Innholdsfortegnelse for October/November 2022 i homestyle

1 … COVETING sweet treats, including this tangerine Teresa tote by Yu Mei. Available from October, it's the perfect size to stash all my essentials in when I'm on the go. 2 … PICKING ranunculus. I love the way the light catches their paper-thin petals as they unfurl. I bought these from a florist, but next year I'm going to try growing some myself. 3 … READING Spring Cannot Be Cancelled — an exchange between artist David Hockney and his friend, art critic Martin Gayford. I like how enthusiastic David is about the minutiae of everyday life, and specifically nature.…

It takes a lot to make more of less. Those with a thing for minimalism will appreciate just how much skill goes into a highly refined design, and similarly how much confidence and restraint is required to style a space with only the best necessities. This new piece by Città, which we can't help but admire, is impeccably well-resolved — a perfect example of reduction resulting in something quite remarkable. Expertly understated, the Trace dining chair was collaboratively created by industrial designer Scott Fitzsimons and Città's furniture design team, David Moreland and Nikolai Sorensen. The uncomplicated silhouette exchanges straight lines for subtle curves, resulting in a hand-drawn feel, with the chair itself named for the way its legs elegantly follow the back of the seat. Flawless craftsmanship completes the picture…

Handmade — STYLE Hollie, beading flowers is a delightful niche art — what drew you to it? I have a huge love of flowers, then one night last year I was down an internet rabbit hole reading an article about funeral practices in Edwardian and Victorian times — my Google history is so embarrassing! — and found a mention of the lost art of beading flowers as grave ornaments. Women in 18thand early 19th-century France and Western Europe would weave elaborate wreaths for fallen loved ones, often out of necessity when war, weather and a lack of resources meant fresh flowers weren't available. The wreaths would disintegrate over time and the beads would be picked up and used again and again. The idea of people innovating in hard times to…

A champion of what she believes is our most underrated sense, the olfactory world has always held a distinct allure for Frances Shoemack. Trouble is, she finds many synthetic scents unappealingly overpowering, so there was only one thing for it — to explore how complex and beautiful 100% natural fragrances can be by founding her own brand, Abel Odor. So Frances, after studying viticulture at Lincoln University, you began your career as a winemaker — when did you decide to pivot to perfume? When my husband Dave and I moved to Amsterdam in 2011, I fell in love with artisan fragrance houses, but I couldn't find a natural perfume in that category. That was the impetus for starting Abel the same year. Having established the business in the Netherlands, what…

THE PROJECT With Macfie Architecture and Allpro Construction, midcentury dealer Jodi Newnham and her husband Paul Barry, who works in IT, built this three-bedroom home in Auckland's Pt Chevalier for themselves and their children Niamh (14) and Stafford (12). Hidden from a bungalowlined Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland street, this two-storey house down a private driveway conceals a surprising interior. Designed by artist, interior designer and owner of Mid Century Swag and Swag Design Jodi Newnham, its layout has been cleverly manipulated to maximise the home's vertical envelope. “I was the designer and half of the client — the other half was my husband Paul,” says Jodi. “It was amazing to be able to create something that expresses our dreams for family life. Knowing the site well helped enormously when it came to…

Being invited to revive an iconic mid-century home is an honour few architects would turn down, yet with that opportunity comes the challenge of respecting its legacy while updating it with the contemporary changes required. The solution is a delicate balance of honouring the past while moving forward, which is just what architect Adriana Hanna has achieved with great success at this dwelling dubbed The Fisher House in Warrandyte, Melbourne. Designed and built by lauded late designer Alistair Knox in 1969, the modernist home was bought by art director Jess Lillico and photographer Sean Fennessy. The creative couple had been living in an apartment in the central city, but when the time came to find a bigger base for their young family, they began searching further afield and discovered this…

Garden — LIVING Centre stage at this country house by Meacham Nockles McQualter in Main Ridge, on Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula, is the lake at the bottom of the hill — an ever-changing view, a welcome swimming spot and a haven for wildlife. The relaxed garden rolls down to the water's edge, successfully mimicking the planting of a natural lake margin or water course. Plant choices are mainly Australian native and complement the Scandinavian-style holiday home, which sits close to the earth with an open and light aesthetic, a single step from the house into the outdoors. The garden was designed in conjunction with the house, allowing for soil improvement after the house site was cut. Good on-site topsoil was combined with compost and manure to create a healthy planting medium,…

It's so clichéd, but all the optimism of new life budding forth outside my window just gets me every year. We tried our best to steer clear of the tropes when we were putting together this October/November issue, because we're predominately champions of creating a home for all seasons, as opposed to chasing trends. However, some of that spring cheer has made its way onto the following pages despite ourselves. Don't get me started on the delightfully delicate beaded florals by Hollie Ryan of Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland's Hark Handmade on page 26, and other stories in this issue convey a literal and figurative lightness too. Frances Shoemack of natural fragrance brand Abel Odor is enjoying the sunny vibes at her new Abel Fabriek factory/lab/office/community hub in Pōneke/Wellington, where we visited her…

Deli/wine bar Pickled Poet in Wollongong, NSW celebrates life's simple pleasures, and its fit-out by design studio We Are Duet was approached in the same way. Spirit-lifting joy is infused into the interior via details such as the gingham-look tiles that reference carefree picnics, and the welcoming curves that offset the linearity of the long bar and widen and tighten to maximise the usable space. Atmospheric day and night, the Mediterranean-inspired colour palette combines hues to delight that you could try at home, including pink and peach paints that radiate a summery glow onto everyone in the room. You could add extras like:…

