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Sculptural to look at and a joy to use, this multi tap brings confident kitchen design home. In association with Plumbline. Plumbline’s Oli…
This extract from The Unmaking Of, a publication to mark Kowtow’s 20th anniversary, is written by an award-winning climate journalist, and presents a clear-eyed…
Sarah Sherman Samuel sees home as a living autobiography, where art, architecture and memories meet. The celebrated designer shares the process behind the Showhouse…
We’re celebrating 20 years of Twenty Seven Names, a brand launched by old school-friends Rachel Easting and Anjali Burnett, initially in a uni flat…
A newly opened 44-room boutique hotel in Copenhagen’s Indre By, Henrik’s Hotel marks the third generation of the Hildebrandt family’s return to the building…
Born in Japan, raised in Aotearoa and based in Italy, designer Keiji Takeuchi talks about walking sticks, and a world without borders. “The studio…
Dial up the lustre levels using Resene paints with a bit more bounce back, for spaces with commanding presence. In association with Resene. Low…
White linen tablecloths may be classic but block-printed ones are having a moment. The Harlequin design by California-based Studio Ford takes inspiration from early…
Now here’s a collab between two seasoned professionals, if you’ll excuse the reference. The Pinch Salt & Pepper Mill set designed by Jamie McLellan…
In the fourth feature in this five-part series with Aalto Paint, we explore analogous schemes with their Master Palette. In association with Aalto. When…
Abel founder Frances Shoemack takes her Aotearoa brand global with new vanilla Double Scoop. In the garden of the Carmen guesthouse in Amsterdam, a…
Here’s something new and worth noticing: Potocco’s Double L Glaze coffee tables have splashed down (colourfully) in Aotearoa. Conceived by award-winning designer Chiara Andreatti…
If the precision is in the structured crafting, then the joy is in the finer details. Leather-goods house Yu Mei has introduced their first…
Our editor’s dispatch from 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen’s citywide summer fair, where endless daylight, a century of heritage and the antipodean contingent all…
I’m writing this from somewhere over the Indian Ocean, on the last leg home after a month criss-crossing Europe — London to Copenhagen, Amsterdam…
In the old fishing village of Durgerdam, a heritage inn on the IJmeer has been restored into a 14-room stay with an honesty bar,…
HOMES
The peacefulness of an alpine backdrop is magnified by a palette that embraces soft, natural tones and textures — and spaces that invite contemplation …
Using colour inside and out has proved a treasure found for the owners of this renovated and extended 1930s home, where art and collections …
A new home in Tāhuna/Queenstown where the sky gets in before the mountains do. Snow falls in the courtyard at the centre of this …
This Wellington townhouse renovation proves what colour, warmth and genuine creative trust can do when a couple decide to go all in. Deep green …
It may have taken a little while but, several homes later, the owners of this countryside property south of Auckland have reached the peak …
This Wairarapa home was built to hold a slow-growing collection of art, memories and family moments. There’s a particular kind of confidence in leaving …
STYLE
This extract from The Unmaking Of, a publication to mark Kowtow’s 20th anniversary, is written by an award-winning climate journalist, and presents a clear-eyed view of the ugly side of fast fashion. In association with Kowtow. Walking down Jamestown beach in Accra, Ghana, the sand is studded with what might appear to be brightly coloured, patterned rocks. Get a little closer, though, and they seem to warp before your eyes. One sprouts a sleeve; another, a waistband. These are not rocks, you realise. They’re clothes. These clothes have made an arduous journey to end up here: produced by a
Sarah Sherman Samuel sees home as a living autobiography, where art, architecture and memories meet. The celebrated designer shares the process behind the Showhouse — her own new-build in the Michigan woodlands. “What set this project apart was the lack of typical restraints that all designers navigate. Usually, projects come with many predetermined factors, chief among them the existing architecture, including the general style, the façade, the foundation, the rooflines, the floor plan, the plumbing locations, window details and so on. Projects also typically have pretty rigidly defined client-based guardrails we need to work around: the client’s budget and
We’re celebrating 20 years of Twenty Seven Names, a brand launched by old school-friends Rachel Easting and Anjali Burnett, initially in a uni flat in Ōtepoti/Dunedin. The name pays exacting homage to the 27 people who helped them on the journey, and they are just as loyal to the local. The latest collection, Look No Further, does not deviate from their made-in-Aotearoa pledge. Their commitment to colour and playful tailoring hasn’t changed either, as illustrated in the apple green Freedom jacket, a joyful swing coat with full gathered sleeves and an exaggerated collar. Traces of mid-century styling are evident
PEOPLE
Born in Japan, raised in Aotearoa and based in Italy, designer Keiji Takeuchi talks about walking sticks, and a world without borders. “The studio consists of a small group of international talent from diverse cultural backgrounds set up over two floors — one for desk work and meetings, the other for workshops and hands-on model making. Growing up in New Zealand led me to think more broadly about how to get the most out of what’s available; studying design allowed me to fully utilise material properties, rather than relying on unquestioned mechanical solutions. I’m interested in finding dialogues between
Raised among furniture with stories, Awayday founder Gloria Griffen has built a business around the thrill of the good find and the lasting value of pieces with a past. When did you decide to make a business out of pre-loved? When I started Awayday, it was a creative project as much as anything — a way to keep expressing my passions while also navigating being a new mother. Matrescence shifted everything for me, and Awayday grew out of that season. I wanted to apply my skills and style of sourcing to a business that gave me the freedom to
In a Titirangi workroom, Liz Wycherley and Simon Oosterdijk make ceramics, and candles designed to drip, slump, resist and almost fall apart. Partners in life and in the studio, Elizabeth Wycherley and Simon Oosterdijk are the driving force behind Post Objects (Simon) and the eponymous Liz Wycherley, two brands that fuse their zigzaggy careers in fashion, graphic design and publishing into passion projects that wrap around family life. Having worked alongside each other for many years, including time in London, they recently moved to operating quite separately — Liz on ceramics, raku forms, lamps, urns and a candle line
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