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State of Kin has been featured in publications locally and internationally, including Vogue Living, Elle Decor, Dwell and ArchDaily. We are passionate about making connections across disciplines — furthering the conversation around design, quality, and craftsmanship.

  • Wallpaper* logo

    Proclamation House is a hempcrete urban sculpture nestled under peppermint trees.

    Built from hempcrete and stone, Proclamation House, a sculpturally angular build in Perth, Western Australia, carves out an intriguing niche on a quiet suburban street

  • Vogue Living logo

    VL50: Australia's best designers, architects, landscapers and artists of 2024

    Since 2016 State of Kin has expanded the scope and vision of architecture in Perth. Led by the ethos ‘parameters create possibilities’, the team of architects, interior designers and construction experts share a dynamic dialogue and respect for innovation, bold expression and craftsmanship.

  • Australian Design Review 30Under30 logo

    Mentoring the future of architecture with Ara Salomone

    Australian Design Review’s (ADR) 30UNDER30 Architects and Innovators of the Built World program, welcomes Perth-based design studio State of Kin’s design director and co-founder, Ara Salomone, as a judge and mentor.

  • Amy Moorea Wong / Hardie Grant London logo

    Kaleidoscope — Modern Homes in Every Colour

    Survey this three-storey concrete new build in Western Australia in one sweeping glance, and ‘colourful’ might not be the word that strikes you first. There’s a lot to take in — decadent materials, natural patterns, minimalist principles and sculptural objects — but what ultimately gives the house its personality is the sprinkling of vividness used as a finishing touch to accent the building’s arresting archi­tectural splendour.

  • The Local Project logo

    Contrast and Continuity — Shutter House by State of Kin

    Born from a desire to explore two seemingly contrasting concepts, behind a veiled façade, Shutter House unfolds as a vibrant contemporary home that balances a sense of privacy and protection with a visual connection to the views of Lake Monger beyond.

  • 03 Oct 2024

    CO-architecure

    This modern contemporary family home was designed to thoughtfully integrate with its natural and heritage surroundings.

  • 01 Oct 2024

    Habitus

    Proclamation House by State of Kin is a remarkable and unexpected home, a textured monolith designed as a sanctuary for a pair of busy professionals in Perth.

  • 22 Aug 2024

    G&G Magazine

    Originally a brown brick, terracotta tile home typical of Perth’s northern beach suburb of Marmion, the new transformation realised by State of Kin is a 1970 – 80s-era suburban coastal house with a street-enhancing design statement that offers both the site and owner a new lease on life.

  • 21 Aug 2024

    Yinjispace

    Proclamation House is an expressive home that responds to Subiaco’s local vernacular with an abstract hand.

  • 14 Aug 2024

    Dezeen

    Architecture studio State of Kin has paired an olive-toned hemp render with aluminium awnings at Proclamation House, a light-filled family home in Western Australia.

  • 31 Jul 2024

    Dwell

    In Subiaco, Australia, a monastic design echoes the area’s history while utilizing a cutting edge energy efficient building material.

  • 29 Jul 2024

    The Local Project

    Proclamation House by State of Kin redefines inner-city living with an immersive and innovative approach.

  • 05 Jul 2024

    ArchitectureAU

    Located in Claremont, Western Australia, Rude to Stare is a new lingerie store designed by State of Kin.

  • 24 Jun 2024

    Est Living

    Monumental in every sense of the word, Proclamation House by Perth-based architecture studio State of Kin effuses a monastic and reverent quality – envisioned as place of connection, but equally one of solace.

  • 22 Oct 2023

    Australian Design Review 30Under30

    State of Kin was announced as part of a group of experts and industry stalwarts selected to join the panel for Australian Design Review’s ‘30 Under 30’ program.

  • 12 Sep 2023

    Est Living

    Redesigning the kitchen, dining, living room, laundry and bathrooms, the design studio have made way for a textural yet contemporary fusion of old and new.

  • 08 Sep 2023

    ArchitectureAU

    Instead of hiding its 1980s bones, this Perth home celebrates its origins through fun pops of colour and playful geometry evocative of the original era’s disco aesthetics.

  • 26 May 2023

    Perth is OK!

    We’re absolutely captivated by this transformation of a Marmion home by Perth multidisciplinary design studio State of Kin.

  • 10 Apr 2023

    Dwell

    The perforated panels shade the interiors of the brick residence, which is reimagined with terrazzo, cork floors, and a distinctly millennial colorway.

  • 23 Mar 2023

    The Local Project

    As a reflection of a youthful demographic, Play House overlays a vitality through colour and texture. State of Kin has defibrillated the otherwise dormant form, ensuring a continued relevance for the chapters to come.

  • 17 Mar 2023

    The Design Files

    State of Kin’s design acknowledges and revels in the home’s history, while respectfully moving it into the future.

  • 10 Feb 2023

    Perth is OK!

    It’s a testament to great design that a home can crystallise so many influences and still emerge a cohesive, liveable space.

  • 04 Dec 2022

    Habitus

    A revitalised kitchen for a chef and his family fuses practical planning with sophis­ticated materials.

