’s extraordinary adventures in design, @meganmorton because we all need love, light & colour, a handful of photographers and stylists and artists but mainly I’m just rolling through the stories so I just get what I get in the feed. I’m not committed to Instagram.
Favourite galleries or museums?
Eliza: Fondation Maeght in St Paul de Vence in the South of France for its incredible modernist pieces in an equally inspiring building and garden. Just dreamy. Then straight to La Colombe d’Or which is nearby, a restaurant with its own exquisite art collection.
The Church of Chora in Istanbul is amazing and is deeply moving, housing some of the oldest Byzantine mosaics and frescoes.
And the Art Gallery of NSW because I am so excited about the imminent modernist wing.
La Colombe d'Or with an Alexander Calder sculpture by the pool. Photo Bernadette Marie.
Favourite way to unwind at home?
Eliza: It involves wine.
Favourite restaurant?
Eliza: Di Stasio, Melbourne, Clareville Kiosk, Clareville, And I love a winter lunch at Chiswick, Woollahra.
Favourite podcast?
Eliza: I’m not very podcast-y but I love How to Be Happy by the dry, wry and eternally curious journalist, Kate de Brito
Favourite piece/s on Collécte right now?
Carl Hansen & Son Wegner Elbow Chairs
Celestino Piatti Vintage Swiss Owl Poster 1960
Pallucco Fortuny Moda Floor Lamp
Woven Vintage Over-dyed Distressed Rug
Dinosaur Designs Pink Resin Bowl
Normann Copenhagen Bell Lamp Small
Eliza O'Hare Instagram @eliza_oh
Image credit: Stefan Wellsmor
