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STYLE
Scout • We've been shopping for your home and wardrobe.
PERFECT FOIL • The fifth feature in our series with Aalto Paint takes on a warm and cool scheme from their Master Palette.
READ THE ROOMS • In Rooms Volume Two, a visual trove of distinctive spaces across Aotearoa, photographer Jane Ussher and design historian Douglas Lloyd Jenkins chronicle extraordinary expressions of domesticity.
COMMON GROUND • Powersurge kicks off its short-film series In Good Company with Aalto, and a search for a palette that can keep up with brass.
BODY OF WORK • Sixty invited makers from across Aotearoa, all set the same brief: a collar.
Soft landing • A new collection of rugs and cushions teams structure with rhythm — an accommodating surface to underpin your style.
A SHOW OF HANDS • Yu Mei took Gow Langsford's Onehunga gallery for a day and gave it to 11 women makers.
OUR LIVES IN COLOUR • Marking 80 years in business, Resene has shaped the palette of our public and private landscape. Homestyle traces that history.
BALANCING ART AND DESIGN, MATERIAL AND EMOTION, PARIS-BASED TEXTILE ARTIST GRACE ATKINSON HAS BUILT HER PRACTICE ON CROSS-BOUNDARY COLLABORATION.
ARTIST AND GALLERIST JADE TOWNSEND IS PAINTING A RECORD FOR HER SONS TO READ.
HOMES
OUT OF THE WOODS • A cabin for two on a Moke Valley hillside, trees at its back and the lake below, built to let nature set the pace.
A SECOND STORY • Three generations share an Ōtautahi/Christchurch property, where the two architects among them designed a house above the garage for a mother downsizing on her own terms.
GLOW YOUR OWN WAY • Not going big gave this Ōtautahi/ Christchurch couple permission to go bold. There isn't a white wall to be found.
THAT'S A WRAP • Defining a place of sanctuary against a monumental landscape, this design pays heed to the mountains, but zeroes in on the garden which integrates with the built form.
Depth of field • This new build on a rural escarpment above the Te Matau-a-Māui/Hawke's Bay coast was made indoors, trucked in and built to look after itself.
INVISIBLE FRIENDS • In this revamped flagship showroom, you'll be surprised by what you don't see, rather than what you do.
BEYOND THE SURFACE • An international research mission teamed with local innovation make these decorative panels worth a second look.
SMALL CITY, LONG GAME • Whanganui holds its inaugural national design festival in October. Festival programme co-director Emma Bugden says the place takes a while to read, and shares her insights as to what has made it Aotearoa's only UNESCO City of Design.
SOW FAR, SO GOOD • We've cooked from Emma Galloway's books for years, so her fourth, Thyme to Cook, is a welcome return, this time by way of the garden.