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EPOCHE, KALLISTA

has recommenced 7 days per week trade from MONDAY 30th JANUARY, 2017

 

Come and see our beautiful shop front - double the size of our original shop - always so many new treasures to behold!

Blessings to our wonderful customers and your families. May the light continue to shine brightly for each of you. We wish you a year of joy, love & compassion.

Enjoy the golden days of summer and stay safe x

View our store trading hours

Welcome to epoche

Our delightful store is located in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges, in Kallista, overlooking Sherbrooke Forest.

Epoche is for the child at heart in everyone and is filled with beauty, spirit and wonder.

Our exclusive range expresses an innate reverence for children and the natural environment. We offer a discerning choice of finest quality natural products that nourish the whole child/adult and nurture creativity.

We are dedicated to the provision of merchandise made from safe, non-toxic natural materials that have minimal impact on the environment and are ethically made.

 Epoche is an enchanting Steiner-inspired gift store that specialises in:

  • traditional, quality wooden & natural fibre toys - Gluckskafer, Grimms, Debresk, Nanchen, Moulin Roty, De Noest, Hjelms Forlag, Maileg, Evi Dolls, Egmont, Drei Blatter, Drewart, Kraul, Verneur, Lautenbach
  • beautiful illustrated children's books
  • anthroposophical and inspirational texts
  • handmade Waldorf dolls and felted crafts & gifts
  • premium European & USA art and craft supplies - Stockmar, Filana & Lyra
  • 100% wool and cotton clothing and other locally crafted items
  • original, handcrafted Australian made jewellery and other earthy creations
  • pure 100% beeswax candles 
  • fairtrade handcrafts and toys 
  • Sophie Digard exquisite crocheted fine wool/linen scarves & necklaces
  • Wilson & Frenchy baby wear range - Melbourne based - original, beautiful designs
  • Weleda & Flora Remedia personal care range
  • Quintessence gorgeous handmade soaps, made in the Dandenong Ranges
  • 100% leather satchels, backpacks, wallets & journals
  • wonderful, whimsical, unique gifts & homewares for adults as well

The healthy social life is found

when in the mirror of each human soul

the whole community finds its reflection,

and when in the community

the virtue of each one is living.

