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Homestyle Sneaky Peek
If you like awesome things and great stuff, you should most definitely get a copy of the latest Homestyle magazine - the annual colour issue. Here's a tasty entree to whet your appetite... Photographs...
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Show & Tell - an interview with Homebase Collections designer, Leanne Culy
Leanne Culy is the artist and designer behind Homebase Collections - a constantly evolving collection of New Zealand homeware created at home for your home. Leanne (and her husband, noted NZ...
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Faaaaancy SPACES!! (It's a well-known Jingle)
Budget-looking brilliance.These two sweet spaces (and Lennie, that mini daschie) belong to a homestead called Tuppenny Farm. Tuppenny Farm! How I long to live in a home with a storybook name. You can...
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Design Pick n Mix yo
Dollar mixture time!Time to buy some new teatowels I think.Ah, M-town, why so cool? Love this identity for a Melbourne bar/restaurant, by Melbourne design co. A Friend of MineI like a good...
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Who's the BEST? (Part I)
POUR YO'SELF A BUBBLAH It's time for NZ's Best Design Awards!Fisher & Paykel client Christmas gift Continually impressed by all the work Alt Group do for Fisher & Paykel. Do great designers get...
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Inside Out makes it a gold-star day
Arrghh (happy scream) - I love that bedside light!Spare Change - styled by Julia Green and photographed by Armelle Habib - shows how to make a spare room work double-duty, as an office and a...
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NZ Illustrator Toby Morris...
Next Thursday 22nd, Beatnik are hosting a little launch party for NZ illustrator Toby Morris' book, Don't Puke On Your Dad. And you are totally invited. Toby put together a little video invite/process...
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Saving my Rutherfords & Ngatas for...
I'm saving my Rutherfords and Ngatas for a few choice pieces, and these just made the list. Designed by one-of-my-fave designers Daniel Emma, for the awesomely-curated www.theo-theo.com. I can't take...
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FAAAAAAAAAANCY Spaces. (Clears throat)
Chairs! Lights! Pillows on the floor! (Pillows on the floor?)All I can think of is slipping around in socks on that floor. Oh, but I would.Love the black wooden floors, and that graphic print on the...
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Haaaawnk
Haaaaawnk eeeeeep. That's the sound of me doing a Swan mating call, in the hopes that the new Kate Sylvester X Douglas and Bec swan, in limited-edish dusky pink, will swimmy-wimm over to my house.
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Design Kitchen
Fisher & Paykel has been a loved, iconic New Zealand brand for evah. Unsurprising, considering all of the awesome brand experiences they keep cooking up. Here are two I just discovered...First up,...
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The Guest House
That thoughtful Father Rabbit, he's opened a little Guest House at his place, and I want to stay there and roll around on the sheets. While Father Rabbit prefers clean and classic, the current visitor...
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We live in a beautiful world, yeah we do yeah we do
About this time last year, Melbourne-based photographer Brooke Holm - and friends - did a road trip around the South Island. They slept in a campervan and cooked on a little gas burner and wore lots of...
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Pick n Mix time! (Sadly no longer sponsored by D.E.K.A)
New Pick & Mix title image. Ooeee, aren't we the grown up blog now?Keen on this Copper & Rope BraceletHannah Konola is a little weird and I like it. Sliding blonde wood extensions that hide...
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Show & Tell - Angela Keoghan, Illustrator
Angela Keoghan is becoming an international in-demand illustrator, represented in the UK by Eastwing agency and being commissioned here and overseas for everything from magazine editorials to product...
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Fancy Spaces! Let's make believe we live here...
So, that's a great clothes rack and everything, but putting it right in front of the wardrobe door is a bit silly.Morning sunshine is a dining room's best accessory.Well, H E L L O, beautiful.I don't...
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David Trubridge Book & TEDX Talk
P'raps New Zealand's most successful product designer and design ambassador is one Mr. David Trubridge. His range of lighting has captured the international design community's attention and respect,...
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Interiors | It's in the details...
Double bulbs, double happy.(From the Father Rabbit album on Tumblr which is pretty awesome)
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LeeAnn Yare's new book, NZ Interior Style
That super cool interiors pair, LeAnn Yare and Larnie Nicolson, have gone and put together a book. New Zealand Interior Style will be officially released in a few weeks - and I'll have a copy to give...
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Matchbox Studios (and WIN $100 worth of goodies)
Wellington's Matchbox is a gallery, a photography studio and a design shop - a cool, creative space for local artists, designers and makers to exhibit and sell their work. The business baby of Cherry...
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