Natural Trinkets
The second instalment of The Digital Pause: an evening in the Klaro showroom in Sydney, making small wearable objects, keychains and trinkets from leather, shell, stone, bioplastics and found materials.
Specifying Recycled Materials: Colour Variation in Recycled HDPE
Specifying Recycled Materials: Colour Variation in Recycled HDPE | Klaro Industrial Design. Explore how colour variation in recycled HDPE affects material specification, consistency and material utilisation in commercial interiors.
Chrome Without Chrome: Why We Choose Powder Coat
Chrome-look finishes can be achieved in more than one way. We look at chrome plating and chrome-effect powder coating, how the processes differ, and what to consider when specifying metallic finishes for commercial furniture.
Recycled HDPE tops: the questions worth asking before you spec one
A round tabletop in swirled custom blue and green recycled HDPE left our workshop for Tasmania last week. Here's what's worth knowing before you spec one.
Custom vs. customised furniture: the budget questions worth asking first
Every designer hits this wall on a commercial fitout: the concept is strong, the client's excited — and there's no number yet to pin it to. Here's what's worth asking before that budget conversation happens.
Designing without ego: a checklist for designers who want their work to actually survive
Good design thinking isn't about having the best idea. It's about solving the right problem - then making the solution as beautiful as it can be within that reality.
When you learn the rules, you can break them.
Turns out our instincts were right all along. Klaro has come full circle. This time, we're not apologising for it.
Melbourne Design Week 2026 - 100 Chairs Exhibition
So honoured to be part of 100 Chairs during Melbourne Design Week by , alongside so many heavyweight names from the industry.
Shattered Topography: Industry Conversation on Fit-out Waste and Demolition
An industry conversation at Klaro Design showroom - the project story and a discussion on practical ways to reduce commercial fit-out waste.
The Digital Pause - collage evening with Klaro Industrial Design and Made by Boto ®
On 12th of Feb, we hosted The Digital Pause - a vision board evening in the Klaro Industrial Design showroom. The idea was simple: step away from screens for a couple of hours and build a physical vision board of inspirations for your dream design practice.
Saturday Indesign 2025 - “Midnight Bloom” Creative Installation
What a weekend! Saturday InDesign 2025 was a huge moment for us, as we unveiled Midnight Bloom in Melbourne.
“A workplace fit out that goes beyond the standard“ - Indesign article & interview with Senior Designer Devon Lofthouse
The client’s brief was clear: create an environment that honoured FIN’s heritage while embracing its future. For Intermain, that meant rejecting the idea of the corporate, “boring” office and instead leaning into a space that would inspire, connect, and surprise.
Project Feature: Absolute Domestics HQ
Beige Steps Up: The New Black Dress of Interior Architecture in a Female-Led Workspace.
COLUMN h/a at Intermain HQ
When a leader in interior design and construction like @intermain —known for creating some of Australia’s most refined workspaces—selects COLUMN h/a for their own HQ, we take that as the highest compliment.
Klaro joins the “Local Thread” event as part of Perth Design Week
Making of SUMMERDAY chair
This short video highlights key elements of the SUMMERDAY chair manufacturing process, from the recycled HDPE slab to the hand rolling of the mild steel base and the cutting of seat and back elements.
INDESIGN LIVE “Klaro’s fresh-off-the-press designs for Pandora’s new Sydney HQ“
Unispace turned to Klaro Industrial Design VOL 4 collection to source key furniture pieces to complete carefully curated future-proofed workplace fit-out that seamlessly reflects culture and identity of a global brand.
Australian Design Review “Klaro Industrial Design: The new K.I.D on the block“
Klaro Industrial Design, or K.I.D for short, is an emerging product design studio based in Sydney’s Inner West, led by an ambitious creative director who is willing to try, fail and innovate in the workplace fitout sector.
POV on our specification process by INDESIGNLIVE
“Alona Klaro, founder of Klaro Industrial Design (KID), has set her sights on shaking up the specification game. As a product designer with expertise in office furniture, Klaro is looking to bring the “slow fashion” approach to fit outs and interiors, paving a way for commercial designers to address the evolving needs of modern workplaces while prioritising sustainability and local industry.
Latest Press by INDESIGNLIVE
As part of our design process, we ensure our products are not adding any extra work to our time poor specifiers – instead we look to implement their requirements and provide a ‘slot in’ package for seamless integration to design, scheduling, procurement and delivery stages.