Luna
Referencing the timeless silhouette of a lunar eclipse, the Luna wall light is designed to sit effortlessly within a range of settings — from softly lit corridors to living spaces.
A historic toilet in Palmerston North provides both artistic inspiration, modern interpretation, and an inaugural accolade for artist Emily Hartley-Skudder.
There is something enduringly magnetic about an open fire, and when that fire doubles as a place to cook it becomes inherently social — food cooked slowly over the embers, people drawn closer to the heat, and afternoons and evenings that linger.
Gaggenau’s new Vario cooling Expressive series introduces an architectural sensibility to refrigeration, uniting a refined material palette with precise technology and a considered vision for wine storage.
A solitary, moveable figure casts a designer’s life story into light, inviting contemplation as its sculptural form bathes a space in a gentle, golden glow.
Siân Taylor of Team Green Architects, Marc Lithgow of Space Division, and Tim Ross of Architype design passive houses, and all three live in one. Federico Monsalve spoke to them about comfort, cost, where the movement is headed, and why the idea hasn’t yet tipped here.
Jean-Marie Massaud envisioned the Kensington table as if it emerged from an art foundry, making its intricate details truly stand out.
Floating like specimens, the pieces in interiors photographer Kelsie Barley's debut fine art collection are at once intoxicating and disconcerting.
Acclaimed filmmaker and creative Taika Waititi's debut photography exhibition of seven cinematic works explores a series of different worlds, each beginning in the dark.
Floating like specimens, the pieces in interiors photographer Kelsie Barley's debut fine art collection are at once intoxicating and disconcerting.
Acclaimed filmmaker and creative Taika Waititi's debut photography exhibition of seven cinematic works explores a series of different worlds, each beginning in the dark.
Like the late-afternoon hour it's named for, the 4PM chaise captures a moment of transition — when the workday begins to soften into evening repose.
Since 1959, Bledisloe House has anchored central Auckland, its rhythmic concrete grid and board-formed structure embodying the optimism of post-war modernism. As the building enters a new chapter, Alexander &CO. has been appointed to reimagine its interiors with renewed purpose.
As Studio Italia unveils an immersive new Flexform setting in its Grafton showroom, we explore a collection where refined proportions, artisanal craftsmanship, and exceptional comfort converge — showcasing both the latest releases and the enduring icons of the Italian design house.
Since 1959, Bledisloe House has anchored central Auckland, its rhythmic concrete grid and board-formed structure embodying the optimism of post-war modernism. As the building enters a new chapter, Alexander &CO. has been appointed to reimagine its interiors with renewed purpose.
As Studio Italia unveils an immersive new Flexform setting in its Grafton showroom, we explore a collection where refined proportions, artisanal craftsmanship, and exceptional comfort converge — showcasing both the latest releases and the enduring icons of the Italian design house.
With a nod to the mid-century, this contemporary farmhouse set among vineyard-covered hills speaks to its rural setting.
There is a point in every renovation where new and old have to decide how they will live together. In this meticulously reimagined Ponsonby villa, that conversation settles around a single material.
Voluminous and plush, the Puffy series is designed for sharing, offering maximum impact and extreme comfort.
There is a point in every renovation where new and old have to decide how they will live together. In this meticulously reimagined Ponsonby villa, that conversation settles around a single material.
Referencing the timeless silhouette of a lunar eclipse, the Luna wall light is designed to sit effortlessly within a range of settings — from softly lit corridors to living spaces.
The Enn table takes its name from the Japanese word enn, a term associated with connection and harmony.
A manifestation of minimalism and elegance, the Alter Ego table seduces with sculptural purity.
Simple forms crafted from solid and transparent materials, the newest additions to the Lens Collection, the Mini Minor wall sconce and pendant continue Snelling Studio’s earlier design language with experimentation and joy.
From spontaneous gatherings to everyday moments, the Lulu Stool is always ready. Designed and crafted in New Zealand, it is destined to be an enduring interior staple.
Nestled within Fitzroy Gardens in East Melbourne, a modest structure has offered respite and refreshments for more than a century.
