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10 homewares classics that will make any home scream style!

Post author By Caoimhe Hanrahan-Lawrence
Post date April 23, 2021
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Instead of updating your entire home every season, a few well-placed statement pieces can keep your home looking fresh, stylish, and up to date. This season, the focus is on texture, natural shapes, and stunning metals, all of which can be incorporated into your home through small, unique items. These 10 beautiful European homewares are sure to impress your guests and revitalise your home.

Kristina Dam Dual Vase Series

Kristina Dam Studio’s Dual Vase Series, featuring three beautifully minimalist mouth-blown glass vases, is nothing short of a stunning. In a range of sizes and tonal colours, these vases will elevate any room with their sculptural elegance. Style on their own, or as a cluster for extra oomph.

Menu Duca Candle Holder

Another must-have from our beloved Menu, the Duca Candle Holder offers a chic and elevated addition to any table setting. Cast in bronze brass, and detailed with rattan enfolded around its lower half, the simple yet impactful design brings a sense of intimacy and warmth to its surroundings.

Muuto Ridge Vase

A Scandi-favourite, Muuto, brings elegance and sophistication with their Ridge Vase. The ultimate statement piece for the understated design lover, its striking height and subtle ridged design is a definite eye catcher. The Ridge Vase offers a gorgeous way to display your favourite flowers, whilst working just as well as a standalone, sculptural piece.

Menu Carrie Lamp

Beauty meets function, plus a whole lot of Hygge, with Menu’s Carrie Lamp. Designed to mimic the ambience of candlelight, this totally portable and lightweight lamp presents endless possibilities. Use it as a bedside lamp for dinner parties, picnics, or a moonlit walk on the beach – the Carrie lamp has you covered.

Ferm Living View Tufted Rug

If you have a soft spot (pun intended) for beautiful rugs, the Ferm Living Tufted Rug will have you lusting. Crafted from supremely soft New Zealand tufted wool, this plush rug is the perfect touch of luxe. The geometric design, fringed-trim and tonal beiges lend to its artisan feel, sure to be a talking point in any home.

Ferm Living Pond Mirror

The Ferm Living Pond Mirror is straight up stunning. A marriage of form and beauty, the piece brings open and fluid forms into your home, taking the functional mirror into a drop dead gorgeous wall piece: true art. To up the ante, its curved edges are held by a slim, brass frame.

AYTM Curva Magazine Holder

AYTM’s penchant for luxurious materiality and striking design is exuded in their Curva magazine Rack. With its curvaceous lines and shiny brass finish, the humble magazine rack takes on a new life, adding a pop of glam we love and expect from AYTM.

Ferm Living Still Carafe

The Still Carafe from Ferm Living’s Still series is an example of minimalist beauty. The elegant, mouth-blown glass carafe is inspired by balance of form, and simplicity. Its unique, sphere-shaped glass stopper, sits like a weightless bubble of air, perched atop the vessel.

Alessi Kettle

Cult brand Alessi delivers, yet again, with the uber-sophisticated Plisse Electric Kettle. Designed by Michele De Lucchi, the kettle draws upon artistic design, architecture, traditional handicraft, and sculpture, resulting in something truly unique. With its pleated design and striking black finish, Alessi transcends the humble kettle to sartorial object.

Krof Collection No.1 24pc Cutlery Set

Aussie-founded Krof Collection bring sophistication to dining with their sleek, sculptural, and considered cutlery sets. Worthy at any design lover’s dinner table, these beautifully crafted instruments deserve a place alongside deliciously presented food. We love the gold set for the ultimate touch of luxury.

All these items are available from Designstuff, leaders in authentic Danish and Scandinavian homewares.

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Currently coveting: Marmoset Found’s pleated glassware

Post author By Amy Collins-Walker
Post date February 7, 2019
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Known for its gorgeous range of sculptural ceramics and lighting, Marmoset Found is back this month with a stunning glass line-up and I’m hard pressed to pick a fave! “I have wanted to expand our collection for many years to include glassware – it has been a long time in the making! I wanted to explore glass that made an impact, where stems could be placed at various indentations to create depth for floral displays. It was important the design celebrated form, function and beauty symbiotically,” says Marmoset Found’s owner Nareen Holloway of the ‘Omari Glass’ range.

Established in 2010, Nareen also designs lighting and ceramics with almost all of it made entirely by hand. “I love raw, textural finishes but wanted to explore the translucency and finish of glass as it so beautifully contrasts this. There are just eight pieces in the Omari Glass collection and they look so lovely grouped together in a small cluster,” says Nareen of the range that comes in subtle jewel tones including rose, ink blue, storm grey and coffee.

Marmoset Found — A single stem is elevated when housed in gorgeous pink pleated glass

“As with our ceramic pieces I wanted to create shapes that are timeless. I am not interested in churning out seasonal designs but rather pieces that, although affordable, are special and will be used for years to come. The shapes are simple with subtle pleating and allow the beautiful soft jewel tones to really shine,” says Nareen of her creations that are perfect for adding sculptural interest to any space, and ideal for styling a vignette.

