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Issue 66 - Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Issue 66

Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Kitchens and bathrooms are, arguably, the most consequential rooms in the home — and almost always the first to be considered. Whether approached through renovation or new build, their design has the power to recalibrate how a home is lived in and experienced. For this issue, our guest editor, Mardi Doherty, principal of Studio Doherty, explores what it truly means to transform these pivotal spaces — and why thoughtful design in kitchens and bathrooms delivers dividends far beyond the purely functional. Her insights both as an architect and as her own client give an open and honest account of the thinking behind creating a home.

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What Does It Mean To Truly Nourish Oneself?
Design StoriesHolly Cunneen

What Does It Mean To Truly Nourish Oneself?

As Habitus #36 hits stands this week we invite you to explore alongside us how design has the ability to nourish us. And with a focus on the kitchen and bathroom, we look at these spaces as reflection of the inhabitants’ personality and lifestyle – seeking out the thought behind the process. Here are the first words from the Nourish issue.


Admittedly it must be different for everyone but surely there are some overarching, universally shared practices? In the kitchen we nourish our bodies with food and nutrition; in the bathroom by lifting design cues from resort-like spaces to rest and recharge; throughout the home we nourish our natural urge to create with an appreciation – or knack – for good design; and we nourish our families using architecture to forge a safe space in which we, as a unit, can seek respite.

These ideas, actions and tendencies don’t benefit from separation rather they suffer from it. This issue we’ve brought them together and are approaching this notion of ‘nourishment’ from a holistic standpoint.

From the rooftop of her inner-city apartment-cum-studio, artist Claudia Damichi creates the concepts for her artwalls: bold, colourful, geometric murals wrapping around external facades of an increasing number of Sydney buildings to nourish passers-by as much as inhabitants.

Kelvin Ho, architect and founder of AKIN Creative, divulges his kitchen non-negotiables and within his second line up for In Habitus Veritas, Stephen Todd muses on our tendency to over-design ­our life right up to the simplest of detail – the fruit and vegetable drawer.

I’d like to invite you to join us as we learn from others – industry professionals, food personalities, creatives, and Design Hunters like you and I – new ways to encourage nourishing design into our home.

Holly Cunneen | Deputy Editor

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Holly Cunneen

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.


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Issue 66 - Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Issue 66

Kitchen & Bathroom Issue

Kitchens and bathrooms are, arguably, the most consequential rooms in the home — and almost always the first to be considered. Whether approached through renovation or new build, their design has the power to recalibrate how a home is lived in and experienced. For this issue, our guest editor, Mardi Doherty, principal of Studio Doherty, explores what it truly means to transform these pivotal spaces — and why thoughtful design in kitchens and bathrooms delivers dividends far beyond the purely functional. Her insights both as an architect and as her own client give an open and honest account of the thinking behind creating a home.

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