Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2019 i Home New Zealand

As we sent this magazine to press, we also put our house on the market. It probably wasn’t the wisest timing. The triple pressures of getting the place ready for photo shoots and open homes – at the same time as making a magazine – made me, um, reasonably stressed, so I must thank my little HOME team for their humour under pressure during a particularly tight week. It did give me an insight into what some of our home owners go through in the process of their homes appearing in this magazine. Even though we renovated our house a couple of years ago with architect Megan Edwards, we’ve spent the winter tidying it up and finishing dozens of tiny jobs that never quite got done – and painting over…

Last year, Kowtow opened a store in Wellington designed by Rufus Knight. This year, it’s Auckland’s turn. Kowtow founder Gosia Piatek discusses the store and brand philosophy. Retail is tough – why is a store important to you? Interactions with a physical space and people still seem very important in the digital era. We’ve been selling online and via wholesalers worldwide for nearly 14 years, but nothing communicates as well as having your own retail store. Customers can see and try on the entire range, and our sustainability story can be communicated with more potency – it becomes part of a conversation. This is your second store with Knight – how is this one different? This store is smaller and has direct access from the street. The Wellington store has an…

In a cul-de-sac in Ilam, Christchurch, there’s a pocket of six architecturally designed mid-century homes. This unique window into the city’s design style of the time is the result of a 1960s development by Fletcher Construction. Carved from former farmland, the intention was to create a premium subdivision with covenants – the proviso being that the houses would be architecturally designed. But the property market hit a rough patch, the land parcels didn’t sell well and Fletcher’s Utopian mid-century architectural dream was never fully realised. However, the intent did birth a concentration of homes by leading architects, with neighbouring houses and flats by Minson, Henning-Hansen & Dines, Warren & Mahoney, Don Cowey and Hall & Mackenzie. And it did give the Messervy family an architecturally designed home, which they may…

Good clients make good projects and that’s true in this case. Tell us more about that. Not many people would have seen a dilapidated workshop on a sloping, shadowed strip of land and seen the potential. The client drove this project from the beginning with his ability to imagine the possibility of what it could be. He also had a clear vision of what he wanted, and what it didn’t need to be. Architecture can suffer when people want to cram too many ideas, too many potential scenarios, into a single project. This project succeeds through its clarity and focus, and that confidence and thinking were led by the client. This was the first time you worked with builder Jared Banks of Master Craft Construction. What were some of the…

When Jo and Alistair Blair were ready to extend their two-bedroom cottage in St Albans, Christchurch, Jo’s award-winning architect cousin Rich Naish was the clear and obvious choice to lead the project. Jo and Rich had spent many family holidays together on their grandfather’s property at Kakanui, near Oamaru in Otago, and they grew up playing around his glasshouses. In recent years, Naish designed a tasting room, restaurant and home at Black Estate in the Waipara Valley for Jo’s twin sister Penelope Naish and her husband Nicholas Brown – a long black building in spectacular landscape. Though it had survived the Christchurch earthquakes relatively unscathed, the cottage – 72 square metres, timber, dating back to the 1870s – had seen better days. Built askew on the site, it had a…

OCTOBER • HOME Tour Central Otago and Christchurch • Home of the Year call to entries NOVEMBER • HOME Tour Auckland DECEMBER • Dec/Jan issue on sale • Home of the Year entries close FEBRUARY • February/March issue on sale • Home of the Year judging and international judge events MARCH • Home of the Year 2020 finalists announced APRIL • Apr/May issue on sale • Home of the Year 2020 announced in Auckland MAY • In Conversation: Home of the Year winner JUNE • June/July issue on sale AUGUST • Aug/Sept issue on sale homemagazine.co.nz…

One Year Drawn is architect Pete Bossley’s personal and pictorial account of his belated gap year, as he sketched and mused his way through Japan, London, Italy, Greece, Stockholm, Finland, New York and Los Angeles. Leaving his family, and his practice with Pip Cheshire and Mal Bartleet, Bossley’s annum of adventure as a 32-year-old rendered 10 sketchbooks of illustrations and insights. In One Year Drawn, he references these sketchbooks, drawing the reader into his understanding of the key relationship of space, light and composition. At a time when Thatcher ruled Britain and poste-restante kept travellers in communication with home, Bossley sketched the Duomo in Florence and Le Corbusier’s chapel at Ronchamp, all before mass tourism meant endless queues and crowds. Mostly in black and white and occasionally in compelling compositions…

