The manipulation of a material, whose inherent qualities speak to permanence and solidity, into sculptural forms that move effortlessly between the design realms of lightness, whimsy, and decadence.
The highly coveted list of finalists is revealed! Peruse the homes and vote for the project you believe should win the 2023 HOME Interior of the Year Readers’ Choice Award.
Sculptor Simon Max Bannister’s works carry a powerful essence, often becoming symbols of our relationship with the environment and the wildlife within it.
One of only five office buildings in the world to achieve Passive House Plus certification, and the first outside of France, has opened in Wanaka.
The refurbishment of Wellington’s St James Theatre received a coveted accolade at the 2023 Dulux Colour Awards, being named the New Zealand Grand Prix winner. We talk to the designer behind this majestic restoration.
We take a look at some of the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects 2023 Local Architecture Awards winners.
This pool house is a dichotomy of sorts — on a residential site, it is commercially proportioned — and meticulously considered as both a public and private facility.
We speak to graphic designer turned product designer, Kate Slavin, about her experience in moving from two dimensions to three, and the intricacies of designing a product to outlive our generation — and the next.
It’s the finer details that make a home, and that’s no exception with Windsor Hardware’s latest range of handcrafted bespoke cabinet handles.
A newcomer to the design scene, Auckland-based Kanat Studio is quickly making a name for itself. We spoke to its co-founders, Kate Pilot and Natalia Glucina, about their emerging aesthetic and creative voice.
This new iteration of a sought-after solid surface is at the forefront of an entirely new level of design freedom.
On the threshold between residential and commercial precincts, a concrete building was designed as a link between the two – sensitive to each and with an undeniable character of its own.
Known for her moody, ethereal style, Greer Clayton explores the form, tonal resonance, and texture of a landscape to evoke an engaging representation of the environment she occupies.
This home that steps down a bush-covered hillside in what is arguably one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand is both a statement and a piece of architecture that recesses subtly into the beauty of the landscape that surrounds it.
Three New Zealand projects took out top honours in the 2023 Dulux Colour Awards. We take a look at their sophisticated and vibrant brushstrokes.
At an exclusive event in Auckland last month, we celebrated the 2023 Home of the Year winners and finalists.
The recent Milan Furniture Fair 2023 has just finished. Its legacy of forms, colours, materials and sunny-bright ideas has just begun to be discussed. We check out some of the highlights.
The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2023 is underway, running until 25 June in a selection of theatres around the country.
Barcelona-based New Zealander Bergendy Cooke, the 2021 Home of the Year winner, has designed a hotel in Marrakech, Morocco for an Austrian hotelier, and the result is as intriguing as it is memorable.
The Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival is about to hit the big screen around New Zealand. Here’s a couple of highlights, selected by the HOME team.
Think burnt orange-red hot sauce, mustard-tinged olive dirty martini, grunge eyeshadow and circular voids. We talk to the designers behind a new tapware range that embodies this eclectic group of concepts.
Capture the essence of autumn with these rich tones and biophilic pieces, curated by our editor.
Award-winning Auckland food and lifestyle photographer Manja Wachsmuth’s work is direct, evocative and beautiful. We speak to her about her latest body of work.
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a crossroads in its response to how our built environment manages climate change. Jo Bates talks to three architects about where to from here.
Known for their humanist architecture, created with an innate sensitivity to how people live, experience and move in the world, Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson were awarded the 2022 Gold Medal.
Exterior cladding is one of the most visual parts of any home, playing a key role in defining a building’s style, articulating its architectural moves, and introducing the aesthetic and tone.
Utilising a dark grey coloured concrete as a central feature, the interiors of this home of art expand and contract around a vibrant form.
French designer Jean-Marie Massaud is on a lifelong quest for synthesis, reduction and lightness. It is a symbiosis between his creations and the natural environment that he strives to reach, and his latest pieces for Poliform are no exception. We explore five of the newest, available in New Zealand from Studio Italia.
