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Lux Aestiva launch small batch homewares and they’re divine!

Lux Aestiva may be known for their beauty products, but it’s their new lifestyle offering we can’t get enough of. Just like their natural artisan hair and skincare products, their homewares are handmade, small batch products, created using only the finest, ethically sourced raw ingredients. Thanks to their Abode Homewares Collection it’s so easy to add a touch of luxury – at affordable prices – to your home! Below are our top picks:

Lux Aestiva’s Brazilian Agate Coaster: Made from the naturally occurring stone Agate in a range of show-stopping colours, these coasters will compliment a wide range of interiors. Hand selected to ensure the highest quality, each coaster is unique, cut from natural crystal and varying slightly in shape and size. A set of four retails for $90 and a set of six for $120. 

Lux Aestiva’s Agate Bookends: Guaranteed to enhance any bookshelf in your home, these bookends are also made from hand selected Agate, in a variety of whimsical colours. Agate is a popular stone long remarked for its beauty and healing properties. Said to help balance and direct energies, whilst providing a calm and uplifting feeling, it’s the perfect stone to keep close when reading. Prices start from $99.

Lux Aestiva’s Ceramic Hand Crafted Incense Holder: Made for the purpose of holding and burning incense sticks (also available from Lux Aestiva), each ceramic piece is lovingly hand thrown, trimmed, buffed, high fired, sanded, glazed and high fired again, all by hand. A functional piece of art, no two pieces will ever be the same. Available in four colours for $39.

Lux Aestiva’s Ceramic Palo Santo Smudge Bowl: Made for the purpose of burning palo santo, which is a fragrant wood derived from the palo santo tree (also available from Lux Aestiva), each piece is made by hand, from scratch. One of a kind, the bowl is also food and dishwasher safe, so it can easily be used as a stylish serving platter. $42.

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Designers Homewares

The best of Dinosaur Designs’ new range, Blue

Creating a new showcase colour range, Dinosaur Designs’ Blue explores an incredible range of tonalities and hues.

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From early morning skies to warm, dusky, twilight to inky night blues, the colours are mixed by hand to make unexpected shades and swirls.

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Accents of brass and gold have been added to complement the palette, and blue agates have been re-introduced as a highlight in both the homewares and jewellery ranges. Each agate is unique, making each piece one-of-a-kind.

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The Blue collection is a compilation of classic shapes and pieces from Dinosaur Designs collections such as Ocean, Dream, and Modern Tribal, recast and brought together in a unifying colour palette. Blue is available now.

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Bathrooms Kitchens

Benchtops made from semi-precious stones? So wrong it might just be right!

Now, this is one benchtop surface that’s going to divide opinion: the new Concetto from Caesarstone. First I loved it, then I hated it, then hang on, I really quite like the look of that! Hmmm…

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Concetto is a collection of extraordinary surfaces handmade from individually cut and bound semi-precious stones and it certainly makes a statement.

[contextly_sidebar id=”B7pcF8crNTAM9hFTmPR9WR2e3jGVGETV”]“It is amazing to consider that the semi-precious stones used to make Concetto are sourced from all corners of the Earth and up to 150 million years in the making. It is somewhat akin to owning a special piece of art,” said Andrew Dixon, general manager marketing for Caesarstone Australia.

“We are seeing Concetto used in very unique interiors, often as highlight elements in very contemporary, sometimes minimal ways. The development of new LED lighting technologies, often remotely controlled, is seeing the fusion of different back lighting effects being used with the six surfaces in the collection which can be backlit”

All Caesarstone showrooms can demonstrate Concetto backlighting examples by appointment.

Ideal for a wide variety of applications such as kitchen benchtops, splashbacks, bathroom surfaces, furniture pieces and feature walls, Concetto carries the same superior properties as all Caesarstone surfaces.

I’d love to know what you think?

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Interiors Addict

Today’s online find: bargain agate coasters

I love agate coasters. I bought mine from one of those gorgeous country town markets ages ago. And I lust after the Jonathan Adler gilt-edged versions on a regular basis. Now Zakkia is stocking them (sans gold) at a very reasonable $8.90 each.

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They come in 3 colours and are sold individually so you can mix and match. Spend over $99 to get free shipping. Adding some of their gorgeous door/drawer knobs to your basket may help you get there….

This Scandi-style tray ($29.90) also caught my eye while I was browsing…