Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2018 i Home New Zealand

Not so long ago, I sat in on a session in which the inimitable Caroline Montague of Matisse advised a group of design aficionados to forget about trends when buying new furniture and think more about things you love: heirlooms, collections... and one ‘wrong’ thing that sets off everything else. It made me feel a lot better about my own decidedly ‘eclectic’ house. We have too many books and an odd-ball collection of vintage pieces – a table by Parker Furniture picked up on Trade Me, a set of Ligna bentwood chairs found on the side of the road and restored – along with ceramics and glassware, inherited and collected. We have a minor addiction to armchairs, including a ‘Safari’ chair by Kaare Klint for Carl Hansen, which was a…

Painter, ceramicist, sculptor and provocateur Tony de Lautour’s first major retrospective, Us V Them takes in work from the past three decades. A new body of large-scale paintings has been completed especially for the exhibition, on at Christchurch Art Gallery until September 9. De Lautour first came to national prominence in 1994 with an exhibition entitled Bad White Art. Consisting of a series of thickly worked paintings – deliberately naive, even crude – it included imagery that drew on the seedier aspects of gang and prison life: spiders’ webs, guns, knives, teardrops, chains, lighting bolts and syringes. The artist continued to draw on popular culture throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Memorably, a series of paintings was inspired by corporate logos, which were subtly reinvented as landscapes featuring the Southern Alps.…

More than a pop-up The show that had everyone talking was The Diner, a celebration of the 25th birthday of Surface magazine. A collaboration between the magazine, David Rockwell and design studio 2x4, The Diner was a pop-up restaurant, bar and event space in a barrel-vaulted abandoned warehouse under Milan Central Station. Billed as a ‘coast-to-coast journey through the United States’, four spaces were inspired by a roadside diner, an East Coast luncheonette, a Midwest diner and a West Coast diner. On the menu? Burgers and deli classics provided by cult New York artisan food retailer, Murray’s Cheese. The space featured events – designer karaoke, anyone? – and talks during the day, and transformed into a cocktail bar by night. Partner support, naturally, was evident with furniture sourced from Design…

We love how the fiera has transitioned into an exhibition that encompasses the whole of Milan – brands that can’t afford to exhibit bring in trucks and open the doors. For us, it’s about getting out and seeing what people are doing. It feeds the soul. Rossana Orlandi We make a beeline there because we applaud her endeavours in helping young designers get their products out to the world. She’s been instrumental in helping some really successful designers on their way, including Stellar Works and PET Lamp. PET Lamp They craft castoff plastic bottles into beautiful lamps. Last year they did a huge project with an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia, which was on show. It’s an exciting company to be working with because there’s integrity in what they do…

Both owner and architect were sailors. How did that influence the design? Well, they got on really well for a start! While there are some nautical aspects to the house – such as the boat hull form over the main living space, the use of ropes and pulleys to haul in the big awning window, and the relaxed openness of the house – it is perhaps the way the house sits on the banks of the bay, bow to the sea, eagerly anticipating a lift in the wind that is the strongest thing about it. This was David’s last house. What did it share with his previous work? It exemplifies David’s usual attention to detail using relatively run-of-the-mill materials to produce well formed, rich and delightful spaces designed around human…

“My first impression was to do with the building as a whole, which is this cubic, solid brick palazzo sitting with its feet in the water.” That on a good day, you can look due east to the city with glimpses of the Shard from this property in southwest London is a strange twist of poetry. New Zealand architect Giles Reid devoted seven years of his life to the UK’s tallest building, while working as part of Renzo Piano’s team. After such a mammoth task, Reid took on a slightly different riverside property 16 kilometres downstream: the renovation of this third-floor apartment in a Victorian building for owners Alan Southan, his partner Pala and their seven-year-old daughter. Positioned on a quiet bend of the Thames with the yelps of rowers the…

Project Dilworth apartment bathroom Designer Kristina Pickford Design Location Auckland CBD Brief Rework the bathroom in an Auckland heritage apartment. When designer Kristina Pickford refitted her apartment in the historic Dilworth building, the bathroom changed completely, along with the rest of the 94-square-metre space. “It’s loosely in the same position, but we made it long, changed the entry points, and raised the ceiling,” she says. “We pulled out all the walls and rebuilt it.” It’s definitely modern, but it suits the heritage feel of the Dilworth building – what were you trying to achieve? KRISTINA PICKFORD I wanted something that wasn’t too 2010s – I didn’t want you to look at it and date it. So there’s a steel cavity slider to match those throughout the apartment, and 150mm x…