Julie Hill The Auckland-based journalist and fiction writer enjoyed over-egging the puns in a home extension story, p. 86. You’re a multi-talented writer – what’s it like working in this field in New Zealand? Thanks. I write fiction – short stories and plays – as well as journalism and it’s nice to move between made-up and not-made-up stuff. There’s less difference between them than you would think – a good yarn is a good yarn after all. Against the odds, I think both literature and journalism are in pretty decent shape right now. What did you enjoy most about the house by Pac Studio? An affordable yet adventurous design is not something everyone can pull off, but Yolk House is a delight: a lovely surprise that pops out once you reach…

New Zealand’s favourite shoe company Allbirds has a new store – its sixth. “The strong response to each of our bricks-and-mortar locations makes it clear that consumers will visit a store if you make that experience feel fun, personal, and convenient,” says Travis Boyce, head of Allbirds operations. Why open a store in Auckland? When the brand launched in 2016, New Zealand was one of the two countries we sold in, and we’ve been lucky to have incredible support from Kiwi consumers right from the start. We’ve always wanted to bring the brand home and launch a store, but it took some time to find the right location. Once we saw the space in Britomart, we knew it was the perfect spot. Isn’t retail dead? Although the rise of e-commerce…

Coco Republic has been helping designers and customers curate and create interiors and outdoor areas for more than 40 years. It recently opened its first New Zealand store, in Auckland’s newly expanded Westfield Newmarket. The family-owned company is known for its high-end furniture in a breezy mix of classic and contemporary styles, which is designed to age and fit in with existing pieces. The Auckland store will stock 300 items of furniture and homeware, with more available online. Rather than just selling furniture, Coco Republic also offers styling and renovation advice, helping customers to work out how furniture is best placed within the home. The Auckland store is the only furniture retailer at Westfield, and features L’Americano, the brand’s signature café – the first outside Australia – with a fit-out inspired by…

Tell us what you do and why you do it. We design gardens at a range of scales, from urban courtyards to large rural properties. Planting tends to take centre stage; I love being in gardens where the atmosphere is derived from the planting more than the built stuff. You worked for Tom Stuart-Smith in London, on gardens around the world. Tell us about a project that you can look back on and really appreciate. I worked for Tom for 11 years, a great education and exposure to work in very different cultural contexts. The project I’d most like to revisit is the public garden we created in the medina of Marrakech (lejardinsecretmarrakech.com). The site comprises two courtyards, the smaller of the two being the space you enter into from…

The ‘Empire’ scarf is an archival design featuring a unique marble pattern that represents a passion for penmanship and reflects the raw materials discovered in nature. Printed on luxurious silk crêpe to give a matte finish and subtle texture, it is designed to be draped over your shoulders, neck, head, waist or tied to your bag – the options are endless. ABOUT DEADLY PONIES Founded in 2005, Deadly Ponies is a New Zealand-based, internationally renowned, leather accessories brand that challenges traditional notions of design. The brand is synonymous with artisanal quality, sumptuous materials and a unique design aesthetic that is forever pushing creative boundaries. A commitment to beautifully soft, ethically sourced leather is crucial to the Deadly Ponies success story – one that sees the brand on the arms of a…

Project Pool pavilion Designer Ermanno Cattaneo, Suzanne Turley Landscapes Location Remuera, Auckland When Ermanno Cattaneo arrived in New Zealand from Italy to take up a position at Suzanne Turley Landscapes, he probably didn’t imagine he’d soon be working in a medium that his predecessors had been using since 150BC. Cattaneo, a registered architect in his homeland, “bent” his career towards landscape architecture while studying at the Politecnico di Milano. A part-time internship, where he was involved in the greening of empty urban spaces – from school playgrounds to cycleways and town squares – inspired a change of direction and his master’s thesis explored the value of landscape restoration. When Suzanne Turley Landscapes was asked to upgrade the grounds of a Ron Sang-designed home in Remuera, Auckland, Cattaneo was immediately fascinated by…

Some regard puns – especially egg puns – as the lowest form of wit. But the yolk’s on them, because this bungalow extension in Auckland’s Mount Albert, known as ‘Yolk’ house, features a bright yellow floor – a calculated whisk that shows off the occupants’ free-range thinking (and that’s all the egg gags omelettin’ you have). According to Pac Studio’s Sarosh Mulla, the sunny hue of the flooring matches the disposition of the owners, who work in media. “Whenever we design, we always try and fold in some aspect of the client’s personality, and they are just super happy, upbeat people,” says Mulla. Pac Studio had formerly been located in a white studio that had a yellow floor, “so we knew it had this effect of making the space feel sunny all…

