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A Port Elliot import store that runs deeper than its modest North Terrace shopfront suggests: behind it sit showrooms, courtyards, a shade house and a run of large sheds. The stock is brought back from across Indonesia — original and recycled-teak furniture, architectural salvage like old timber doors, posts and carvings, plus tribal-to-contemporary artefacts, stone basins, ceramics and giftware. Many pieces carry their own history. The space doubles as an exhibition venue, so the mix shifts with what the owners have sourced and what's on the walls.

A fair-trade shop on Owen Street in Huskisson, run by Nicky and Steve, stocking handmade goods sourced from named producers and sold with the makers' stories attached. The range leans heavily on Nepal: jewellery from Samunnat, a women's collective supporting survivors of violence, a felt line made for the shop, and an organic-cotton clothing range designed in Australia and sewn there in small batches. Open seven days.

A Bangalow shop built on European designer labels rarely found in Australia. The shelves run to Jerome Dreyfuss leather from Paris, Libeco linen woven in Belgium since 1858, Vanrycke fine jewellery and Maileg's Danish toys, with French perfume and a rotating edit of clothing besides. It sits on Byron Street in the Byron Bay hinterland, open seven days.

An independent design store on Pakington Street, Geelong West, trading since 2012 and built around small-run and locally made work. The stock leans into Australian indie labels — Nancybird, Otto & Spike, By Charlotte, Halcyon Nights — alongside a Geelong Designed and Made section that carries local artists like Jacinta Boyd. Across fashion, jewellery, homewares and kids' gifts, the through-line holds: small batches, one-offs, and makers with an ethical or sustainable bent rather than mass-market shelf-fillers.