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Style
Scout • We’ve been shopping for your home.
Nature & nurture • Knowing it takes a village to raise a family, Nature Baby has created one for their customers.
Play it cool • Keep it classy with a shared recreational zone that doesn’t dampen the creative spirit but gives you all space to think.
On the shelf • Change the way you see your world.
The art will go on • Everybody’s favourite fair is firmly on the creative calendar, and there’s a new something cool at it this year.
OPEN & HONEST • This space envisioned for part four of our series on future-focused kitchens lives a dream of simplicity, authenticity and environmental connection.
Squiggle it • … just a little bit. We wanna see you get artsy around the edges in your young ones’ bedroom.
People
FOR ARTIST/ PHOTOGRAPHER ANN SHELTON, THE JAPANESE ART OF FLORAL ARRANGING IS A MEDIUM FOR MESSAGES.
MULTIFACETED CREATIVE RAUKURA TUREI’S WORK IS AN ODE TO HER WHAKAPAPA AND DEEP IN THOUGHT.
EVER HEARD OF A ‘SOILPRENEUR’? COMPOST COACH KATRINA WOLFF IS ONE.
Homes
MEETING PLACE • In this family’s corner of the world, connection is celebrated on several levels.
OUR HOUSE • It’s a very, very, very fine house, although to the people who live here, it simply feels like home.
CLOSE FOR COMFORT • The architect on this project was a natural fit to fuse familiar with fantastic to form the ultimate easeful home base.
Design
LOVE LANGUAGE • A devotion to era-appropriate design has seen this mid-century renovation continue a conversation between what was and what is.
POINTS OF VIEW • Spilling gracefully down the hill, this enchanting, estuary-edged, city-fringe garden has been carefully considered inside and out.
A bit of everything • Compact, minimalist, prefabricated dwellings crafted quick smart from only high-quality materials — that’s Makespace for you.
Living
Well & good • Everyday luxuries that make life more liveable.
Community flavour • Included on the menu at new restaurant Mabel’s are hearty helpings of culture, history and togetherness.