2013 Australian Interior Design Awards: Emerging Interior Design Practice

Jury comment

With a large and varied breadth of work relative to experience, Genesin Studio demonstrates a clear ability to deliver fully resolved and well-detailed projects across different interior typologies, including retail and residential. Genesin Studio’s philosophy results in sophisticated residential interiors and innovative and experimental retail spaces, which is evidence of the principal’s ability to manoeuvre his considerable design skill across diverse project briefs.

Design statement

Genesin Studio approaches the design of space and dwellings with the aim of combining the quality of living in the 1960s and 1970s with today’s luxuries. Keeping designs low-tech while retaining a modernist outlook is a priority for the practice. Ryan Genesin completed a Bachelor of Interior Architecture with Honours in Adelaide, and worked with Hassell after graduating. He then moved to Melbourne where he worked at SJB Interiors with Andrew Parr for a short time, and then with Hecker Phelan and Guthrie (now Hecker Guthrie). After five and a half years in Melbourne working on many projects with these two practices – across residential, retail and hospitality portfolios – Genesin returned to Adelaide to set up his own office, establishing Genesin Studio in mid 2008.

The Australian Interior Design Awards are presented by the Design Institute of Australia, DesignEX and Artichoke magazine.