JUNE • June/July issue on sale • Design Awards call to entry AUGUST • Aug/Sep issue on sale • Design Awards winner and finalists announced SEPTEMBER • NZIA Festival of Architecture OCTOBER • Oct/Nov issue on sale • Home of the Year 2019 call to entry NOVEMBER • HOME Tour, Auckland DECEMBER • Dec/Jan issue on sale • Home of the Year entries close FEBRUARY • Feb/March issue on sale • Home of the Year judging • Home of the Year talks in Auckland and Wellington MARCH • Home of the Year finalists announced APRIL • April/May issue on sale • Home of the Year announced in Auckland…

Calling all designers: HOME and Fisher & Paykel are looking for the country’s best new design for the 2018 Design Awards. Our annual awards celebrate new and innovative design across furniture, textiles, ceramics and lighting – clever pieces that go in or around the home. Judged by HOME editor Simon Farrell-Green and Fisher & Paykel general manager of design Mark Elmore, the awards are open to New Zealand designers, both established and new, along with artists, whose designs are intended for sale. The winner will receive $3000 in Fisher & Paykel products. We are interested in designs that solve problems, both new and familiar, with elegance and simplicity. The awards will be judged in August and announced in our October/ November issue. Entries close: Monday August 13, 2018 For an…

Tom Morris For this issue, the author and former design editor of Monocle magazine visited an apartment on the river Thames, where Kiwi architect Giles Reid has worked his magic (p.104). What did you like most about visiting the London apartment? The position was incredible, right on the bend of the river looking east and west to quaint bridges in either direction. The attention to detail in the home was also quite spectacular, especially with the Japanese touches. Tell us about your book New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture . It looks at a fresh generation that's reinvigorating an age-old art. Focussing mainly on the design world, it’s a global survey of some of the most interesting things being done with ceramics at the moment…

Brothers Charles and Patrick Williams recently opened Williams, an elegantly spare all-day eatery in a new building designed by Architectus in Wynyard Quarter, Auckland. “We came into the space wanting to strip it back,” says Charles of the new project. “We wanted something timeless.” Simplicity aside, what motivated your design objectives? CHARLES WILLIAMS We worked with Gerrick Numan of Millé design to draw up the space. We wanted it to be an oasis from the busy urban life in Wynyard Quarter. It was designed to be a breath of fresh air, where people can slow down and enjoy good food and drink with company or solo. You previously established Ceremony café in Grafton, Auckland – is there any of its DNA in Williams? We loved the casual and fun atmosphere…

I love going to Salone del Mobile. Seeing it, feeling it, smelling it, being there among so many people. I’ve been going to the fair for 22 years – my goodness! – and every time I step onto a stand it’s exciting to see what the designers have come up with. Material drama I’ve been working with Poliform for 18 years and in the last few, I’ve noticed that they really keep pushing that boundary – they keep coming out with materials we haven’t been seen before, or used in new handcrafted ways. They’ve started using smoky glass, it’s not a new thing but I’ve never seen it on a side table or a dining table like this before. The new marble is ‘Sahara’. It’s very black and dramatic and…

Project Walter’s Bluff House Designer Tony Karsten Location Nelson Brief A new home designed to maximise spectacular sea views The bolthole of a busy couple in Walter’s Bluff, Nelson, this seaview home features large windows to lap up the vista, an enclosed deck for drinks, and an exterior hardy enough to weather the breeze. “Every room had to have views if we could,” says the designer, Tony Karsten of Karsten Architectural Design The home is comprised of two stories, but four split-levels. The garage makes up the ground floor, with two bedrooms, a laundry and bathroom set slightly above this. The upstairs features the open-plan kitchen and dining area, while the lounge area and master bedroom (complete with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe) inhabit the top split-level, soaking up the evening…

