I was drawn in to Zuku’s multi-roomed vortex of wonderful furniture, ceramics and beautiful homewares recently. It left me feeling like I ought to buy a big house and kit it out with beautiful handmade things. You know… like a grown up. Big carved wooden beds, japanese ceramics(and some from an Aussie favourite — Mud), delicate cotton textiles, gigantic brown glass jars, and all sorts of other lovely homewares — the sort of thing that you can just imagine featured in a glossy home reno magazine centre spread. It’s exactly the kind of place I love, and is high on my list of places to go when needing to buy a homey gift for friends.