October/November 2021

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Editor’s Note
Do you ever find yourself marking time with meals? While producing this issue during the latest lockdown, my workdays were scheduled not around the usual office hours or midday meetings, but breakfast, lunch and dinner at home, which also became a ma
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Homestyle
Alice Lines Philippa Prentice Adrienne Pitts Toni Brandso Alana Broadhead Frances Carter Sarah Ell Wendy Fenwick Sam Hartnett Emma-Jane Hetherington Duncan Innes Emma Kanuik Russell Kleyn Shaun Matthews Claire McCall Paul McCredie One to One Hundred
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Scout
Never not investigating the latest and greatest, here we bring you Karimoku Case Study. The brand is pretty unique in that it’s inspired by the iconic Case Study Houses (made by visionary mid-century architects as a response to America’s post-WWII ho
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On The Shelf
Could this book be any more magical? Its author, Anne Noble, is one of Aotearoa’s preeminent photographers and here, with art curator/writer Zara Stanhope and book designer Anna Brown, she’s collected her work on honeybees to create a thing of beauty
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Sweet As
For interior designer/colour consultant Nadia Olive Schnack, finessing her Copenhagen home with frosting was a matter of honouring her personal taste. What improves her mood isn’t the subdued Scandi styling her neck of the woods is known for, but som
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Right On Track The
Sarah, your career has evolved from fashion design to magazine styling to designing for your own furniture and accessories brand, launched in 2017. Are you achieving what you set out to? If only I’d had enough foresight to have planned it all! Really
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Inner Workings
The spaces we inhabit have an enormous effect not just on how we feel, but also who we are, how we show up in the world and even in our ‘becoming’. One of the fundamental building blocks of our sense of self is what psychologists call ‘place identity
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So We Gather
Interior architects Toni Brandso and Olivia Patience of Auckland studio Material Creative see the kitchen becoming a fusion of residential and restaurant — as smooth-running as a commercial kitchen, thanks to a clever design like this and its menu of
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In Of The Luxury Lap
THE CAT Esmeralda is a tortoiseshell Persian who’s seven years old and full of mystique. Her only indulgence is eating six tins of seafood a day. For a small cat, Esmeralda has a lot of presence. She fits perfectly into this household, as she’s easyg
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True Colours
“I live in Auckland and work from home [scenes from which are pictured above and overleaf]. For me, home’s a place where you feel welcomed and loved. It’s where I set out to be myself in my work, undaunted by my flaws. I was born an artist and believ
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The Palette
“Māori goddesses inspire my paintings and my palette for PPG Paints. They exemplify the beauty of Māori philosophy and are part of the natural world, from which all colour is derived. I choose these women of a higher dimension to highlight my signifi
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Josh Ford Taylor Handcrafts Artisan Objects Designed For Conscious Consumption.
In a little house in Mount Maunganui, not far from the beach, lives a pianist, a potter, a journalist and maker Josh Ford Taylor. Josh’s parents’ place is just up the road — and that’s where he works, keeps all his equipment and has his kiln in the b
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Kirsty Lillico Has Cut Her Own Unique Path To Examining Architecture.
From a large, light, shared space in Wellington’s Anvil House, Kirsty Lillico creates amazing artworks using textiles as her main medium — cast-off carpet, to be exact. Sometimes she buys offcuts or end-of-rolls from carpet shops, sometimes she finds
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Josephine Jelicich Found Her Calling In Woodworking And Could Teach You A Thing Or Two.
At age 18, Josephine Jelicich moved from Auckland to Wellington to study nursing. So far, so good, except that she ended up hating it, so she changed course to embrace something she’d always secretly wanted to do — go to art school. Enrolling at Mass
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Guiding Spirit
Emily Forbes was already renting in Lyttelton when she first set eyes on her section. The GP was walking through the steep streets one day in 2009 when she spotted the site for sale and fell for its romantic charm. “There was an old settler’s cottage
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Made Good
Ten years ago, when Becky Little and Simon Codling called time on their lawyerly lives in England, they thought they might take a small step back from the full-steam-ahead pace. They didn’t imagine owning a cottage near the sea. The decision to vacat
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Diamonds Are Forever
For the best part of four years, a car jack held up the kitchen sink at Julie Donaldson and Tim Woods’ place. If you overfilled the bowl, it’d start to sway, sending water trickling down the sides. “The house was very, very original!” says Julie of t
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Modern Family
Slip into the spa at this breathtaking waterfront property and you’re practically at eye level with the ocean. Behind you, a thoroughly modern home for a thoroughly modern family rises towards the sky — a very special dwelling that reads like luxury
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Now & then
In the coastal town of Paekākāriki, an unassuming plot of land has had a major upgrade from its previous life as a driveway. Here, where the birdsong is all around, interrupted by the occasional whoosh of wings as tūī and kererū swoop between the tre
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May We Ask...
Did you always want to be an architect when you grew up, Sharon? As a child, I loved drawing, and building houses out of a Lego-like set I had. My father was an architect, so I grew up enamoured of his drawing equipment and intrigued by drawings that
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Moments Like This
Let your scheme be swayed by the light in your bathroom. Low light makes a case for a moody mood — a space turned into a deeply serene sanctuary by dark hues and grounding accents in natural materials that get better with age. In a brighter bathroom
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Centre Of Attention
During even a minor renovation, you’ll feel as if you have decisions to make about everything but the kitchen sink — and we recommend putting that high on your list of priorities too. Stood over and stopped by umpteen times a day, it’s one the hardes
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Dream Team
When you’re an ensuite vying for attention in a capacious home with three living areas, six bedrooms and four other bathrooms, you’d better have something special going for you. Designed by Jane McAulay-Frame of Bespoke, Interior Architecture & Desig
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Blind Ambition
The better we come to understand how much our home’s connection to nature can improve our wellbeing, the more we want to let in all the natural ambient light we can. The trick is to do so without sacrificing your privacy or allowing the sun’s rays to
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Texture Message
The HQ of Sydney design studio Alexander & Co, work-home-showroom Alexander House challenges the concept of the office in a WFH world through four storeys housing professional zones; kitchen (seen below), dining and entertaining areas; sleep spaces f
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Catalog
Godfrey Hirst believe the quintessential easygoing Kiwi lifestyle should resonate in our interiors. They’ve built a reputation as one of New Zealand’s premier carpet manufacturers and hard-flooring distributors through consistently providing consumer
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Pow Factor
1. To recreate this gingham floor, paint the entire thing with two coats of your base colour — we used Resene Quarter Tea — then leave to dry. 2. Starting at a side wall, measure and mark the width of your stripes (ours are 44cm) using a pencil and
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The Project
With Gavin Donaldson of Neu Architecture, Julie Donaldson (export manager for The Beauty Collective and co-founder of Everdaily) and Tim Woods (general manager of a property company) renovated this three-bedroom bungalow in Auckland’s Northcote Point

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