Fancy S-P-A-C-E-S for your Sunday!
Grey and blush bedding, black floorboards... nice work, Cultiver.Good morning, sunshine! Can anyone tell me what that purple-leaf plant is?Really digging that rug (PS: Urban Outfitters have similar),...
View ArticleStarting to feel a lot like Christmas...
ehmergerd, Rachel Castle's dog steals the whole showIdea to steal: make a little posey favour for your mates to take home. Mark Tuckey Farmhouse Refectory table of mah dreams.All photography by Cameron...
View ArticleBrass Tray from new NZ designer Regent Street
New NZ design brand Regent Street aren't playing. This is the their sophomore product, the Valley Tray, and it's made by simple folds in a solid sheet of brass. A stylish caddy with an architectural...
View ArticleNZ designer Phil Cuttance is back with a new version of his Faceture vase
NZ designer Phil Cuttance's now iconic Faceture vase now comes in a small size (and lots of colours), for use as a candleholder or bud vase.
View ArticleAnd... we're back! With a look at the newest space designed by Material...
Happy New Yeah! It's so nice to be back! I missed you! You look good - did you get a tan? Suits you. Let's tuck into it, shall we? ///I thought it would be good to start a series on NZ eateries that...
View ArticleIntroducing - NZ eyewear brand Lewis Fredericks
We're living in a boom time for New Zealand design and design-led businesses - I really think we'll look back at this time as one of the most exciting in our country's design history. And there's no...
View ArticleIce Pops that look good and taste good and are good for you. That's a lot of...
this image via MondaysFriends Jacks and Jacci (Craig Jackson and Jacci McFarlane) launched Dr Feelgood handmade frozen pops only a week ago - after a year of research and flavour development - and...
View ArticleWin - your choice of artisan tea (in super stylish packaging) from NZ's Storm...
Storm & India are one of those NZ brands with style and substance. The packaging is so well designed - your tea comes in a little steel vessel (with both an outer lid and an inner lid) and classic...
View ArticleNew YEAH Pick n Mix!
The first Pick & Mix for twenny-fifteen. I'm going to try to bring you one of these each and every Friday, kay?I do love a good tumbler. They're the triple threat of vessels - coffee cup/little...
View ArticleFancy SPACES!
So much to love here. The graphic grid of tiles and black cabinetry, concrete floors, gabled roof with a loft office (those two words sound so good together - loft office, loft office, loft office),...
View ArticlePlayground - prints by designer (at Homestyle magazine) Amber Armitage
Every designer needs their own space to play, to create, to experiment. For Amber Armitage, stylist and senior designer at Homestyle magazine, that space isPlayground. Amber's Playground brand first...
View ArticleFohFum - clean contemporary design for design-loving mummas and daddies:
At last, all you design-appreciating New Zealand mummas and daddies, there's a made-here option for your sweet little potato face (or potato faces). Not a frill in sight!FohFum ~ excellent name! ~...
View ArticleMaterial Creative do it again with Haven...
NZ interior architects Material Creative do it again (they can't not do it! they're probably doing it right now!) with Haven, a day spa in Auckland. The goal was, of course, to create a soft escape...
View ArticleMy January design wishlist - clean slates...
Things on my wishlist at the moment, to a Jan-appropro 'clean slate' theme...•Is it weird to really like a bucket? Whatever, it's a great bucket. From NZ stylist Katie Lockhart's online store, everyday...
View ArticleFuck yeah Friday Pick n Mix...
Yaaaay!Ferm Living's new 2015 collection. I give it an A.How great are these ceramic (and leather) hanging planters? (Pebble Planters). Extremely, that's how.By Australian ceramicist Karen Morton, and...
View ArticleFancy Spaces for your Sunday...
Marble, black and blonde in the hottest threesome you've ever seen...I woke up like this...That CHAIR tho, the kilim rug, the gold pendant light, the shelving...Cool, clever use of a teeny space,...
View ArticleThe NZ-wilderness-exploring photography of young graduate Matt Dowdle is...
Waitawheta Tramway, Bay of PlentyBethells Beach, AucklandThe wilderness-exploring photography of young design graduate Matt Dowdle is making me want to go and have some adventures out there, too...
View ArticleArro Home (I need a lie down and a barley sugar)...
Say hello to your new Paper Play duvet cover, my bed.Hold me closer, Tony Danza. When Arro Home sent me these pictures of their sophomore collection, I had to have a lie down and a barley sugar. Would...
View ArticleSuper duper N.I.C.E rebrand for Flight Coffee, by Wellington's Inject Design...
8 of Flight Coffee's blends are available to purchase onlineCamping coffee sets - yes pleasewhite and gold Union Mugs - made for Flight by NZ brand Acme - (you can buy these online here)These two...
View ArticleSneak Peekaroos at the new Homestyle mag
The Falconers' 1958 dame do-up includes a lot of fixtures and furniture built by Sean. Note to readers: marry a carpenter.Photography by the beautiful Larnie Nicolson.Who said organisation had to be...
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