Presenting NZ’s best new furniture in the 2016 Design Awards
HOME magazine’s annual awards shine the spotlight on New Zealand’s best new furniture and lighting designs. Introducing the finalists and winners of the 2016 Design Awards [jwp-video n=”1″] The 2016 Design Awards showcase Every year HOME magazine showcases New Zealand’s best new furniture and lighting in its annual Design Awards in conjunction with Fisher & Paykel. […]
10 of the best designs from this year’s NYC x Design Festival
This year’s NYC x DESIGN Festival was a snapshot of both established directions and developing movements in American interior design, reports Sam Eichblatt in New York Endlessly customisable and modular products, ethical production, reworking American design heritage, art-design-fashion collaborations and surprising materials (tables made of salt, anyone?): this year’s NYCxDesign festival was a snapshot of both […]
Iconic gallery gets a second chance
A Christchurch arts institution is restored and triumphantly reopened Following five years of closure and $4.5 million worth of refurbishment and quake strengthening, Christchurch gallery CoCA Toi Moroki, is open once again. Founded in 1880 as the Canterbury Society of Arts, the gallery – New Zealand’s oldest – went on to become known for hosting […]
Pip Cheshire’s new Northland building celebrates New Zealand’s past
A new building in Northland by Pip Cheshire is designed for contemplation of a historically loaded site In the end, Pip Cheshire decided to let the land tell the story. He stands inside the tapered walls of Rore Kãhu, the building he designed to commemorate the arrival of Anglican clergyman Samuel Marsden in New […]
This is what an artist’s residency on remote Fogo Island looks like
On a residency in Canada’s icy, far-flung Fogo Island, artist Kate Newby finds art and architecture being used to chart a new future The artist Kate Newby is in her sickbed. You can’t blame her: outside it’s been minus 18 degrees and in her studio, cups of water are freezing. She is in a […]
Bill Shumaker’s art-filled Brooklyn home
Chef, ad-man, one-time Titirangi hippie: Bill Shumaker’s rich life is reflected in the madcap collection on his Brooklyn walls.
The Auckland Art Fair is back for another year
An Auckland art event returns with big new ambitions The Auckland Art Fair returns this year under new management and scaled up for more public engagement with a move to The Cloud on Queen’s Wharf. The fair, held from May 25-29, will include works from most of New Zealand’s leading galleries (their participation is approved […]
Store profile: Muck Floral & General
This Auckland florist and café also sells happening homeware Florist Sophie Wolanski and baker and shopkeeper Carter Were’s design destination in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn is big on locally sourced freshness and low on pretension. Wolanski prefers her bouquets to be ordered in advance to minimise wastage; her structured-but-natural aesthetic is also in demand as […]
Auckland eatery Saan’s breathtaking interior
This Auckland eatery combines regional Thai cuisine with an interior by Cheshire Architects The crew behind Auckland’s Café Hanoi have teamed up with Cheshire Architects to create another alluring space. Saan combines a beautiful room with chef Lek Trirattanavatin’s delectable food, which hails from the Isaan and Lanna regions of Thailand. Just as in Café Hanoi, […]
A must-visit art gallery in rural Somerset
One of Europe’s most powerful art couples establishes a must-visit gallery and restaurant in rural Somerset At its upper levels, the business of art is a high-stakes game played out in the world’s wealthiest cities. And in recent years, few have played this game better than Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser, whose eponymous galleries […]
Step inside The Shelter
Design destination The Shelter provides combines fashion, homeware and food in a monochrome setting The latest design destination just off Auckland’s Ponsonby strip is The Shelter, a lofty, airy space that mixes homeware such as planters from Trestle Union, cushions and cutlery from Broste Copenhagen, and fashion labels such as Lela Jacobs, MOBI shoes, Jimmy D, Preen and […]
Shop profile: King Living furniture
Australia’s King Living has had a big presence across the Tasman for 35 years, and is now bringing its furniture to the New Zealand market The firm is probably best-known for its high-quality sectional sofas (they come with a 25-year warranty on their steel frames), but also produces a full range of indoor and outdoor furniture […]
Shop profile: Craft work
Prak Sritharan is filling the shelves of Precinct 35 with beautifully crafted objects. Prak Sritharan Wellington store shares space with the Milk Crate café, allowing coffee drinkers to wander in and browse wares from near and far: objects by Japanese design houses Koizumi Studio, Saito Wood, Lemnos and Hasami Porcelain sit alongside New Zealand’s Goldsworthy […]
Fashion forward: Home grown
Architecture is often little more than an anonymous backdrop for fashion shoots, so it’s nice to see a label turning this formula around. Working Style, the 28-year-old firm that creates made-to-measure men’s suits and ready-to-wear items, is making great New Zealand architecture the star of its campaigns. Case in point: a new shoot at […]
Zizz and zing