Solitary indulgence prevails in this piece of exacting modernist standards.
A growing interior language for 2026, ambient texture explores the interplay of colour, light, and tactility to create spaces that feel layered, considered, and deeply atmospheric.
There’s a new showroom in town, and for those seeking fresh ideas, it’s one to put firmly on the to-do list.
Explore this year’s finalists and vote for the project you believe should win the 2026 Readers’ Choice Award.
We caught up with France-based multidisciplinary artist Jason Pocklington about his latest body of work — a collection of photographs and furniture that pays tribute to Auckland, the city where he lived as a child.
Designed by acclaimed Australian designer Nickolas Gurtler, the space balances restraint and warmth in a gallery-like experience of sculptural forms and refined detailing.
Fisher & Paykel has announced an immersive large-scale exhibition for EuroCucina at Milan’s Salone del Mobile in April 2026.
Grey Lynn has a new local — though local hardly does it justice. Opening this week, Grey Lynn Firehouse offers something special: an eatery in a heritage building, reimagined through a contemporary design lens.
The answer to non-alcoholic festivities this season? A range of grown-up drinks that deliver a cocktail-style burn without the alcohol.
Clouds floating into the unknown, or the poetry of a falling tear. What is it, beyond the physical, that compels us to see more?
We’ve gathered some of our favourite design-led pieces — from elegant homewares and considered books to covetable objects of craft and style.
NZIA has announced the winners of the 2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards at an awards ceremony in Christchurch.
An exclusive partnership unites two brands defined by craftsmanship, innovation, and timeless design.
Marlborough winery marks four decades of refinement, balance and place.
Maximalism is not a single look but a language of abundance — a layering of colour, pattern, and texture that favours bold expression. In New Zealand interiors, it has begun to emerge in new and intriguing ways.
Dual-toned coloured concrete gives this home an innately luxe aesthetic that draws on striking, converging forms and decadent detailing.
The 2025 HOME Interior of the Year Awards saw 150 architects, designers, and friends of the design community gather for an evening of inspiration at the Plumbline showroom in Auckland.
We caught up with Jules Taylor as she celebrates a quarter of a century of winemaking in Marlborough — and a host of accolades along the way.
An energy modelling tool by the New Zealand Green Building Council allows architects, designers, and builders to test a home’s thermal comfort, energy, and carbon emissions — and now embodied carbon — from the early design stage.
Fantini’s Sailing tapware, with its precise lines and subtle maritime influences, anchors the 2025 Bathroom of the Year — a perfect foil to the room’s softly sculpted, enveloping composition.
Everything you need to know about the latest from ECC — including what’s arriving soon. This month’s line-up brings together luminous reissues, new collections and materials with a story to tell.
We gathered to celebrate the launch of Homes of this Decade with an intimate evening of connection, conversation, and celebration at the stunning Studio Italia showroom in Auckland.
Over more than 320 pages, this beautiful hardcover book explores exceptional New Zealand residential architecture of the past ten years. Including the work of New Zealand’s top architects, these are homes that are shaping and defining our local design story.
We asked three award-winning interior designers to style the same piece of art in three very different spaces to explore how art can elevate and define an interior, shifting the mood and presenting diverse experiences of a singular work.
As Artbay Gallery turns 20, we caught up with founder Pauline Bianchi about two decades of vision, resilience, and creative connection.
Dulux has unveiled its highly anticipated 2026 Colour Forecast, and the message is clear: in an era marked by global uncertainty and digital overload, our homes, more than ever, are sanctuaries of calm, warmth and reconnection.
Homestar offers a modern approach to home building — designed for the future, environmentally conscious, and economically smart.
The 2025 Interior of the Year jury brings together leading voices from the design world — Federico Monsalve, Alex McLeod, Tim Kwan and Isabelle Sun.
We’re thrilled to reveal the finalists for Interior of the Year 2025 — a celebration of the most compelling, beautifully resolved, and conceptually rich interiors from across New Zealand.
Be in to win a weekend at the 2025 Home of the Year, Bunker House by Chris Tate Architecture.
