Innehållsförteckning för Habitus #36 - Nourish från Habitus

Seemingly poised on the edge of stability, the TWICE AS TWIGGY LED dimmer floor lamp designed by Marc Sadler, is the big sister to the smaller Twiggy lamp – an icon of contemporary design. Now with extended height, extended diameter and extended drama. spacefurniture.com.au The NIKOLATESLA induction cooktop from Residentia takes its name from the inventor in homage of innovation. Fusing hood and cooking surface into a perfectly integrated design, the induction cooktop uses Elica technology to adjust power, speed and control air quality. residentiagroup.com.au Merging modern invention with traditional techniques, Kamp.studio released a limited edition pour over coffee brewer. Featuring a jug and lid of hand cast porcelain paired with titanium gold cone filter, the set is designed to encourage stronger connections between owner and object. kamp.studio Always enjoy…

Sixty-six Hunter at Bligh is the site of a most notable Art Deco building. When the scaffolding came down in 1936, Emile Sodersteen’s 12 storey City Mutual tower was crowned Sydney’s tallest skyscraper. The stoic granite façade, its black marble lobby, Rayner Hoff’s copper bas-relief above the entry riffing off Benzoni’s ‘Flight from Pompei’, everything marked it as a building apart. Today it’s notorious as the headquarters and flagship of the Rockpool Dining Group. As I clamber up the dozen or so marble stairs the tinkle of cutlery and stemware rolls out on breakers of glamour. Bevelled scagliola columns, green veined as fine Roquefort, rise to the triple-height ceiling as light filters in through tall, lead trimmed windows. But my destination’s not in there with the fine diners, not this…

The evolution of the kitchen has seen it surpass being just a place for storing, preparing and cooking food, rebranding it rather as the rock around which we eat, work and commune. In the leafy suburbs of Melbourne, this home that stands as an exposition to the arts and crafts movement parades a contemporary, multi-faceted kitchen. Designed by Kennedy Nolan as an ambivalent space; suitable equally as a place for the family to both disperse within and enjoy together, as it is to wine and dine a large number of friends. The protruding kitchen island and large dining table act to neatly segment the space, creating intimacy while the spacious dimensions offer moving room for overflowing guests. Used also as a space for work; generous surface areas offer room for…

Spas are paradoxical spaces, at once public and private, extroverted yet intimate. Me, I find it kind of humiliating hanging around in my smalls (or less) being whisked by some frantic chappy with a birch switch as they do at the Grande Mosquée in Paris. Nor do I see the joy of being wrapped up like sushi in seaweed for an hour, all alone in a monastic cell on Mykonos with only the tiniest view out to sea, as I was duped into doing a few years ago. The French have an absolute obsession with what they call thalassothérapie (it’s free on the National Health scheme) and so the Atlantic coast from Mont Saint-Michel all the way down to Biarritz is awash with resorts vaunting the restorative value of H2O.…

A youthful spirit governs Tcherassi Vilató’s collection of pop-arty foodfantastical pieces. The almost edible BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE sofa and MISSUNDERSTOOD table add playfulness matured in fine craftsmanship. tcherassi-vilato.com Why hide your obsession with food? The LET’S EAT! table from Tcherassi Vilató celebrates the artform of dining with knife-shaped legs and forkshaped supports to create a dining room that is larger than life. tcherassi-vilato.com Caesarstone translates the timeless beauty of natural marble onto easy to clean and care for stone. Their ever-popular STATUARIO MAXIMUS collection extends with seven new designs to a range of 48 designs to suit any style or setting. caesarstone.com.au…

With fine arts training and experience in sculpture and installation, Ryan began to apply his unique flair to generating pop-up bars and highly conceptual experiences. Out the back of a gallery in Melbourne’s Hawthorn East, on most days and at odd hours, a tall creative blur can be found tinkering away on a plethora of projects. This perpetually glaze-strewn, hands-on maker – still somehow immaculately coiffed – is the behind-the-scenes alter ego of Ryan Foote, a polished professional artist whose works have been exhibited and commissioned in Australia and abroad. His shared workshop is a trove of tools, moulds, and assorted ceramic wonders, with an enormous kiln big enough to fire a human-sized sculpture. His work incorporates themes as wide-ranging as politics and cultural identity, articulated through creative processes inspired…

In the pursuit of apparent perfection we’ve colluded in the over-design of our perishables at the peril of losing all taste. As more and more people begin investing time, energy and money into private and community gardens, as a culture we’re going to have to become acclimatized to edible fuglies. When it was first published in 1987, the Pontus Hulten edition of The Arcimboldo Effect celebrated the vegetal portraiture of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, an obscure Renaissance painter as “at once fantastic invention, complex political allegory, and profound metaphysical statement.” Most of us just saw kooky fruit and veg faces. What’s interesting in those portraits – besides the hilarious renderings of the Hapsburg courts of Vienna and Prague as future compost, which they were – is the imperfection of the produce itself.…

