LIFESTILES - AN AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS WITH HEART

In the August issue of The Design Journal, we featured one of our absolute FAVOURITE suppliers - the Melbourne-based Lifestiles, who supply the most incredible range of quality tiles to Melbourne and surrounds. Finding the right suppliers and products for your build or renovation is key to ensure a quality result delivered on time and on budget. It was an absolute pleasure to chat to the Lifestiles team, so today we wanted to showcase them here on the blog as well.

Lifestiles is a family-run business founded in 1978 by Joe Brunato in Melbourne,. Over time, Joe and his family became one of the leading tile distributors in Australia, expanding into wholesale and supplying over 200 businesses Australia wide. Incredibly, the business has remained family-owned and operated for more than four decades. Through time, and with the sad loss of their patriarch in 2008, this unique Aussie business chose to focus on their biggest passion; working directly with clients in a retail showroom to bring a newfound level of creativity to the artform of custom tiling.

If you visit the Lifestiles showroom you will see homage paid to Joe with a wall of history, showcasing images of the Lifestiles family past to present. The showroom even features a plaque with an original tile from when Joe first started in the tile business. This is a business with heart, and a heart that is solely secured by small but meaningful materials of construction. Here more than ever, the humble tile takes on a meaning and an artform beyond its mere function. At Lifestiles, tiles are literally life.

You can find Lifestiles showrooms in Werribee and Glen Iris, Victoria, as well as a selection of the range online. It was an absolute honour talk to Vilma Pisano, one of Joe’s daughters, about all things tiles in one of the most fascinating discussions we’ve had about the incredible artform that is tiling.