Behind the design of the Len Lye Centre The early 1980s. A family holiday: hot summer days driving around Taranaki listening to the Little River Band’s Greatest Hits on cassette in the back seat of the Peugeot 504. One afternoon, my parents announced we would visit New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Gallery. I was 12 years old […]
Christchurch’s new caffeine hub
Development may feel like it’s taking forever in central Christchurch, but the coffee options just broadened with the opening of Supreme’s new South Island headquarters. The Supreme team worked with architect Jessica Barter of Bureaux to convert a building that has served as a Land Rover dealership and, more latterly, as the Chinese goods […]
Jamie McLellan designs Gubb and Mackie’s new store
The clothing label Gubb & Mackie started life as a naval tailor in 1949. Now they’ve just opened a new store in Auckland’s Vulcan Lane designed by Jamie McLellan, a past winner of HOME’s Design Awards. Normally a product designer, this is McLellan’s first full interior project. Full of abstracted nautical cues and a […]
Katie Lockhart’s interior worlds
Auckland-based interior designer and stylist Katie Lockhart contributes to magazines like World of Interiors and Italy’s much-missed Case da Abitare, as well as writing and shooting regularly for HOME. In this, our interiors issue, she’s created a shoot with photographer Harriet Were that envisions spaces with rich earth-toned walls and Arts and Crafts influences. Here, Katie talks […]
Five reasons to listen to Julie Eizenberg
We’re bringing a big name in architecture to New Zealand in March, and you’ve got to come and hear her talk! Los Angeles-based architect Julie Eizenberg is the international member of our three-person Home of the Year 2015 jury and she’s going to be speaking in Auckland and in Christchurch. Here are five reasons to […]
Holiday homes to (temporarily) call your own
We round up our favourite holiday homes from around New Zealand so you can stay in some of the coolest spots for your next beach escape Oruawharo Cottage, Great Barrier Island This two-bedroom hideaway on Great Barrier Island was designed by Tim Hay and Jeff Fearon of Fearon Hay, with interior architect Penny Hay working […]
Three artists experiment with the Colours of New Zealand
Dulux has partnered with artists Kris Sowersby, Sarah Maxey and Elliot Collins to celebrate the Dulux Colours of New Zealand®. All three artists work with text and language in some way in their work, yet each comes from different disciplines and traditions. Kris Sowersby is a type designer, Sarah Maxey is a designer and illustrator, […]
Artist John Reynolds: cover star, reinventor, vacuumer
Artist John Reynolds – Arts Foundation Laureate, two-time Walters Prize nominee, Sydney Biennale headliner – is all over our latest issue. He and his wife, Claire McLintock, have lived in their villa in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby for over 20 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they decided to stop living like […]
How John Reynolds found the perfect balance
John Reynolds’s studio out the back of his Auckland villa is a beautiful thing, befitting for an artist How John Reynolds found the perfect balance The studio is both functional and beautiful, made from a mix of materials, such as corrugated iron, steel beams, floor-to-ceiling glass louvres (a Walker motif), a wooden roof and a rubber […]
Italy’s finest, in Auckland
There’s movement afoot in furniture retailing – being led in Auckland by Studio Italia, who have just relocated their stable of Italian furniture thoroughbreds to a vast new showroom in Grafton’s Nugent Street. With 1,100 square metres of light, airy space (25 percent more than their old store) over two levels, key brands such […]
Editor’s eye: Jeremy Hansen’s top 10
Our new issue is on newsstands Monday! This one’s a bumper, with eleven New Zealand homes featured, including six small, smart and eco-friendly baches. In this post, HOME editor Jeremy Hansen chooses his favourite images in our December/January issue. 1. The cover “Arch [HOME’s creative director] picked this as a cover from all the images in […]
NZ design graduate joins urban renewal success story
Opening a physical shop to accompany an online offering might appear counterintuitive and, just three years after graduating, it wasn’t in designer Sara Spence’s game plan. Spence’s dubbleyou.com.au has been running since her final year in graphic and object design at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts (COFA), selling her locally made homewares and accessories. […]
My Favourite Building: fashion designer Ingrid Starnes
My Favourite Building: fashion designer Ingrid Starnes “This eccentric, grand brick house with its extravagant driveway has always stood out for me. I love the way the wide lawn means it feels so removed from the Lego houses built up around it. It feels out of place, maybe even a bit haunted, like something from […]
My Favourite Building: art dealer Olivia McLeavey
My Favourite Building: art dealer Olivia McLeavey “The 1960s is my favourite period of architecture and Freyberg Pool is a classic form of the period. The building is strong, decidedly modernist, elegant and confident. Designed by Jason Smith from King & Dawson, it was built in 1963 with a butterfly roof and glass floor-to-ceiling walls. […]
Eugénie’s beautifully crafted Auckland store
