A-ESQUE‘s Founder and Creative Director, Amanda Rettig has launched a new concept store to showcase her luxury leather handbags amid a creative cultural and exhibition space. A-ESQUE world – as the space is known -intertwines art, design and fashion via rotating Australian artists-in-residence, themes, events, and installations.

The space itself has been largely stripped back to its original foundation materials; brick, bare timber. A raw backdrop for found objects, art, furniture – even signature scents and considered sounds – to be added back into the gallery-like destination. And, of course, art. “At a time when less is more, our focus remains on creating for desire, not need,” says Amanda.

The first artist to be featured is Ashley Eriksmoen from Sophie Gannon Gallery who works across sculpture, contemporary craft, woodwork and critical design. She salvages timber and abandoned wooden furniture to create lively new forms. This idea is to arrest the thinking that furniture is disposable.

A-ESQUE world | 968 High Street, Armadale

Photography | Sean Fennessy