Home New Zealand October - November 2022

This issue is a celebration of bold architectural moves, vibrant colour, and luxurious tactility. We explore the beauty and success of interiors with soul and character. We look at the decadent moves of maximalism inspired by the nostalgia of 1970s glamour (page 20) and two distinctly New Zealand palettes in a striking collaboration between four local design houses (page 66). In New Plymouth, we look at two very different interiors: the renovation of a 1990s apartment into an overtly contemporary city base for its owners, and a kitchen of verdant green and brass by Annika Rowson (page 54). In Glenorchy, we visit an enclave of cabins on the edge of our southern wilderness, a down-to-earth and social hub for outdoor adventure seekers, while, further north, we explore a playful modernist…

The art of interiors In this issue, we launch our inaugural Interior Excellence Awards, a programme that came about in response to an unprecedented interest in the Interior category introduced in this year's Home of the Year awards. The HOME Interior Excellence Awards is designed to delve deeper into the art of interiors across a range of categories: kitchen, bathroom, living, and colour. We also invite young and early-career design professionals to enter, with a category dedicated to celebrating the work of Aotearoa's emerging designers. The awards event will be held at Park Hyatt, Auckland, on 2 December 2022. Visit homemagazine.nz/hiea to enter, purchase event tickets, or for more information about the awards.…

Gina Fabish Gina is an interior designer and photographer. She photographed a striking kitchen in New Plymouth for this issue (page 54). What struck you about the New Plymouth kitchen? I absolutely love working with Annika Rowson. Her designs are always a beautiful blend of boldness and elegance, and this was no exception. We had the trifecta here — working with stunning materials, a bold and fun colour, and the light, which always adds a whole other dimension. What do you enjoy about working with interiors and architecture? I'm passionate about interiors and architecture. I love capturing how spaces feel and how people live in them. I believe the spaces we live in should rise up to meet us, and it gives me a lot of joy capturing this beauty…

DESIGN: 01 Jamie McLellan talks to HOME about designing his latest piece: the Plane Rectangle Table for Resident. HOME: Can you tell us about this piece and what it embodies? Jamie McLellan: Pure and poised, Plane stacks hefty slabs of timber in a seemingly impossible balancing act. Clever engineering holds the legs, cross beam, and tabletop together in an altar-like assembly that is both usable and sculptural. What about the design process; how did you begin? I've been thinking about building a table for our home and I came back to the idea of very simple stacked block forms, using cantilever elements that, to me, feel reminiscent of contemporary architecture. I've been working closely with Pam and Nat from Cheshire Architects recently, and the way they think about volume and…

DESIGN: 02 A new range of four unique Brazilian quartzites and granites is now available in New Zealand. From the crisp white of Siberia, a quartzite that features a distinctive white reminiscent of the snows of the vast mountain landscapes of northern Russia, to Platino (above), a grey quartzite with distinctive veins that evoke the movement of the ocean, the range spans a vast palette of nature's vibrancy. Vancouver (right) is defined by its intertwined and separated veins creating beautiful patterning. The collection, Sensa by Consentino, was curated as a response to an increasing demand for earthy tones and matt finishes, embodying classic beauty within sophisticated natural materials. “From an aesthetic perspective, it's pretty hard to beat mother nature … no two pieces are the same, [and] natural stone is…

DESIGN: 03 During lockdown, a remote conversation between two artists led to the development of an exhibition, Common Ground, with brutalism at its heart. A collaboration between Diane Scott and Kathaleen Bartha, the exhibition explores space through structure, with materials valued for their inherent qualities seeking to prioritise sight and experience over language – to feel the directness of space. Canadian-born Kathaleen, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1980, describes her childhood in Toronto in the '60s and '70s as being in a place “dominated by brutalist architecture with a retro-futuristic appeal”. The aesthetic has since influenced her art and practice, with geometric abstraction a consistent feature, along with an emphasis on line, light, and volume. Diane Scott, who graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2012, describes a…