Holly Bodeker-Smith

Holly Bodeker-Smith is Broadsheet’s newsletter editor.

To Mix or Not To Mix? How Pairing Metals Can Add Character to a Space
28 Feb 2025
Art & Design It’s been a great debate for years but designers are increasingly blending different metal finishes – like steel and brass – together for bold contrast and maximum impact. Here’s how to embrace the trend.
Raya’s Raymond Tan Is Serving a Malaysian-Scandi Brunch For One Day Only – Here’s How To Win Tix
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink The exclusive brunch spread will include custard buns, soft-boiled eggs, a nine-layer rice cake and brews by Axil, made by Australian Barista Champion Jack Simpson with plant-based milk. In partnership with The Alternative Dairy Co, Tan tells us what to expect and how you can win a seat at the table.
Destination Disconnect: A Sleep Holiday Can Press Snooze on Your Perpetual Tiredness
28 Feb 2025
Travel Sleep tourism is on the rise in Australia, with dreamy packages offering everything from sleep butlers and smart beds to massages and meditation. In partnership with Peninsula Hot Springs, here’s where to find the best sleepcations in Victoria (and improve your snooze beyond the stay).
Criteria Collection Brings a New (York) Wave of Design To Melbourne
28 Feb 2025
Art & Design Rachael Fry grew up in Palm Springs and studied at the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York. For more than a decade, she’s focused on spotlighting singular furniture from international ateliers – including Apparatus and Pierre Yovanovitch – plus cultivating local talent.
Bad Dreams: Suku Home’s Dream Baby Flagship Store Is Set To Close
28 Feb 2025
Fashion The Aussie label is known for its butter-soft bedding, loungewear and more, which use traditional Indonesian dyeing techniques. But it’s not all bad news for the dynamic brand.
Defying Expectations: How Three Aussie-Based Actors Stepped Into Wicked’s Big, Sparkly Shoes
28 Feb 2025
Entertainment The Broadway blockbuster, now touring Oz, celebrates its 20th-anniversary this year. We chat to leads Sheridan Adams, Courtney Monsma and Shewit Belay about their first green encounters, representation in Aussie musical theatre and what it’s like singing mid-air.
Tadao Ando’s Striking MPavilion Structure Is Staying in Melbourne
28 Feb 2025
Art & Design Can’t make it to Naoshima Island this year? Check out the award-winning Japanese architect’s serene concrete structure, which awaits like a garden oasis in the CBD.
Folding Time: Arnsdorf, One of Australia’s Leading Ethical Fashion Labels, Is Closing Its Doors
28 Feb 2025
City File The respected slow fashion label announced its closure earlier this week, joining a clutch of other local Aussie brands that are throwing in the proverbial towel.
Ditch the Bali Crowds at this Untouched Paradise Three Hours’ Flight From Australia
28 Feb 2025
Travel If you’re looking for an easy getaway, this could be just the spot. Our near neighbour offers vibrant food markets, waterfront stays, day spas, coral reefs snorkelling and much more.
Studio Visit: The Melbourne Fashion Designers Making Clothes out of Paper
28 Feb 2025
Fashion DNJ Paper founders Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and Jake Nakashima-Edwards “bake” paper into everyday clothing that's low on waste and big on style. Now they’re making uniforms for this year’s MPavilion.
Winging It: Jason Penfold Creates Art With Butterflies
28 Feb 2025
Art & Design And moths and scorpions and other curious things. The Violet Eyes Entomology founder spends his days handling, pinning and preserving specimens to display at home. Now he runs workshops for those wanting to learn the niche art form.
Celebrating Food in a Hunger Crisis: A Rohingya Photographer and Refugee’s Mission To Preserve a Disappearing Food Culture
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink Rohingyatographer is a Bangladesh-based magazine that showcases photographers living in the world’s largest refugee camp. Its next issue will celebrate traditional Rohingya food culture through recipes, photography and more.
Recipe: Annabel Langbein’s Ultimate Pumpkin Pie
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink Embrace warming spices with one of the celebrity chef’s favourite winter desserts – and go all out with garnishes of maple-glazed nuts and ginger-honey cream.
Musical Chairs: This Melbourne Maker’s First Furniture Collection Comes With a Companion Album You Can Listen To
28 Feb 2025
Home & Lifestyle Long-time musician Lachlan Denton (formerly of the Ocean Party and Ciggie Witch) wants the tunes and the timber pieces to be enjoyed together. His new furniture range includes a minimalist bed frame, record unit and planter boxes – all made from recycled Australian hardwoods.
Work Uniform: Wah-Wah’s Kaylene Milner Rocks Clashing Patterns, Colours and Textures
28 Feb 2025
Fashion The post-punk drummer and designer behind maximalist knitwear label Wah-Wah is all about practical pieces with playful patterns and bold colours. We visited her home in Helensburgh, an hour south of Sydney, where she told us about the creative freedom of knitting, the importance of comfy shoes and her favourite labels of the moment.
First Look: Aussie Homewares Label Hommey’s Debut Store Takes a Soft Approach
28 Feb 2025
Home & Lifestyle It’s hands-on at the brand’s first retail space, where products are designed to be felt as much as looked at. Find a lush collection of cushions, towels, robes, slides and pet beds – in dreamy hues and invitingly tactile fabrics. Come for the floor-to-ceiling cushion wall and 3D towel display, stay for the plump bouclé settee.
Age- and Size-Inclusive Fashion Reseller Mutual Muse Opens in Northcote
28 Feb 2025
Fashion The colourful consignment store helps rehome your unloved clothes and inject colour into your wardrobe with pieces from your own neighbourhood. Expect bright and bold pieces up to size 24 from labels including Acne, Yohji Yamamoto, Alpha60, Obus, Suk Workwear and Arnsdorf.
Blasta Collective – an All-In-One Brewery, Beer Hall, Patisserie and Florist – Is Coming to Burswood This Winter
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink The growing Perth brewer will reopen down the road from its current Burswood site midyear. The sprawling venue will fit 1400 punters and have 16 beers on tap, including Blasta’s award-winning core range and new experimental brews.
NZ Label Clean Clean Clean Brings Colour (and Extra Shelf Space) to Your Bathroom
28 Feb 2025
Home & Lifestyle Whanganui designer and architect Natalie Bradburn wants you to channel some personality into your white-tiled space. Her playful shelving and toothbrush holders are dedicated to scrubbing out boring bathrooms.
NZ Label Clean Clean Clean Brings Colour (and Extra Shelf Space) to Your Bathroom
28 Feb 2025
Home & Lifestyle Whanganui designer and architect Natalie Bradburn wants you to channel some personality into your white-tiled space. Her playful shelving and toothbrush holders are dedicated to scrubbing out boring bathrooms.
Coming Soon: A1 Bakery Fitzroy, a Smaller Counterpart to the Brunswick Institution
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink The family-run Lebanese bakery still has lines to the door after more than 30 years. Now it’s planning a third location for mid-2023. Expect many of the usual A1 stars, including piping hot shanklish pies, za’atar manoush and plates of crisp falafel with house-made pita.
Swimwear Label Hakea Is Revolutionising the Rashie Beyond the Beach
28 Feb 2025
Fashion “I didn’t want to wear a bikini and worry about getting wiped out and everything falling out, and rash guards were all so bright and unappealing.”
A New Coffee Cave and Refuge in the South
28 Feb 2025
Food & Drink Bayano the Rebel is a tiny new cafe in the backstreets of South Yarra, from the owner of Monk Bodhi Dharma and Admiral Cheng Ho.