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Secret Gardens’ talented and experienced team has enjoyed tremendous success over the past 18 years. This month Secret Gardens talks to Habitusliving.com about their garden design company’s evolution and give you a chance to win a magazine subscription by liking their brand new Facebook page.

Natural Floorcovering Centres

Since 1968, Natural Floorcovering Centres have searched the world to source Australia’s largest range of woven natural floor coverings. From India and Africa, to Vietnam to China- Natural Floor Coverings go in search of the very best natural fibres wherever they may …

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Groundbreaking electronic artist Rafael Lozono-Hemmer has today unveiled his exhibition Recorders to the Sydney public.

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Mama San, Bali by Caroline Usher for the Sarong Group.

Langkawi House

The beauty of reclaimed and recycled timber is only partly aesthetic – the knowledge of its former function adds a whole other appeal. Jaz Sidhu visited the island of Langkawi in Malaysia and discovered a home designed by Building Bloc (who’s Desa House is featured in Habitus 18) that generates new life for old timber electricity poles.

Popup Bar at WAF

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Glass House

Navigating physical, budgetary and regulatory constraints, Graduate Architect Aldo Agustin has created an interesting and bright home for his family.

Profile: Michael Bechara

This week’s Temple & Webster profile is with Michael Bechara; David Clarke sits down with the Surry Hills-based Interior Designer to hear about his origins, his practice, and what the future holds.

Cavit & Co launch Jackson Square collection from McGuire

Amidst a festive crowd composed of the Sydney design A-list, Cavit & Co launched the elegant Jackson Square collection, from San Francisco brand McGuire.

Silent Gliss – The Collection

Silent Gliss offers a variety of attractive fabrics with significant characteristics for safety and well-being, whilst still offering a wide range of colour, various textures and transparencies.

Design Hunter™ Q+A with Phoebe Olsen

Phoebe Olsen is owner and manager of creative/ingenious websites ‘Spineless Classics’ and ‘My Favourite’. We sit down with her to learn about her deign favourites.

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Lee Suckling visits a converted old villa in Auckland and finds a curious surprise.

Larger Than Life

Alex and Georgie Cleary – brother and sister duo behind fashion brand Alpha60 – recently extended their creativity beyond fashion and retail design to remodel their Melbourne home. And nine months of renovations has done nothing to quell their appetite for big projects, as Alice Blackwood finds out.

Head On Photo Festival

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s largest photo festival and the world’s second largest festival, celebrates a wide range of photography across all genres from photojournalism and reportage through commercial to fine-art.

Habitus Loves… Design in Melbourne

With a mix of established, family-owned firms and energetic new players, the Melbourne design landscape is rich and diverse. This week we bring you eight designers and distributors that are doing a particularly excellent job.

The Eyrie

Fusing elements of European neo-classical architecture with modern interiors designed to showcase a stunning collection of Aboriginal artwork, this palatial home satisfies every necessity and desire.

‘Visions of the Ether’ at aMBUSH Gallery

A group exhibition at Sydney’s aMBUSH Gallery explores the abstract and intangible.

Second-hand with a Twist

A charmingly jumbled bar in Melbourne combines food and drinks with the opportunity to buy anything not nailed down (and even a few things that are).

Gessi iSpa Collection

The latest collection from the Italian brand presents simple shapes that inspire confidence and showcase the finest in bathroom design, and is now available in Australia.

In a Different Light

Looking to accommodate a growing family, architect Ilana Kister wanted urban rather than suburban. Stephen Crafti thinks her made-over inner-suburban warehouse in Melbourne fits the bill perfectly.

Design Hunter™ Q+A with Fabio Fanuli

Habitusliving hears from Fabio Fanuli, director of family owned designer furniture company Fanuli Furniture, about his distinctly Italian-flavoured design favourites.

Kettal at 2013 Salone del Mobile

The Spanish design firm presented both a light and beautiful stand designed by Patricia Urquiola and an elegantly pared back new collection by Jasper Morrison at the Milan design fair.

Rattanakosin Exhibition, Bangkok

Can a four-hour journey inside an interior space embrace the essence of a city? Wynn A. Bay visits the Rattanakosin Exhibition in Bangkok to find out.

Habitus Milan Review

A casual, considered tone, healthy debate amongst the speakers and the elegant setting of the Fanuli showroom combined to make the Habitus Milan review an excellent conclusion for this year’s design fair.

TORLYS Cork Flooring from Carpet Design Centre

Cork flooring has a whole new, refined appeal thanks to the designers from TORLYS, providing clients with beautiful, easy to maintain, smart, green flooring.

TANDEMBOX antaro by Blum

TANDEMBOX antaro is a more sophisticated design and modular drawer system that provides better design solutions; internationally recognised by the Interior Innovation Award of the German Design Council.

Profile: Hecker Guthrie

The next Temple & Webster profile on Australian Interior Designers sees David Clarke catch up with Hamish Guthrie and Paul Hecker, founding partners of Melbourne-based interior design studio Hecker Guthrie.

Sam Leach & Judy Millar at Sullivan + Strumpf

The latest combined show at Sullivan + Strumpf gallery combines varied themes, mediums and techniques.

Habitus Loves… Design in Perth

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.

Boffi Open Sydney Showroom

Italy’s leading contemporary interiors company, Boffi, launched into Australia last week with Boffi Studio Sydney, a 250 square metre mono-brand showroom in Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst.

Set Adrift

Estranged from the ruckus of tourist-ridden Phuket City, the stunning new Naka Phuket resort seduces guests amidst a sensuously crafted haven hovering between the sea and the mountainside. Adele Chong reports.

Coastal Classic

This frugal renovation and expansion of a beach shack yields a warm extended family retreat teeming with beautiful local timbers.

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