You describe yourself as a glutton for architecture. Matt Arnold— I can’t get enough and Christchurch is a wonderful place for mid-century architecture in particular. There was a burst of creative energy in Christchurch during the 1960s, it had quite a moment, and I’m magnetically attracted to those buildings as they represent the best period of modern architecture in the city. What aspects of the home do you enjoy most? MA— It’s a fun design and an original expression of the Christchurch Style. The mezzanine, which runs diagonally above the double-height living room, is a big feature. Along with the red-brick fireplace that divides the space, it’s a practical heat sink and the exposed flue acts as a radiator upstairs, too. There’s glass on three sides, the sun streams in and large sliding…

In some ways, 2003 doesn’t seem like such a long time ago – until you count all the things that have changed. Sixteen years ago, the world was still reeling from the aftermath of September 11 and George W Bush’s subsequent invasion of Iraq; Helen Clark was New Zealand’s prime minister. Finding Nemo was released at the box office and the best-selling cellphone was the Nokia 3200. The October/November cover of New Zealand Home & Entertaining – the predecessor to HOME – meanwhile, featured a crisp, urbane house in Remuera, Auckland, by a young architect called Daniel Marshall. At a time when the fashion of Auckland’s eastern suburbs ran to French country or faux-Mediterranean – and the leafy street this home sits on has plenty of that – the house,…

The owners have gone from a tiny cottage to a substantially larger home. How does it work for them? They are a very busy, social family. Jo has a lot of out-of-town business, so she’s constantly up and down the country. They manage an incredibly hectic life with no real boundaries between social and business lives, so while it’s a great entertaining house it’s also, I think, a nice, quiet retreat where they can enjoy their own family company. You’ve also designed accommodation at Black Estate in Waipara for Penelope, Jo’s twin sister. What’s it like to design projects for family? It has worked well. My uncle and aunt, Jo’s parents, live in Akaroa and they sometimes come and stay in the studio and look after Jim, as they also…

After a wonderful start in Wellington in September, HOME Tour continues across the country in October and November. Next stop Central Otago, followed by Christchurch and Auckland. The tour features some of our favourite houses – all of which have featured in the magazine in recent years – along with their architects, who will be on hand to talk about their designs. As well as touring the houses, our friends at Fisher & Paykel – who join the tour as principal sponsor – will be catering to attendees throughout the day in an architecturally designed house, where there will be the opportunity to speak with members of their design team. Thanks also to our official vehicle partner, The Mercedes-Benz X-Class, and for providing some tour-goers with the opportunity to test drive. DETAILS HOME…

The publisher succinctly calls it out – that one of the most enduring structures in contemporary architecture is a certain glass ceiling, which has kept all but a handful of women from rising to the top of the profession. The gross injustices the industry inflicts on women are many and, if there is to be genuine progress, cannot be ignored, but when presented with this book, it’s the 200 pages of phenomenal architecture from all over the world that will make the enduring impression. Spanning the past 100 years, 150 architects and buildings, Breaking Ground is an exceptional visual manifesto of the extraordinary contribution female architects have made to the profession. That this has happened against the odds makes this timely record even more valuable. Bias towards the male narrative…

DETAILS Until Sunday 2 February, 2020 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Cnr Kitchener & Wellesley Sts, Auckland ‘Danish design’ has become shorthand for a wide range of designers and their work. What does it mean? Danish design signifies an emphasis on quality craftsmanship, simple and elegant forms, and thoughtful alignment with function. Many people will think of modernist furniture by seminal designers such as Finn Juhl and Hans J Wegner, but it also encompasses a wide range of materials and forms that embody those same design principles. Why did so much classic design come out of Denmark? Danish design evolved alongside the development of Denmark as a country and its vision of the home. In particular, the development of social welfare policies in the first two decades of the…

Justin Mowday— Before the house was renovated, if you were at home during the day you had to have the lights on in every room. Soph, who was pregnant at the time, wanted lots of natural light and for it to feel open. Sophie Mowday— We originally said to Jose we wanted lots of natural light and high ceilings because we had been living with the opposite. But there was always the risk of having a big cavernous space. Justin— I wanted to be open to Jose’s ideas, was desperate to be a good client, and not chop and change our minds – all the things that can be hard to deal with. During the process, every time we were unsure about something and made a suggestion, they’d come back…

