Table of contents for Dec/Jan 2016 in homestyle

SUMMER: THE SEASON FOR LAID-BACK LIVING, BLUE-SKY reflecting and reacquainting yourself with the outdoors. All the homes we visited for this issue share an intrinsic link with the landscape that surrounds them. A series of modern cedar-clad cabins nestled into a kanuka forest on Kawau Island; a renovated cottage on a Finnish archipelago; the family farmhouse built using cowshed technology overlooking the Hauraki Plains; and a home that feels like a rural retreat set high on the hilltop above Brick Bay – the architecture of each of these properties celebrates a connection to the environment. And it appears getting outdoors isn’t exclusively an Antipodean obsession. Our friend, Danish photographer Manja Washmuth (who now calls New Zealand home), returned to Copenhagen earlier this year and photographed Stedsans – aka “Denmark’s most…

welcomebeyond.com Whether you’re taking a holiday, or looking for ideas to inject a bit of vacation ambience into your own home, the boutique hotels and houses featured on Welcome Beyond will provide you with all the inspiration you need. meltingbutter.com Melting Butter is your inside intel on city hotspots from local tastemakers and well-heeled travellers. A warning though: you may end up better equipped to find your way around cities, but you could get lost on this site for hours! junglesinparis.com This fresh take on documentary photography will have you yearning for a journey to the back of beyond. Schooling yourself on things like the swimming horses of Jamaica will arm you with some good conversation fodder too.…

OUR STYLIST AT LARGE, GEM ADAMS and her husband Nathan Speeden have just opened a store in their new home, Hawke’s Bay. What kind of store? Hard to say – Gem herself describes the physical manifestation of her design blog Blackbird as a meeting place of several corners of space and time. “We were inspired by the dusty 70s colours of Palm Springs, the simple designs of Japan and the floor-to-ceiling shelves of a Midwestern general store,” she says. If this sounds like there’s more going on here than just the creation of another homeware store, well, there is. “We really wanted to showcase a way of living, rather than just objects for your home,” Gem says. “One of the reasons we moved to the Hawke’s Bay from Auckland was…

GEM ADAMS Stylist and store owner MY ENTERTAINING STYLE HAS RELAXED a lot since moving to the Hawke’s Bay. Now I embrace the wabi-sabi rather than hold onto my previous perfectionism. This new attitude, mixed with the incredible local produce and having more time and space, means I entertain much more than I ever did in Auckland. Hawke’s Bay has very clear seasons, each with its own distinctive mood and feel. Setting my summer table, I wanted to encompass how the long, hot days feel here. They are dry, vast and almost barren, but the land becomes golden and pierced with streams and rivers. So I used raw cotton and linen, schist and ceramic, hand-molded plates and washed-out tones, with a little life thrown in by adding some oranges. Lazy…

BUILDER RYAN O’MALLEY MET ARCHITECT DOMINIC Glamuzina back when they started the same high school. Firm friends ever since, they started working together once each went into complementary professions. Over the proceeding years they have completed six projects together – but it was a very special one that would form their seventh. When Ryan and his wife Rachel bought a piece of land overlooking Matakana’s Brick Bay Winery in 2011, they knew Dominic was the right person to design a house to fit it. Unfortunately the architect was just about to leave for an extended work trip to London. “We had one meeting in person, then all the meetings from then on were through daily Skype sessions,” says Rachel. “Either at 6am or 10pm.” But it was via these alternate…

“In the holidays, cooking and heating up the sauna is enough of an agenda for one day.” “When you move to an island, you realise the amount of stuff you need for a family of six is quite remarkable.” READERS OF MY BLOG, MRS JONES, are well aware that I spend a large part of each winter pining for the summer. I dreamed and dreamed of having our own summer home – I spent so much time poring over interior magazines and scrolling through hundreds of summerhouse images. We spent the last 10 summers in rental cottages in Hanko, a pretty town on the southernmost tip of Finland, keeping our eyes open in case something came up either there or in the Inkoo archipelago. Then, a year ago, I bumped…

POOL PARTY From blow-up edibles to giant flamingos, fun inflatables are making a splash this summer. Filling the feeds of Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner and Alessandra Ambrosio, now you can get snapped on one too. Check out the inflated range available at cravehome.co.nz COCO NUTS! Taking our cues from the tropics, we’re all about coconut cocktail concoctions this summer – and LIttle Island makes mixology easy with their original and chocolate-flavoured coconut drinking milk. If you’re looking for something a bit more virtuous, they’re great in a smoothie with your favourite tropical fruits too. littleislandcreamery.com TRAVEL PRETTY Whether you’re hitting the road, or jetting off to a summer location, the all natural Grown Alchemist Travel Kit will help you arrive looking fresher than you feel. superette.co.nz ICE ICE BABY These…