After moving on from the world of advertising, Elizabeth Wilson retrained in fashion, and worked a stint for Karen Walker. Wilson is now carving her own path in the industry with her new shop Eugénie in Auckland. Here, the designer describes how the interiors complement her style, and the advantages of having a bricks-and-mortar shop as well as […]
A Christchurch restaurant’s delicious new dining space
The popularity of Christchurch locavore restaurant Shop Eight meant people were being turned away at the door. They recently expanded into the studio upstairs, transforming the space into an intimate dining area. Co-owner of the popular local restaurant Liz Phelan describes the process to Majka Kaiser. HOME Why the expansion upstairs, and what […]
My Favourite Building: Dajiang Tai of Cheshire Architects
My Favourite Building: Dajiang Tai of Cheshire Architects “I drove past Auckland’s Congreve house [designed by Pip Cheshire, 1987-1992] when I was still a student at university. I stopped on the reserve and stared at it for half an hour – it is one of those houses that you can sense is extraordinary just by […]
Mostly unseen works by Milan Mrkusich now up at Aratoi
Alice Hutchison recently returned to New Zealand to work as director of Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Here, she talks to HOME editor Jeremy Hansen about why the upcoming exhibition of mostly unseen Modernist works by Milan Mrkusich is significant today, and what visitors can expect. HOME Why Mrkusich and why now? Alice […]
Christchurch Botanic Gardens’ serene new heart
Christchurch is a flat city, its topography made distinctive by the sinuous curves of the Otakaro Avon River, which disrupt the orderly urban grid laid out in the 1840s by European surveyors. In the city centre, Hagley Park, ‘forever’ reserved as public green space by the Provincial Government in 1855, is bounded to the north […]
Historic Christchurch buildings are born again
The two buildings pictured above have now almost come full circle from their religious beginnings, providing solace of a different kind as a wellness centre and café. Here, Majka Kaiser talks to co-owner of Pascha and Hello Sunday Jonathan Spark about kitting out the two historic buildings. HOME Can you tell us about the […]
My Favourite Building: Karen Walker creative director Mikhail Gherman
“This building in High Street, Auckland, is a real outsider for me. It was designed by Peter Beaven in 1965 and it forms the Canterbury Arcade along with a couple of older buildings that run through to Queen Street. For me it’s a great representation of the hotchpotch character of Auckland’s inner city, the […]
An art gallery’s stylish new Auckland home
The new Michael Lett Gallery space in Auckland embodies elegance and grit, and so it sits comfortably on Karangahape Road, a gentrifying location with a dark side. Here, Michael Lett tells Jeremy Hansen about what attracted him to the new building, the architects’ brief, and how they are using the space. HOME You’ve moved to […]
My Favourite Building: Mark Burke-Damaschke
Mark Burke-Damaschke from Opus Architecture admires a low-key Auckland coastal icon. “Along the densely populated shoreline between Auckland’s Milford and Takapuna beaches lies this discreet and understated gem of modernist architecture. It was designed by architect Mike Austin in the 1960s and it’s refreshing to see such a restrained solution to this wonderful coastal site […]
Auckland Art Gallery’s dramatic new exhibition
From October 11, 2014 until February 8, 2015 Auckland Art Gallery hosts a luminous exhibition from Hayward Gallery. Here, the London gallery’s curator Dr Cliff Lauson tells HOME editor Jeremy Hansen about the ways artists have been using light as a medium since the exhibition’s starting point in the 1960s, and the experience visitors can expect from the show. […]
Photographer Simon Devitt’s hit list
Our new issue features a selection of New Zealand architects’ own homes, all of them photographed and selected by photographer Simon Devitt. Simon is a regular contributor to the magazine, but this is the first time he’s shot all the main features for us – and we think he’s done a wonderful job of capturing […]
A Cuba Street eatery brings new flavours to dining in the capital
When Marc Weir, co-owner of Floriditas (also on Wellington’s Cuba Street), decided it was time to launch a larger, more casual eatery, they enlisted the support of Parsonson Architects, conveniently located upstairs from their new premises, and created Loretta. The pared back space is enriched with small, perfect details, such as the Paul Melser tableware and of course the […]
My Favourite Building: Textile artist Vita Cochran
“I love this building because of its inspired siting: a wonderful modern library, a building with personality, in the sandhills of New Brighton beach. It’s elliptical and aerodynamic, nautical without being heavy-handed, with a roof like folded insect wings and sunshades on one face which suggest paper kites. In winter you can sit in […]
My Favourite Building: City Gallery Wellington director Elizabeth Caldwell
City Gallery Wellington director Elizabeth Caldwell admires a building from Deco’s heyday.
Get to know artist Michio Ihara’s sculptural life
Get to know artist Michio Ihara’s sculptural life It can take a while to find the perfect home. After nearly three decades as the most prominent artwork in downtown Auckland’s windblown Queen Elizabeth II Square, Michio Ihara’s 1977 sculpture ‘Wind Tree’ was taken down to make way for the Britomart redevelopment. ‘Wind Tree’s’ original site […]