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Editor’s letter

HOME Magazine NZ

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Home of the Year 2021

Architecture according to bees

In short

A certain stillness • After some significant crises, the furniture and light brand formerly known as ‘Douglas and Bec’ is now known as ‘Snelling’. We delve into what this shift means in terms of its craft.

Taming Light • This rural Wairarapa artist’s studio is informed by a need for highly regulated, natural light, a roofline that echoes the hills around it, and the desire to tread lightly on the land.

The road to green • HOME’s editor-in-chief Clare  Chapman sat down with BMW New Zealand managing director Karol Abrasowicz-Madej to talk sustainability, electrification of the BMW fleet, and the future of green vehicle design.

Ode to the seasons • A high-performing holiday home in Wanaka plays with height and light, compression and expansion.

Kitchen envy • Partly inspired by Josh Emett’s home kitchen, this space in Auckland’s Mount Eden is versatile and highly customised for its client. HOME spoke to Hewe’s designer Gunnar Friese about its detailing and brief.

Cotton and tiles • The New Zealand designers behind bath textile brand Baina — Anna Fahey and Bailey Meredith — are often inspired by the built environment. Here, Anna Fahey talks about Baina’s new collection and pairing it with the ecoconscious Australian architecture of Alistair Knox.

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Books

Nature bound • In winter, the next best thing to rainy walks through the bush is sitting somewhere warm reading about other people taking rainy walks through the bush. Here is a selection of our favourite recent, and not so recent, books of nature writing.

Natural forms • Pinched edges, organic waves, and the imperfect beauty of relaxing form.

A TRUFFIÈRE, AN OLIVE GROVE, AND A VINEYARD • On a striking piece of land that stretches out behind the Home of the Year 2021 above the Kawarau River, two Dunedin locals have achieved something spectacular — a sustainably farmed estate producing three very distinctive and highly desirable edibles.

A LIVING POOL • On a suburban site in Nelson, Spanish environmental activist Jose G. Cano spends hours meticulously photographing his subjects underwater, surrounded by a cleverly crafted polycarbonate-clad shed.

OFF THE GRID • Nestled on a tiny island, this house treads lightly on the land. It’s a place of solitude and retreat but one that offers an important perspective.

In Detail • A deeper dive in to the interior and architectural products specified by designers in this issue of HOME

Echo in the hills • This certified passive house is the sum of many parts — some conflicting, others converging; but as one, the innate tensions deliver an enviable and powerful presence.

Three by the pond • AW Architects has designed a home in Queenstown Lakes District with three distinct volumes and equally diverse personalities: the birdwatcher, the socialite, and a sheep shearer who’s scrubbed up well.

Timber enclave • Bounded by farmland, and beneath a simple gabled form, this home is designed around layered moments of unexpected eccentricity.

New wave • Inspired by a heritage church, this suburban Christchurch home uses its sinuous form for both impact and functionality.

Lake house • Unfolding across two visually distinct levels, this holiday home on the shore of Lake Rotoiti is envisioned as a winter house — a concrete bunker of sorts nestled into the hillside.

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