Jo Walker

Here Are 16 of the Best Beach Towels for Pleasing Post-Swim Vibes

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle From retro stripes to neutral hues, these beach towels are peak summer. Check out some of the best Aussie brands from Kobn, Mayde, Clothing the Gaps and more.

Pinch Me: Lobster-Inspired Looks To Snap Up This Summer

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Hosting a lobster-themed soiree? Dress the part with an embroidered shirt and playful apron while serving from platters – all inspired by the trendy crustacean.

Three To Try: Give a Toast to Locally Made Panettone Spirits

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink These Aussie distillers answer the question: what if the iconic Italian festive loaf came in liquid form? Find panettone-inspired gin, whisky and ready-to-pour Negroni just in time for holiday cocktail season.

Three To Try: Jolly Good Festive Coffee Blends

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink Be of good cheer! These Aussie specialty roasters create Christmas in a cup with festive coffee blends that’ll see you through the holiday season, and make great gifts for caffeine lovers.

Beach Baddies: The 13 Best Size-Inclusive Swimwear Brands To Shop This Summer

26 Feb 2025

Fashion These labels have you covered for luxe bikinis and bathers from sizes 4 to 30. Find cute swimwear for standard, mid and plus sizes – including innovative cuts, eco-friendly materials and racy cossies that are 100 per cent Australian-made.

Three To Try: Get a Little Bit Country With Straw Cowboy Hats for Summer

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Broad-brimmed western styling meets lightweight summer vibes. Find your next go-to hat for road trips, festivals and the beach.

Art Simone: A True Aussie Queen

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment From Les Girls and Dame Edna to Priscilla and RuPaul, the Drag Race Down Under alum’s new book celebrates our queer history and the enduring power of being fabulous.

Dry Off and Stay Chic in These Apres-Surf Pants

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Move from beach to bar in these stylish silhouettes from three Aussie labels. Go for materials like terry towelling and a soft bamboo blend, and lean into retro sporty stripes.

Get Hooked on Crisp, Collared Fish Shirts

26 Feb 2025

Fashion The tinned fish trend continues, this time in the wardrobe. Go for a relaxed cotton button-up, lean into retro Italian fashion with an embroidered sardine design, or opt for a more classic fishing shirt look.

Seven Subtly Spooky Halloween Decor Pieces Chic Enough for Year-Round Display

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The call is coming from inside the house … for low-key goth homewares that embrace the dark side. Find friendly snakes, Nick Cave art tiles and an elegantly macabre hellhound blanket.

Fridgescaping Is Not Hot

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink Like many Tiktok trends, it’s difficult to tell if this is a joke we should take seriously, or a serious thing that’s become a joke. Either way, we’re just not into it.

Wave Hello to the Lucky Cats Saluting Kewpie Mayo and Sriracha Sauce

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Chelsea Vandenberg, aka Local Crooks, paints very cute pop-culture takes on Japanese waving cats. Her latest batch is inspired by iconic condiments – and there are more food-themed creations on the way.

Halloween Comes Early at Ikea, With Witch-Chic Tableware and Decor

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Dark romantic florals, wavy-edge ceramics, cosy kitchen textiles and plenty of pumpkins. Ikea’s lush new collection brings elevated Hocus Pocus style.

Corey Ashford’s Madeleine Boxes Look Like Little Cakes

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Melbourne designer wants you to have your cake, but please do not eat it too. His elegant new Madeleine Boxes are handmade homewares in brass and marble, all inspired by tiny shell-like French confections.

Got Dry Skin? These Six Tried and Tested Aussie Products Can Actually Help

26 Feb 2025

Fashion When winter weather has you feeling like a dried-up husk, try these local skincare products that nourish and hydrate.

Cool Stuff for Your Home From Indigenous Owned and Operated Businesses

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Kit out your house with playful pieces from brands that are 100 per cent First Nations owned and operated. Find luxe wallpaper, funky loo roll, Kakadu plum-scented cleaning spray and ochre play dough that connects kids with Country.

Three to Try: Reusable Boxes For Your Next Cheeky Takeaway

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Go for a silicone HSP-style container perfect for burgers and fries on the go. Take a meal box made from recycled ocean plastic to your local restaurant. And there are simple (and colourful) serving bowls with a lid great for cafe salads and more.

Iconic ’90s Gig Spot The Punters Club Is Set To Reopen Next Month

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment The legendary Fitzroy venue is coming back for more – with a new group of owners (including some Marquis of Lorne alumni and an Aussie rock veteran), a jukebox full of era-defining hits, and plenty of excitement from local gen X and elder millennial music fans.

12 To Buy: Cosy Homewares Under $50 That Are Stylish As Well as Snug

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Bring warmth to your space with charming and practical home products that won’t break the bank. We’ve got dapper house socks, fluffy cushions and a spice mix that’ll make your kitchen smell like Christmas.

