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Fresh craft

Adele McNab moved from Auckland to Sydney in 2011 to pursue her architecture career. This shift has, by now, led her to establish her own practice and will, if all goes to plan, see her build her own...

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The Urbanists: Morningside

The Morningside Precinct is an unabashedly bold new dining development built around the relics of a bygone curtain factory. Since it opened only last year in mid-November, of late, it has been a food...

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Light in three dimensions

Urbis: Tell us about your background.Alex Buckman (AB):I studied industrial design at Victoria University and specialised in 3D printing. After that, I was a 3D designer at Weta, mainly designing props...

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Inside Story: Mark Ritchie

It was love that brought Wellington-born architect Mark Ritchie to Canada. But it’s work that’s kept him there. The love part came in the form of wife Lisa Mingo, a Canadian he met in Singapore in 1998...

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Keeping shape

Alton Hetariki works with garments that say a lot. They speak a wordless language of how well they can make one look the part, each statement bleeding into the next with the ferocity you might expect...

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A new standard

Sam Haughton and Hannah Brodie, of Auckland’s furniture design and manufacturing firm IMO Group, have recently launched KXN Standard: a modular version of IMO’s popular bespoke kitchen range KXN. We...

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Inside Story: Paper logic

Chances are good that, if you picture what a magazine publisher looks like, you don’t summon the youthful image of Zack Holmes and Bonnie Brown.But, earlier this year, the Wellington-based...

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Rooms for ritual

How would you describe the Hecker Guthrie style?Hamish Guthrie (HG):Our aesthetic isn’t something built out of a particular visual approach or fashionable design response. It’s more so borne out of the...

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Inside deal

Urbis: What sparked your move to New Plymouth? Starting our own family was a big factor. Sarah grew up in New Plymouth and her family is still here; we felt that their support would be amazing for us...

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Designer interview: Alyssa Helleur

Ashley Cusick (AC): Let’s start at the beginning. When did you first become interested in design? Alyssa Helleur (AH): If you asked my parents they would say that they could have picked my career from...

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Rewind: Urbis’ top people

Working in advertising, Ralph van Dijk knows how to create twists on everyday ideas. And the same can also be said of Ralph’s collection of furniture, objects and artworks, which includes mid-century...

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Double barrel

Whisky, with its character and amber-coloured complexity, has its acolytes. And sometimes those acolytes are also its makers. This is true of Mat Thomson. “It was my drink of choice, even as a...

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Inside Story: Margi Nuttall

Ceramicist Margi Nuttall sees the irony in an article about her practice and her home that culminates in a list of her favourite possessions. Twelve years ago, she returned from a meditative retreat...

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Designing with Art

Architecture, interior design, art: all are of equal importance in Grade New York’s renovation of a pied-à-terre in Manhattan. The Brazilian clients have a substantial art collection in their home...

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Wood work

How did you end up in the kitchen world?Frans Pahlplatz (FP):After a few years of travelling and working in the bar/restaurant business, I arrived back in Amsterdam, then met my beautiful wife. I said,...

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