Calling Card

The Melbourne office of David Flack extends an invitation to probe the AD100 designer's sense and sensibility

- MAYER RUS

There's a lot going on in the petite powder room at the Melbourne headquarters of Flack Studio. The deliberately broad materials palette includes Venetian plaster, terra-cotta, aged brass, burnished stainless steel, several types of marble, and Australian blackbutt timber. "The office is a giant, three-dimensional business card," says David Flack, founder and principal of the multidisciplinary AD100 design and architecture firm. "It's our way of transporting people into our world." True to that spirit, the materials library sits just beyond the main meeting room, which is located directly off the street. "Most firms hide their library, but we put it front and center. You walk in and you're immediately connected to what we do best-materiality."