Six To Try: Aussie Doona Labels That’ll Keep You Cosy All Year Long

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Make bedtime great again with luxe down, wool and hypoallergenic alternatives from local brands.

Gewurzhaus Founders Eva and Maria Konecsny on Their 12 “Non-Negotiable” Spices

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink These sisters are seasoned professionals. Here they share how to best select, store and use spices to seriously elevate your kitchen game. Plus: why cloves are good for your teeth and what to throw in a mulled wine mix.

The Zoo (1992–2024): A Eulogy for One of Brisbane’s Most Sacred Music Venues

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment Brisbane-born Broadsheeter Jo Walker pours one out for the sweat, the stairs and the spirit of Fortitude Valley’s The Zoo.

Artist Billie Justice Thomson’s New Exhibition Is Big on the Joy of Shared Meals (and Oysters)

26 Feb 2025

Art & Design The Adelaide-based artist is returning to Melbourne after five years with Super Natural, a series of painted brussels sprouts, rainbow chard and other edible stuff. Thomson chats about her love of cooking, the magic of oysters and how she created 17 works in six weeks.

First Look: Aussie Homewares Label Hommey Gets Into Bedding

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The famously cosy Melbourne home and lifestyle brand launches its first bedding collection with sheets, pillowcases and doona covers made from soft organic cotton. It’s a real snoozefest of restful hues – plus dreamy bold stripes.

Designer Beci Orpin Is Big on Play (and Room-Size Bunny Rabbits)

26 Feb 2025

Art & Design If you’ve lived in Melbourne, you’ve probably seen Orpin’s joy-filled works splashed on Metro Tunnel hoardings and food trucks. Or through collabs with local labels like Gorman and Mecca Cosmetica. Now, her latest project for the Immigration Museum is a gigantic stuffed bunny. (Yes, you can climb on it.)

Six Clever Wares To Help Create Your Home Coffee Nook

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Build your morning caffeine ritual with a DIY coffee-prep station. From stackable space-saving mugs to an at-home barista machine, these benchtop gadgets and accessories will help you start the day right.

Ikea’s New Collection Is Budget-Friendly and Joyously Colourful

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Dutch design duo Raw Color’s collab with the Swedish furniture behemoth is all vibrant hues and fun silhouettes. The tight edit includes rugs, throws and ceramics – plus a storage trolley and ceiling mobile.

Three of a Kind: Post-Poo Drops To Freshen Up Your Loo

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The clue is in the name. These fancy formulations are designed to deodorise nasty smells, making toilet time a bit more sophisticated. Plus, they’re chic enough to keep on display.

These Flower-Shaped Side Tables Are Fresh as a Daisy

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Flower power is back, and these Aussie labels are adding their own spin to the ’60s trend. From a handmade wooden option to sleek aluminium versions in a range of bright and bold hues, we’ve got our eyes on these playful designs.

My Dad’s a Pilot – Here’s What He Taught Me About Plane Travel

26 Feb 2025

Travel Coming from a family of pilots, writer Jo Walker has done her share of flying high. Here are her four top takeaways, from packing to seat selection, turbulence and why you really need to respect the cabin crew.

Six Swoony Pieces To Style Your Table for Date Night at Home

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Date night tablescapes call for a little extra romance. From heart-shaped wine goblets and candy-coloured napkins to sculptural candleholders and ruffled linen tablecloths, every day can be Valentine’s with these stylish wares.

Three of a Kind: Aussie-Made Cucumber Hard Seltzers To Help You Cool Off

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink From sleek packaging and a collaboration with Sydney artist Kane Lehanneur to brews made of fruit that’s saved from becoming food waste, these ready-to-drink, cucumber-leaning seltzers are perfect for summer and beyond.

First Look: Degoey Planet’s New Collection Is All About Bows

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Like the rest of us, Gold Coast ceramicist Alex Degoey has fallen in love with ribbons and bows. In her new collection, she’s putting them on a series of very romantic cups, vases and candle holders.

Groove Is in the Heart of Ikea’s Latest Retro Furniture Drop

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Iconic designs from the late ’60s and early ’70s hero in drop number three from the Nytillverkad 80th-anniversary heritage collection. Find shag rugs and corduroy seating perfect for the conversation pit, punctuated with retro-futuristic chrome and tubular steel. Can you dig it?

Three of a Kind: Bougie Cleaning Products That Look, Smell and Work Great

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Want to start the new year with a clean slate (and shiny kitchen benchtops)? From minimalist packaging to sustainable, botanical-based formulations, these Aussie and Kiwi brands are making daily chores chic.

What’s Swedish for Sweat? Ikea’s New Collection Is All About Stylish Home Workouts

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The homewares giant’s first fitness range includes exercise mats and weights, an air purifier, and a bamboo gym bench that doubles as living-room storage.

