About | 1000 Realms

1000 Realms is the design practice of sisters Tori and Rubi Dinardo based in Melbourne, Australia.

Having worked between disciplines of spatial, interior and stage design, performance art curation, theatre, music programming and festival production, 1000 Realms was born from a frustration with fixed edges - it gives in to a desire to play in the in-between.

For us, imagining is making. Our pieces are born from the stories we love which we shift, collide and intertwine into objects.

Our practice is an intuitive, restless rehearsal. We follow instincts, fragments of stories, the pleasure of making.

While we worked on temporary design projects that ask us to conjure entire worlds only to dissolve overnight, we dreamt of many afterlives. 1000 Realms reimagines impermanence, holding onto the magic, the mood, and the intensity of these fleeting worlds while avoiding their cycle of creation and discard.

Our commitment extends beyond the imaginary and into the hands that build our work. Alongside our own making, we work closely with local fabricators, suppliers and electricians whose skills and care underpin everything we do. Rather than perfection, our objects honour process - every mark a trace of human craftsmanship.

Each piece is a physical manifestation of hundreds of hours, conversations and lessons, reminding us all of the labour of love and the decades of learning that go into the objects in our spaces.

1000 Realms is the design practice of sisters Tori and Rubi Dinardo based in Melbourne, Australia.

For us, imagining is making. Our pieces are born from the stories we love which we shift, collide and intertwine into objects.

Our practice is an intuitive, restless rehearsal. We follow instincts, fragments of stories, the pleasure of making.

Each piece is a physical manifestation of hundreds of hours, conversations and lessons, reminding us all of the labour of love and the decades of learning that go into the objects in our spaces.

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