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For this issue, we had the privilege of visiting the homes of artists, curators, publishers, designers, purveyors of design and those whose personal spaces reflect their constant quest for uniqueness. Along the way, we came across a few recurring themes. Some were expected, such as an emphasis on detail (the house presented in our cover story and the home in Auckland’s Greenhithe have some delicious detailing), the reliance on art, and the selection of seemingly disparate furniture and lighting. Some other trends in creative spaces were slightly more unexpected, such as the usage of sculptural staircases and a penchant for materials that create tensions: timber and concrete; stone and glass. We also visited Dunedin to catch a glimpse of the ever-so-impressive Vogel Street and meet the creatives there, who are…

GRETA VAN DER STAR Greta photographed the Mount Albert home featured on the cover and on page 116. She is an Auckland-based photographer working with mixed media, such as film, 8mm and video. You work a lot in fashion; what was it like photographing a home and are there any similarities in your approach? I’ve always shot architecture and spaces on film – some just for myself. I guess it’s a quieter process; you follow the light around the space and watch it change throughout the day. Where has your photography taken you recently? I’m writing this from Marfa, Texas, where we have been touring Donald Judd’s spaces. I have a film camera with me and no assignments so it’s been a nice time to be curious with the camera…

SMOOTH CURVES Danish architects Norm make simplicity look… so simple! Their 2018 sofa collaboration with Japanese wood furniture masters Karimoku cemented their reputation for clean, pleasing lines that are distinctly contemporary. For these new Utility stools, the designers have opted for something more organic, with a touch of retro and unique proportions and heights to make them all the more alluring. fogia.se GRANDE ET PETITE, AT ONCE New Zealand designer Hayden Martis first came across this small quarry in the foothills of the French Pyrénées while searching for an elusive block of stone for a series of large sculptural works. The quarry had been worked by the Romans thousands of years ago and then, later, had been the subject of a search by Louis XIV for the extravagant finishes of…

Dunedin has had its fair share of unique, creative expressions. One need only think of Flying Nun Records, iD Dunedin Fashion Week, the spooky and quirky Museum of Natural Mystery or architectural studio Van Brandenburg. The best personification of this recent wave of vibrancy, however, is Vogel Street, in what has become known as the Warehouse Precinct. Geographically, the street makes sense as an area for regeneration: it is a manageable strip of around seven blocks, stitched by some of the best heritage buildings of the precinct. It might eventually connect the city centre to any upcoming harbour redevelopments – the proposals for which are jaw-dropping. At Vogel Street’s heart is a respect for the city’s architectural history and a concerted effort to create strong systems that will sustainably improve…

MADAME SONIA DELAUNAY: A POP-UP BOOK by Gérard Lo Monaco, Tate Publishing, $42 The pervasiveness of childhood objects for adults has been remarkable in recent years. Take, for instance, the sales of adult colouring books, which skyrocketed in 2015, the steady popularity of video games, the avalanche of work commuters on e-scooters and the surplus of onesie pyjamas for comfort-inclined gentlemen and gentlewomen. Therapeutic ends aside, their new-fangled success can be traced back to one essential truth; they’re fun. Argentinian paper expert Gérard Lo Monaco’s small tome Madame Sonia Delaunay: A Pop-Up Book, which joined the aptly named ‘Peter Pan market’ the same year that adult colouring books began selling out, has this quality in abundance. This is partly because Lo Monaco’s gouache illustrations are bold, not least for their…

EVENTS SEMICONDUCTOR: THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME Until 14 July / Wellington See the effervescent work of Semiconductor, a UK artistic duo that regularly collaborates with NASA, CERN, the Smithsonian, the Charles Darwin Research Station and other similar institutions. This exhibition marries science and art to beautiful effect. citygallery.org.nz AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 13–19 May / Auckland If you love wordsmithery, this year’s Auckland Writers Festival at the Aotea Centre won’t disappoint. Notable participants include BAFTA-winning rapper and writer Akala, designer and writer Zachary Thomas Dodson, Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer, A Ladder to the Sky and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne, 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Kamila Shamsie and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki curator Mary Kisler. Enjoy readings, script-free storytellings and off-site writing classes. writersfestival.co.nz…

FOCALS BY NORTH Google Glass might have been among the first high-tech eyewear – but it’s a product that’s never really taken off outside of a dedicated set of ‘glassholes’ – largely because of its deeply uncool design. Enter Canadian company North, which has just released smart glasses with fashion styling. Billed as ‘the world’s first non-dorky smart glasses’, Focals are custombuilt and German-engineered, and feature an in-built digital display only the wearer can see. Granted, North’s Focals don’t have cameras built into them – but, for many wearers, that’s welcome from a design perspective. It also reduces the creepiness factor. Focals’ heads-up display allows you to read text messages, receive GPS navigation instructions, read your diary commitments and interact with Amazon’s Alexa. These glasses were the talk of CES…

