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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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Home New Zealand

Design, Life and Culture • Art, design, books, events, people, and places of note.

Open Christchurch

Poetic disorientation

Immersive surrounds

Evocatively off

Curtain call • The Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival is about to hit the big screen around New Zealand. Here's a couple of highlights, selected by the HOME team.

Places to belong • Auckland architects Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson of Stevens Lawson Architects were awarded the 2022 Gold Medal, New Zealand’s highest honour for an architect, by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.

A tailored garment • The wardrobe is probably the most personal and private piece of furniture in the home – functional yet mysterious and secret.

Down to earth

Street appeal • Exterior cladding is one of the most visual parts of any home, playing a key role in defining a building’s style, articulating its architectural moves and introducing the aesthetic and tone.

Retreat or defeat • Aotearoa New Zealand is at a crossroads in its response to how our built environment manages climate change. Jo Bates speaks with architects Rich Naish, Guy Marriage and James Solari about where to from here.

Art and architecture • Utilising a dark grey coloured concrete as a central feature, the interiors of this home of art expand and contract around a vibrant form.

Decadent simplicity • French designer Jean-Marie Massaud is on a lifelong quest for synthesis, reduction and lightness. It is a symbiosis between his creations and the natural environment that he strives to reach, and his latest pieces for Poliform are no exception. We explore five of the newest, available in New Zealand from Studio Italia.

A writer's retreat

Calm and balance

Winter oasis • There's not much that beats enjoying the outdoors on winter evenings under a sheltered canopy. As the mercury drops, bring the indoors out with design-led alfresco living.

Art taster • Wellington artist Vishmi Helaratne often thinks of paintings like a chef would think of a meal. We spoke to the artist to find out more.

A compendium of the art events we are looking forward to these coming months. • Less than 5 per cent: Athfield’s First Church of Christ Scientist

Of note

Books and mortar • What does property and literature have in common? A lot, it seems. For the past eight years award-winning Auckland ‘urban regenerators’ Ockham Residential have sponsored the national book awards. We ask Mark Todd, Ockham's CEO and co-founder of Ockham, for the books that shaped his life and work.

Of note

Rooftop • An admiration for Japanese architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses formed the basis of a brief that described a timeless house with reference to these two seemingly diverse design influences.

DESIGNER RUGS. • THE CUSTOM MADE RUG AND CARPET SPECIALISTS

The hues of Island Bay • Nestled into a hillside in Island Bay, two homes - one behind the other - were designed to encourage connection between their inhabitants, and with the beach below.

Falling leaves • Capture the essence of autumn with rich tones and biophilic pieces

In Detail • The design and architectural products specified in the 2023 Home of the Year finalists and winning projects.

Raw and earthen • Sitting on the jetty that floats over a pond below the 2023 Home of the Year, Waimauku House by Jo Craddock...