Emma Elizabeth Designs

Emma Elizabeth Designs Freelance Designer & Stylist / New-Age Creative Nomad.......www.emmaelizabethdesigns.com

BIOGRAPHY

Living and breathing by her self-created ethos, Emma Elizabeth Coffey is turning heads with her interior designing and styling prowess. Born in Sydney, Emma Elizabeth spent the majority of her youth in the USA and UK, relocating to Brisbane as a young teen. Emma Elizabeth knew that in order to get ahead in style and design she would have to stand up while everyone else was sitting down

- and hence relocated to Milan and completed a degree in Commercial Interior Design (Scenografia) from the acclaimed Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). It is the montage of art, design, fashion and innovation that appeals most to Emma Elizabeth. This potent fusion is what inspires her lifestyle interior design and creations. Drawing from years of travel and study abroad, Emma's work is heavily European influenced, yet her artistic cultural reach extends as far as the likes of her favourite artist, Tokyo based Yayoi Kusama. Uncomplicated yet uncompromising in form, Emma Elizabeth Designs featured at Zona Tortona during Milan Design Week 2006. Emma Elizabeth Designs were on show alongside the likes of Swarovski, Tom Dixon, Casa Armani and many other leading international names. However, the defining moment in Emma's trajectory, thus far, was when the Philippe Starck Network requested to view her work --The penultimate validation of her design and styling prowess-- an overwhelming accolade. Emma Elizabeth is now based in Sydney as a freelance commercial stylist & designer, transitioning between, interior design (residentail & commercial), art direction, set design, styling, installation, exhibitions, product design.....and loves every minute of her creative cross disciplinary approach.

——— THAT’S A WRAP ——— It’s all the funny moments, interesting conversations, bazaar conversations, creative catch ups & ...
24/05/2026

——— THAT’S A WRAP ———
It’s all the funny moments, interesting conversations, bazaar conversations, creative catch ups & the generosity of others that makes these types of creative festivals so special.

Thanks for having me & the crew I look forward to next year where I will try to not fall down the stairs on the first install day in the dark again 🙏😉

——— LOST HiDE ——— If your in Melbourne today, it is the last day of the Melbourne Design Festival & a massive massive th...
23/05/2026

——— LOST HiDE ———
If your in Melbourne today, it is the last day of the Melbourne Design Festival & a massive massive thank you to the teams you have blown it out of the designer park this year. 🙏

Featured here my ‘long lost leather love letters’ in good company with Goodie & his soft spot leather lounge for

Another big shout out to for untrusting me with your leathers 🤜🤛

Photography

——— LOST HiDE ———Nothing better seeing a little interaction exhibition moment captured, thanks to >>>>>>So many funny &...
21/05/2026

——— LOST HiDE ———
Nothing better seeing a little interaction exhibition moment captured, thanks to >>>>>>
So many funny & interesting lost thoughts on the wall

——— LOST HiDE ———Long Lost Leather Love Letters, & yes Judith it is quite the tongue twister ha ha …. Created in collab...
20/05/2026

——— LOST HiDE ———
Long Lost Leather Love Letters, & yes Judith it is quite the tongue twister ha ha ….
Created in collaboration with designer Alex Fitzpatrick who worked his light magic into my moment, each piece is formed from repurposed hide, material once discarded & now given a second life. Softly lit from within, the works sit somewhere between object and emotion. As though preserving the final glow of a love letter left unopened, forgotten in a drawer, or held onto long after its meaning has shifted.
I love a bit of nostalgia and narrative!

🙏 for trusting me with your excess leather hides.

Many thanks to all the designers involved in the show & all the other shows around the city, a stella line up this year!

On show currently exhibition on until Sunday & all pieces available for purchase.

Photography

——— HIGH ST ———Armadale morning meeting, where design, art & fashion collide through the eyes and mind of Amanda Rettig ...
17/05/2026

——— HIGH ST ———
Armadale morning meeting, where design, art & fashion collide through the eyes and mind of Amanda Rettig
The piece courtesy of >>>>>>>> is 👌

——— MDW BTS ——— Installing this week - LOST HiDE - an exhibition I’ve curated for Melbourne Design Week supported by ...
08/05/2026

——— MDW BTS ———
Installing this week - LOST HiDE - an exhibition I’ve curated for Melbourne Design Week supported by there has been quite a few lol’s 🏥 🩼 🖊️ >>>>

Open for sneaky previews over the weekend for those of your who are at the markets. Follow signs to “the store” >>>>

——— MEMORY MELBOURNE LANE ——— Have nearly finished re doing my website & wow with 20years worth of work, it’s a trip dow...
28/04/2026

——— MEMORY MELBOURNE LANE ———
Have nearly finished re doing my website & wow with 20years worth of work, it’s a trip down memory lane. While prepping for next weeks MDW, this little curated still life popped up & was for the Melbourne Design Fair 2022 featuring workings by >>





& my glass pieces with

Photographed by the super talented & humble

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——— MYTHOLOGICAL MYTHOS ———My decorative cement vessel for .saama with its four medusa esk coil handles. Sitting loud & ...
21/04/2026

——— MYTHOLOGICAL MYTHOS ———
My decorative cement vessel for .saama with its four medusa esk coil handles. Sitting loud & proud within the palazzo a casa di ——— 🩶

——— APRIL 2016 ——— When your phone starts reminding you it’s Milan Design Week time, I look back & go holly m***a how d...
14/04/2026

——— APRIL 2016 ———
When your phone starts reminding you it’s Milan Design Week time, I look back & go holly m***a how did I & WE pull it off with the first group show in 2016.

Ten years on & I still come back to this moment.

A raw idea, a bold leap and a group of designers who believed in something bigger than themselves, and I put together a series of designer markets to turn profit from our Kensington St studio. We turned the float into a kitty to make then Milan semi feasible for all.

We didn’t have a blueprint. Just instinct, energy and a desire to place Australian design on a global stage, first group through the door when we opened was Vogue Italia and Rai Uno, was a pinch me moment.

Unapologetically it was some part creative chiaos, some part ambitious and yet always selfless and full of heart. The kind of project that could have gone either way… but didn’t.

It became a beginning.

Looking back now, it wasn’t just an exhibition, it was a shift. A stylistic signal in some way shape of form. A moment where emerging voices stepped into an international conversation and held their own.

So much has evolved since then but the essence remains the same for me: backing ideas, championing designers and creating space for what’s next. ( Melbourne Design Week May 26’)

Grateful for everyone who was part of that first chapter and I have no idea how close to 15 of us slept in a two bedroom apartment with one shower, but we made it work. The behind the scenes is what I remember most, those going to Milan this year you better come home with some good stories!

In bocca al lupo ragazzi!!

——— GIRL GANG ———= GOOD TIMES any excuse to get my mohawk b/w cap out & about. Thanks so much for arranging the races ...
09/04/2026

——— GIRL GANG ———
= GOOD TIMES any excuse to get my mohawk b/w cap out & about. Thanks so much for arranging the races 🎟️ 🙏 for last weekend!

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Darlinghurst, NSW
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