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Inside Story: Lee Gibson
Obsession comes naturally to Lee Gibson. First, there was architecture, then design, then teaching and, finally, sneakers. It’s that single-minded focus which has taken the 41-year-old from Wairoa to...
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Henry Wilson for Aēsop: Brass oil burner
Urbis: Is this the first time you have designed an oil burner?Henry Wilson (HW): It is. The design changed several times as we were working on it. It was a good challenge and an interesting brief.
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The baby wows
In his final year of an Industrial Design degree at Massey College of Creative Arts in Wellington and an intern at Backhouse InteriorsWhat are you doing at the moment?
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Where the art is: Phoebe Morris
On one wall, there are tiny squirrels wearing even tinier trousers, on another, a detailed illustration of Sir Edmund Hillary. Welcome to Phoebe Morris’ world. The 26-year-old artist/illustrator has...
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Gardens of the Greats
Urbis: What inspired you to write Gardens of the Greats?Arnaud Daurat (AD):Being in the landscaping business, we really believe that our environment shapes who we are and we wanted to write a book that...
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Where the Art is: Kelly Spencer
You can barely throw a paint can in Wellington without hitting Kelly Spencer’s work. The 35-year-old has illustrated everything from entrance signs to 6m-high walls, her looping script wrapping around...
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Material minded
“It’s probably taken me a while to get to the point where I am happy to produce something,” says Hayden Martis. “That is to do with my own internal monologue rather than anything else. You can make...
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Inside Story: Danu Kennedy
Advice for budding interior designers: be bold, be driven and take creative and personal risks. You only have to look at New York-based Danu Kennedy to see how that strategy has worked out for her.The...
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Gardens of the Greats: Sir Michael Hill
On The Hills golf course, metal dragonflies hover over a peaceful pond, views of dramatic kinetic sculptures merge with snow-capped mountains in the distance and, on the last fairway, more than 100...
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Urban explorer: Aaron Felske
Amanda Harkness (AH): Are you working or relaxing in New York at the moment?Aaron Felske (AF): We actually just had a little tour break, so they fly us home for about six weeks. I’ve been in New York...
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The Urbanists: Cuba Street
Cuba Street is the hard-working aorta of Wellington city. Watch the morning rush of workers flowing into the city, stopping to pick up their flat whites with the speed and ease of a marathon runner’s...
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Inside Story: Ngahuia Damerell
Moving from New Zealand to Paris is a lesson in the art of petit living. Fortunately, Ngahuia Damerell has had some training along the way. The designer majored in textiles at Wellington’s Massey...
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Clay and architecture
It’s late on a Thursday evening: a time when most of us are going to bed or, at least, thinking about it. Not Betty Chung. The 34-year-old is rolling up her sleeves and heading to the purpose-built...
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Many hands
Nelson-raised industrial designer Luke Mills moved to Melbourne four years ago following a two-year stint designing museum spaces with his former lecturer, David Cassells, at Studio Cassells in Hong...
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Purveyor by design
Emil McAvoy (EM): What are you working on right now?Jason Bonham (JB):I’m working on a variety of projects in New Zealand, Hong Kong and mainland China, ranging from luxury residential homes and...
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Music and form
It’s hard to know where to begin with Andrew Thomas. Should we talk about his radical new sculpture, Lightwing, a 20-tonne steel piece that anchors a roundabout in an industrial suburb of Wellington?...
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At home in the antipodes
It can’t be a coincidence that the man who moved to Europe based on “the romantic idea of living there” ended up running a food-and-wine tour company out of Madrid. Wellington-born James Blick grew up...
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Inside Story: Lance McGregor
It’s 1991 and Lance McGregor, then 17 years old, is debating whether to wag that afternoon’s class at Naenae College. “A former student was due to speak about a career in industrial design and I wasn’t...
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Art in motion
An eclectic tableau. A Regency-Victorian tour de force. A lived-in gallery. There are many phrases that come to mind when considering Stephanie and Sjoerd Post’s home; to limit it to one borders on 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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