Boffi was founded as a kitchen manufacturer in Italy in 1934. Eighty-five years later, its creative directors include luminaries such as Antonio Citterio and Piero Lissoni. The brand recently reworked its Auckland showroom to make room for sister brand DePadova, along with a more recent collaboration, MA/U Studio of Copenhagen. CEO Roberto Gavazzi celebrated the partnerships on a recent visit to New Zealand. “Our project keeps growing and we keep putting things together that are appreciated,” he says, of the brands that collectively offer innovative kitchen and bathroom designs, home furniture and shelving systems. The Boffi aesthetic is very clean, very minimal. Yes, it’s dark – like New Zealand! You are very much black. We are very much black and white because this is how things appear more elegant, cleaner.…

The ‘Mbrace’ by Sebastian Herkner for Dedon combines lovely sentiments into a beautiful chair. “I wanted to use the traditional technique of weaving to create a strong design that was like a gesture,” he says, “the gesture of embracing someone.” Herkner is one of Europe’s leading designers, with a reputation for combining new technologies and traditional craftsmanship. With Mbrace, he took three hard-wearing 21st-cenutry fibres and created a mesh-like weave, each with its own profile and colour, and forming a cocoon-like chair set on a solid teak base. The design for Dedon, the innovative outdoor-furniture makers, aligns with the company’s weaving tradition. The Mbrace series is supremely comfortable, thanks to extra-wide backrests that swoop and fold around you, and are supplemented with optional cushions. It looks exceptional, too. Initially available as a wingback…

Kitchens sit at the heart of the modern home – whether you’re building or renovating, it’s the room you’ll use the most, whether that’s cooking for one on a weeknight or entertaining family and friends on the weekend. It’s also one of the single biggest costs in any build. PlaceMakers puts a highly personalised design within reach, working with you to create a bespoke kitchen that reflects how you and your family live and function in the space, with a look that has been tailored just for you. Equally, you can bring your architect’s concept plans with you, and PlaceMakers’ knowledgeable kitchen consultants will help you bring your dream kitchen to life. PlaceMakers kitchens also include luxury items you might not expect, including handle-less options, engineered stone benches, soft-closing doors and…

Adam Moody, Fisher & Paykel’s chief designer for cooking, on the new kitchen ‘Companion’ series. Tell us about the ‘Companion’ concept. Our new range of cooking companion products provides choice and design freedom for customers. It includes a combination steam oven, microwave oven, warming drawers and a coffee maker that are designed in modular sizes to work perfectly in any kitchen size or layout. What do the companions do that other products don’t? They provide additional cooking technologies for a greater variety of cooking methods and styles. The combination steam oven and combination microwave oven are great multi-function appliances. For example, the steam oven operates as an oven, grill and fan grill, and it also has five steam functions – all in the one compact footprint. Why the new black…

Case Studies began as an image in my head, a box of romantic English flowers on a path in the New Zealand bush. Perhaps fresh off a settlers’ boat, the plants were on their way to grace some freshly dug soil in a new land. Like my mother, and her mother, I’ve always had a love of plants and gardening. Reflecting on how difficult life must have been for those early European settlers, I’ve often thought that making a garden would have been paramount on their arrival in Aotearoa, not just for the obvious survival reasons but also as a means of maintaining an emotional connection with a now-distant homeland. Not everything grows easily from seed and I was curious to find out how our exotic plant life travelled here…

Project Garden of outdoor rooms Designer James Walkinshaw, Xanthe White Design Location Pt Chevalier, Auckland Talk us through the garden. The design utilises fresh, green textural planting and a contemporary black steel pergola with climbing plants – this modernises a family home without the need for expensive renovations. The design breaks the outdoor space into a number of garden ‘rooms’, which provide a variety of exterior living spaces for a growing family. What was here before? The exterior of the house was beige and dated, and the garden barren. Uneven concrete cobblestones formed a large underutilised space leading out from the living areas, leaving little space for the garden, while the driveway took up most of the front yard. What did you set out to do? We wanted to create…

How is all that yolkiness on a summer’s day? Sarosh Mulla— Because we’ve got our big projecting verandah, it doesn’t get oppressive. You get reflected light off the floor nearest the dining table, and the yellow light bouncing off the ceiling is really nice in there, but you don’t feel like you’re on the surface of the sun. The owners understand architecture – is this a blessing or a curse when it comes to design? SM— The owner is a super-interesting guy. He’s got great taste in music – his Spotify page is basically our office playlist. And his wife is really funny and smart, so the two of them together were just a treat to work for. They get that part of the process is giving a little bit of…

