Habitus

At Habitus, we, along with our community of dedicated Design Hunters, cherish genuine design as an essential part of living. Based in Australia, we explore the distinctive qualities of the Asia Pacific region, focusing on interiors, architecture, and products. We take pride in curating the narratives that inspire these designs.

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Vokes and Peters - Blok House

2 weeks ago | habitusliving.com | Aleesha Callahan

Vokes and Peters and Blok Modular build highly efficient, articulately detailed homes, all within a factory. And in the process, they’re raising questions about how homes have traditionally been built. Modular and prefabricated construction is not a new concept. And it isn’t a silver bullet for the housing affordability crisis. But it can offer a different methodology for building – one that puts designers and trades in the same room, while increasing efficiencies and minimising waste.
The quiet return to enduring design

2 weeks ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

The balance between work and life has always been a complicated one in the modern world. The monotonous 9-5 can feel trite and can have a pernicious effect on our creativity. Since 2018, McMullin have positioned themselves as a conduit for artistic output, where the team is encouraged to explore “as many external influences as they can… from architecture, old interiors books, antique galleries and even their travels or experiences,” comments Alice McMullin, Founder of McMullin.
Atelier 024 - Nicola Lucas

3 weeks ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

We spoke with Atelier 024 founder Nicola Lucas about permanence in design, Australia’s evolving design landscape, and curating and designing as two sides of the same coin. While the influx of stainless-steel tableware continues to populate our social media pages and tablescapes, perhaps few will know the story of Arne Jacobsen’s cutlery.
Carr - Como Terraces

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

Landscape ArchitectureT.C.LComo Terraces elevates the very notion of what it means to live on the land, making an audacious statement about the future of design in Melbourne. There is something inherently transient about our relationship with land – a constant ebb and flow between permanence and the impermanence of human endeavour. As cities evolve, so must our approach to living with the land, acknowledging its immutable characteristics and the fluidity of our role within it.
Alexander &CO. - The Workshop

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

There are few modern dilemmas so persistently romanticised – and tediously moralised upon – than the pursuit of equilibrium between work and life. Somewhere between corporate sloganeering and wellness culture, the concept of separation has become gospel: compartmentalise, protect your personal time and close the laptop. But for those who build the world, such binary thinking rarely holds. Life and labour often draw from the same breath.
Adam Kane Architects - Williamstown Residence

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Bronwyn Marshall

Williamstown Residence is where past and present are carefully interwoven to create a home that feels both grounded and quietly transformative, readied for its next chapter as a bridging between two eras. From the offset, a restrained formal response ensures that the existing heritage is not merely preserved but meaningfully engaged with the new insertions on site, crafting a seamless narrative of continuity and contrast.
J.AR Office - The Warehouses

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

Photography David ChatfieldJ.AR Office has redesigned the traditional warehouse typology into a paradisiacal, contemporary precinct. In the industrial periphery of Currumbin, where utilitarian sheds flank the streets, J.AR Office has reinterpreted a civic precinct with aplomb. The reconfiguration of five pre-existing sheds has been assiduously redesigned into The Warehouses.
Art in Residence - Nicole England

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

There’s a certain silence that falls in homes where art lives — not the sterile hush of a gallery, but a hum of presence. In the book Art in Residence, Nicole England invites us to witness it. It might be the way a painting alters the circulation of a cloister, how a well-worn sculpture softens a modernist line or how the shape of a room bends — almost imperceptibly — towards its most enamoured object.
Christian Ernemann on the architecture of inheritance

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

While Wendelbo is currently under the stewardship of its third generation, the company’s evolution feels less like a handover and more like a deliberate continuation. After a thirty-year tenure, the previous generation has just stepped back from hands-on responsibilities, retaining a seat on the board and a design advisory role.
Double - New Zealand Wool Collection

1 month ago | habitusliving.com | Saskia Neacsu

Realised by Double, the New Zealand Wool Collection finds its footing within Pattern Studio’s interiors for The Standard Store, where natural materiality is given room to speak. In design, beauty often reveals its full potential within the context of a space. Objects within architecture and interiors show their most profound qualities when interacting with their surroundings.