Inviting autumnal hues this season gravitate around an earthen palette, a tonal melody that gives rise to spaces of tranquillity.
Delivering contemporary innovation,
Gerard Roofing’s concealed fastening
technology allows for beauty and
longevity.
Timber garage doors have an innate beauty to them, one that lies in the natural variance of colour and grain, and the tactility and warmth the material provides.
An abstract form on a rugged site between the Tasman Sea and rolling
farmland, this Gibbons Architecture-designed home is one of versatility
and connection, drawing in the outdoors and providing refuge from it.
We explore the latest in New Zealand art from emerging and established artists traversing medium, geography, style, and subject.
Australian artisan rug brand Tribe Home has opened its doors in New Zealand. We speak to founder Tina Richards about the brand’s philosophy.
Simon James has a new home – a spacious, light-filled showroom in the heart of Mount Eden, casting the brand’s elegant, contemporary designs in an industrial setting.
The winners of the inaugural HOME Interior Design Excellence Awards were celebrated at an exclusive event at Park Hyatt, Auckland in February.
Hastings couple Adam and Nicola Mossman have a less is more approach. The result: a thriving brand whose ethos remains simple – local, natural and restorative.
Infamous for its Syrah, Trinity Hill Estate is a local – and international – favourite but it’s a new vintage that’s had people talking of late.
Hawke’s Bay locals Kate Galloway and David Ramonteu are known for their certified organic artisan spirits and liqueurs. However, their latest offering promises a special indulgence.
From its Art Deco heritage to its working class roots, and an ever-evolving arts scene, there’s layer upon layer to discover in this small city with a big soul.
The summer months at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings City Art Gallery promise a spectacular array of exhibitions – traversing the glaciers of Te Waipounamu, to clay, resin, oozing glazes, and shifting tides.
Ben Pearce’s latest works exist at the intersection of fragile beauty and the confidence of brutalism. His pieces deliver both an arresting clarity and an intangible ambiguity.
On the shores of one of Coromandel’s most well-known beaches, the coastal hues have a distinctive intensity. This home echoes those in its exterior materiality.
In celebration of summer, HOME and 1800 Tequila came together to create four irresistible cocktails – a refreshing take on classic tequila recipes.
This beautiful light-filled store in a Spanish Mission loft in Hawke’s Bay is an experience; a space of inspiration.
Wedged between bush and sea, this Coromandel home is devised as a place of quiet; a place to bunker down, a place to escape to – and a place from which to enjoy the outdoors.
During a mountain bike ride about ten years ago, two mates got chatting. The result is a fresh – and entirely Kiwi – take on the hot tub.
Arguably, there’s nowhere that says ‘Kiwi Summer’ better than the Coromandel Peninsula. We spoke to Bev Calder of Bayleys about the region and its hidden gems.
For the owners of this Coromandel home, it was an interest in the older baches still dotted around the neighbourhood that provided the basis for their brief.
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects celebrated the best of the best recently, with its annual awards. We look at the residential winners.
One of the latest offerings on the northern end of Lake Wakatipu is the Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp, a place that is down to earth, adventurous, and highly sociable.
We pair some of our favourites pieces from Bauhaus with artworks from Parnell Gallery to exemplify the shifting seasons.
New Zealand towelling brand BAINA has released Collection 05, an interpretation of line and rhythm.
Combining ancient techniques, a passion for Greek mythology, and an eye for design, Tauranga-based craftsman Mat Macmillan’s lighting delivers a calm beauty.
The timeless, luxury environment is a new home for the brand and a cultural expression of Fisher & Paykel’s place of origin.
We speak to the winner of the HOME + Samsung Bespoke Fridge Design Challenge, Hungarian-born Kiwi Erika Horvath Gaborovna.
A new rug collection by Designer Rugs and Greg Natale has postmodernism and a bold ’80s sensibility at its core.
We explore the 2023 Dulux Colour Forecast, which evokes meaningful connections with warming, earth-drawn neutrals, natural textures, and uplifting hues.
