Lee Suckling finds a naughty/nice combination for the bedroom.

Journey into an enchanting world of modern Baroque decadence inspired by the era of artisans with KAS.

About to celebrate its first birthday, Sooper Design is an online shop, blog and design resource with an impeccable design pedigree and curated selection of innovative and attractive products.

De’Longhi’s new appliance range celebrates iconic italian design and colour.

Lavish Tails represents an exclusive collection of individually handcrafted pieces of feline furniture designed by Pavla Šarounová and the COCICI team in Prague, Czech Republic. The COCICI brand reflects a modern perspective to the architectural splendour of Prague that has developed over many centuries.

The debut range of brand new label – Tribal Friday. Designed in Bondi, these are top quality, large sized beach towels that are bold in their colour and design.

Sydney-based designers Bianca Riggio and Ryan Hanrahan of Page Thirty Three share the process of how their stylishly functional Oil Burner, featured in the Habitus 18 photo shoot, developed from idea through to finished product.

Quirkily pretty, these glass paperweights possess a reassuring solidity.

Print or cursive, sketch or scribble, no matter how you choose to put ink on a page the tools you use will affect the end result. This week at Habitusliving we share our favourite items of stationery.

Well, we don’t actually love it, but to get into the mood for the upcoming issue of Habitus we though we’d share a few products that should make your Spring Clean easier and more pleasant.

An unbreakable, stemless wine glass with a nifty thumb groove from Collection of Cool.

As much as we love to trot the globe, we can’t deny that sometimes the actual traveling part can be somewhat tedious. Make your next voyage just that little bit easier and more comfortable with these eight accessories.

The Adelaide-based creative studio expands its catalogue with a range of seven hand-made products that convey it’s driving philosophy of ‘design + craftsmanship’ at this year’s Design: Trade: Made.

Gifts and Homewares from our Homeland

Rather than wade into the murky polemic of which particular wines are worth loving, we thought we’d give you our pick of wine-related things.

For those of us lucky (or unlucky) enough to be getting to the business end of winter, the time for alpine activities is drawing near. Habitusliving takes a look at eight excellent products to make your mountain fun even funner.

Uniting the pinnacles of design with the most natural of human behaviours, cutlery must represent our material tastes and complement our gastronomic experiences. This week Habitusliving shares eight of our favourite tableware collections.

Elegantly delicate, these glasses are also excellent for decanting wine.

Workshopped brings to light a new collection of unique bowls exploring how multiple flat surfaces combined can form a vessel for holding. Hayley Davis reports.

The new Willoughby showroom features kitchen designs ranging from classical to contemporary, each displayed in an elegant but accessible style that highlights their best features.

Inspired by the creativity of Piero Lissoni, Nespresso returns to Milan with a multi sensory installation.

With a focus on meticulous craftsmanship, rich, luxurious materials and bold designs, the Alexander Lamont range is both striking and warm.

The nights are getting longer, the air brisker, and our tans are quickly fading. Winter is almost upon us, and habitusliving has eight favourites for warming you this frosty season.

A new tableware and tapas collection just in time for the revival of Mexican cuisine.

We just couldn’t help ourselves – with so many wonderful designs at Milan this year we had to give you a double serve of Habitus Loves from the Salone del Mobile.

Recently opened by Australian architects Nicholas Barber and Alexandra Bond, Dunlin offers a superb range of high quality designer furniture and homewares. Habitusliving gets some insight into how they made it happen.

With so much good design in Milan this week it’s hard to do it all justice. Habliving gives you a peek of eight of our favourites.

Dinosaur Designs’ flagship Queensland store offers a full range of jewellery and homewares in a colourful, inviting setting.

Ubiquitous and utilitarian, this most humble of materials holds surprising design and aesthetic potential.

The 1% collection combines Nendo’s iconic elegance with a quietly deliberate social commentary.

Incorrigible gourmands that we are, this week on habitusliving we take a look at our favourite kitchen accessories.

Earthy, natural and unique, By Joost’s range of homewares have an authenticity that is honest and attractive.

Be it feng shui, purer air or simply a green thumb there are many reasons to celebrate our leafy friends, so deck out your daisies with these funky pots.

‘Remixed’, born of the collaboration between Julie Patterson and Designer Rugs, expands on old favourites to create a new but familiar range of rugs.

Watercolours may have originated with primitive cave art, but its continuous history began in the Renaissance period. Today this simple art form survives in the hands of contemporary artists and continues to renew itself. Here we explore a mix of artist and tools that make watercolours wonderful.

Kerrie Brown has recently launched her own design consultancy and home wares range. Drawing on 25 years of cinematic experience, Belinda Aucott discovers a collection that’s just as as sweet and inspired as a French macaron.

BLUM bring colour and function to the kitchen with their new ORGA-LINE range of products.

Inspired by the vibrant colours and fleshy volumes of Brazilian flora Parterre’s collection of ceramic fruit is a distinct and original addition to any interior.

Bob Cadry and Jan Kath are self-confessed ruggies. They are rug addicts, rug traders and their faces both reflect a bona fide enthusiasm for all things rug.