AUDI Q8 Audi’s flagship Q-car is a fully loaded sophisticate with real poise and serious road presence. The luxurious Q8 is initially badged 50 TDI and introduces a new 210kW V6 diesel. The five-seater is a bit shorter and lower than is a Q7 but has wider tracks and standard sports-tuned air suspension in support of a more sporting brief. First acquaintance highlighted both engine strength and a smoothness of acceleration that make the Q8 a refined, big-hearted performer. Mild hybridisation (48v subsystem and strong engine starter/generator) helps create the seamless pace. Start hammering the Q8 along rural roads and you begin to appreciate torque vectoring from the clever centre differential and optional four-wheel steering. As you’d expect in a 5m-long SUV, cabin space for five is deeply impressive, and…

UnserHaus, our house

UnserHaus is a new destination soon to be coveted by many gourmands. The Parnellbased showroom, which exhibits the latest home appliances from iconic German brands Bosch, Gaggenau and NEFF, feeds our flights of fancy: more than added convenience, a well-designed kitchen can inspire and foster the creation of good food. With this in mind, UnserHaus – which takes its name from unser haus, meaning ‘our house’, in German – shines a light on the latest tech developments and design offerings that will allow resident chefs to cook in an environment not only conscious of their needs but accommodating to their savoir-faire. unserhaus.co.nz GAGGENAU In 1683, before the invention of the first electric light, the history of Gaggenau began. A hammer mill and nail forgery was founded, becoming what would be…

UnserHaus, our house

THE HOUSE SPEAKS OF EXPRESSED MOVEMENT WITH CURVED AND ANGLED GEOMETRIES SHAPED BY NATURAL FORCES AND INVITING FORWARD MOTION. GREAT GRANNY HOUSE IS THE HOME of a retired couple that moved from Melbourne to the hinterland behind Lennox Head on the northern New South Wales coast to enjoy a more tranquil life. The clients engaged Peter Carmichael of Cocks Carmichael Architects to design their house. It was Peter’s ninth project for them over 30 years, and his final project as Cocks Carmichael closed its doors after nearly 50 years in practice. Local Byron Bay studio Harley Graham Architects collaborated with Peter to deliver the two-bedroomed house. The site was flattened and a separate pool, guest house and garage were built around the property. “The structures locate and define a residential…

TRACEY HALLIDAY AND BRENDON Cleaver completed different Bachelor of Design degrees at Wellington’s Massey University. While she was studying interiors, he was over in the graphic design department. The two met during printmaking, an elective paper that prefaced a mutual move to London and, more recently, a wee baby boy named Cecil. After graduating, the pair relocated to Auckland – Tracey’s home city – but “we always knew it was going to be temporary,” says Brendon. “We wanted to move overseas but, like many New Zealanders who decide to venture abroad, we didn’t have a solid plan.” Brendon first flew to Milan as a model; there, he was hit with the harsh financial realities of the industry. “Plus, I was only 24 but I felt I was already getting too…

Cleaver’s favourite things

1 Bedouin fabric We were with another couple in Jerusalem and found this piece in a Bedouin dealer’s shop. We all fell in love with it – its sense of occasion, the detail and colour – and tossed a coin to decide who could buy it. We won. 2 Taxidermy birds On a trip to Isle of Wight around seven years ago, I spotted this piece in a junk shop. Tracey hates it but I like that these somewhat feral birds are in such a beautiful case. 3 Ercol sofa This is the first piece of design we bought and now we have lots of Ercol. It’s an affordable brand and everything is made from good-quality timber. It’s bloody uncomfortable but we’ll have it forever. 4 Knife My school holidays…

Cleaver’s favourite things

THE LEAFY MOTIF OF THIS Remuera street comes mostly from mature trees that spill from above the fences of adjacent houses rather than from any significant public landscaping. In the grand scheme of things, Arney is a short road: a mere 1.5km semi-crescent but one with a surprisingly high number of heritage protected houses. At least eight are listed by Heritage New Zealand, most of them as Category 2 and ranging in style from Arts and Crafts and English Cottage through to Georgian. These architectural symbols of material comfort – their status and forms transplanted from the motherland – rub gutters with the hyper-modern and the slightly more modest. In amongst the many, tightly gated abodes that push against the berm here, there is a nondescript-yet-private white fence. A steel,…

AN ECLECTIC TABLEAU. A REGENCY-VICTORIAN tour de force. A lived-in gallery. There are many phrases that come to mind when considering Stephanie and Sjoerd Post’s home; to limit it to one borders on the impossible. Inside, you find a proclivity for playfulness as much as you find pedigree. A commissioned Lisa Reihana work takes up a wall in the entranceway, ceramic bowls dating circa 500AD are perched on a mantelpiece and a gnome flipping the bird stands smirking in the living room. You’d be hard-pressed to see this world belonging to someone other than an art collector. Yet even this assumption is difficult to pin down. “Collector is a big word, isn’t it?” jests Stephanie, co-director of the Auckland Art Fair. “When you work in the art world, you see…

