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About halfway through the judging for Home of the Year 2017, an architect asked me how we could possibly decide between the various different projects we had visited. They’re all so wildly different, he said: how do you judge one over the other? My answer: with great difficulty. In mid-February, three of us set off around the country: me, the internationally acclaimed architect Todd Saunders (of Fogo Island fame) and Richard Naish of RTA Studio, whose own house in Auckland won Home of the Year in 2015. We visited 15 houses in five days, from the north of the country to the south, and the criteria became obvious: clarity of concept and quality of execution. What did they set out to achieve and how close did they come to achieving…
Amelia Holmes A regular contributor to HOME, the stylist is about to open her own design store in Auckland. What did you love about the winning home? I love the façade of the building and all the interior spaces work so well. It's a very progressive building for Cambridge. The owners were such an amazing couple and had a real imagination to look at a site and location like that and see the potential. They obviously had a lot of trust in Chris who did an amazing job on this interesting site. What drives the creative process for your styled shoots? I love doing the styled shoots as it means a break from working on long-lead projects and working on something much more loosely creative with a quick turnaround. It's…
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There’s a simple genius to Martino Gamper’s 100 Chairs in 100 Days: in each place the exhibition visits, he makes a new chair from found objects – the process of which is shown in these photos taken in Auckland recently. “The result changes according to what I find, where I work and how I feel on that day,” says Gamper. Why did you start rescuing chairs? I saw potential in the post-consumer reminiscence. What makes a good chair? A combination of shape/form, elegance, comfort, material, context, history and the relationship with the user. How difficult is it to make a chair in a day, and what does that pressure do to the process? Some days it’s easy, some days it’s difficult. It’s quite difficult when you think too much about the…
Established by Simon James and Scott Bridgens in 2011, Resident will launch its seventh collection in April at the annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair. At Euroluce – the international lighting exhibition that’s part of the fair, Resident is announcing the release of ‘Circus’ light (right), a remarkable system of interconnected rings that can be arranged in sequence to create a striking vertical drop. Each brass ring projects a warm and elegantly diffused LED lightsource that spreads outwards to a 360-degree plane. The revolutionary plug-and-play system allows for power sharing between rings and a large range of variations to suit spaces of different shapes and sizes. ‘Circus’ is a theatrical system designed for both commercial and residential environments. It’s available in two sizes – 500mm and 750mm diameter, which can…
Auckland Coffee roaster Eighthirty has established a bit of a reputation in recent years for crisp, beautifully realised cafes designed by Dominic Glamuzina of Glamuzina Architects, and its new roastery is a fine addition. Eighthirty has made a point of inhabiting spaces in areas that had somehow been forgotten – rejuvenating patches of the city as a result. “It started with me making Dom coffee in the mornings when he moved back from London,” says owner Glenn Bell. “He’d seen a photo of our space on K Road and decided it was going to be his new coffee joint when he got back.” A former barista, Glamuzina (with Aaron Paterson) first designed a mini roastery in Ponsonby Central for the roaster in 2010, followed by a minimalist high-ceilinged cafe on…
