Smash cocktail hour with the coolest glassware

GLASStheby

Salut! Raise a toast to the season with glassware so gorgeous you’ll have to keep count. Go for chic stemware that looks as striking on the bar, as it does in your hand.

By POLLYANNA GARDNER

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Cocktail hour

Equal parts festive, fiery, and refreshing, the Paloma is also super easy to master, so you can sip easy. 1 part Sesión Blanco Tequila 1 part pink grapefruit cordial 2 parts sparkling water Squeeze of ½ a lime Dash of jalapeno juice or Tabasco (to taste)

Stir all ingredients together and serve over ice. Add salt to rim of glass to taste and top with a slice of lime or grapefruit.

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1. David Jones Fazeek Wave Coupes $119 2. Maison Balzac Manhattan Glass $69 3. Maison Balzac Pompom Wine Glasses $129 4. Maison Balzac Prawn Cocktail Coupe $99 5. David Jones Fazeek Wave Flute Glasses $119 6. Maison Balzac Gin & Tonic Glasses $99 7. David Jones Fazeek Wave Glasses Blue $79 8. Maison Balzac Martini Glass $69 9. David Jones Luigi Bormioli Bach Retro Fizz Set $99.95 10. David Jones Maison Balzac Lemonade Glasses $99

PIMP YOUR PAD

Get to know one half of local furniture brand, Oh Paddi as we chat to Bri Conway about her Pinterest-worthy tables we’re adding to our abodes.

By BETHAN WARRIOR

Hi Bri! First and foremost, can you introduce yourself and your brand? My name is Bri and my partners name is Josh, together we started a furniture business that we named Oh Paddi.

Tell us the origin story of Oh Paddi – where does the name come from? I was in the fashion industry and Josh was in finance and we would regularly speak about how we didn’t enjoy what we did. One day we sat down and both agreed we’d had enough so after a couple of weeks we left! With all the newly discovered time we had, we decided to start a bit of a side hustle finding antique furniture pieces and giving them a new life. This is really what gave us the confidence to create our own stuff.

The first piece we created was our kidney shaped coffee table, an inspiration from a beautiful 80-year-old kidney dresser we found. We popped this up on social media to see if there was a taste for our type of furniture, and we were absolutely blown away with the positive response.

After making more and more pieces, we finally decided it was time to create this into something we do full time, and Oh Paddi was born. Our name ‘Paddi’ comes from where we live – Paddington, and the synonym for home ‘pad’. How would you describe your design aesthetic for Oh Paddi? The guidelines we loosely follow as designers is funky and unusual combined with a bit of that old fashion 60s look. We absolutely love how everything was made with character back in that era. Every single one of our creations must carry the “approachable” aesthetic – if you’re afraid of putting a wine glass on it, we’ve messed up. Where do you get inspiration from for your pieces? Lately we love taking natural objects like clouds and pears and using them as inspirations for our pieces. This honestly brings so much freedom for us and for our customers when designing anything we feel like doing in the moment. What’s your favourite way to style an Oh Paddi table? It can change so much depending on what aesthetic I’m trying to create, which is also dependent on what piece I’m styling and what colour it was finished in.

We support a lot of Australian handmade artists from glass blowers and candle makers to stone carvers and more. So, when we’re styling a piece, we try to incorporate a couple pieces each time to show our love for handmade stuff.

The first thing you did this morning

Let out my pups and made a coffee.

Drink of choice

Pinot noir.

Go-to Aussie designer

Bassike.

Go-to karaoke song

Anything Whitney.

Signature scent

Le Labo The Noir 29.

Instant pick-me up

A wash and a blow dry at EdwardsAndCo.

Rebecca Malouf

Get to know the creative director, artistic powerhouse, and all-round groovy lady behind M.O.S.T., a.k.a the Museum of Small Things.

@BEC_MALOUF @MUSEUMOFSMALLTHINGS

De ij i Studios The 03 Set $249

Next bucket list holiday

Marrakech.

You never leave home without…

My Oura ring and Deiji Studios pyjamas.

On Sunday, you’ll find me…

Hanging with friends and family.

Can’t put down read

Currently reading Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

What’s the last thing you binge watched?

Ted Lasso.

Who or what is your biggest influence?

Franca Sozzani and Italian fashion.

What are you most proud of?

Le Labo The Noir 29 50ml $324

Where do you seek inspiration?

Through Milanese street style.

Stuck in traffic, where does your mind wander?

What I can design and find for the shop and hotel. I often forget where I am driving to.

Best career advice you’ve ever received

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

BEEP BEEP! GREEN UP YOUR DAILY COMMUTE

Dynamic duo Joe D’Ercole and Ben Silver are on a mission to deliver high-quality Vespa-style electric scooters that benefit the environment without hurting your wallet.

By PENELOPE PELECAS

No one does sustainability better than Kelvin Grove start-up Benzina Zero. Benzina Zero, which means ‘zero fuel’ in Italian, is shaking up the global transport industry with its new Europeanstyle electric scooters, which officially launched to the public on 15 September this year.

Business partners and scooter enthusiasts Joe D’Ercole and Ben Silver, who have 40 years of combined scooter selling experience, are passionate about creating more eco-friendly ways for commuters and delivery drivers to get around and have spent the past five years finetuning their designs.

“We’ve always been very passionate about scooters in general because they’re practical, they’re fun, [and] they aren’t overly expensive for a lot of people to afford,” Ben says.

Joe, whose old company put about 18,000 scooters on the road in South East Queensland, adds: “We kept talking about doing a project to continue to get people moving around economically.”

The scooters in question, which are also available internationally, come in four models, the City, the Sport, the Duo, and the Duo+. The slick City model can go up to 80km on a single charge and has a top speed of 45km/h, while the Sport can go up to 90km on a single charge and up to speeds of 75km/h.

The ultra-versatile Duo range can reach speeds up to 65km/h with a range of up to 105km and have more than 20 different attachments that can be easily fitted to carry all sorts of goods, from a surfboard to groceries.

Each Benzina Zero scooter costs less than $1 to travel 100km. You think that’s cool? Well, Joe and Ben are also pledging that for every scooter sold they’ll regenerate one square metre of Australian land to build a Benzina Zero forest.

“We got frustrated because a lot of people say [things] like our vehicles have travelled this far and have saved this much CO², which is equivalent to planting this many trees,” Ben says. “In fact, it’s not equivalent to that at all. We thought, we want to make a meaningful difference here. We already have zero emission devices; how can we contribute more.”

BEN SILVER & JOE D’ERCOLE