Beyond gorgeous coastal sunsets and cashed-up miners, the city ‘over there’ is also host to a burgeoning design scene. This week we take a look at some of the new and established retailers, consultants and designers in the Western Australian capital.

As the dust from the design monsoon that is the Milan Furniture Fair settles, we thumb through the most noteworthy new products to bring you the eight we love most.

The Thailand International Furniture Fair is an important platform for local designers to celebrate their talent internationally. This year’s theme was “Inspire Inside Out” and these are our favourites.

Design Days Dubai is the first fair in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to collectible and limited edition furniture and design objects. We bring you our favourite pieces from the exhibiting galleries.

As one of the leading furniture trade fairs in Southeast Asia, the International Furniture Fair Singapore is a gathering ground some of the best designs from the region. We give you our picks from this year’s edition.

Funky, affordable and just touched down on Australian shores, Blu Dot has positioned itself as a youthfully mischievous player in the designer furniture arena.

We don’t always manage to get a full eight hours between the sheets, so make the most of the time you do spend in slumber with our eight favourite bedding products.

Scandinavia is a design hunter’s paradise, and Stockholm Design Week – with the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and events across the city – sets the tone for the coming year. We bring you our favourite products from 2013.

The recent win of the Temple & Webster Emerging Designer Award has consolidated Kate Stokes and her design studio Coco Flip, as a rising star in Australian design.

Used continuously and barely noticed as long as it functions correctly, tapware is so obviously indispensable it can be easily overlooked. This week we take the time to select eight taps that make water delivery an art form.

One of the most important weeks on the design calendar each year, the January edition of Maison & Objet in Paris is the best place to discover new design and trends for the home.

IMM Cologne 2013 was a celebration of good design, with a myriad of product launches and new editions. This week, we bring you the best of the show.

From that exhilarating childhood discovery to the nostalgia of country riding, bicycles have captured our hearts and enabled our wanderings. This week we pay homage to the humble two-wheeler with our favourite bicycle related things.

Providing a myriad of colour, texture and pattern possibilities, tiles can elevate a surface from merely functional to artistic. This week we bring you a selection of eight of the latest, most interesting and most beautiful tiles available.

We love many things. These are those you loved most in 2012.

Whether it’s a traditional family christmas or just enjoying down-time, this is a time of the year to relax and indulge. This week Habitusliving brings you eight products we think might help you do that even better.

The Big Design Market will be the biggest of its kind in Australia, bringing together the best of independent Australian and International design from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 December at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

The Design Files Open House is the ultimate stylised Melbourne home, with an added bonus – everything is for sale! From bedlinen to books, artwork, furniture, kitchenware and lighting, each and every item can be purchased on the spot.

A ubiquitous fixture of the workspace, desk lamps accompany us deep into the coffee-fueled small hours. This week we span decades and styles to bring you our favourites from the genre.

Featuring furnishing, lighting, flooring, room acoustics and communication and media technology, Orgatec is the only trade fair to present so many comprehensive solutions from all relevant sectors for working and living spaces in the office. ORGATEC 2012 particularly focuses on the flexible and dynamic working environments of the future.

The Young Blood Designers Market is one of Sydney’s only curated markets, and showcases innovative designs from talented and creative young minds right across the country. The YBDM will be held from Friday 9 – Sunday 11 of November.

From oysters to orange juice, we rely on our fridges to keep our foodstuffs fresh and cool. This week we take a look at the eight most effective, good looking and futuristic designs in the world of refrigeration.

From daybeds to dining tables, our selection of outdoor furniture is sure to provide the perfect accompaniment to your al fresco settings.

Expanding on the review of ‘Bathroom Design’ in Habitus 19, Habitusliving gives you our pick of the eight best new products from the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, sure to be hitting our shores before too long.

At the risk of harping on about the nice weather, we present you with another Spring-themed Habitus Loves. This time it’s picnics, and these eight products are sure to take your park escapades to another level.

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.

Whilst the foil-wrapped potato cooked in coals has a rustic appeal, there are endless possibilities for al fresco cooking and dining. This week we give you a selection of products to elevate and refine your outdoor gastronomy.

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.

With the gloom of winter drawing to a close and the Spring issue of Habitus on the way (available September 19) we thought it the perfect time to share our favourite gardening products.

As the design dust settles we bring you eight of our favourite new products from this year’s Saturday in Design Melbourne.

Saturday in Design is upon us once more, and with so much to see and do we thought we’d give you our selection of fun, interesting and relaxing highlights. Happy SIDing!

As much as the dish served should be up to scratch, the tailoring and diner-participation provided by last-minute additions are often the winning flourish of a meal. Present your culinary accoutrements in style with these eight items of condimenting equipment.

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.

As we are all aware, we are most in the mood to shop late at night, at home (maybe in bed), and after a large meal and a few wines. Here are our eight favourite online stores for design products.

With Australian jewellery and its creators enjoying wide success both domestically and abroad, we thought this week we’d give you a selection of our favourite established and up-and-coming Australian jewellers.

As we are well aware, the term ‘design blog’ encompasses a wide array of witty, creative and inspiring online destinations. This week we thought we’d give credit where it’s due and share our favourites from the web community.

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.

After the success of Up Late in Design with Habitus at last weekend’s Brisbane Indesign we thought we’d share some of our favourite pieces from the participating showrooms.

