Zeny Edwards

The work of Melocco Bros is woven into Australia’s architectural heritage. Through mosaic, terrazzo, sgraffito, and scagliola, the brothers—Peter, Antonio, and Galliano—transformed their adopted city after migrating from northern Italy to Sydney in 1908. With talent and determination, they established a business that elevated architecture to art. Their craftsmanship graces landmarks such as Central Station's mosaic floor, the marble-clad David...

In Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the unseen in nature, the arts, and architecture, biographer and architectural historian Zeny Edwards invites readers into a meditative journey where language, nature, art, and architecture converge. Non-linear and fragmentary, Zeny's essays argue that true meaning lives in the absence beneath the layers of time and space, in the periphery, in the silence, and...