February/March 2024

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Homestyle
EDITOR Alice Lines DEPUTY EDITOR Philippa Prentice ART DIRECTOR Juliette Wanty CONTRIBUTORS Holly Sarah Burgess Sarah Ell Wendy Fenwick Monique Hemmingson Anna McLeod Adrienne Pitts Olivia Renouf Tom Ross Biddi Rowley Michelle Weir Simon Wilson ADVER
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Editor's Note
I’m writing this letter as afternoon sun streams through the west-facing window in my home office. I’ll down tools shortly to head out to the chirping cicadas in the garden, where my son Ted has taken to dining alfresco while I squeeze in a bit of we
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Scout
We’ve got some serious chemistry with Woodwrights’ insanely handsome SBR T01 table and C01 chair, a pulse-quickening collaboration with Te Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington architecture and interiors studio Seear-Budd Ross. Manufactured in Motueka from su
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Pure & simple
Marilou, you collaborated with New Zealand interior designer Rufus Knight on your new Naarm/Melbourne store’s fit-out — how did that play out? This is the third store Rufus and his team have designed for Kowtow, the first being the flagship in Te Wha
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Chair Squad
There’s a must-see show on now until March 3 at Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland gallery Objectspace that examines a single item from its earliest documented period of local production. Curated by Kim Paton, with exhibition and graphic design by Inhouse, The
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Snack Attack
Architects Diana Żurek and Gutek Girek of Furora Studio say they try to create spaces that are “comfortable but not obvious — with a pinch of salt”. This pastel project, a shortterm rental apartment dubbed Pops, is more sweet than savoury, but is unb
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Stellar Artistry
Art is not just for other people. As Head of Art at New Zealand’s top auction house Webb’s Tasha Jenkins (above left) says, “People may not realise, but it is possible to acquire fantastic artworks at any price point.” We brought her in to teach us h
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Night After Night
The Italians and Spaniards call it aperitivo, the French apéritif, and this European tradition — relaxing into evening entertaining with a pre-dinner cocktail and savoury snacks — is one I like to embrace at home in the summer months. Not every occas
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Tone two-zone
- The confident, contrasting colour palette we’ve used to decorate and define this spare bedroom/office set-up embodies the orderly appeal of the classic refill pad, with its crisp, white paper and red and blue lines. For the bedroom bit, we chose re
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Loren Marks Is Never Certain What Will Emerge From Her Otherworldly Works — They Speak For Themselves.
If you ask Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s Loren Marks what painting is to her, she’ll describe it as a chaotic blend of exploration, discovery, risk, experimentation, vulnerability, expression, dialogue, balance, harmony, energy and reflection. Some of h
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Personal Connections And Intuition Underpin Lisa Billing's Paintings - Then Over And Above She Goes.
Going by the name of Hey Maker Studio, Waihi Beach-based artist Lisa Billing (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui ) is deep in commissions right now. She’s also working on some landscapes and a series of painted fruit bowls and vases inspired by old handbl
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As Fate Would Have It
Having attended kindergarten, primary school and intermediate together a year apart, Catherine and Lee Wilkinson were students at the same high school when they were ‘officially’ introduced by a mutual friend. “We kind of just started hanging out and
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A bit about us
When design professionals Matt Genefaas and Dan Craig started searching for their first home, they quickly realised that in order to be truly happy, they’d need to start from scratch. Having relocated to Tauranga from Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland just be
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Private universe
For most of us, getting away from it all would not involve staying home. At architect Eva Nash’s, there’s no place like it for feeling as if you’re in another realm — and not just one. The experience begins at the front gate. The brief given to lands
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Be Our Guests
Departing Ōtautahi/Christchurch on a misty morning, I travel north with some apprehension as to what the weather will be like for our photoshoot. Luckily, as I pass through the small towns beyond the city, the low cloud dissipates, and by the time I’
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As Far As The Eye Can See
Whereas some renovations start with carefully plotted-out plans for a long-awaited dream home, Eastbourne’s Niki Pennington and Andrew Cathie were launched into the process by necessity, after discovering a small but pressing problem. “When Niki and
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Start To Finish
Leading with the best when you enter your home and the rooms within it requires getting to grips with your door handles as a key part of your design process. They can ultimately see your abode age terribly if you don’t, so to ensure lasting appeal, b
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Live A Little
The chance to keep moving forward while also doing a bit less sounds like a magic trick, yet it could actually be within reach. Given space, money and time are at a premium for many in Aotearoa, a smaller home offers a more achievable way to find you
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Rock Solid
There’s no question coloured concrete flooring is a good look, but what’s it like to live with? Just ask Built Chch’s Hat Hall and Karl Saunders. At their house in Ōtautahi/Christchurch’s Sumner (as seen in our December/January 2023 issue), three you
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All For Love
Because Meadowlark has its own workshop, we can quickly bring our designs to life, and we usually start seeing samples within two weeks of beginning a new collection. We have six wonderful jewellers in house, and three of them work on various parts o
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This Is The Life
Aquintessential Queenslander in Queensland but updated through an unpretentious approach to minimalism, Coorparoo House by Brisbane architects Nielsen Jenkins strikes an expert balance between openness, connection and privacy. The essence of this ico

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