f you look through the kitchens on Habitus Living, you’ll see not merely places of function but rather places of beauty. Although one of the busiest rooms in our homes, kitchens have evolved to become the pièce de résistance of design, the place where material, texture, colour, shape, and tone can be artfully layered, blending the practical with the thoughtful, and the innovative with the beautiful. Flick through these homes and you’ll see kitchens crafted from rich woodgrains and sleek metals, with splashbacks in handmade tiles, and the sharp precision of appliances that hide their ever-growing list of functions in plain sight.
For Australian designers, achieving this artful material cacophony became a lot more complicated in 2024, when a national engineered stone ban meant they could no longer specify engineered stone. Having long been the material de jour for kitchen benchtops and surfaces around the country, the ban left many looking for alternatives that could provide the look, feel, and performance of stone but without the health risks of crystalline silica.
The New is the answer to this conundrum of kitchen design, bringing crystalline silica-free surfaces to Australia’s architects, designers and design lovers. This Edit will take you through the new collection, exploring the range and the design possibilities that it may inspire.
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