Habitus

What does it mean to live in design? With three issues published each year, Habitus is a publication that has been passionately unpacking design from the inside-out and outside-in for more than ten years. Habitus explores how architecture and design express various ways of life, going beyond one-dimensional stories to gain a real understanding of how people live. Through rich narratives, Habitus unpacks what makes design and architecture from the Indo-Pacific so unique. From outstanding houses, to in-depth profiles and a curation of the latest design products – everything featured in Habitus offers a way for readers to connect with the richness and diversity across the region.

The first word • HELLO! VINTAGE MODERN

Habitus takes the conversation to our contributors, discovering their inspiration and design hunter® journeys

Habitus

Handcrafted

Crafting perfection • Makers and designers are bringing the handcrafted back to luxury bespoke pieces with hand-stitching and perfect detailing defining every piece.

Essential • Fuelling body and mind, design – that is, good design – just makes everything work better.

Flack and friends • For the past four years, Flack Studio has shared the love with Flack and Friends, celebrating some of the best artists in Australia.

Sustainable Tassie with Cumulus Studio

Setting the mood • Foundational elements, objects, furnishings and lighting all coalesce to create the ambience underpinning a room’s personality.

Time travellers • Some designs, while quintessential to their era, find a place in our hearts that defies the timeline.

Light the way • Modern technology is bringing iconic lighting to our outdoors, while modern thinkers are creating new icons.

WINNINGS X HABITUS HOUSE OF THE YEAR

Ebullient thinking

Weekend in Seoul • Seoul-based WKND Lab’s principals Halin Lee and Eunji Jun have spent the last five years exploring the liminal space between art and design.

Taming nature • Gardening is a surreal act, according to Rupert Baynes-Williams, the founder of landscape design studio Florian Wild.

Barefoot luxury • Sculptural forms, singular expressions of strong geometry made from raw materials that evoke a warm austerity and appear to unassumingly rise from the landscape. These have become the essence of Polly Harbison Design.

Hip to be Uchronia • The design baby of Julien Sebban, Uchronia is a multi-discipline design studio of explosive talent.

Vintage modern

Curated Italian vintage • Collectors extraordinaire, Nicholas & Alistair is the beloved showroom for extraordinary pieces.

Álvaro Siza and the fundamental dialogue between architecture and furniture • The Portuguese architect created a series of furniture pieces for Milan Design Week, but what connection do they have with his wider architectural oeuvre?

The Fritz Hansen experience • Quintessential to the Fritz Hansen experience is a pared-back aesthetic that celebrates the fine Danish design house’s stable of exemplar designers.

Wild at heart • The legacy of Robin Boyd CBE in the Australian architectural space can never be underestimated, with Wildwood the latest of his homes to come to light.

Fabulous spaces

Natural flow • Architect Robert Simeoni has designed a number of houses in concrete, including one of his first homes that straddled a modest site in North Fitzroy.

Having it all • If New York is the Big Apple, then Sydney’s Tamarama is the Big Banana.

The magical world of Enclosure • In Gujarat, India, a home like no other sits in the natural landscape. Man-made and singular in form, Enclosure by Design ni Dukaan is a representation of architecture that makes its own unique statement.

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