April/May 2022

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Homestyle NZ
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Editor’s Note
I’m penning this note from my new home office, where I’ve just unpacked the last box from my family’s recent move, and I can happily say it’s starting to truly feel like mine. Rearranging your possessions in a new house is a funny sort of puzzle to n
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Scout
Cooked up last year by young parents with support from a start-up grant awarded for their sustainable approach, Oats brings together a wholesome blend of clothing, toys and accessories to make it easier, kinder to the planet, and less time- and money
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Door To Door
This late-Victorian central-city villa has been home to the architectural practice of Sheppard & Rout since the mid-’80s. It’s a superb chance to see how you can retain an older building and be true to the essence of that history, while adapting it f
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On The Shelf
Forever Flowers by Antonia de Vere (Schiffer, $60) Do you believe in destiny? Reading the introductory chapters of floral designer Antonia de Vere’s new book, you just might begin to. Several serendipitous happenings in the life of the more tattooe
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You Win
With interiors designed in collaboration with Sonja Hawkins, this home in the upper reaches of the Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland region is sited amid Te Arai’s dunes and pine forests. It comprises a pair of gabled timber sheds referencing those found in
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Softly Spoken
Never mind its patented seating system for luxurious support and its backrest you can unfold to create an even more relaxing headrest — judge the Fleur sofa by King anchoring this living space solely on appearances, and you’ll see that its textural b
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Power Trips
Visually, there’s a lot going on at Volare, this new Italian restaurant/bar in Amsterdam, much of it more adventurous than you’d want at home — but overall, the fab fit-out by Studio Modijefsky contains relatable lessons. It shows how to avoid overt
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Gold-y Blocks
- This bedroom set-up shows how colour-blocking can be used to differentiate zones within a room. We’ve designated a spot for skincare rituals, used a restful hue to lead into the sleep space and added another to create a moment in a corner. Against
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Make-it-work Mood Board
You could make a hero of just one of these hues or combine several to create a symphony of colour. Whatever you prefer, achieve a harmonious effect with the rest of your interior scheme by considering the balance between warm and cool, and light and
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Stranger Things
So Rachel, PPG’s been collaborating with New Zealand creatives as part of its Makers range, and the latest coupling is with charity Play It Strange, which supports young songwriters to write, record and perform their own songs. How did that happen? W
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Cora-allan Wickliffe Calls Herself A “True Westie”, But Her Art Is True To Other Aspects Of Her Heritage.
Multidisciplinary artist Cora-Allan Wickliffe is represented by galleries in both Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland (Masterworks) and Pōneke/Wellington (Bartley & Company Art), and has lived and practised her craft overseas. These days, however, she’s happil
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Genevieve Black Fell Into Her Profession And Can’t Envisage Ever Falling Out With It.
Australian-born, with Filipino and Caucasian heritage, Genevieve Black was raised in a little place called Woy Woy, north of Sydney, and moved to Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland 11 years ago. She brought her bartending/management and landscaping/gardening b
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By A Country Mile
Down a winding side road, over a one-lane bridge and up the last rise to the driveway, an arrow reading ‘This way’ is your guide around the final gravelled bend to the door of a Tauranga home affectionately named the Ranch House. Its owners Sjan Joha
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That’s The Trick
Everyone knows that renovating a character home — such as this one built in the ’30s — is like opening a box of chocolates. In Forrest Gump style, you never know what you’re gonna get. Forrest’s momma was wise in this respect: once the lid came off t
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We Got This
Once you’ve spent a bit of time with Bailey Meredith, you realise it’s a no-brainer that she’d have created a chic dwelling for herself and her husband Ali Williams in West Auckland. With a background in fashion, and with the towel brand, Baina, she
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Oh Maimai
From afar, this trio of silhouettes huddled together beside a pond could be mistaken for agricultural buildings. On arrival, you learn that although they’re structurally similar to the humble forms of the local rural tradition, these buildings have b
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Her Making Mark
Growing up in Heratini/Geraldine, South Canterbury, Beth Cameron was profoundly affected by her parents’ interest in architecture, and their design and build of their family home and garden. It shaped her perception of what’s possible in terms of cre
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Into Detail
Kiwi architect and interior designer Annabel Smart and Netherlands-born interior architect Marijne Vogel are Studio 11:11, a design studio that explores the boundaries between interior architecture, objects and leathergoods. Having starting their bus

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