Art Wrap: 10 Exhibitions To See in Melbourne This Summer

26 Feb 2025

Art & Design Surrealist 20th-century photography. A giant sarcastic thumbs-up sculpture. Tina Turner and Cher on Country in the South Australian desert. Immersive artworks that take a trip through microscopic cells and planet-saving sci-fi futures. This summer, art gets weird.

Thoughtful and Curated Last-Minute Gift Ideas for the Homewares Lovers on Your List

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle These retail gift edits make it easy to pick presents for your favourite people, whatever they’re into. Find ideas for just about everyone, from Minimalists to Homebodies to Beach Lovers. And yes, there’s still time to order online and get stuff delivered before December 25.

Home & Lifestyle 2023 Faves: All-Australian Handmade Edition

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Recycled hardwood furniture with a companion soundtrack. Flintstones-inspired lights. Huge rococo trophies that celebrate the everyday. And some very suggestive vases.

Home & Lifestyle 2023 Faves: Clever Things We Didn’t Know We Needed Edition

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle This year, Aussie labels served up snug and sustainable hemp bedding, mysteriously appealing egg sculptures and recycled furniture that’s basically adult Lego.

Home & Lifestyle 2023 Faves: Heart of Glass Edition

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Let us be clear: we spent a lot of time thinking about coloured and textured glass in 2023. We’ll be shattered if there’s not more to come.

Home & Lifestyle 2023 Faves: Looks Like Food Edition

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle We’re living through a tomato girl summer. And a pickle girl summer. And an assorted seafood marinara mix girl summer.

Three of a Kind: Local Brands Making Cask Wine Look Classy Again

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink No need to hide your goon away in shame. These Australian labels are elevating the iconic silver wine sack with sleek, sustainable packaging and minimal intervention drops you’ll want to serve at your next summer soiree.

Rhys Nicholson’s Comedy Christmas Tour Is Coming to Town – Just Don’t Expect Carols by Candlelight

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment The Drag Race Down Under judge joins best mate Joel Creasey on tour for Rhys & Joel’s Family Christmas. They have strong thoughts on “bogan” festivities, BYO etiquette and their new book, Dish.

Powerhouse Punk Band Amyl & the Sniffers Are “Down To Get Rowdy”

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment Aria Award-winners Amy Taylor and Gus Romer on the transformational art of tearing it up on stage (and the joy of country meat pies) ahead of their regional tour for Always Live.

Three of a Kind: Prawn Decor Pieces With Swimmingly Good Style

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Attention: prawncore is now a thing. From handblown glass coupes to playfully shaped incense holders, these Aussie homewares labels are bringing the beloved crustacean to your table ... in a different form.

Mick Harvey Raised Hell With Nick Cave in the ’80s – Now There’s a Doco About It

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment The long-time Cave collaborator helped define the post-punk underground scene in Melbourne, London and Berlin. New documentary Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party captures the energy (and the darkness) of his “extremely abrasive music”.

Six To Try: Scented Candles That Smell Just Like a Beach Holiday

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle These Aussie soy-wax candles will transport you (and your home) to coastal breezes, salty air, beachside bonfires and warm, sunny days.

Here Comes Drop Two of Ikea’s Retro 80th Anniversary Range

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Get ready for another round of Swedish classics – this time from the ’70s and ’80s. Plus, there’s a new space-themed range for kids (and adults who still want to be astronauts when they grow up).

First Look: Basil Bangs Collaborates With Sydney Interior Designer Lucy Montgomery on Yacht-Chic Umbrellas

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Aussie outdoor lifestyle brand’s new Regatta collection brings preppy sensibilities to patio umbrellas and cushions – with a little help from a former Belle magazine interior design editor and stylist-at-large.

First Look: Bonnie and Neil’s New Tableware Collab Is Covered in Tasty Greek Eats

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Aussie homewares label partners with cookbook authors Helena and Vikki Moursellas on a limited-edition capsule collection that puts seafood and lemons on linen napkins, tea towels and tablecloths.

Fenton & Fenton Is Coming Back Again

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The much-loved Aussie furniture and homewares label is salvaged from liquidation by an iconic Melbourne furniture company.

Etta’s Rosheen Kaul Shows Culture On a Plate

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink From her parents’ kitchen in Malvern, the James Beard Award-winner chats about her family’s cooking traditions, the perks of living at home (including but not limited to a consistently stocked fridge) and how hot chips with soy sauce helped her give meaning to food.

Broadsheet Melbourne Is Back in Regular Print – In Partnership With Domain Review

26 Feb 2025

City File Pick up a free copy for in-depth features and gorgeous photo spreads on the people and ideas driving Melbourne culture. Plus all the latest food, design and lifestyle news.