If you live in Queenstown, the house on these pages will be distinctly familiar. Located on a busy back street used by locals to scoot around all that heady tourism in downtown Queenstown proper, it occupies a prominent corner a few blocks from the centre, its twin viewfinder decks creating a friendly façade. Sometimes, it’s compared to E.T., sometimes binoculars; its giant numbers are hard to miss and it’s the first multi-storey development in the area thanks to recent changes in the district plan. “I don’t think we’ve ever done anything as graphic as this,” says architect Louise Wright of Assembly Architects. “It really strikes people.” I say house, but it’s actually two three-storey townhouses on one site, a compound owned and used by one extended family. Owners Paddy and…

Project Mt Eden bathroom Architect Guy Tarrant Architects Location Mt Eden, Auckland Brief Fit a bathroom under the eaves of a raking gabled roof. Guy Tarrant had many constraints in designing this Mt Eden home, not least fitting three bedrooms and two bathrooms under the eaves of a gabled roof. “I was trying to play with light in a painterly way,” he says of this space, which is ventilated and lit by a skylight above the shower. “The amount of top light provides a wonderful luminous quality of light, which pervades the entire space.” Were you worried it would feel cramped? GUY TARRANT While certain areas in the space are low, I was confident that the combination of volume and compression within the room would result in an overall feeling…

Open a weekend newspaper or a magazine and it won’t be long before you come across an article in which you are being corralled into one of those social groups based on behaviour. There is, it seems, a new label for each new generation or part thereof. It all started once the Baby Boomers had done their thing. Suddenly there was a term for each new batch – X-Generation, Y-Generation, Millennials, Digital Natives, Snowflakes… Annoying as it can be to be parcelled up in this way, we can take solace that even from inside one of these groups, there is still room to claim some individuality. There are, it seems, always moments in which you can process a shared experience differently from most of your peer group. One such occurrence…

Design— Beautiful pieces for the home, food for the mind and new spaces that will enliven your senses.…

When Gosia Piatek launched her fashion label Kowtow more than a decade ago, ethical and sustainable values were her foundation. The brand’s new flagship store in Te Aro, Wellington, continues the theme of conscious fashion and considered design. Working with interior architect Rufus Knight, Piatek has realised a simple yet generous aesthetic with large storefront windows and gallery-like spaces. “The store opening is an opportunity to bring the Kowtow ethos into a physical space,” says Piatek. “Every detail was considered – from the recycled nylon rugs to the New Zealand-grown and milled timber.” Why did you open the store? GOSIA PIATEK We wanted to give Kowtow a physical home, somewhere we could show our customers what a Kowtow space looks like. We wanted it to be an extension of the…

By the time you read this, the impact of Milan Design Week 2018 will already be filtering through to New Zealand. The owners of New Zealand’s foremost design studios and retailers have returned home – in the case of the retailers, to anxiously await the furniture they’ve ordered for the following year, in the case of the designers and manufacturers, to mull over what they’ve seen and the lessons learned. Make no mistake: the chances are, if something trends at Salone del Mobile in April, it’ll make its way to a store, website or living room near you over the following 12 months. It’s not the world’s only design fair – and trends don’t change yearly, of course, so don’t panic – but it’s by far and away the most…

I’ve always suggested to people who like design that Milan is an incredibly worthwhile fair to go to. It’s the biggest furniture fair in the world and you get a really rounded view on what’s available. Moooi Moooi and Marcel Wanders were in full form – they are a bit offbeat and push the boundaries. Their theme this year was extinct animals and their exhibition was geared around walking down a long hallway at the end of which was an incredibly realistic image of a big bison looking at you. Wool rugs and fur – Moooi has done rugs for a few years but this year they focused on primordial animal prints, which are made with New Zealand wool. They are soft and luxurious. As well as lamb’s wool, there…

This year was probably the biggest crowd we’ve ever seen, with people queuing to get on stands. I’ve never seen that in all the 31 years we’ve been going. There was also a lot going on in the city and the three showrooms that stood out for us – B&B Italia, Arclinea and Cassina – were all within a few yards of each other on Via Durini. This little design hub was sensational for me. Antonio Citterio The products at B&B Italia are all designed and curated by Antonio Citterio, who is our god of design. The ‘Atoll’ sofa system stood out for me – it blew me away and I think it will become a classic. He also designed the ‘Modus’ tri-fold door system for wardrobes with a mechanism…

