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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Inside Story: The Comptons
If the Comptons’ home were an edible delicacy, it would smack of a dish at once light and full-bodied. In the kitchen, the olive-green cabinets would bring colour to this dreamt-up bonne bouche, while...
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Designer interview: Jennifer Bonner
Federico Monsalve (FM): Tell us about the neighbourhood: If and how did the location (its history, urban fabric and planned changes due to the BeltLine) influence some of your choices?Jennifer Bonner...
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Pacific art navigator
It’s the summer of 1991 and things aren’t going well. A recession is rippling through global economies, the Gulf War is in full swing and here, in New Zealand, among other things, the Mercury Theatre...
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Inside Story: Tracey and Brendon
Tracey Halliday and Brendon Cleaver completed different Bachelor of Design degrees at Wellington’s Massey University. While she was studying interiors, he was over in the graphic design department. The...
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Design legacy
The leafy motif of this Remuera street comes mostly from mature trees that spill from above the fences of adjacent houses rather than from any significant public landscaping. In the grand scheme of...
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