Rain – it ruins hair, clothes, and shoes. Defend yourself with these clever, water-evading contraptions.

Melbourne-based jeweller, Phoebe Porter, speaks to Ben Morgan about culture, craft and clarity.

Chaos in the workspace? Organise in style.

Ranging from caustic to cutesy, Penny Byrne’s creations demand consideration and reveal layers of meaning under often bizarre exteriors.

A new decanter by Austrian glass-master, Riedel, and butcher, Victor Churchill, is nothing to snort at.

From totes to titanium, these pieces of luggage showcase design ingenuity and discerning aesthetics

A Gondola’s ride from Venice artisanal shoemakers continue traditions half-a-century old to produce some of the world’s finest shoes.

Inspired by Don Draper’s character in Mad Men, this week we explore some unusual barware that complements the home spun hospitality of cocktail glory days.

From the nose of Kanye West to head of the Alison Mosshart Retrosuperfuture’s high-end shades blend the best of street couture with superior design, as Belinda Aucott reports.

A collection of hand-crafted design objects by Lasse Kinnunen.

Tasmanian-born designer, Brodie Neill, speaks to Ben Morgan about living and working in East London.

Photographer Anthony Browell has a passion for pinhole cameras.

Lately Adam Cullen has been getting his hands dirty making bronze sculptures and painting delicate ceramics. Belinda Aucott has the story.

This week Habitus sets out to get the wind in her hair as she packs up a bag of useful sailing essentials and climbs aboard the Sailing yacht Sleighride, a sloop originally designed by Sparkman & Stephens.

Leading the way in ready-made rugs, Designer Rugs has recently built on its established line and released twelve new additions in their Saffron Collection. The Saffron Collection is an affordable flooring solution, with each rug hand tufted in New Zealand wool …

The XSC Wide Angle Scuba Series is an Underwater Camera built into a dive mask making underwater photography “Hands Free”.

Designed by Marc Newson for Ikepod, this reversible watch is known as the Solaris SCB18.

Habitus loves …ceramics

Rosenthal has released limited edition Andy Warhol plates with 8 stunning new designs!

Over the course of history, the Faber-Castell family owned-business has taken some hits. Yet this pre-eminent stationer will not lay down and die as, Belinda Aucott happily reports.

Funkis, the Swedish fashion and homewares brand, is bringing Thorberg Design to the Australian market with a range of colourful reading glasses for men and women.

Mont Blanc honours Europe’s iconic summit and its namesake with a collection of luxury writing instruments, jewellery and leather goods.

On the 10th anniversary of Swedish stationery brand, kikki.K, Alice Blackwood chats with founder and doyenne of elegant and enviable stationery, Kristina Karlsson.

A collection of beautiful and unique clocks from LEFF Amsterdam. 

Next month, Designers Guild will launch their new Australian spin-off online store DesignersGuild.net.au

New colours have been introduced to the Aeris Range for Samsonite

Roll & Hill CEO and Designer Jason Miller caught up with Belinda Aucott to talk about his range of lighting fixtures available through Space Furniture

This week on Habitusliving.com we go outside and make some notes in the fresh air. We start by looking at cult american note books Field Notes.  

If you’re having some cooler-than-normal weather, or if the sun is flooding through your lounge room, then chances are you’re ready to curl up with a good book. So this week, we thought we’d take a look at 8 of our favourite designs for reading… (with the obvious omission of Habitus magazine, which we know you already read!)

More beautiful skincare products from Aesop.

It’s one of those materials that endlessly fascinates, with countless variations in shape, texture and composition. Glass is one of our favourite materials and here are 8 of our favourite designs that use it

They come in all shapes and sizes and inspire great creativity. They’re a big part of our lives, our cultures and our childhoods, so we thought we’d check out some of our favourite creatures in design.

Okay, don’t get all down, we’re just going to chill out with one of the coolest colours around, with 8 of our favourite blue designs.

We’re getting passionate this week with that colour that gets us revved up! That’s right, we’re taking on red, with some of our favourite products of the moment (and some of our favourites of all time). But be quick because, as everyone knows, red goes faster!

This week we take on the first of our Habitus Loves colours series, with Yellow! Why not tell us about your favourite yellow products in the comments below!

A clever re-use of plastic baskets and tubs that would normally have been landfill.

Good things come in small packages – finally a reusable coffee cup for the lover of smaller coffees.

There are some designs that were just too good to let go. That’s why we’ve compiled 8 of our favourite design comebacks. 

We’re lighting the way this week with 8 of our favourite candle holding devices (aka candleholders). But when it comes to cleaning up the wax, you’re on your own! Enjoy

Introducing the new collections of artwork from the team at I Need Nice Things.

Introducing the first collaboration between I Need Nice Things and photographer Michael Hall.

Designer Rugs have collaborated for a second time with Dinosaur Designs.

Aesop’s approach to design is much like its
approach to producing natural beauty products; both are ascribed with the power
to “improve your life.” 

NSW Leather offers new ways to experience leather in the
home environment