First Look: Josh and Matt’s Celestial Blanket Collab With Youtopian Home

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Designers and Tiktok creators Josh Jessup and Matt Moss team up with Melbourne label Youtopian Home for a limited-edition throw blanket that’s starry and serene. In less-relaxing news: there are only 100 available, and they drop Sunday morning.

They’re Kip & Co. He’s Just Ken Done.

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Iconic painter Ken Done talks collabs, nostalgia and what it means to be the standard-bearer for ’80s Australiana ahead of his new special-edition range with Kip & Co.

Much-Loved Aussie Interiors Store Fenton & Fenton Has Gone Into Liquidation

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle And there’s no word yet for customers with outstanding orders and store credit.

Frank Green’s New Colour Collection Features Three Fresh Hues (and an Old Fave Back by Popular Demand)

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The cult Aussie reusable water bottle brand has curated a new colour range with a little help from its fanbase.

Avo Look at These Summery New Fruit and Veg Candles From Nonna’s Grocer

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Sydney-based purveyor of incredibly realistic food candles is back with a third collection dedicated to summertime eats. Find meltable mangoes, starfruit, fennel and avocado.

Hej! Ikea’s Retro-Classic Collection Is Out Now – In Stores and Online

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Swedish homewares heavyweight joyfully remixes its most iconic designs to celebrate 80 years in the flatpack furniture game.

How To Keep Warm in a Ridiculously Chilly House (Without Spending a Fortune at Bunnings)

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Literal hot tips for cold homes, including layered bedscapes, sauna blankets and tried and tested methods for keeping cold air outside. Plus, why tubular steel dining chairs just aren’t for everyone.

Now Open: You Can Visit Strateas Carlucci’s Brunswick East Studio Two Days a Week

26 Feb 2025

Fashion The genderless fashion label’s dedicated retail space is right next to the workshop where its Melbourne-made garments are designed.

Home Visit: A Light-Filled Family Treehouse in the Noosa Hinterland

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Creative studio co-owners Lou Clark and Amelia Shaw live in a home built on poles. It’s a peaceful family retreat, as well as a place for long lunches, dance parties and whisky-drinking.

The Rainbow Connection: Hannah McElhinney Links Queer Pride With Queer Histories

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment The Melbourne writer’s new book, Rainbow History Class, shares the same name as her hit Tiktok project – and the same mission: uncovering the queer and trans history you didn’t get taught at school.

Items To Covet: Jungmin Son’s Angel Glass Stopper

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle We can’t stop thinking about this elegant and cartoonish hand-sculpted wine saver.

Lumo Bloc Upcycles “Unfashionable” Building Materials Into Glowing Squares of Light

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Rural Waitoki-based maker Lauren Joyce wants us all to love chunky glass bricks again. Her handcrafted lamps reveal the transparent beauty of once-reviled architectural features.

Lumo Bloc Upcycles “Unfashionable” Building Materials Into Glowing Squares of Light

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle New Zealand maker Lauren Joyce wants us all to love chunky glass bricks again. Her handcrafted lamps reveal the transparent beauty of once-reviled architectural features.

Creative Couples: Actor Paris Rodgers and Agency CEO Max Jahufer

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Being open to change is an everyday mantra for this loved-up couple. Together they’ve taken on parenthood, business-building and intense creative projects. Plus, what it means for Jahufer to come out as a trans man.

Joyrolla: “A Grocery Granny Cart Trolley Thing” for Modern Times

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A new Aussie label plans to make shopping more sustainable (and stylish) with handcarts aimed at the non-nonna market.

Time for a Brew? Cult Homewares Label Fazeek Now Offers Loose-Leaf Tea

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle First the colour-loving Melbourne brand created signature wavy glassware for tea-making and tea-drinking. Now it’s curating the stuff that goes inside, with a range of modern blends you can brew at home.

House of Darwin Streetwear Just Wants To Make the NT Proud

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Footy player turned fashion label founder Shaun Edwards is bringing Top End realness to the world one croc tee at a time. Plus, profits go to helping out remote Indigenous communities.

Luxe Melbourne Bar Tops the List As Winners Announced for Australian Interior Design Awards 2023

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle An elegant Perth heritage space, an up-and-coming Brisbane design studio and a Sydney home that’s big on biographical detail also took out top category prizes.

Take a Trip to Kaylene Milner’s Wah-Wah World

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The local designer known for vivid rock’n’roll knits turns her attention to homewares, with a new line of luxury merino-wool cushions and throws. Expect trippy patterns and electrifying colourways – plus lots of anarchic fun.

Herman Miller Gaming Chairs Are Iconic, As Well as Ergonomic

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The US design house responsible for the Noguchi coffee table now makes dedicated gaming chairs, and they’re available in Australia for the first time.

