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The New Zealand fashion label’s creative director, Marilou Dadat, credits the teamwork that made this succinct dream of a scheme work. Marilou, you collaborated…
In association with First Windows & Doors. Whereas some renovations start with carefully plotted-out plans for a long-awaited dream home, Eastbourne’s Niki Pennington and…
In association with Windsor Architectural Hardware. Leading with the best when you enter your home and the rooms within it requires getting to grips…
When design professionals Matt Genefaas and Dan Craig started searching for their first home, they quickly realised that in order to be truly happy,…
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…
Going by the name of Hey Maker Studio, Waihi Beach-based artist Lisa Billing (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui ) is deep in commissions right…
Everything everywhere all at once? Let colour-blocking help you draw a line between home and work-from-home. In association with Resene. Get the look – …
In association with Fisher & Paykel. A quintessential Queenslander in Queensland but updated through an unpretentious approach to minimalism, Coorparoo House by Brisbane architects Nielsen…
Co-founder of the beloved New Zealand brand, Claire Hammon, gets to the heart of its latest collection. Because Meadowlark has its own workshop, we…
There’s a must-see show on now until March 3, 2024 at Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland gallery Objectspace that examines a single item from its earliest documented…
In association with Versatile. The chance to keep moving forward while also doing a bit less sounds like a magic trick, yet it could…
In association with PeterFell. There’s no question coloured concrete flooring is a good look, but what’s it like to live with? Just ask Built…
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,…
In association with Città. To help you enhance your spaces with thoughtful styling, homestyle’s Alice Lines has partnered up with Città. Read her entertaining…
Having attended kindergarten, primary school and intermediate together a year apart, Catherine and Lee Wilkinson were students at the same high school when they…
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…
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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, …
For Jackie Ashley, it’s the little things in a home that count. The co-founder of fragrance company Ashley & Co understands the emotional connection …
It’s hard to imagine this storybook Tudor cottage was ever anything less than charming, although its renovation did come about through something of a …
The expansive vistas surrounding Tāhuna/Queenstown make an enticing environment for a tree-change move. The Sydney-based couple who own this home were also motivated to …
It’s been nearly two decades since the Swedish owners of this home first fell in love with Bali, drawn in particular to Canggu and the …
Two sisters, three daughters, one husband, and a brother with a bach next door — this project was quite the whānau affair. “It was …
STYLE
The New Zealand fashion label’s creative director, Marilou Dadat, credits the teamwork that made this succinct dream of a scheme work. 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 Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington and the second in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Each space is different but the brief is always the same: what materials can we use that are sustainable and natural? Like our clothing, the design started with circularity
Everything everywhere all at once? Let colour-blocking help you draw a line between home and work-from-home. In association with Resene. Get the look – 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 red-brown Resene Scoria to convey the warmth, comfort and cosiness required for winding down. For an energising effect in the workspace, we went for pale blue Resene Dream Big, an uplifting colour that bounces light
There’s a must-see show on now until March 3, 2024 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 Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa covers 170 years in New Zealand’s annals — and a book of the same name is set to be published (Objectspace, $45) as an extension of it. The result of a 12-month deep dive into a domestic object that’s essential from the minute we clock in in the morning till
PEOPLE
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 hand-blocked textiles. She offers limited-edition prints of some of her original paintings, so there’s always editing to be done, and she’s keen to expand on her current canvas sizes in 2024 and challenge herself with new mediums. How did she get here? Let’s start at the beginning. Lisa, when did you first hold a paintbrush and
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 her earliest memories are of wanting to paint, and she says it’s always felt as if it’s been part of her life in some way. Recently, after a decade spent working full-time as a textile designer in the fashion industry, she established a regular studio practice on the side. So Loren, how do your various creative outlets feed into each other? I find it incredible
Creativity has been a constant in New Zealand-born Samoan/Rotuman/Tongan/Irish artist Serene Hodgman’s life, its meaning morphing over the years. As a child, she recalls it being a skill she and her cousins learned to keep them out of the kitchen when formal events were on, or at their nana’s (they once made a supermarket check-out conveyor belt from her ironing board and an ‘ie lavalava, which they pulled along the board with pantry food on it while using the iron as a barcode scanner). As she grew older, the Elam School of Fine Arts alum remembers being at her
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In association with Brother. A year has a tendency to pass in a blur, then suddenly it’s all but over and you still haven’t …
Food has always been a big part of Manawatū food stylist, photographer, cook, recipe developer, artist, entrepreneur and mum Christall Lowe’s life. In her …
Stick a fork in us, we’re done, thanks to local label Fondu’s rad retro togs. Our hearts have turned to mush over the way …
New Zealand’s number-one showcase for contemporary art, Aotearoa Art Fair, is all set for 2022’s programme, which will see more than 40 local and …