Lighting and homewares for the room you'd rather be in.
Lamps and homewares for Australian homes, and the home of our own Originals.
"When the light turns warm, the room slows down, and the night belongs to you."
That's the moment we design for. We kept noticing how rarely it actually happened. Homes that didn't quite match the people living in them. Everybody's different, every home should show it. So we started Dennis, and it turns out we weren't the only ones.
For Tess, material is a language. Palette, finish, texture, how a surface holds light at 6pm on a Tuesday. For Theo, design runs on embodied symbols. Form, structure, how an object sets the emotional temperature of a room before you've walked in.
"Material is a language."Tess
"An object sets the emotional temperature of a room."Theo
The lamps we wanted to exist.
A love letter to Australia’s quiet design icons : the everyday objects we all grew up around, turned into lighting .
Featured lamp
Sunnyboy Lamp
Named after the icy pole. The one you know, turned into a lamp. Bold, bright, unserious in the best possible way.
"These are the lamps we wanted to exist."
We chose Australia.
People all over the world have found Dennis. We build it for Australian homes first, because the references are ours: the backyard clothesline, the icy pole, the long summer evening.
"Designed here. Sold here. Selling out here."
Announcing ourselves.
Tess Maddigan
Co-founder, Dennis Did It
Tess runs colour, finish, and surface across the studio - the way a Dennis object holds light, sits in your hand, lives in a room. RMIT and VCA, then years in merchandising, ecommerce, and costume/production design before starting Dennis.
Theo Maddigan
Co-founder, Dennis Did It
Theo runs form, structure, and how an object sets the emotional temperature of a room. Swinburne interior architecture (1st class hons.), then going on a decade with some of Australia's best designers and makers before starting Dennis.
Tested to IEC 60598 · RCM marked · EESS registered for Australia
