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At Innerspace, our approach to design is shaped by connection - to people, to places, and to ideas beyond our immediate environment.
Through long-standing partnerships with organisations such as Qantas and NAB, we’re able to support the way our team travels and works internationally, helping enable regular engagement with global brands, suppliers and design communities. These systems also help us streamline business travel and reinvest activity back into future international visits.
These partnerships sit quietly behind the scenes, but their impact is tangible. They support the rhythm of travel that allows our team to be present where design inspiration is discovered and partnerships are formed, not just where they are delivered.
In practice, this means regular engagement with international suppliers, showrooms, and trade environments, spending time with brands shaping the future of furniture and spatial design.
What we take from those experiences goes far beyond product.
The value of being there
While digital tools have transformed how we communicate, they have not replaced the value of physical presence.
There is a clear difference between seeing and experiencing. Materials behave differently when touched, tested, and viewed in real conditions. Workspaces make more sense when walked through, not just drawn. Product systems reveal far more in a showroom than they ever can on screen.
These moments continue to shape how we think, specify and design.
As our Managing Director Jonathan Miles reflects:
“While technology is helpful, there’s nothing better than being in front of people.”
That belief continues to influence how we engage with partners and how we learn from international design communities.
Turning distance into design insight
With our head office operating from Perth, there is a natural awareness of distance, not only geographically, but in access to global markets and ideas.
Rather than viewing this as a limitation, it has shaped a more intentional approach to how we connect internationally. Each visit, each meeting, and each experience becomes an opportunity to understand how design is evolving in different contexts.
Increasingly, this includes observing how regional design thinking translates across markets. Brands such as Spanish manufacturer Gandiablasco, Portuguese brand Adico, and Italian designer Vermobil, for example, demonstrate a strong understanding of outdoor living shaped by Mediterranean climates. While rooted in a different environment, their approach to durability, materiality and outdoor lifestyle aligns closely with the Australian way of life, where indoor-outdoor living and adaptability play a defining role. These global connections are relevant to our market.
These global perspectives are not distant references. They are directly relevant to how we think about space, materiality and performance in our own context.
These insights don’t stay overseas. They return with us, informing how we approach projects and how we think about the role of space in everyday life.
Partnerships that enable experience
Our relationships with global brands and suppliers are built on shared thinking around quality, functionality and longevity.
They allow us to stay closely connected to innovation at its source, not through second-hand interpretation, but through direct experience.
From furniture systems and material development to spatial planning and workplace solutions, these collaborations help us understand not just what is new, but what is meaningful. Importantly, they strengthen the advice and service we provide to clients.
Better-informed teams lead to better decisions, and better outcomes for the people who use these spaces every day.
How this shapes our service
The value of these connections is most evident in how we work.
It influences how we guide clients, how we specify solutions, and how we think about long-term performance. It allows us to bring context into conversations.
Our role is not only to design and supply, but to interpret. To translate what is happening internationally into solutions that make sense locally, both practically and commercially.
A connected future
As Innerspace continues to grow, these partnerships remain an important part of how we operate, not as a headline, but as an enabler of better thinking.
Because the future of design is not built in isolation.
It is shaped through exposure, experience, and the relationships that allow ideas to move across borders and return stronger.
