October/November 2023

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Editor's Note
Being invited to attend New Zealand Fashion Week: Kahuria recently was a very luxurious little pick-me-up. Working on this magazine by day then seeing runway shows at night filled my creative cup to the brim. Although I added several garments to my w
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EDITOR Alice Lines DEPUTY EDITOR Philippa Prentice ART DIRECTOR Juliette Wanty CONTRIBUTORS Julia Atkinson-Dunn Brian Culy Sophie Davis Sarah Ell Wendy Fenwick Sam Hartnett Sheila Man Claire McCall Lucko Prawito Catherine Steel James Sullivan Putaang
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Scout
The reissue of a classic, this 1977 sofa reinterprets King Living’s original Award sofa, with its name a reference to the year the brand began. Integrated into it are four key elements: timelessness, modularity, serviceability and sustainability. The
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Inspo To Go
Airy and minimalist yet filled with meaning and well-resolved details, how delicious is this Japanese-inspired burger-and-booze bar in Switzerland, called Sando? Since the functional needs of the space had already been met by the burger joint that ha
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Pardon my French
The new French look is spirited and fresh, layered but never fussy, effortless yet always chic. It confidently uses elements of colour and pattern to create an elegant atmosphere, but with a sense of exuberance. It’s not all about the new, either — i
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Can You Feel It?
Getting in touch with your feelings while getting in touch with your furniture — now there’s an interesting idea. It’s central to BoConcept’s AW23 Kollektion, which began with asking how great design makes people feel and has resulted in pieces inten
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In The middle With You
Offering excellent insight as always into the wider world of interiors, the Dulux Colour Forecast 2024 presents a trio of palettes befitting both the 15th anniversary of this illuminating annual fixture and our Kiwi lifestyle. Based on year-round res
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Just Peachy
Everything’s pretty, useful or pretty blimmin’ useful in this new store in Warkworth’s Riverside Arcade. The budding venture is by dried-floristry darling Antonia de Vere of Mark Antonia, who relocated with her designer husband Mark Seeney to the are
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Lighting The Way
He’d made props for a massive name in the movie business and lent his talent to an appliance giant, but by 2018, industrial designer Alex Buckman was ready to dedicate himself to something he’d long been a big fan of — lighting. Your home could be th
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Razzle dazzle
In a world overwhelmed with fast everything, the secondhand luxury clothing and accessories market is booming. As well as making economic and environmental sense, and providing access to super-special pieces, buying preloved delivers a shortcut to co
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Tender Touch
- Achieve this gentle limewashed effect by applying two coats of your base colour to the wall. For our back wall and ledge (opposite), we used Resene Field Day, and for our front wall (above), we used Resene Merino. - When that’s dry, mix Resene FX P
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A Nature Lover To Her Core, Artist Leanne Culy Gets Right To The Heart Of What The World Needs Now.
Leanne Culy reckons she popped out of the womb interpreting the world in a creative way. Art was her favourite subject at school, kickstarting a career that traversed graphic design, interior design, styling for still shoots and TV, then making low-i
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Dagmar Dyck And Filipe Tohi's Work Explores Traditional Artforms, What They Connect To And Where They're Taking Us.
On now, Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi’s exhibition ‘Amui ‘i Mu‘a: Ancient Futures at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery is a chance to see two stars of Tongan contemporary art aligning. With previous iterations presen
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Feel The Beat
The Lennon Project and SKS Construction created this three-bedroom home in Bali’s Canggu for a Swedish couple and their adult children. It’s been nearly two decades since the Swedish owners of this home first fell in love with Bali, drawn in particul
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Lay Of The Land
Bull O’Sullivan Architecture and Murray Long Builders created this four-bedroom home in Auckland’s Muriwai for a family of five. Depending on your sporting affiliations, it would be natural to liken the sensual sweep of the roof of this house in Muri
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Our Place
Hyndman Taylor Architects and Rutch Building created this four-bedroom bach in Wānaka for an extended family. Two sisters, three daughters, one husband, and a brother with a bach next door — this project was quite the whānau affair. “It was very spec
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Well-to-do
Between the ’burbs and the city centre on one of Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s arterial routes, the Jervois Apartments by property developers Artifact and architects Monk Mackenzie is an early adopter of zoning changes that are moving the city towards g
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True To Form
Sitting back and letting nature take its course isn’t something many of us embrace. We prefer to control it, steering plants in a certain direction. Late-summer blooms get clipped back before they linger in their dried glory and typical hedge species
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Luck Of The drawers
Often everything but the kitchen sink ends up cluttered around it, getting wet, getting mucky and getting in the way. If only there was a solution for keeping your benchtop clear yet everything immediately on hand. Hardware experts Blum were reading
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Along These Lines
An indisputable hallmark of well-done dwellings is visual cohesion. Through colours, materials and forms, virtually every detail in such abodes combines harmoniously with those around it, while contributing — often unobtrusively — to a strong overall
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Digging It
She’s a writer and an artist with a background in interior design, who’s run her website Studio Home for 15 years after it began as Aotearoa’s first design blog in 2008, but Ōtautahi/ Christchurch’s Julia Atkinson-Dunn had never been a gardener. Sinc
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Got It Made
Early into our journey as Isadia, we found it hard to find vases that complemented our un-orchestrated arrangements. We could’ve sourced ceramics from overseas but wanted to find a local supplier, so we opted to collaborate with our ceramicist friend

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