Riotously Bright Fashion Label Yevu Has a New Homewares Line

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Sydney-based clothing purveyor – known for bold West African textiles – turns its attention to home decor with vivid quilts and cushions, plus trippy colour-clash containers made from recycled plastic.

Glaze Oddity: Degoey Planet Is a Whole Gorgeous World of Ceramic Weirdness

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Gold Coast ceramicist Alex Degoey reimagines nostalgic clayware with an eccentric twist. Sometimes it’s the head of Michelangelo’s David painted in gingham. Sometimes it’s a very raunchy vase.

12 To Buy: Homewares Under $50 That’ll Add Colour and Joy to Your Space

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Want bright and playful homewares on a budget? We’ve got unexpectedly psychedelic cookware, primary-colour incense holders and richly hued retro mugs straight from the 1970s.

Pseushi Is an All-Genders Label and It’s All Australian-Made

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Wesley Chiang doesn’t design for masculine or feminine forms. The Pseushi founder creates premium streetwear for conscious consumers who dig bold graphic design and boxy silhouettes.

Some Queer-Led Homewares Labels To Support for Idahobit

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A ceramicist, a designer and two jewellers-turned-barware-makers tell what International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (Idahobit) means to them.

Show Your Taste in Art With Food for Everyone’s Newest Poster Series

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The culinary poster shop’s Artist Collection No. 2 sees six Aussie creatives take on recipes from top local chefs like Ben Shewry, Kate Reid and Elizabeth Hewson. Plus, each sale funds meals for people in need.

Eternal Flame: Colourful Sand Wax Brings Life to Old Candle Jars

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Perth designer Sheridan Tjhung says practically “anything can become a candle” with Hall of Flame’s new sand-wax line. From spectacular centrepieces and floral arrangements in glass to all those beautiful old jars you can’t bear to chuck out.

Whatever Floats Your Ghost: A New Art Jumper Collab From Mona, Nell and Knitwear Label Wah-Wah

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Bold karmic ghosts and cheery nihilistic slogans adorn colourful, limited-edition merino knits. This three-way collaboration produces cult art you can wear.

Home Visit: An Iconic North Warrandyte Earth Home Connects Its Tenants With Bushland and Good Vibes

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Furniture designer and stylist Tilly Barber (and her kid) share an unconventional mid-century mudbrick house with a traditional Chinese medicine practice and plenty of scavenged and handmade homewares.

Last Chance To Save The Tote: “We’re 100 per Cent Confident We Will Make This Happen”

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment Shane Hilton and Leanne Chance’s ambitious crowdfunding campaign to save the iconic rock’n’roll pub has reached its goal amount. Now, despite social media ructions, they’re determined to finalise a deal with the current owners.

The Houses Awards Shortlist Is In, and It Includes Stunning Homes in Some Pretty Odd Spaces

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Contenders for Australia’s top residential design awards prove some of our best contemporary homes are built in unconventional spaces – like garages, basements and wonky heritage sites.

These Sterling Silver Cocktail Accessories Are “Basically Jewellery for Your Fancy Drinks”

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Jewellers Victoria Mason and Ewan Tremellen’s latest Creo Melbourne collab uses traditional silversmithing techniques to add glamour to your next Martini or Whisky Sour. Find handcrafted cocktail stirrers and picks topped with freshwater pearls, plus a garnish skewer dripping with silver lemon pips.

Six To Try: Food Candles That Look Good Enough To Eat

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle These artisan labels produce candles that look (and/or smell) like food – from hyperreal wax renditions of fried chicken, cheeses and fruit to culinary home scents wafting notes of baklava, smoked chilli or fish fat.

Two Aussie Cookbooks Have Been Nominated for James Beard Media Awards – “The Oscars of Food Media”

26 Feb 2025

Food & Drink The prestigious James Beard Media Awards give Joanna Hu and Rosheen Kaul’s Chinese-ish the nod for exceptional art and design, while Alice Zaslavsky’s In Praise of Veg joins the shortlist for best veggie-focused cooking.

Alison Roman Fan? Food for Everyone’s New Art Poster Celebrates One of Her Sweetest Recipes

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The joyous print showcases a raspberry ricotta cake that reignited the chef’s love affair with desserts. It’s based on a painting by Gemma Leslie, and every purchase funds meals for people in need.

Now Open: Readings’ New Hawthorn Location Has a Rich History

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Find the local institution’s newest outlet in a Federation-era shopfront inside an old bank. There’s a dedicated history reading nook, a mural-fronted children’s bookstore and a courtyard garden full of native plants. Plus, more than 25,000 titles to peruse.

Koala Launches Dreamy First Nations Homewares Collection With Artist Niah McLeod

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Aussie furniture label enlists the help of an award-winning Indigenous artist to produce luxe limited-edition cushions, throws, rugs and bed linen.