WIth a number of environmental, health and comfort advantages over it’s synthetic competitors, wool remains the superior choice in many applications. It also feels phenomenal under your toes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Chaos in the workspace? Organise in style.

Sit, think, write and read – the desk is an essential station for human thought. He we explore 8 simple shapes that allow you to get to grips with the big questions.

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

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.

Colour and personality can be safely expressed in the bedroom. Add an element of fantasy to your boudoir with these 8 eccentric products that reflect a certain European savoir faire.

As Charles Caleb Colton once pointed out, bed is a bundle of paradoxes: ‘we go to it with reluctance, we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late’. Here we look at 8 designs that help make sleeping even more pleasurable.

This week Habitus Loves affordable art as curated by Unruly Gallery. Create an art wall in your home with mixture of classical and contemporary works. Order art online, support artists and discover new talent along the way.

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.

Symbols of status for centuries, textiles are the flavour of a home representing the personality of the owner.

Habitus loves …ceramics

Walls can be boring, so why not spice up the situation with some self pattern, print or textured effect. Here’s 8 style to get you thinking.

Habitus loves feeling the whip of warm salt air on the skin. This week, eight beach-smart products that help you enjoy your trip or take in a view of the ocean.

“Look to Norway” consists of nine young Norwegian students from various design schools that have joined together to show contemporary design. On habitusliving.com this week we showcase 8 of the best products from Looknorway.com

This week we clean out the garden shed and dust off the BBQ in time for a summer garden party. Here at Habitusliving we’ve taken time research eight of the best garden accessories that are destined to make your next BBQ a treat.

Nothing spells homespun hospitality like a well-furnished cocktail tray. This week we sip a Whiskey Sour, while perusing 8 of the best.

High-tops have reached their zenith in 2011. These sleek unisex styles combine nature, technology and fashion to bring high art and low art into one product! 

The season new colour for men’s and women’s accessories is orange. Punctuated by neutrals like black, tan and canvas why not incorporate orange with a sprinkle of colour zest.

Habitus loves clouds which form the inspiration for such diverse products. 

Dip-dyeing and two toning may not be an innovative process, but it is definitely become more popular in 2011.

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.  

Habitus loves spot colour on tableware

As Spring hits, HABITUS celebrates our first chance to sit outdoors.

It’s the best event on the Australian design calendar – alternating each year between Sydney and Melbourne and also taking place in Singapore for the first time earlier this year. Whether design professional or design aficionado, there was plenty to love about Saturday in Design last weekend… 

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.

Whether you’re at home, outdoors or on the move, we want our audio experience to not just sound good, but also look good. Here are our sound picks for sound products.

This week we grab our towels, leave the phone in the bedroom, grab a good book and head to the bathroom. Here’s 8 of our favourite designs for the bathroom…

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!)

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

It’s often overlooked, in fact, it’s ALWAYS overlooked. We walk on it, we run on it, we play on it and sometimes we sleep on it – so we thought it was about time we gave you our top 8 floor-related designs.

As it gets a bit colder we’ll be spending more time inside, and the good thing about bad weather… great food, great friends, great times. So here are 8 of our favourite kitchen-related designs.

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

We thought it was time for a caffeine hit this week. So, breaking from tradition, we’re bringing you 8 of our favourite coffee-related things. Why not tell us your favourites in the comments section below…

It’s been a big week, why not have a lie down. We get comfy on 8 of our favourite beds. 

This week we’ve got a bit of a feature from our shop. We’ve picked our 8 favourite ways to ‘hang around’ from the habitusliving.com shop, which means you can read why we love them, then jump straight over and pick one up for yourself!

Is it that time already? Yep, time to take a look at 8 of our favourites from the world’s best designers and watchmakers. We’ll be timing how long it takes you to fall in love with them too. Starting… now!

Wallpapers are most definitely in the middle of a revival, no longer a left-over of times gone by. We’ve plastered 8 of our favourites on the website this week, just for you!

We thought we’d get a little playful this week with 8 of our favourite rocking horses for kids and big kids.

They can be just about the least pretentious thing in design, and a whole lot of fun (especially good for releasing the inner child) – introducing 8 small stools we love.

With the festive season winding down it’s time for us to venture outdoors to truly relax. So we thought we’d find the sunniest spot in the garden and pull up 8 of our favourite outdoor seats.

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.

Time is ticking down to Christmas, so why not watch it fly by with one of our favourite clocks. This collection goes to show that a clock ain’t always just a clock.

As the end of the year approaches, no doubt we’re all looking forward to a good lie down. Well, we’ve got 8 of our favourite sofas/lounges for that much-deserved rest.

It’s time to get down to work. But not without the appropriate design hunter equipment of course! Why not study 8 of our favourite desks from the world of design.

There’s nothing more relaxing than slipping into a beautiful bath, and we design hunters know that there’s more to a bath than just the water. Here are 8 of our favourites…

The chair has to have the most design variations of any object and even in the dining chair category there’s a lot. So we thought we’d sit down for a meal with 8 of our favourites, from the elegant, to the playful, to the seriously cool.

This week we get studying with 8 of our favourite table and desk lamps, from the playful, to the elegant, to the downright cool! Enjoy.

We sit down for a cup of coffee with 8 of our favourite coffee tables from across the globe. Let us know some of your favourites in the comments below!