When you’re presented with an alteration that’s sandwiched between a rock and a hard place, it can feel creatively suffocating. To the north of this two-level warehouse a stone’s throw from the main street of Parnell, Auckland, was a looming concrete-block edifice. Rock. To the south, a rumpty home with Victorian values. Hard place. For architect Henri Sayes, of Sayes Studio, it felt like operating with his hands tied: a straitjacket of heritage conditions, fire ratings and existing-envelope limitations put the squeeze on. “The building was a dog. It had a commercial space downstairs and the ugliest upstairs addition, made of wonky 4 x 2, imitation weatherboards and corrugate,” he says. His instinct was to turn on his heel and hotfoot straight outta there. “Everything about this job pointed to a…

What’s it like revisiting early projects? It’s a privilege. Often the house has changed hands, so it’s great to still have an involvement. It introduces a level of retrospection in terms of the creative process – you look back sometimes to see the way forward. This was the third time we have been engaged with the house, which has forged new relationships with our practice. It’s pretty cool that a house requires virtually no change after 15 years or so. If you use good materials and finishes, the house patinas rather than ages, and the landscaping beds it into the site. Ideally, the house is still owned by the original clients. In the case of a house on Waiheke for which we won our first NZIA award, the alteration was…

Next year marks 25 years of Home of the Year, and we’re very excited to call for entries to what has become New Zealand’s most prestigious – and lucrative – prize for residential architecture. Since 1996, the magazine has judged the country’s finest new homes – everything from expansive beach houses to brilliant little inner-city dwellings. The award is blind to budget or scale: we are looking for unique intersections between a client’s needs and an architect’s vision. The award is staged in association with our long-term sponsor Altherm Window Systems. As well as our Supreme award, we’ll be judging entries in four sub-categories – Small, City, Retreat, and Multi-Unit. And for the second year running, there will also be a wildcard award, brought to you by Dulux. The 2020 awards will…

Project ‘Cardrona’ hut Practice RTA Studio Location Cardrona Rich Naish’s own family cabin is an exercise in restraint: there’s one main bedroom and a bunk room, plus a small living room and a central outdoor room. This holiday retreat has everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Project ‘Kerr Ritchie’ house Practice Kerr Ritchie Location Wye Creek Now something of a classic, Pete Kerr and Bronwen Ritchie’s own house and studio featured on one of 2008 covers. A decade on, it’s as engaging as ever: living areas feel as if they hover above the lake; materials are humble but elegantly deployed. Project ‘Bivvy’ hut Practice Vaughn McQuarrie Location Closeburn Designing for two keen trampers, Vaughn McQuarrie drew inspiration from rock bivvies for this holiday home, which seems to emerge from the very rock…

Covering more than 400 homes by 290 architects from across the globe, it’s fair to say this book packs a comprehensive volume of modernist designs. From high glamour to humble, it’s a showcase of work by the greats – Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer – alongside the virtually unknown. You’ll find homes from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, exquisite examples from Australia, plus two in New Zealand – the Mrkjusich House in Remuera, Auckland, by Brenner Associates, and the McCoy Holiday House in Wanaka, by Ted McCoy. Bradbury dedicates a couple of paragraphs to each house and provides a guide to the condition, its use and status (heritage listed or scheduled for demolition). The writer is a freelance journalist who…

The importance of photography’s role in shaping our perception of architecture cannot be overstated, says author Pierluigi Serraino. “The silent protagonists of modern architecture are the photographers. Along with critics, photographers help to establish the eminence of architects, and are responsible for bringing the work of those architects to the masses,” he writes. So with the focus turned firmly on the photographer, Serraino celebrates the life and work of New York-based Ezra Stoller, who brought the work of many giants of the American modernist movement to the fore – and crafted their enduring mythology. While the text is the most extensive examination of Stoller’s work, the book does let the images – many of which are in black and white – speak for themselves. There are also rarely published works…

“Several years ago I worked in a central Wellington studio and just around the corner on the opposite end of the park was the Albemarle Hotel. Despite its northern aspect, the building looks like it’s perpetually emerging from the shade. Its inky background is interspersed with beautifully proportioned and finely framed window openings. The full depth of its façade and floral reliefs emerge as if being drawn out from a black pool. It has a presence, it’s very moody and I quite like it. The Albemarle was constructed in 1906 at the height of the Edwardian building boom, when many buildings lining nearby Cuba Street were completed. It’s one of several Wellington buildings designed by architect James Bennie. It originally housed a temperance hotel but its viability declined during the Great Depression and was later…