Coming Soon: Ikea’s 80th Anniversary Collection Joyfully Remixes Its Most Iconic Designs

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Some of the Swedish furniture giant’s greatest design hits are making a comeback.

Leave Your Home in Ruins With Archaeology-Themed Decor

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle We’ve unearthed 10 chic candles, sculptures and ceramics inspired by ancient civilisations. Can you dig it?

The Kip & Co x May Gibbs Collab Is Back

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle It’s all gumnuts, wattle and nostalgic bush friends for the Melbourne bedding and lifestyle brand’s newest kids’ collection featuring artwork by Aussie icon May Gibbs.

A Beautiful Burn: Aussie Label Flint Reimagines the Candle Lighter As Chic Design Object

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Chloe Mehrtens was sick of ugly disposable candle lighters. So she decided to make something better: a rechargeable electric version that’s luxe, minimalist and cuts down on plastic waste.

First Look: Stripe Frenzy From Alex and Trahanas Is Joyous, Sun-Drenched and Undeniably Italian

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle An 11th edition from the Sydney-based, Puglia-inspired brand launches today. Find casually elegant ceramics, glassware and table linen embracing bold colours and handpainted linear designs. BYO wine and pasta.

John Olsen, a Giant of the Australian Art World, Dies Aged 95

26 Feb 2025

Art & Design Best known for abstract and energetic landscapes, artist John Olsen was an Archibald winner and a “poet of the brush”.

Time To Get Lit? Aesop Launches Its First Incense Range

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Melbourne-born skincare label’s new home-scent range is made by a traditional Japanese incense atelier and comes with an optional solid-bronze holder for weighty meditations.

Meet the Family Behind Rubble Workshop, Queens (and King) of the Stone Age

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Need to retreat to your cave? This creative clan makes chic Flintstone-inspired lamps, candlesticks, vases and menorahs that bring light to the darkness. The collection is prehistoric and family-friendly, and it’s all hand-carved in Adelaide.

Goon of Fortune: Accessories Label Three Litres Taps Into the Classic Aussie Cask Wine Aesthetic

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Melbourne designers Lia Tabrah and Kirk Ireland make wine bladder-inspired fashion bags that are “refined, luxe and classy”. Some of them you can even drink out of.

Now Open: It’s a Quiet Riot of Scandi Cool at Anine Bing’s New Toorak Store

26 Feb 2025

Fashion The cult fashion label mixes LA dive-bar chic with Nordic minimalism for wardrobe staples and stand-outs that are pure glam rock. And if shoppers at the brand’s second Australian store get too excited, there’s a calming stonework fountain and lavender patch out the back.

First Look: Just in Time for the Long Weekend, It’s … the Weekend Chair

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Sydney outdoor accessories and furniture brand Basil Bangs launches a new foldable lightweight chair for relaxing on the go.

First Look: The Debut Capsule Collection From Clo Studios Is Parisian Flea Market Chic

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Shop vintage and artisan-made French furniture curated by a Noosa-based interior design atelier, from mid-century design classics to early hippie trail handmade wares.

It’s Almost Last Call on The Last Chance To Save the Tote

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment A crowdfunding project aims to make the iconic rock’n’roll pub a “live music venue forever”. But the campaign – from the people behind The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar – needs $3 million asap.

Five Lessons in Small-Space Design From a Pint-Sized Development in Melbourne’s North

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Builder Adrian Azzola and interior designer Bec Douros collaborated on a trio of smaller-than-average homes for the Army Avenue project. Here’s how they created stylish spaces for family living.

Tait’s New Outdoor Range Riffs on Retro Australiana

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Aussie furniture company’s Voom collection radiates sunny vibes with late mid-century lines and textures.

In Bed’s New Kitchen Linen Range Is Pro-Pickle and Proudly “Polarising”

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Aussie homewares label’s founder Pip Vassett knows her bold green linens aren’t to everyone’s taste.

215 Stunning Aussie Homes, Shops and Hospo Venues Named in the 2023 Australian Interior Design Awards Shortlist

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A record-breaking number of projects got the nod, including a two-tone ice-creamery, a cult jewellery brand’s soldering bar, a marble-wrapped penthouse and a minimalistic spa fit-out complementing 31 different bathing pools.

Ceramicist Bonnie Hislop Thinks Your Home Deserves an Enormous Trophy

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Her extravagant hand-built vessels celebrate the trials of modern life with rococo forms, gold lustre and giant lettering. They also make great plant pots.

Very Specific List: Handmade Vinyl Storage and Record Displays That’ll Show Off Your Favourite Cover Art

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle LPs never go out of style. These clever holders will help get your collection under control and make your best discs look as good as they sound.

