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Blum TANDEMBOX drawer system open in a real kitchen cabinet showing soft-close hardware in use
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Blum Australia: The Engineering Behind Your Kitchen’s Hinges and Drawers

Open a drawer in a newly renovated Australian kitchen and there’s a decent chance it glides to a stop on its own, quiet and controlled, no matter how hard it was pushed. That small, easy-to-miss detail is usually the work of Blum, the Austrian hardware maker that has spent more than seventy years engineering how cabinet doors, drawers and lift-up fronts actually move. Blum doesn’t build kitchens itself — it builds the hinges, drawer runners and lift mechanisms that sit behind the joinery, and in Australia its gear turns up in everything from project-home flat-packs to architect-designed builds, largely through specialist suppliers such as KitchenLibrary.
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Nikon Z5IIc used to photograph a dessert close up
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Nikon Z5IIc: A Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Built to Make Photography Easy

Nikon has pulled back the curtain on the Nikon Z5IIc, a full-frame mirrorless camera built around a simple idea: high-quality photography shouldn’t require a manual to get started. Announced for the Australian market at $2,399, the Z5IIc pairs the same imaging performance as last year’s Z5II with a friendlier, more compact body and a mode dial that does a lot of the technical thinking for you. Pre-orders open today through nikon.com.au, with stock landing in stores from 15 October.
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Zone Inu Vase close-up showing mouth-blown glass texture and colour variation
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Zone Inu Vase: The Danish Mini Vase That Doubles as a Candleholder

The Zone Inu Vase is proof that a small object can carry a lot of craft. At just eleven centimetres across, this mouth-blown glass vase from Danish homeware label Zone Denmark looks deceptively simple — until you notice that no two are ever quite identical, a quiet reminder that a human glassblower, not a machine, shaped the one that ends up on your shelf. It is a modest object with a genuinely considered backstory, which is what makes it worth a closer look before you buy.
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Tivoli Audio Model One
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Tivoli Audio Model One: The Radio Henry Kloss Built to Outlast the Format

Most tabletop radios from the year 2000 are long gone. The Tivoli Audio Model One is still in production, largely unchanged, because it was engineered by a man who had already spent forty years figuring out how to make radios sound better than they had any right to. It remains one of the rare pieces of consumer electronics where “handmade wood cabinet” isn’t marketing language — the tuner inside is doing real, old-fashioned engineering work most modern radios never bother with.
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Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal Lighter
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Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal Lighter: Tokyo’s Answer to the Disposable Flame

There’s an unglamorous ritual behind most lighters: flick, light, pocket, forget — until it runs dry and gets binned. The Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal lighter was built to break that cycle. Shaped like a slim cigarette and cast in brass, it’s a refillable petrol lighter from a Tokyo workshop that has been making them the same deliberate way since well before disposables existed, and has quietly refused to change since.
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