Pacific art navigator

IT’S THE SUMMER OF 1991 and things aren’t going well. A recession is rippling through global economies, the Gulf War is in full swing and here, in New Zealand, among other things, the Mercury Theatre closes down. For Dr Peter Brunt, a theatre and film actor (his credits include Jane Campion’s An Angel at my Table), things look grim. “So, I decided to do an art history course at The University of Auckland,” says the now 63-year-old, “not only to fill in time but also to stimulate my intellectual side.” Brunt had always loved drawing and had even completed a fine arts degree (two years at Elam and the rest at Brigham Young University). It wasn’t a huge leap to the history of art. That initial course turned into a…

Pacific art navigator

JEWEL ON THE HILL

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO DESCRIBE this home that turns its back to the hum of traffic and its face to the sparkle of the Waitematā: a pavilion in the trees; an ornamented container for living; a generational jewel for the future. But the best way to understand it is to make the journey down the stairs from the curve of the driveway to the discreet front door, to rest your hand on the cool slab of bronze that is its handle, to pivot it open, and to stay silent but attentive as you wander through each room and take in the many hand-hewn elements that make this place as much art as architecture. Owners Donald and Penny (they requested their first names be used) have a long history on…

JEWEL ON THE HILL

ABOVE THE SEINE

THE ACQUISITION OF THIS TRIPLEX at the heart of Paris required something of a leap of faith. Its owners, Guy and Emmanuelle, admit to having experienced “a certain apprehension”. Fortunately, they entrusted its renovation and transformation to very safe hands – the husband and wife duo, Olivier and Hélène Lempereur, who originally met in the offices of one of the grandes dames of French interior design, Andrée Putman, before setting up their own Brussels-based practice in 1998. That experience stood them in good stead. For, this was a project that was anything but obvious. Olivier still clearly recalls his first visit. “The former layout defied all logic,” he states. “It was impossible, complicated and unliveable.” “It had been done in a slapdash fashion,” adds Hélène. “There were parts that were…

ABOVE THE SEINE

TIMBER AND CONCRETE POSSESS a certain architectural magic. As natural materials, their textures provide expression and variety in architecture, giving life to form and space and creating a sensorial environment. Timber has a sense of warmth and comfort; concrete imparts solidity and strength. At Cove House, Justin Humphrey Architect (JHA) uses timber and concrete to differentiate forms, generate pattern and rhythm, and influence the ambience of spaces, taking advantage of their tactile qualities to create a house that feels as good as it looks. Cove House in Sanctuary Cove – a residential development on the waterways north of the Gold Coast – is home to a couple that enjoys travel, art and design. The pair developed an interest in subtropical architecture from regular trips to Southeast Asia and engaged JHA…

IN PERFECT UNISON

AS ARCHITECT BETSY WILLIAMSON describes, for a home that needed to manage intergenerational living, the client brief was refreshingly succinct. “The client is a couple and the parents of one of the members of the couple are elderly and needed an accessible apartment effectively within the home so that they could all live together. It was also important that all the major rooms of the house had views of the creek.” Located alongside Ancaster Creek in Ontario, this L-shaped building, designed by Toronto’s Williamson Williamson Inc., combines two homes for two couples. The components of each are relatively ordinary, yet extraordinary when combined. The house was first conceptualised as two long rectangular blocks or bars: one for the client couple and one for the parents. Williamson explains: “The house is…

IN PERFECT UNISON

WHEN JAKOB BILL TOOK EARLY RETIREMENT from his job as an archaeologist at the age of 59, his main objective was “to have more time for painting”. It was then that he and his wife Chantal found the ideal spot for this activity: a farmstead with 15,000m2 of land, right above the village of Pianezzo in Switzerland. The property consisted of a main house plus a group of dilapidated outbuildings that looked as though five small buildings had been pushed together in a random manner. “I did some archaeological excavations here and discovered buried cellars and sections of walls,” grins Jakob. However, the Bills wanted clear structures in their home. With this in mind, they commissioned Ticino architect Michele Arnaboldi to take care of the planning. They had the old…

A GENTLE RHYTHM

SECOND CHANCES. Danica Paki and Samuel McConnell believe in them. One year after they missed out on the house they’d scaled mountains for, it came on the market again. This time, they were ready. They did not hesitate. Most people run for fitness but Paki and McConnell would regularly tackle the 135-metre climb of Ōwairaka, after the long haul from their first renovated home (an ex-Statie in Waterview), as an exercise in discovering the area. “We became obsessed with this part of Mount Albert: the lovely views, the personalities, the mix of cultures,” says Paki. The house they secured second time around is elevated well away from the street, with its back to the maunga and its face to the north. Built in 1948, it has a red-brick base, stucco…

A GENTLE RHYTHM

Kubrick’s design in focus

A rare opportunity to see an extensive archive of the virtuoso director behind such films as The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey (pictured above) and A Clockwork Orange, will soon be on offer at London’s Design Museum. With previously unseen material, themed rooms and original props and costumes, the exhibition, which marks the 20th anniversary of Kubrick’s passing, will have, at its core, the director’s unwavering passion for design and architecture, which permeated his work like an ambrosial scent. Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, 26 April–15 September, London. designmuseum.org…

Kubrick’s design in focus

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