“Historically, we’ve completely contained the original form, although it now has all this stuff around it.” In faded 1880s photographs of North Head Maungauika, Devonport, a white villa with a playful turret sits high on the hill. The house faces the township below and a farm track runs up its side. The history of the villa is as faded as the photographs, but it’s believed to have been a rental in one of Auckland’s earliest settlements. “It was an enterprising chap who bought the sections,” says the owner. “It would have been a beautiful view before it was built up.” For the owners and their three teenage children, this historic home is a place to put down roots, having returned to Auckland after years in Hong Kong. With a family…

The welcome mat at Olle and Clare Enberg’s seaside Christchurch home hints at a couple of things to expect beyond the front door. Woven, improbably, from 46 metres of rope into an endless Turk’s Head knot, it’s a nod to the subtle maritime theme of this 18-month-old house, the last designed by the late David Mitchell, of Auckland-based Mitchell Stout Dodd Architects. It’s also not a bad metaphor for the masterful way the architect has condensed so much living into such a tricky space – a pinched 312 square metre section between the road and Moncks Bay, with close neighbours and tight height-to-boundary restrictions. Step inside, jag right, and there – through a large awning window that you open using a rope resembling a sailboat’s mainsheet – is the fast-flowing…

“We wanted our personality to be foremost... the best way to do that was to find a talented young architect who listened.” Farmhouses rarely excite architectural controversy – at least, not at the level occasioned by this home, built 45-odd years ago at Rippon, on the western shore of Lake Wanaka, for the pioneering winemaking Mills family. Anchored to the brow of a steep – and at the time, mostly bare – escarpment by medieval-style raked buttresses, the mud-brick building came as “a bit of a shock to some people”, says architect Ashley Muir, of Dunedin-based firm Mason & Wales. The NZIA judging panel didn’t even make it to the front door. “A couple of jurors said that a house should never have been allowed there; they drove straight out…

Project Castor Bay kitchen Architect Mike Hartley, Lloyd Hartley Architects Location Castor Bay, Auckland Brief To create an open-plan, light-filled living, dining and kitchen area for a young family. Mike Hartley was asked to create an open-plan, light-filled living, dining and kitchen area, upgrade its flow to an outdoor deck, and also create welcoming access to the home. All this for clients who are family, which brought “all the satisfaction and drama it possibly could to the project”, says the architect. Despite the area’s open-plan nature, Hartley’s use of steel-grey stone creates an intimate space that owns its territory in the scheme. It’s stylish yet robust, designed to serve the demands of family life with three young children. How would you describe the design and mood it creates? MIKE HARTLEY Part…

Project ‘Lantern House’ bathroom Architect Herbst Architects Location Onetangi, Waiheke Island Brief Create an elegant, intimate bathroom that takes advantage of the sea view. When it came to designing their house at Onetangi on Waiheke Island, Andrew Glenn and Jonathan Rutherfurd Best took inspiration from bathrooms in hotels by architect Kerry Hill. “We wanted to recreate that peaceful serenity in our home,” says Glen. “We often travel to Bali and wanted a feeling of intimate luxury, to create an oasis.” What was the biggest challenge with this bathroom? ANDREW GLENN Getting the layout right as we wanted an enclosed toilet. The Crittal screen was an amendment which we all agree was fantastic. The sea view from the bath must be stunning. It certainly is, and the bird life is also…

Milan certainly put it on for Design Week this year – balmy weather, sunny days, spring flowers – and one of the best displays of design in years. From Fiera Milano (which includes the massive exhibition halls of EuroCucina and EuroBagno) to Brera, Tortona and the central city, the quality was simply outstanding. Without doubt, from a surfaces perspective, the hero product was Fenix. This innovative product, made using nano-technology, is manufactured by Arpa Industriale, just outside Milan. Fenix featured heavily in the best kitchen and furniture displays, including the stand-out Elle Décor Millennials at Home exhibition. While also available in lighter shades, the product’s intense dark colour range supports the continuing trend for deeper tones. ‘Anomorphix’, the Fenix display in Brera, cleverly demonstrated that materials are not the same,…