Home New Zealand

HOME covers the best New Zealand architecture, design and interiors. It features inspirational, ingenious and just plain breathtaking homes from all over the country – as well as new restaurants, exciting art and the latest furniture releases.

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Under the inversion • Wrapped in corrugate and spanning just under 110m2 , this unassuming home on a hill above the small town of Luggate is powerful beyond its volume.

Delta force • Approaching Jerram Tocker Barron Architects to design a new house on one of Nelson’s steepest streets put the owners on a trajectory to conjuring up an intriguing, diamond-pattern facade.

Dancing with danger • Katie Brown dances around molten glass in a pit in the former headquarters of the Whanganui Chronicle, delicately imparting an intricate narrative into every piece.

Books • Eastern meditations and Wes Anderson–like interiors: we select some books that sit firmly on our wish list.

Poetry of abstraction • Pieces bound for the Auckland Art Fair are paired with furniture, lighting, homewares, and a few selected oddities.

Bauhaus • Minimalist, contemporary furniture for New Zealand homes.

Matisse • From the classics of Le Corbusier, the mid-century functionalism of Charles Eames, to the genius of Antonio Citterio.

Studio Italia • Delivering the design acumen and exceptional craftsmanship of Italy to New Zealand.

Dawson & Co. • Creating beauty and harmony in the relationship between decor and architecture.

Laminex • Experience the latest in surface trends.

Stoke Fireplace Studio • Exclusive fireplaces for sophisticated spaces.

Designer Rugs & Woodwrights • A dynamic duo collaborate to create a showroom that extends into virtual reality.

Abodo • The Cardrona Cabin.

ENCLOSED HAVEN • Are they follies, small extravagances, or safe havens from the coastal whims? Melanie McDaid explores the courtyard house phenomena for answers.

A MATRIX OF AMBER AND GREEN • Mimicking the pared-back materiality of the architecture, a simple plant palette creates a sense of calm in this modern urban garden.

FULL CIRCLE • In 1978, Dr Peter Sergel started a role at Hamilton City Council to get some work experience. The first job he was given was to design a plan for Hamilton’s former rubbish dump, a muddy, blackberry-covered piece of land that he remembers visiting as a teenager with his father.

Refined • Interior comforts for outdoor living.

The softness of granite • A slab of stone proves to be an unlikely yet successfully soothing catalyst for this home’s interior.

Fusion house • Looking out from the living room of this Remuera home, you could be mistaken for thinking you were in a Balinese retreat or a Japanese inn. There is a fine sense of balance in the restrained use of materials, with oak panelling and marble providing texture against the waxed concrete walls and, beyond, bamboo swaying in the breeze.

Artists’ Residence • As we near the one-year anniversary of Covid-19’s untimely arrival, we look back at how artists from around New Zealand hunkered down and what lessons they learned from staying at, and creating from, home.

Links to the sea • On a Mangawhai golf course, a glass-box pavilion is ruptured by three inverted cones. Pip Cheshire discusses the ideas and process that turned this seemingly simple concept into something Words Clare Chapman entirely Images ? magnetic.

The Dune House • Mangawhai, Northland Designed by Cheshire Architects

flight Taking • Pastoral stone barns and a black steel butterfly find common ground on an idyllic plateau above Lake Wakatipu.

Closeburn Lodge • Closeburn Station,...