At TH Brown, we’re always interested in how Australia’s leading interior designers bring our pieces to life in contemporary settings. For Brisbane-based designer Kate Connors of Connors & Co, the Venus Coffee Table found its home in a refined residential project that blends old and new with quiet confidence.

Kate’s journey into design wasn’t linear. She began her career in textiles and art, studying at art school and later working for renowned design retailers like Planet Furniture and Cloth Fabric in Sydney. It was during that time — surrounded by makers, fabrics, and designers — that she had her realisation: “I started seeing interior designers coming into that space… and that was my aha moment — I was like, oh, I want to be one of those.” She went back to study interior design and never looked back.

Photographer- Francoise Baudet

Her work today reflects that layered background. “I don’t particularly think that I have a style,” Kate says. Instead, she lets the architecture and the client lead the way, often blending vintage and contemporary elements with a strong focus on textiles, colour, and texture. While projects in Sydney often lean tonal and restrained, in Brisbane she’s embraced a bolder palette and more expressive combinations. What ties it all together is her instinctive ability to balance beauty and practicality — and a deep love of textiles and the handmade.

Kate’s practice spans the east coast, designing thoughtful, elegant spaces with a strong sense of place. The Bardon Queenslander is a great example — a character-filled home reimagined with warmth, restraint, and a knowing nod to design history.

For this project, Kate was seeking a mid-century modern piece to complement a pair of Featherston armchairs — something sculptural, subtle, and grounded in quality. The Venus Coffee Table offered exactly that. “The lines of the base work with other curves in the scheme,” she shared, “and the oak compliments other timber tones.” Its glass top was also a deliberate choice, allowing the colour of the Agra rug beneath to remain a feature of the space.

We asked what drew her to TH Brown specifically. “Workmanship, local production, natural materials and quality,” she said simply. It's the kind of answer we love to hear — values that mirror our own, and the reason we keep producing pieces made to last, right here in Australia.

Photographer Samuel Van Dyke - Kosh Photography

Kate has continued to use TH Brown pieces across multiple projects. In Paddington Cottage, the Danish Bar Stools and Venus Coffee Table sit within a palette inspired by the home’s casement windows, with angular joinery that modernises the original cottage and pops of blue that soften its cosy atmosphere. In The Downsizer — a thoughtfully curated cottage in Manly — Kate paired the Danish Bar Stool with the Aquarius Coffee Table, mixing mid-century, vintage and contemporary pieces to suit a new chapter in living.

For Kate, TH Brown is “iconic, mid-century, sophisticated, quality, handsome.” And we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.