Latest from epoche on instagram

Our store is brimming with wondrous new Christmas delights! Today we are open til 9pm along with fellow Kallista Traders... we have sales on so many goodies today only, these pictures represent just a few of our irresistible treasures. Come in and play with the Christmas elves tonight x #epoche #kallista #tistheseason
✨✨✨✨✨✨ Tomorrow is our Kallista Village Traders Christmas evening! 🎄 Come and support our wonderful local businesses as we open our doors to allow some Christmas cheer and shopping time in the ambience of the evening. Most shops will be open until 8pm. We will trade @__epoche__ from 9am until 9pm Come and enjoy a bubbly with us and maybe you might even have the opportunity for some child free shopping and a chance to collect Christmas lay-bys! To celebrate the occasion we will have many of our delightful ranges on sale for one day only (a few exceptions apply so please feel free to message us) and anyone who spends over $50 in store will go in the running for a special little Christmas hamper of epoche treasures. Children will busk outside our store in the afternoon and Santa might just be seen riding on the back of our Kallista CFA fire truck! We hope you can join us ✨✨✨✨✨✨ #epoche #kallista #giftsofbeautyspiritwonder #christmastradingnight #kallistatraders #shoplocal #steinerinspired #waldorfstore
Just unpacked a delivery of our beautiful Italian Botanica 2019 calendars... Perfect timing for the second week of advent that honours the light of plants 🌺 Have a wonderful week and take time to smell the roses #epoche #kallista #botanica #theloveofflowers #thelightofplants #steinerinspired #giftsofbeautyspiritwonder
Christmas is truly a beautiful time @__epoche__ It holds such a reverent & sacred energy and there are such beautiful advent treasures filling our displays. We love our De Noest silhouette lamp with its peaceful nativity scene and our pure beeswax candles that fill the shop with a delightfully sweet honey aroma! Go gently in this heatwave everyone. We move steadily through our first week of advent and soon enough we will enter the realm of the plant kingdom 🌲 #epoche #kallista #advent #sacredtimes #giftsofbeautyspiritwonder #steinerinspired #denoest #giftsfromthebees
These gorgeous locally made bubble wands make very sweet Christmas stocking gifts. They are handcrafted from Grimms wooden beads and each one is unique 🌈 Thank you Clare for your fabulous new additions xx #epoche #kallista #blowingbubbles #steinerinspired #bubblewands
Blessings for Advent ✨ Announcing our new extended December trading hours for the remainder of 2018 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Monday-Friday 9-5 Saturday 9-4 Sunday 10-4 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴 Late night Christmas trading evening for Kallista Traders is next Wednesday 12th December. We will be open until 9pm 🎄 #epoche #kallista #christmastrade #silentnight #advent #steinerinspired #waldorfstore
Honouring Margarete Ostheimer for the wondrous legacy she leaves behind on earth. Children around the world have enjoyed many decades of imaginative play with her beautiful handcrafted wooden creations. I am personally so grateful as a mother of four children who each grew up with her treasured figurines and as the owner of a Steiner-inspired store that prizes this toy range as one of our most loved and revered for children and adults alike. May @ostheimerwoodentoys keep inspiring wonder and beauty for years to come 🌟 #epoche #kallista #margareteostheimer #ostheimerwoodentoys #giftsofbeautyspiritwonder #steinerinspired
Our stunning hand forged stainless steel secateurs with solid ash handles make a perfect gift for Christmas or, indeed, any special occasion. It’s hard to believe that something so aesthetically pleasing can actually work impeccably well! They are super sharp and have a great pruning action 🌿 Thank you Sal for your gorgeous photo 📷 💚 #epoche #kallista #giftsofbeauty #secateurs #waldorfstore #handforged #solidash
Off to market we go! We are heading to the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School fair now with so many wonderful delights for the festive season 🎄 We have our gorgeous Advent calendars, art supplies, books, wooden toys, dolls, pure beeswax candles, Sophie Digard handcrafts, tasteful adult gifts and so much more! Please do visit if you can! It is a beautiful family day. You’ll find us in the middle of the big oval, right next to some of our loveliest friends, including @buttonandbeanbespoke who is our next door neighbour ♥️ 10-4 today *Please remember that our Kallista store is closed today! #epoche #mrssfair
This Saturday - November 17th - is Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School’s wondrous Open Day & Fair! 10am - 4pm 213 Wonga Road, Warranwood For a decade now epoche has been a vibrant presence in the marketplace and our stall is such a considerable undertaking that we close our Kallista shop for the entire day As usual, we will be there at MRSS with so many beautiful treasures to help with your Christmas gift buying. But please note: This year we have been significantly RELOCATED. We will be in THE MIDDLE OF THE BIG OVAL - NOT in the central driveway, where there are a lot of other stalls around the children’s activities. And our Kallista shop is CLOSED for the day as all staff will be on deck in the marketplace. Please come and visit us there and enjoy the bounty that this incredible school has to offer in its beautiful classrooms & performance spaces, showcasing the riches of Steiner education and the dedication of its teachers who passionately bring this impulse to the children. #epoche #weareonthebigoval #closedonsaturdayinkallista #warranwoodfair #mrss #steinerinspired #waldorf
As @joguines_grapat say on each of their lovely products - “Enjoy playing!” More of the sweetest embroidered miniature bendy dolls have arrived in store today made by our star 🌟 tiny pipe cleaner dolly maker, Bree. They had such fun playing with the 12 coloured Grapat bowls and taking turns on the mini wobbelboard! #epoche #kallista #grapat #breesamoth #wobbelboard
Our wonderful wooden kitchen knives handmade for little children. They are easy to use and are highly effective for cutting fruits and vegetables. Crafted from sustainable olive wood and treated with food grade plant based oil, so your little ones can enjoy safe and fun food preparation with you! And for home play you can’t look past our gorgeous felt fruit and vegies fairtraded from Nepal and handcrafted from pure Australian merino wool. These have been epoche favourites for years and years! So many lifelike foods to choose from 🥕 🍓 #epoche #kallista #madefromolivewood #giftsofbeautyspiritwonder #olivewood #papoosetoys