Stylist's tip Decorate your space with a textural blend of natural materials. Aim for a subtle foraged feel — swept-up-on-the-sand, but less literal. Get the look ■ Beachy, bachy, coastal aesthetics tend to go one of two ways: whitewashed, minimal Cape Cod or themed-to-the hilt sea blues teamed with shells, shells and more shells. Instead, we propose a distinctly local look — a Catlins-ish kind of windswept and interesting. ■ On our walls we used low-sheen Resene SpaceCote Flat in Resene Hindsight — a versatile neutral with hints of grey-green and ochre. In a nod to salt-sprayed boatsheds, for our decorative plinths we chose Resene Shore Thing and Resene Rising Tide from the new Resene Colorwood We Speak Beach series of stains. ■ For an effect that's more sun-bleached than…

“Having windows in my studios is a must. They keep me connected to the source of my work, and if I'm feeling stuck, looking outside reinvigorates me.” Abstract artist Deborah Moss lives with her family in Wainui, north of Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, on a rural property that had a hand in her professional evolution. After studying English and sociology at university, her early career was focused on writing and research, but she's always loved the arts in general and ended up working in a fine art gallery, then owning and directing one alongside her husband. When their son was at preschool, the couple moved to the country — a lifestyle change Deborah describes as an epiphany. The space, isolation and beauty sparked in her a real desire to create, and so…

HOMES THE PROJECT MRTN Architects, Brave New Eco, SBLA and Lew Building collaborated on this project in Melbourne's Westgarth for a couple and their three teenage children. When now Melbourne-based architect Antony Martin was a teen in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, he was good mates with celebrated architect Marshall Cook's kids, and invited to their home in Parnell's Brighton Road all the time. “I used to have a second life around there, and it really stuck with me that when you went in through their front door, it was like a piazza, and all these living spaces looked down over it,” he says. “When it came to doing this house, it came into my mind how you could plan a house as urban planning rather than a floorplan.” An artist and an…

BE SEATED Working hard or hardly working? Either way, you deserve to put your feet up, and it'll soon be time to do that outside rather than in. Make your downtime extra-desirable by soaking up the sun on some hot new outdoor seating — we're coveting these Amanu lounge chairs now stocked at Dawson & Co. By Toronto design studio Yabu Pushelberg for familyrun Belgian brand Tribù, they join the Amanu collection's beautiful tile-topped dining table, and match its dining chairs with their teak frame and woven hemp-blend sling seat, plus cushions you can add for more “Aaah”. dawsonandco.nz POTTED HISTORY Since its humble beginning in a garage 17 years ago, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland biz Ashley & Co has grown to produce 50-plus scented products and seen Tui & Kahili become…

Rooms by Jane Ussher & John Walsh (Massey University Press, $85) A typical look might come to mind when you think of New Zealand interiors. For this book, the venerable Jane Ussher MNZM shot some that are in another category altogether. Jane spent 29 years as chief photographer for the Listener, rising to become the country's foremost portrait photographer. After stepping down from the role in 2008, a chance meeting sent her to Antarctica to shoot explorers Scott and Shackleton's huts, and she arrived home indelibly altered, committed to photographing interiors as she had people. Evident in this book is her expert ability to capture and communicate the singular nature of a space – akin to the uniqueness of an individual. “When I walk into a room that interests me,…

LIVING One of many BoConcept pieces designed by the Danish brand's lauded long-term collaborator Henrik Pedersen, the new Berne sofa (pictured left and opposite) is a simple, modern form with a higher, more upright back and deeper seats to make it ultra-comfortable. Choose the right sofa for your space by considering features such as… 1 … the welcoming visual effect of a softly rounded back, arms and seats — no sharp corners from any angle. 2 … legs that allow furniture to ‘float’ over the floor for a lighter, airier, more spacious-feeling interior. 3 … subtle sewing detail that's both a minimal addition to a minimal shape and helps prevent wrinkles in the fabric. A BIT ON THE SIDE By world-renowned furniture designer Morten Georgson, another of BoConcept's permanent design…

Sculptor profile — PEOPLE Sculptor Simon Lewis Wards didn't fit the school system particularly well, so he left in his early teens, and in a fortuitous twist, ended up helping out his mate's dad (the late John Croucher, a pioneer in Aotearoa's glass-art movement in the ‘70s) in his glass studio. During the wayward years that followed, Simon jumped from job to job, before finding his way back to glass and starting to sculpt it seriously in his early 30s. So Simon, what do you like about glass's capabilities? I'm naturally a bull at a gate, but working with glass over the years — especially the laborious lost-wax casting techniques I use — has taught me to slow down. I listen to my intuition when I'm working with glass and…

HOMES It's our forever home,” says one of the grateful owners of this sophisticated Whāingaroa/Raglan abode, situated on a one-way road following the Waikato town's water's edge. The northern, ocean side of the street is dotted with proud pōhutukawa, while the southern side is lined with houses that, like this one, can see the sea beyond the trees. This family of four has owned the property since 2004, but it was only recently that they decided they wanted to move here to enjoy life in this charming village full-time. Their brief to architect Richard Priest was a house with a gabled roof, raked ceilings, maximum space and views, multiple indoor and outdoor living areas, three bedrooms and lots of storage. “The concept is based on the fact that they wanted…

What with running her own practice (MAUD — Markham Architecture & Urban Design), co-hosting a podcast (76 Small Rooms), parenting and everything else, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland architect Natasha Markham definitely needs the good breakfast and strong coffee she says keep her firing on all cylinders. She also thinks she might need to say no more, but luckily she didn't start with us when we asked… What was your journey to establishing MAUD in 2015? After graduating from the University of Auckland, I worked at Cook Sargisson & Pirie and got registered while I was there. It was a great place to learn the ropes, as Marsh [Cook] and Peter [Sargisson]'s approach was to throw you in at the deep end, so I quickly found myself on building sites and in client…