  • 29 Nov 2022

    ArchitectureAU

    The project represents a joyful confluence of client and designer who are both unafraid to push boundaries, to place trust in one another’s artistry and to create an experience that will surely resonate for decades more.

  • 24 Nov 2022

    ArchDaily

    Whilst the aesthetic is undeniably very industrial and raw, the ambiance of the home is textural, open, and warm

  • 07 Oct 2022

    Yellowtrace

    The result is an avant-garde, stylized and slick space with cuttingly sharp lines accentuated by sporadic injections of playful colour and gentle, rounded shapes.

  • 09 Jun 2022

    Artichoke

    Championing the offerings of local design and materials, the Shutter House is a concrete block structure that utilises the topography of the site, as opposed to merely accounting for it.

  • 13 Sep 2021

    Habitus

    Designed to be expressive — Shutter House by State of Kin

  • 12 Aug 2021

    The West Australian

    Take a peek inside this State of Kin home you’ve probably seen near Lake Monger

  • 13 Jul 2021

    Australian Design Review

    “We need more passionate young forward-thinking designers in Perth creating beautiful things. And it’s important to be bold, be smart and let people educate you.”

  • 01 Jun 2021

    Vogue Living

    Our vision centres on innovation, momentum and craftsmanship. Each project is formed from its own nucleus of insight, and tended to with vitality, perception and zeal. We’re passionate about delivering expressive, contemporary spaces, and we focus on the experience of users within the spaces created, reflecting a distinctively character­istic outcome.

  • 01 Jun 2021

    Home Italia

    This celebrated home, energetic and forward in its approach is testament to the wonderful work of this dynamic young studio.

  • 14 Apr 2021

    Architecture & Design

    Championing the offerings of local design and materials, the Shutter House is a concrete block structure that utilises the topography of the site, as opposed to merely accounting for it.

  • 08 Apr 2021

    designboom

    State of Kin wraps ‘Shutter House’ in timber batten skin in Western Australia

  • 06 Apr 2021

    ArchDaily

    Shutter House is a celebration of vibrant colour, rich textures, light, and shadow. The home is an exploration of tactility, a balance between powerful and gentle sensations, and an experiential space throughout.

  • 26 Feb 2021

    Tatler

    Shutter House is a celebration of vibrant colour, rich textures, light, and shadow. The home is an exploration of tactility, a balance between powerful and gentle sensations, and an experiential space throughout.

  • 29 Jan 2021

    The West Australian

    Inside Mount Lawley masterpiece with surprises around every corner

  • 20 Jan 2021

    Maison & Jardin

    Interior from elsewhere — an avant-garde house in Australia

  • 20 Jan 2021

    Home Journal

    Inside a lakeside residence brims with colour and texture

  • 14 Jan 2021

    Decor

    The project explores the connection between design and architecture, with expressive personality (translated)

  • 12 Jan 2021

    La Nacion

    Balance: Great use of space and light in a Japanese-inspired house (translated)

  • 07 Jan 2021

    IW Magazine

    Shutter House is an imaginative and unique home situated in Wembley, Western Australia

  • 23 Dec 2020

    The Local Project

    Referencing the historical industrial past of the area, Brick House is a new build that takes heeded influence from the renovated factory vernacular. State of Kin combines a sustainable approach with the refinement of a contemporary build to create a home of character and embodied interest.

  • 21 Dec 2020

    The Core

    The furniture became an important ingredient in the overall result and fits perfectly with our architecture and interior finishes

  • 01 Dec 2020

    Dwell

    Mechanized shutters protect this Australian home from prying eyes

  • 24 Nov 2020

    Habitus

    A historic post office in Perth has been transformed by State of Kin, a local design practice, into Bodyscape Yoga, delivering a newfound state of zen to its yogi clientele.

  • 14 Nov 2020

    Elle Decor

    This Australian home hosts a selection of contemporary design furniture along with a rooftop pool.

  • 29 Oct 2020

    Habitat

    A forward-thinking home designed for the modern family and furnished with some of the world’s most renowned and decorated brands; carefully hand-picked to complement the architectural statement of the home.

  • 22 Oct 2020

    Indesign Live

    Combining the traditional with the contemporary, the team at State of Kin has created an interior that is both simple and serene.

  • 31 Aug 2020

    Artichoke

    In brief: The Stables Bar

  • 05 Nov 2019

    Fabric Quarterly

    Raw and industrial yet textural, open and warm, this beauty may look like a factory but there is no doubt that it feels like a home.

  • 21 May 2019

    InsideOut

    This Industrial-style Brick House in Perth inspired by heritage factories

  • 04 Apr 2019

    Habitus

    A new Perth home from State of Kin sees heritage style industrial aesthetics expressed in a welcoming home – belying the fact that this is in fact an entirely new build.

  • 27 Feb 2019

    Habitus

    In a bid to shift the residential landscape of Perth, one company is breaking the barriers between architects and builders with a refreshing and much needed approach to design.

  • 27 Feb 2019

    Architecture & Design

    A combination of new and old design techniques and materials were used to embrace history in a new build.

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