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Over the summer break I spent time with family and friends in the Ruapehu district, in a cabin my children call the ‘ski shack’. It’s a tiny structure but one whose spaces feel comforting and encompassing. The rooms are small, the gable is high, and

Clare Chapman Federico Monsalve — Day Barnes — Karen Alexander Chris Hall Jo Knight — Nat Davis nat.davis@parkside.co.nz +64 27 371 0975 Emily Wakeling emily.wakeling@parkside.co.nz David Straight Simon Devitt Melanie McDaid Kirsten Matthew Claire Mc

In this issue you write about an architect’s own home. Tell us about your own living space. I’m fortunate enough to be living in the Dogbox, a house that Patchwork and Spacecraft built a few years back. I love everything about this house, but the ba

Our must-see for this year’s celebration of the arts include: Mark Work (at Objectspace) spanning the fields of contemporary jewellery, architecture, design, and painting, and exploring mark making in creative practices. In terms of performing arts:

We chat to Georgia Baker, director of Ottoloom, about luxurious bath rituals and the towels that help create them. How did you come up with the idea for Ottoloom? I’ve always had a love of textiles, and artisan-made products. When I returned to New

How would you describe your aesthetic? What makes a KFD Interiors project unique? Our homes are where we spend our time, where we retreat, recharge, reconnect. I’m passionate about creating homes that echo what each client values, that remind them o

“If luxury is defined as superfluous, useless abundance and excess, the term certainly does not apply to Studio Italia and its brands,” says Joanna Hoeft, design and sales manager of Studio Italia. Here in New Zealand, Italy is celebrated for its exc

Will Worsp has always had a creative bent. After graduating from art school and spending time working on film sets, he transferred his skillset to project managing interior fitouts for notable brands in London including Selfridges and GAP. However, i

Moyle’s two previous books (Art Deco Airports and Art Deco New Zealand) captured a very niche type of nostalgia for that era when aviation was luxe, design was streamlined, and architecture reflected a very specific type of optimism. In this, his lat

A promising, upcoming memoir of a bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the small village of Manapouri in Fiordland and who has led a full, intense life full of adventure and depth. This is a stunning compendium of photographs of house trucks an

Choose well for your walls with Resene Zylone Sheen. Environmental Choice-approved, low odour and no added VOCs.

At a factory 20kms inland from Venice, after searching for almost four years, Mark Todd found the perfect glazed brick. It changes colour all day, every day. Under the morning sun, it’s a gleaming emerald green, like a summer walk to Karekare Falls.

It’s almost impossible to know what sits up there in the trees. Maybe nothing? From the street you can see only an old concrete garage and a set of steps that disappear into the bush. The path is slow and meandering, winding past the neighbours, up o