December/January 2021-22

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Editor’s Note
All my best memories of summer involve spending time outside — huddling around campfires beside the river and sleeping under the stars in the treehouse my siblings and I shared with our neighbours as a kid; sheltering in a gazebo with a gaggle of fri
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Homestyle NZ
Alice Lines Philippa Prentice Adrienne Pitts Bonny Beattie Frances Carter Claire Delmar Sarah Ell Wendy Fenwick Sam Hartnett Emma Kanuik Camille Khouri Claire McCall Shannon McGrath Larnie Nicolson Sarah Norris Sarah Rowlands Thomas Seear-Budd Anson
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Scout
What’s so great about Hay’s new Quilton sofa? Described by its UK designers Doshi Levien as a “quilted landscape”, in this verdant-green version in particular, its rolling hillocks very much have that look about them, and how good?! Hovering on a flo
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On The Shelf
There’s nothing acclaimed interior and textile designer Anna Spiro dislikes more than dull. She prefers pattern and colour, the offbeat and unexpected — but don’t read that as zany and impractical. Yes, this big book is a big mood; however, all the s
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Things Of The Past
While sussing out how to sustainably salvage the rundown ’80s stay they’d just got their hands on, the new owners of Byron Bay’s The Sunseeker motel realised their enjoyment of holiday accommodation has a lot to do with how welcome it makes them feel
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Let’s Do Lunch
- When styling tablescapes like these, select a palette of three to five key colours to ensure a cohesive look you can roll out across everything from tablecloth to glassware to flowers. - Position tall floral arrangements between place settings, so
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One-hit Wandering
You do you This summer, consider honing a signature party trick. Whether it’s perfecting platters for your guests, rolling up with a stocked cocktail cart or taking your time to thoughtfully style full table settings from tablecloth to candles, enjoy
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Process Makes Perfect
How would you describe your interior styling style — carefully considered, ad hoc, tightly edited, anything goes? Although we’re advocates of buying what you truly love when it crosses your path, we also know the art of pulling together an overarchin
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Hats Off
Companion’s Kareen and Will Durbin were first introduced by a friend, who figured their mutual backgrounds working with refugees and conducting post-grad research on social enterprise models might mean they had all sorts to talk about. Sure enough, l
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Through The Lens
Mark, when did you realise you wanted to be a photographer? I first thought I might want to pursue photography when I was nine years old. Our family owned a Diana camera and I loved the idea that I could make a record of our life in Havelock North. W
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Make-it-work Mood Board
A selection of undeniably Kiwi colours imbued with hints of nostalgia, Mark’s palette works equally well in heritage homes and contemporary architectural settings, alongside natural and man- made materials. Consider bringing it into your home by usin
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Artist Profile
Award-winning photographer Rachel Mataira says accolades are a nice result, but for her, the highlight of her vocation is being able to access places she wouldn’t usually get to see. Whether she’s photographing at the United Nations Climate Summit, d
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Maker Profile
The world has the art department at Wainuiomata High School to thank for fostering maker Olivia Edginton’s creativity. She says her teachers’ incredible support had a huge impact on what she’s doing now, which is living in Pōneke/Wellington, balancin
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Creative Profile
As children growing up in Christchurch, Beth Ellery and her sisters were helped by their mum to design and make their own outfits, so it wasn’t that much of a stretch when years later, on graduating from the architecture programme she started at the
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Figured Out
It’s a familiar equation. Take one villa, add 100 years (give or take a few) and inevitably X = not fit for purpose. But the owners of this property in Sandringham, Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland could project beyond the mathematical to the magical, and ev
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Dream Home
Most renovations of heritage homes aim to restore them to their former glory. The revamp of this mid-century-modern property went one better, reimagining it through the lens of the original architect’s probable inspiration to achieve its unrealised d
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Nostalgia Now
In a clearing surrounded by trees, this holiday home in a picturesque bay in Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū/ Banks Peninsula seems to rewind time. There are none of the accoutrements that tend to accompany today’s summer-vacation stations. No boat parked in
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Rock Star
There’s something wonderful about having a vision for a landscape and watching it come to fruition. That’s often the case for landscape designer Anthony Wyer with other people’s gardens, but buying a Sydney site with his wife Rebecca in 2015 gave him
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United It Stands
It’s not often that sites become available on the sought-after Takapuna beachfront on Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s North Shore, so when Anna Tong of CAAHT Studio Architects was called on to design a home here, she didn’t take the opportunity lightly. T
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It’s About Time
Katrina, after you and your partner Xuan McArthur Nguyen graduated from the University of Auckland and honed your craft in Aotearoa, you moved to Japan in 2013. What was a key design lesson you learned over there? I think the biggest lesson I learned
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At Ease
This coastal home near Melbourne is designed to reflect and encourage a relaxed lifestyle, like being on holiday year-round. Dubbed Bernie’s Beach House after the beloved pooch that resides here (along with his smitten owners), it reflects its Sorren
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Well & good
Isn’t it, though? The hazy kaleidoscopic pattern of Juliette Hogan’s Darling dress (worn here with the Micky T tee, a classic style repeated each season to make her special prints accessible for everyday) is our absolute pick from her current Collect
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Bloom, Bloom, Pow
My discovery of gardening didn’t stop at the gate. I entirely surprised myself when I started to be able to identify plants out in the ‘real world’; it grew into a personal challenge that endlessly flipped through my head. Where I’d never paid any at
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Sweet Escape
The moment you arrive at Taranaki’s Ahu Ahu Beach Villas, you feel a sense of familiarity, of comfort. Stepping onto their concrete floors with inlaid shell and driftwood detail, running your hand over their plaster walls and timber benchtops, or til
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Catalog
Bring the natural beauty of mountain scenery into your home with this unique print by Thread Design. Inspired by New Zealand landscapes, the Altitude collection is created for adventurers and nature lovers. It’ll elevate your home to new heights. thr

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