Elevated Aussie Casual Brand Best Jumpers Takes Out National Designer Award 2023

26 Feb 2025

Fashion Dylan Best’s slogan-loving leisurewear label gets the coveted Melbourne Fashion Festival gong, with a prize including $20,000 and a capsule collection at David Jones.

Cult Knitwear Label Wah-Wah Australia Launches a High-Voltage Collab With Artist Tiger Yaltangki

26 Feb 2025

Fashion This is what happens when two AC/DC fans get together and decide to make a luxury art-forward merino jumper.

First Look: Aussie Furniture Label Koala Launches a Baby and Kids’ Range

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Joey collection brings clever adaptable design, and warm timber curves, to the nursery.

18 To Buy: Housewarming Presents For $50 and Under That Say “Welcome to Your New Home, Mate”

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Want chic and useful homewares gifts on a budget? We’ve got everything from luxe Turkish towels and handmade ceramics to indestructible toolboxes and really good olive oil.

First Look: Kip & Co’s New Collection Is an Ode to Slow Living and Wintertime Sun

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle It’s all feel-good flowers and cheerful stripes for the local bedding and lifestyle label’s new Living range. Find luxe textures in velvets and bouclé, upbeat colourways and covetable prints – including the co-founders’ “all-time favourite floral”.

First Look: Bonnie and Neil’s New Florence Collection Is Made for Feasting Abundantly

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A nostalgic textiles and tableware drop celebrates homely Italian-inspired designs. Tuck into red and white checked napkins, rustic ceramics and a glorious olive-print tablecloth straight from your nonna’s kitchen.

First Look: Wavy-Glassware Maker Fazeek Is Coming for Your Morning Cuppa

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Melbourne-based company, known for colourful wine and cocktail glasses, brings its playful style to coffee and tea with curvy mugs and bright two-tone pots.

First Look: Hommey’s New Pet Collection Is “Squishy Comfort” for Four-Legged Friends

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Melbourne homewares label has found a furry customer base with new pet beds, blankets and leads in delectably soft fabrics. There are plenty of bone-shaped pillows to nibble and drool on, too.

Home Visit: An Industrial Co-Working Space Houses a Family Loft Complete With “Womb Room” and Disco Kitchenette

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Sara Taghaode and Andrew Crane have built – and rebuilt – a life together in a 1960s warehouse, playing host to creative tenants, a rescue dog, a newborn and the occasional flood catastrophe.

Ikea’s New Collab With Marimekko Is All About the Joy of Self-Care

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Bold prints meet rustic birch wood in the Bastua collection, inspired by steamy Nordic bath houses and seaside retreats.

Eight To Try: Shell-Shaped Homewares That Are Elegant and a Bit Delicious

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Humans have been decorating with shells for roughly half a million years. Who are we to buck the trend?

Home Visit: A Sunny Mid-Century Share House Filled With Plants and Prototype Furniture

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Kathleen Prentice fell in love with her home’s bright rooms and retro quirks. The furniture designer shares the space with two housemates, lots of her own wares, and just about every cat in the neighbourhood.

Very Specific List: Statement Vases You Can Fill Up With Just One Flower, Maybe Two

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Want to serve big floral looks with only small amounts of foliage? Embrace gorgeous sculptural forms (and save on blooms) with these stunning handmade vessels.

From Street Parties and Parades to Vogue Workshops, These Are the 11 Best Free Things To Do for Sydney World Pride

26 Feb 2025

Entertainment You don’t need to spend a cent to get in on all the queer joy. Sing along with an Atomic Choir, witness a doggy drag show, celebrate First Nations artists at Koori Gras and join a 50,000-strong Pride March across the Harbour Bridge.

Drench Your Backyard in Colour With Richly Hued Luxury Hoses From Garden Glory

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The stylish and whimsical Swedish label will help you give your thirsty garden a drink – and look good doing it.

Still Waiting on a Brosa Furniture Order? You Might Be Out of Luck

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Administrators are recommending the original company be wound up, and some customers won’t receive the items they’ve paid for.

Eight To Buy: Floor Cushions and Pouffes Made for Lounging, Lolling and Luxuriating

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Seating doesn’t get more casual and relaxed than these stylish low-to-the-ground options. Plop down a pouffe and get comfortable.

With Good Eggs Reusable Cups, You’ll (Probably) Never Get the Wrong Coffee Order Again

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A new Byron Bay label promises an end to takeaway coffee mix-ups with handcrafted porcelain cups personalised with your name and regular order. Ceramicist Hayden Youlley reckons they’ll help you make friends with your barista – and reduce plastic pollution.

Very Specific List: Homewares You Can Pull Apart, Fiddle With, and Put Back Together Again

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Sometimes you want stuff that’s solid and dependable. Sometimes you want flexible furniture and objects that transform into different shapes, sizes and vibes.

