Sturdy, striking, and handcrafted, these industrial lights combine powerful illumination with bold aesthetics.

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

Melbourne light-maker Christopher Boots tells Habitusliving about what sparks his creativity.

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.

With a focus on creating prismatic crystalline faces and volumes that trap and amplify light reflections, CAI Light’s latest collection continues the company’s tradition of bold, forward-thinking design.

Fusing old world with fashion is Oly San Francisco, a new stand-alone store in Melbourne – and the second to open worldwide. Alice Blackwood drops by to look at the Oly range.

Beautiful, practical lighting for all spaces inside and out, large and small. The story behind Bloom Pots.

The 28 desk lamp is the work of Canadian designer Omer Arbel’s, a Vancouver based designer with an office in Berlin.

This winter, create a mood of luxurious intimacy with light. Magnus Wästberg wants you to!

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

The fun chameleon stool that can be placed inside or outside. I light up and change colour.

At first glance, they are a simple and elegant shape, but with closer inspection they are a complex structure with the guise of a simple veil.

Yaacov Kaufman’s fascination with friction mechanisms has resulted in the development of the ‘Matrix’.

Cosmic lighting designer Christopher Boots wields both whip and whimsy as Belinda Aucott discovers.

Strobilus represents a fascination with paper pulp as a material, a commitment to new technology and the realisation of a challenging, ‘green’ design brief.

 A classic twist to an old industrial favorite, acetylene tank tops have taken the form of industrial lighting.

Stunning outdoor lighting solutions, from Pedrali.

An illuminating look into small, award-winning Bangkok-based design firm, Ango, led by London ex-pat Angus Hutcheson, from Habitus issue 13

This month Custom Lighting add elegant suspension lights to their collection with the Tara Suspension designed by Akuta studio.

Designer Shigeru Ben’s Yumi Floor lamp. An ultra-light lighting fixture.

We love creative solutions at Habitus and so this week we take a look at objects and fashion that repurpose materials – get into some Design Hunter upcycling.

No, we haven’t had an epiphany, we’re just getting really excited about pendant lights; with 8 of our favourites hanging out with you this week.

Street signs can sometimes be quite annoying, but artist and designer Brett Coelho has shed new light on them.

Introducing the carefully balanced, colourful and striking Chorus 21 Pendant from Blond

This quirky design from Australia’s DesignByThem is the perfect example
of Uni student chic! Read on to find out how you could win one for
yourself.

In issue 10 of Habitus magazine we take a look at the latest chandeliers fusing modern materials with a traditional concept. Here, we shed light on another 8 of our favourites.

Introducing the Brick outdoor light for Roger Pradier from Special Lights.

Great Dane Furniture introduces the Float Pendant by Benjamin Hubert and & Tradition.

Studio Italia Design offers sunshine indoors, with the Curl range from Special Lights.

Special
Lights brightens the customer experience with its design solutions and
all-encompassing service

Introducing the ‘Trunk’ pendant by Studio Italia Design from Special Lights, inspired by everyone’s favourite friendly giant.

An abandoned West Australian warehouse inspires this unique
light by Henry Pilcher available through Anibou.