Returning from Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign, interior designer Elena Parry shares the standout themes, installations, and ideas that shaped this year’s festival.
Balancing equal parts whimsy and grace, the Fun Guy wall lights are crafted to delight.
For more than 35 years, Plumbline has worked alongside New Zealand architects, interior designers and specifiers, helping bring thoughtful residential and commercial spaces to life. As a longstanding supporter of Interior of the Year, the New Zealand-owned company sees the programme as an opportunity to recognise excellence and champion innovation.
This immersive, multi-sensory installation was conceived as an elemental world — inviting visitors into a place where architecture, landscape, and serenity are experienced as a single, interdependent experience.
Guided by the conviction that art belongs to everyone, a new contemporary art gallery in Christchurch has quickly established itself as a must-visit destination.
Edra revealed its new collection in Milan to immediate international acclaim — with the Dilly Lamp and the Anywhere Sofa in particular capturing attention.
We caught up with the 2026 Interior of the Year judges to ask about what they are looking forward to and expecting to see in the competition.
A shape designed to provoke, the Matau Seat from Imperfettolab has a primitive charm from the first encounter.
Bringing together four of the city’s leading fashion labels inside City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, the Common Material marks the gallery’s first public opening in more than two years.
A soft, contoured seat against a geometric aluminium frame. A study of balance and clarity.
True distinction is increasingly defined by what cannot be replicated. For Philbe Design, that idea sits at the centre of its practice: bespoke pieces that are entirely unique to the client and the space.
Two new projects intelligently embed Maoritanga values across architectural, interior, artistic and graphic design elements.
As Interior of the Year returns to spotlight the country’s most considered spaces, long-time sponsor Powersurge reflects on more than three decades supporting New Zealand architecture and design.
Designed by Antonio Citterio for Arclinea, Kora introduces a new design language defined by the curve.
The XPL kitchen by Piero Lissoni for Boffi stems from the idea of reducing a kitchen to its essence: a pure, rigorous volume almost floating in space. The island, a monolithic architectural statement of its own.
New Zealand architects have long occupied a privileged position in the art market: as buyers, commissioners, and collaborators. The recent sale of Sir Miles Warren’s collection at Webb’s Auction House made that relationship visible at scale.
As the 2026 Interior of the Year Awards programme gets underway, we caught up with Laminex New Zealand about its long-standing support of the architecture and design industry, the future of local manufacturing, and why celebrating exceptional New Zealand interiors matters more than ever.
Since its arrival in 2021, Kayu Studio has shaped a distinct aesthetic, one that now finds new expression with the opening of its third showroom in Aotearoa. Here, the retail environment is reimagined as something more considered.
Drawing on the qualities of New Zealand wool, Lof unites material innovation with design integrity to create pieces that cast a gentle light, soften the tactile experience, and quieten the acoustic landscape.
City Gallery Wellington director Elizabeth Caldwell admires a building from Deco’s heyday.
