Journal
The Armadillo Journal is home to stories and conversations covering Places, People, and Purpose. You'll find features on people who inspire us, places and projects that delight us, explorations of ideas that ignite us, and rich reads for all those who journey with us.
Romilly Newman’s Guide to New York City
Capturing the texture of New York – from the ground up. As seen through Romilly Newman’s eyes.
6 Interior Designers Share Their Design New Year’s Resolutions
We speak with leading voices from across the industry about the intentions, instincts and interior shifts shaping how we’ll live in 2026.
The Armadillo Playlist Vol. 28 | Soft Landing
An invitation to slow down. This gentle collection of soft rhythms and restrained melodies is carefully crafted to lighten the pace, blur the edges, and create space to unwind.
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Architectural Designer Rob Diaz on Fryman Estate, What Makes Good Design and Rethinking California Living
The concept of “California living” is often framed through a familiar set of design assumptions – an interpretation that architectural designer Rob Diaz is wary of.
Living Art Underfoot: Marea and Alma
Armadillo | Linger Vol. 26
soundscape drifts between classical sensibilities and contemporary minimalism. Enriched with delicate instrumentals and subtle Spanish inflections, it’s an aural reflection of the transience of nature that settles softly in the mind
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The GAIA Collection
Armadillo’s newly launched GAIA Collection was created in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary Catalonian artist, Carla Cascales Alimbau. Evoking landscapes shaped by wind, water, and time, the highly sculptural and painterly pieces are an ode to the quiet power of nature.
Igniting Creation Through The Cinematic Lens
Armadillo discusses the motion image, Chiaroscuro, with the Oscar-winning cinematographer, Greig Fraser.
The GAIA Gallery
In June, Armadillo debuted at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen as part of Openhouse Magazine’s group exhibition, Gestures of Home, an installation that blurred the borders between domestic comfort and gallery artistry.
Weaving Meaning Into Space at 3 Days of Design
In June, Armadillo debuted at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen as part of Openhouse Magazine’s group exhibition, Gestures of Home, an installation that blurred the borders between domestic comfort and gallery artistry.
Woodstrokes by Brodie Neill
For London Craft Week 2025, designer Brodie Neill unveiled ‘Woodstrokes’ – a sculptural furniture collection that transforms salvaged timber into fluid, brushstroke-like forms. Presented alongside Armadillo rugs and ceramics by our co-founder Jodie Fried, the exhibition explores the quiet persistence of craft and the exceptional beauty of material reuse. In this conversation, Neill reflects on movement, memory and the intelligence embedded in the act of making. Photography by Mark Cocksedge & Angela Moore
The Armadillo Playlist Vol. 24 | Soft Meets Structure
Tune in to our latest playlist, a moody and meditative soundscape inspired by the quiet strength of AGRA FORMA. Smooth yet unexpected, these tracks invite you to slow down, lean in, and let raw edges and refined rhythms coexist – just like the collection that sparked it.
Tom Fereday on the Making of AGRA FORMA
In an inspired collaboration that bridges the worlds of furniture and floor covering, Australian industrial designer Tom Fereday has joined forces with Armadillo to create AGRA FORMA – a seven-piece sculptural furniture collection grounded in a shared reverence for natural materials and quiet beauty. Unveiled at Melbourne Design Week and soon to make its international debut in Copenhagen, the collection invites a deeper conversation about craft, sustainability and the sensory potential of the spaces we live in. We spoke with Fereday about his creative process, the synergy behind the partnership and the role of design in shaping not just how our spaces look, but how they feel. Photography by Hamish McIntosh