The huge library of reference images available to clients is a double-edged sword – an exciting time for design passion, yet a challenge to ground expectations and design within a budget. When designing the bathroom of House 24, Singaporean architects Park + Associates had this climate to contend with – melding their own established knowledge through the clients’ logbook of ideas, largely taken from family holidays to resorts in tropical Bali and Phuket. Split across two levels, the west facing bathrooms serve as buffers to the heat for the house, and open up towards the greenery of the surrounds. This serves to give the spaces the tropical resort feeling so sought after by the clients, as well as adding to the sense of serenity and rest that bathrooms bestow. The…

In celebration of a brand new issue – and In Habitus Veritas, our brand new feature section at the hands of Stephen Todd – Living Edge hosted us for an evening of good wine, fresh food and great conversation. For the evening coverstar Don Cameron put together a very special installation that remained on display in the weeks that followed for those who missed the launch. Habitus Living habitusliving.com Living Edge livingedge.com.au…

Greenery, Pantone’s crowned 2017 colour of the year, illuminates Sussex Taps minimalist designs. Their GREENERY collection evokes the calm and vitality of nature while showing off their endlessly bespoke range of colours. sussextaps.com.au A distortion of the common kitchen accessory, the KINK oil bottles from Jam Factory are crafted in Australia from hand-blown glass and moulded with gravity – establishing fluid asymmetry and movement. jamfactory.com.au Drawn from his experience working with deluxe hotels, spas and restaurants, Tom Dixon’s WASHING collection offers a playful and hardy assortment of lighting and storage pieces supported by his hand balms and washes to bask in the bathroom ritual. tomdixon.net…

Danish Design brand VIPP is rooted in industrial objects suggesting a minimal and timeless aesthetic. Their new range of kitchen and bathroom accessories champion quality products set to last you a lifetime. cultdesign.com.au The OCCO chair from Wilkhahn is a display of incredible versatility. There are four frame types, three choices in cushioning and six shells on offer. All up there are 72 variants – not only does it answer to varying tastes but varying design functions. wilkhahn.com TRACE, the poetic new collection from Parisi is designed as a manifestation of a feeling. Ceramic basins are turned into moody sculptural pieces that introduce organic form and movement. parisi.com.au…

Arriving in Venice aboard a motoscafo from Marco Polo airport, the tiny archipelago of Murano is on your left. It’s a place of high pilgrimage, Murano, almost as much as the neighbouring cemetery island of San Michele, squat in its Palladian splendour. Visitors come from around the world to wonder at the miracle that has been banished here since the 13th Century, glass blowing. If the Roman empire was the first age of glass, charming in its halting achievements, the Venetians pushed glass blowing to new heights of hysteria – manifest most clearly in the prodigious Venetian chandelier. No surprise then, when Patricia Urquiola only a few hours away in her Milan studio says she “hates glass. It makes me vomit. In architecture it’s something of a necessity, but when…

For House 24, the solution came through a careful selection of finishes, and deft spatial design. Park + Associates produced a controlled palette of restrained colours for the joint kitchen and dining area, allowing the blueness of the adjacent pool, and vivid greenery of the surrounding landscape, to be the visual focus. By inviting the bright colours into the home, each cooking and dining moment is turned into an opportunity to experience colourful theatre. The timber finishes of the kitchen work with the surrounding landscape, drawing the outdoors in and solidifying the tropical aesthetic the clients were after. The space itself opens up to the outdoors through room-length wide doors, which see the kitchen and dining rooms transformed into a room of constant movement. It becomes a transitory space; where…

On a small urban backstreet on the fringe of one of Melbourne’s most creative precincts, a disused bluestone church cuts a striking profile. Only a discreet timber entry hints at the contemporary home within. Inside, a concrete path slopes upwards to an impressive courtyard with restrained sculptural landscaping creating an almost futuristic elegance. An invitingly lengthy pool spans the boundary of the property, while curved walls and glass meet the old church’s pillar arches in a dramatic convergence of architectural styles. “When people come over, I think there is a bit of curiosity and excitement…it is definitely an unusual house,” admits owner and architect, Ilana Kister. Here, on a site adjacent to a school and low-rise apartments, Ilana found inspiration in the inward-looking cylindrical atrium of Roy Grounds’ iconic Hill…

A Labour of Love ARCHITECT Josephine Hurley Architecture BUILDER 2M Projects STRUCTURAL Engineer Jones Nicholson CIVIL ENGINEER Barry Smith Engineers Josephine Hurley Architecture (+61) 423 177 290 josephinehurley.com FURNITURE Custom designed joinery throughout designed by Josephine Hurley Architecture and built by Refalo Joinery. In kiving and family rooms: Nook couches from Jardan; Eames moulded plywood LCW chairs from Living Edge; Hans Wegner CH07 chairs and Adam Goodrum Nest tables from CULT; Tomahawk Studios Campfire Table from Anibou; Akira rugs from Designer Rugs. In dining room: 3-Frame table from Spence & Lyda. In study: Panton chairs from Space Furniture. In master bedroom: Frame bed & bedside tables from Planet; Eames moulded plastic rocking chair from Living Edge. In bedrooms: Modernica Case Study V-leg beds from Spence & Lyda; Kartell Componibili 3…

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