Indice Studio has opened its doors in Grey Lynn, bringing Driade — and now FontanaArte — to Auckland’s design landscape.
On a site tightly bordered by neighbouring properties, this New Plymouth home speaks directly to the landscape that stretches out beyond — towards the distinctive peak of Taranaki Maunga and the wildly beautiful coastline it overlooks.
The full range of Aotearoa’s architectural talents are on display in the shortlist for the 2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards.
Sometimes, landscapes are too layered to describe in words. For artist Andrea Bolima, a place is less a fixed location than a mood — a feeling.
A bold interiors movement finds its footing — and its grounding — in considered and playful material choices.
From cloudscapes to cosmic forces, New Zealand designer Richard Clarkson continues to redefine atmospheric lighting.
The use of PeterFell coloured concrete in this Queenstown home allowed architect and owner Maja Marshall the opportunity to further cement the calming, neutral palette she had envisaged.
An object of pure geometry in a vast mountainscape, this Otago home rejects distinctions between interior and exterior spaces.
Industrial designer Henry Caird’s premise is straightforward: when he can’t find what he’s looking for, he makes it.
We chat to Nodi founder Olivia Moon about the artisan brand’s story, growth, and commitment to its original ethos.
Designed by Joachim Nees for Belgian furniture house JORI, there’s something distinctly unhurried about the Daydreamer.
Nathan Goldsworthy has been making furniture for as long as he can remember. The first iterations were the work of a creative young child, crafted with tree branches and rusted tools.
Entering a new chapter of creative expression, &Tradition presents a collection of reissued classics and contemporary forms that resonate with both the past and the present, now available in New Zealand from Cult.
The latest from Italian design house Lema embodies softness, comfort, and dynamism in pieces of gently curving silhouettes.
The Angelo M table by Leo Aerts for Alinea reads as one continuous form, shaped in stone but with the softness of something turned on a lathe or coaxed from clay.
In Milan, on the 60th anniversary of the Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand Collection, Cassina took to the stage — quite literally — with a dramatic performance and installation at the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber.
Surrealism made a resurgence in Milan this year, perhaps articulated nowhere more strongly than in the former Pasino greenhouses, once filled with white orchards, where a series of 3D-printed sculptures by Marcin Rusak entitled Ghost Orchid threaded their way skywards
A return to earthy, grounded hues is evident in interiors; colours that feel both timeless and distinctly of the moment.
The Portrait Chair by Simon James draws inspiration from the Brutalist architecture of the 1950s, reimagining it as a modern take on the club chair.
In the latest edit from Matisse: Blown glass pendants suspended like precious objects; Stella McCartney x B&B Italia, and Rimadesio’s Sail sliding doors.
Boffi’s Kitchenology collections seek to create a distinct way of living.
In Milan this year, the kitchen emerged as a theatre — concealed function gave way to quiet drama where form and material took centre stage.
Pac Studio took out the New Zealand Grand Prix award with its residential project, Lava Flow, while Richards Stanisich won the Australian Grand Prix title for a graphic retail space.
In this expansive central Auckland home, designed by Masonry Design Solutions with interiors by Franc Atelier, spaces of scale and volume were imbued with character and detail.
Queenstown-based architectural duo Alister Brown and Katrina Dravitzki, aka Dravitzki Brown, have long embraced working from home. It was part of their lifestyle well before the pandemic reshaped the way we work for good.
Known for its tactile, handcrafted rugs, New Zealand design studio Nodi has expanded its material language — introducing carpet in a thoughtful reimagining of the category.
From a sun-drenched, loft-style boutique in Auckland’s St Heliers, a small team of experts is redefining indoor greenery with a bespoke in-home potted plant design offering — a service that sits somewhere between landscape and interior design.
It begins with dust: fine, dry, and strangely weighty. Packed and labelled with numeric codes, PeterFell’s coloured oxides read like elements — ready to be combined with concrete and set in permanence.