Designed to be functional and filled with blooms, or simply displayed as a sculpture, the ‘pleat vase’ is a definite highlight. “I like that the pleat vase can be used with the wooden base or without giving two quite different looks with the one vase. The wooden base looks wonderful in a pared back, natural setting whilst displaying the vase without the wooden base looks quite sophisticated,” says Nareen.

Marmoset Found vases — I love the versatility of the ‘pleat vase’ as it looks very different styled with or without the wooden base

The Marmoset Found range is designed by Nareen before being handmade by artisans in small family run businesses in India, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan. Nareen developed an interest in social responsibility and empowering communities in the supply chain while working for The Body Shop.

“I have done a masters of international development and I really enjoyed working in partnership with organisations such as Oxfam and The Red Cross throughout my studies to understand how powerful development can be. What I learned during this time formed the basis of Marmoset Found and meant I was confident in negotiating fair and safe work practices for the makers of my products,” says Nareen.

Marmoset Found ceramics — The brand creates beautiful ceramics too

Photography: Armelle Habib | Styling: Julia Green

Shop online | Jones & Co’s fun hand-painted ceramics

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Punk meets luxury: Nachtmann’s new glassware line

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date May 12, 2018
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When you think of punk what do you imagine? Probably Mo-hawks, Dr Martens or deliberately offensive T-shirts. But what about glassware? It sounds dubious, but (surprisingly!) it works.

The latest offering from Nachtmann, PUNK by up-and-coming designer Anke Buchmann, coincides with the 40th anniversary of Punk culture. In keeping with the movement, Anke didn’t just create Punk-esque glassware, she shattered (like what I did there?!) the classic idea of crystal.

“I began to sketch some typical surfaces and patterns of Punk, such as rivets and grids,” explains Anke. “Moving on from these literal translations of key Punk visuals, I progressed to a broader interpretation of the movement, letting the attitude shape the form. At the same time, I carefully researched Nachtmann’s approach to texture and patterns so I could merge this with the Punk style.”

The PUNK collection features a four-pack of whisky tumblers and a four-pack of long drink tumblers ($69.95), a twin-pack of martini glasses ($59.95), and a whiskey set consisting of a decanter and two tumblers ($249.95). The whisky tumblers also come in four colour variations (gunmetal, jet-black, copper and ruby), packaged in singles for $34.95.

PUNK tumblers (from left to right): Gunmetal, Ruby, Clear, Copper, and Jet Black

Designed as part of the NEXTGEN series, the program sees Nachtmann partner with leading international design schools. Through the competition, young designers from New York to Beijing go head to head, with the winning designs being made and sold globally under the Nachtmann brand.

PUNK is available to purchase from Nachtmann online and all good homewares retailers.

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Iconic kitchenware brand Pyrex celebrates its 100-year anniversary

Post author By Olivia Shead
Post date May 8, 2015
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Marking a century of innovation, Pyrex is releasing a selection of stylish limited edition 100-year anniversary products, including the iconic measuring jug, pie plate and dot themed glass storage containers.

Since its invention 100 years ago, billions of Pyrex glassware pieces have been sold worldwide, including more than 65 million in Australia. The brand has stood the test of time with an estimated one in five Australian households owning a Pyrex product.

The ultimate collectors’ items, the limited edition selection will be available in a variety of sizes and colours, including blue, white, green, turquoise and signature red, inspired by popular and classic Pyrex designs from across the decades. Made from Pyrex’s celebrated and durable glassware, the selection is oven, microwave and dishwasher safe.

Pyrex’s 100 year anniversary limited edition collection is a must-have for avid bakers and cooks alike. Available in David Jones, Myer, Big W, Woolworths and selected independent retailers, prices range from $9.95-to-16.95 per piece.

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Alchemy candles fuse science with fashion

Post author By Olivia Shead
Post date September 11, 2014

These days it’s not enough for candles to smell good, they have to look good too; and the latest collection from Alchemy Produx ticks both those boxes.

Tried and tested by Jen (who loved them!), the Original Series is a range of artesian candles made from 100% soy wax. All individually hand poured into chemistry glassware such as beakers and conical flasks, they come in a broad range of sizes, from a 3-pack of mini 50ml candles to a 100ml super beaker. They also come in 10 citrus and botanical based scents including lychee and black tea, mandarin and rosemary and ginger ale (how good is that?!).

The brainchild of Melbourne duo Sara and Tristan, it was three years ago that they decided to join forces and combine their backgrounds in fashion design and chemistry. However, the unlikely duo have been a huge success, with these unique candles, that fuse science with fashion, being stocked around the country and online.

Prices for the Original Series range from $40-to-80. Shop online.