The Royal Menagerie is a new collection by Mokum; it is a play on the idea of decadence and luxury – a contemporary take on 1970s Las Vegas glamour.
In Bendemeer, this house of three parts delivers a tactile materiality perfectly suited to its alpine surrounds.
A new exhibition by Auckland artist Ross Jones evokes a heady sense of nostalgia and elevated playfulness.
As flexible arrangements continue to dominate our working life, we take a look at well-designed spaces that perfectly blur the line between home and cubicle.
At Long Gully Station, just beyond the Brooklyn wind turbine high above Wellington, this is a home of bold colour and innovation.
A highly tactile and textural construction method, rammed earth building is developing at pace in New Zealand. We explore a recent project in Ophir.
As our glaciers melt, Nelson-based photographer Virginia Woolf is recording their decline in the hope her images help to inspire change.
We revisit the winning Home of the Year 2019 — Diagrid House by Jack McKinney Architects — and transform the strong, architectural interior.
A modest project in Sandringham by Pac Studio takes out the highest honours at the 2022 Dulux Colour Awards.
Clad in cedar, this house is devised as a sum of connected parts. The cedar is used in several different formats, the differentiation is subtle as are the tonal changes.
Impeccable furniture selection from Simon James helps to stitch the architectural narratives of this Great Barrier home to its surroundings.
On a streetscape of dualities: commercial and residential, old and new, coastal and suburban, a church of historical value has been daringly brought back to life.
BMW has a vision for a circular economy that is embodied in its goal to become the world’s most sustainable manufacturer of premium vehicles.
Scandinavian design company, Muuto, believes it is important for intuitive senses to be stimulated and inspired while workday at home.
Last month Dulux held their annual Colour Awards, a celebration of ambitious and innovative use of colour in the built environment.
Design duo Kelly Gammie and Sean Monk’s new Ponsonby studio offers an intentional ambiguity in every space.
External materials here pay heed to the distinctive greys of the braided rivers the area is known for, and the natural stone of the glacial valleys of central Otago.
With the new all-electric BMW iX, getting on the road while reducing our impact on the planet is easier than ever.
Just near The Octagon in Dunedin, a 158-year-old two-storey commercial building had been empty for several years, slowly deteriorating amidst the hustle and bustle of Princes Street. Potter Amanda Shanley changed that.
Intersecting a meandering public pathway that leads through the dunes, a new building seeks to be both part of the landscape and offer pockets of shelter from it.
On the outskirts of Auckland, a minimalist home using a mixture of timber cladding was designed to echo the contour of the neighbouring forest.
On the edge of Christchurch city, a new urban neighbourhood has been designed in response to the eclectic history of the site.
A new gallery is opening its doors in the largest Pacific city in the world, Auckland, with its core foundation rooted in elevating the standing and exhibition of Modern Pacific Art.
From magnificent gardens and beneath the entangled boughs of a mature pohutukawa tree, Callerton House is a place of dynamic juxtapositions.
Samsung has this month released a revolutionary new product to New Zealand: a completely customisable French door refrigerator.
HOME attended the second iteration of the annual architecture event Open Christchurch. Here are our highlights.
We’re celebrating the 500th issue of HOME, a significant milestone in the title’s nearly 90-year history of documenting New Zealand architecture.
Unleash your creativity and go in the draw to win a Samsung Bespoke Refrigerator valued at $6,899 and have your design featured in HOME!
Within James Hardie’s new lookbook, find inspiration for home exteriors, interiors and outdoor areas, covering a myriad of design options and aesthetics. .
Ockham Residential’s Mark Todd speaks to HOME’s editor, Clare Chapman, about Ponsonby’s latest residential development — a glistening landmark building due for completion next year.
When it comes to home comforts, there’s a lot to be said for the simple throw. Even more so when it’s woven with organic natural fibres.
Hettich drawer systems and sliding and folding doors ensure flawless kitchen design meets high-performing cabinetry that lasts.