In this Auckland interior, texture takes centre stage. Upstairs defined by a refined loop pile in grey-green. Downstairs, a forest-toned cut pile with an indulgent depth. Both carpets speak fluently in the language of wool: natural, enduring, and inherently beautiful. They reveal the ultimate scope of the Feltex range — and a new collection that redefines what it means to walk on something truly considered.
The latest in a long line of perfectly distilled collections from Powersurge is the Entrada range of handles — pieces of rigour and subtlety, specifically designed for large portals.
Luminous, natural, and light: the whites in the Dulux Colours of New Zealand range have become timeless favourites. These tried and tested colours have been used by architects and designers for over 20 years, and the newest white is equally as alluring: Dulux Mt Hutt.
There’s a moment in the Fisher & Paykel Experience Centre in Auckland where the everyday disappears. In its place is something unapologetically refined; it is the architectural expression of its inventive Fabric Care collection.
It is often in the pursuit of simplicity that great design takes shape. A recent collaboration between VidaSpace and Powersurge articulates that premise with purity, precision, and a quietly powerful presence.
Designed by Jonas Trampedach in 2011 for FRAMA, the Rivet Series is crafted using a hand-hammered alternative to welding aluminium.
When it comes to home automation, a job well done is a job unseen. If you don’t notice it, and don’t need to interact with it, that’s the measure of success.
Completed 10 years ago, and designed by architect Rich Naish of RTA Studio for his family, this home has settled effortlessly into its busy suburban setting in central Auckland.
Celebrating the organic beauty of natural materials, we curated a palette for our back cover that explores autumnal tones and textural depth.
New Zealand-owned furniture wholesaler, Hawthorne, has transformed its offerings and launched an expansive new showroom — a celebration of creativity and craftsmanship.
Is it beautiful? That’s the question Sara Langdon asks herself when composing portraits of Auckland’s volcanic peaks and the homes that appear to grow from their soils.
Ahead of her upcoming exhibition with Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert at Aotearoa Art Fair, we caught up with New Zealand-raised, Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis.
The long, low form of the 2025 Coastal Home of the Year appears to emerge from the base of a daunting cliff face at Onetangi on Waiheke Island.
A fruitful collaboration between Plumbline and sculptor Gidon Bing has resulted in an alluring new vessel — an artistic centrepiece that speaks beautifully of New Zealand’s diverse landscapes.
Bordering Hagley Park, a new enclave of contemporary penthouses at ground level is a distinctive foray into contemporary urbanism in Christchurch.
High above Aotea Square and what is likely to become Auckland’s busiest transport link, Te Waihorotiu Station, a new vertical village is under way: a place to live, work, play.
Forest House was the first design from Chris Tate Architecture. Completed in 2006, it paved the way for of a series of trailblazing architectural projects, each as defining as the next.
From above, this partially subterranean dwelling presents as a series of geometric forms that appear to be carved into the hillside in some places, and gently protruding from it in others, reminiscent perhaps of ancient ruins – an enclave of forms enshrined in their setting.
Best known for his large, circular, light artworks that adorn walls all around New Zealand, and the iconic Wellington Harbour statue, Solace in the Wind (The Naked Man), Spain-based Max Patté is launching a new, solo show in the windy capital.
It was an interesting proposition to marry modernist sensibilities with passive house design principles, architect Rohan Collett says of this recently completed dwelling, which he believes should be a marker for the future.
Painting with sediment deposits collected from her ancestral stream a few hundred metres from her Piha home, Charlotte Graham finds inspiration and connection in the process of creation.
Wellington maker Dee Johnston’s work is informed by many things, perhaps most notably elements of her Croatian heritage: the simple act of gathering around food, the conversations that unfold, the connections that are formed.
Every year, more and more New Zealanders are handing over the keys to their petrol or diesel-powered vehicles in favour of EVs, but what does this mean for our household power bills, and what do we need to consider when it comes to choosing the right charger?
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Home of the Year Awards, this year we look back at ten years of exceptional New Zealand architecture.
The definitive guide to New Zealand’s best architects, in one inspiring volume.
Twenty-two projects have been selected as finalists in the 2025 Home of the Year Awards. Cast your vote for the project you believe should win the Readers’ Choice Award.