How’s the Serenity: This Stunning NZ Beach House Is Only Accessible by Chopper or 4WD

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle It’s in Beach Houses, the new book from New Holland Publishers featuring luxe coastal getaways from around the globe. And if you like seaside splendour, you can book in for a stay.

How’s the Serenity: This Stunning NZ Beach House Is Only Accessible by Chopper or 4WD

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle It’s in Beach Houses, the new book from New Holland Publishers featuring luxe coastal getaways from around the globe. And if you like seaside splendour, you can book in for a stay.

Sentimental Value: Writer and Actor Michelle Law and Her Little Ceramic Lion

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle She has a Most Influential Young Asian-Australian Award on the shelf, but Michelle Law’s prized possession is a tiny porcelain animal that connects her to family and a place she’s never been.

Creative Couples: Will and Garrett Huxley

26 Feb 2025

Art & Design The glam artistic duo live together, create together and perform together across Australia and the globe – sometimes dressed as sexy kangaroos, always flying the flag for queer love, joy and freedom (and Kate Bush fandom). Broadsheet visits the couple’s studio ahead of their biggest show to date.

Celebrating 10 Years of Milestone Moments at Maison Balzac With the “Shy French Girl” Who Lit Up Australia (and the World)

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Founder Elise Pioch Balzac looks back on the first decade of her homewares label Maison Balzac – from peddling candles out the back of her car in Sydney, to selling one carafe per second to fans worldwide and finding the spirit of her brand in a snail called Monsieur Escargot.

Australian Furniture and Homewares Retailer Brosa Has Gone Into Administration

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle After massive lockdown-era sales growth, the digital retailer is battling a cash crunch. And just about everything is on sale.

10 To Try: Planters That’ll Give Your Indoor Greenery a Home As Stylish as Yours

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Want to add colour, texture and intention to your house jungle? Check out these stunning designer plant pots.

Saarde’s First Collaboration Connects a Mural Painter With Luxe Woven Towels via the Mediterranean

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Sydney lifestyle brand brings mural artist Nastia Gladushchenko together with skilled Turkish weavers to produce a stylish beach towel redolent of lazy European summers.

Sentimental Value: Radical Yes Founder Kerryn Moscicki and Her Painting of Oprah Winfrey

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle What’s the most treasured item in the flat shoe advocate’s home? A serendipitous portrait of a pop culture icon painted by Melbourne artist Jess Lucas is a reminder of her mum, and her motivation for starting footwear label Radical Yes.

Very Specific List: Home Exercise Equipment That’s Chic Enough To Leave on Display Between Workouts

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle No need to hide this fitness gear away when you’re done sweating – it all doubles as stylish home decor.

Count on a Warm Welcome With Mud Australia’s Bright Porcelain House Numbers

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The longstanding Sydney ceramics label has collaborated with design powerhouse Vince Frost on bold typographic numbers you can display on and in your home.

Five To Try: Stylish Christmas Trees (and Tree-Shaped Decor) To Jolly Up Your Space

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Scented trees, Scandi trees, trees you can pack in a suitcase, trees that look like they belong at a 2am drag show. We’ve got some ideas for faux festive foliage, and not all of them are green.

The First Cushion Offering From Aussie Label Kobn Mixes Turkish Kilim Hand-Weaving With Unexpected ’90s Colours

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Textile designer Sophie Matson built Kobn with soothing, linear motifs on Turkish-made towels. Now she’s bringing us more Istanbul finds in a one-off cushion drop that’s all chunky weaves and colour blocking.

How To Turn Your Fruit and Veg Bowl Into a Mini Art Installation With Hattie Molloy

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle The Melbourne artist makes stunning installations for clients like Aesop, Mecca and Louis Vuitton. She shows us how to turn our (increasingly pricey) weekly grocery shop into a fresh display that’ll last longer than flowers.

Bright Wavy Mirrors and Mobiles for Grown-Ups: Melbourne’s Double Date Just Wants To Play

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle When the sisters behind new homewares label Double Date got started, they wanted to make cool stuff for babies. Now they design their bright and fun mobiles and mirrors for just about everyone.

Get Into Bed With Nostalgia in New Ken Done Sheets, Doonas and Homewares From Kip & Co

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle Iconic Aussie artist Ken Done brings his exuberant brand of ’80s Australiana to Kip & Co bed linen in bright designs featuring parrots, reef fish and roos – plus the occasional Big Banana. (There are tabletop textiles, beach towels and baby accessories, too.)

Corey Ashford’s Canelés Are Inedible, but You’ll Still Want Them on Your Table

26 Feb 2025

Home & Lifestyle A new homewares range by the Melbourne designer and Dinosaur Designs alum is inspired by cult French pastries and the art of entertaining, with food-shaped candle and incense holders, sweet marble vessels and decadent champagne coolers.