YOU WILL NEED Planters Painter’s tape in a thick width Resene paint in Lumbersider Resene Waterborne Aquapel Paintbrush Large piece of paper Scissors Spray glue FOR THE CONFETTI PATTERN, seal the interior and exterior of the pot with Resene Waterborne Aquapel before painting. Cut strips and squares of painter’s tape and stick them on the planter randomly, but spaced evenly apart. Press tape edges to ensure it is firmly adhered. Apply two coats of paint and leave to dry. Peel tape to reveal your pattern. FOR THE WAVY PATTERN, coat the interior and exterior of the pot first with Resene Waterborne Aquapel to seal before painting. Measure the circumference of the planter you’re painting. On a large piece of paper, measure out the circumference length as a straight line. Over…

Whether you’re off to a summer festival or planning a camping trip to one of our country’s many secret corners, a Lotus Belle tent will help you do it right. And by right we mean in great, envy-inducing comfort. A cross between a yurt and a bell tent, Lotus Belles are made from thick canvas and mesh to keep air flowing in and bugs flowing elsewhere. Available in four and five metre sizes, they’re as big and as comfortable as your bedroom so you won’t feel the need to rush home. lotusbelle.co.nz…

#ELEVATEDENTERTAINING It’s not every day that we get to dine in on the 12th floor of a soon-to-be renovated building, but when Juliette Hogan is putting on a dinner party, things aren’t done by halves. And we can tell you right now, the expansive views over Auckland had us all sold on moving into a SKHY apartment. #PLANTSONPINK Did you know it’s a thing? And so is #botanicalsonblush for that matter. Share your green-fingered finds with us on Instagram this summer, and we’ll re-post our favourites. #HOMESTYLEVACAY Inflatable floaties, tropical drinks, Karen Walker Poolside sunnies – that’s our summer essentials sorted for some serious chillin’ by the pool. What’s on your wishlist? #HOMESTYLEISLANDADVENTURE Not a bad day at the office for our Art Director, Juliette. She snapped this pic of…

TOP OF THE SHELF SHELTER: HOW AUSTRALIANS LIVE, BY KARA ROSENLUND. PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, $70. When photographer Kara Rosenlund came across a dilapidated yet strangely beautiful old farmhouse in rural New South Wales a few years ago she couldn’t get it out of her mind. “Someone had to get inside and see the interiors influenced by the Australian bush,” she says. “Someone needed to love these homes, photograph and celebrate them before they crumbled into the earth and disappeared. That somebody ended up being me.” She was the right person for the job. Shelter is a gorgeous collection of textural photos of iconic Australian houses – and the iconic Australian stories that accompany them.…

“Say goodbye to the old ‘floordrobe’. This simple ladder does the trick, and has style in spades.” Juliette Wanty, Art Director…

THERE WAS A GOOD REASON BEHIND Lorenzo Canal telling his two pre-teen boys “no more Saturday sport”: freedom. It wasn’t that Lorenzo and his wife Melissa couldn’t bear to stand around a frigid field every weekend, but because they wanted to concentrate family time at their second home on Kawau Island. Lorenzo and his twin brother, Edoardo, bought seven hectares of land on Kawau Island 15 years ago. They imported sand to create a private beach, added a wharf and installed a cable car for easy access. Then they subdivided the property into 10 sites and named it Hideaway Cove. The section Lorenzo kept for himself faces west on a 30-degree slope that bows towards the Kawau Boating Club, a veritable mecca for locals. An engineer by trade, he took…

METTE HELBÆK WANTED TO OPEN a restaurant in a greenhouse ever since she first heard of Petersham Nurseries in England. When the first rooftop farm ØsterGRO opened in Copenhagen last year, Mette and her husband Flemming saw their chance. Setting up a pop-up greenhouse restaurant on this rooftop complemented the food they make – plant based, always in season and always local; it’s food that reflects the abundance and beauty of the lush, green surrounds. Stedsans is a place where people can sit and eat in the middle of a field, in the middle of the city, and be reminded of the fact that their food was living not too long ago. Life-giving and life-celebrating what more can you ask of a meal? What is the secret to Stedsans’ ‘just…

NOT JUST ANY TOWEL Add some luxury to your bathroom with the ever-so-regal Monarch bath towel by Ninnho. Made from plush cotton with a geometric pattern, it will make any bathroom feel a bit special. If you want to add to your royal towel family, the Monarch is also available in a bath mat and a hand towel. superette.co.nz FEELING BLUE Monmouth Glass Studios is the small, Auckland-based glassblowing collective behind the breathtaking lamps in Britomart’s Ortolana restaurant. But they do everyday items too. Each of these hand-blown glasses is slightly different, adding to its specialness. tessuti.co.nz IN TRIBUTE Len Lye is known for his sculptures, but fewer people are aware that he was an accomplished film-maker too. Not Deadly Ponies. Big fans of Len’s habit of painting, stencilling and…

THE KINFOLK HOME, BY NATHAN WILLIAMS. PUBLISHED BY WORKMAN, $69.99 The Kinfolk Home book is much like the Kinfolk magazine – a celebration of the values of slow living: cultivating community, simplifying lives and reclaiming time for what matters most. Within 368 beautiful pages Nathan Williams introduces 35 homes around the world that reflect this ethos. Through a mix of portrait and interior photography, profiles and essays, readers are welcomed into the homes of designers, architects, photographers and stylists in such an inviting way that you won’t want to leave. REBUILT, BY LUCINDA DIACK. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIET NICHOLAS. PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, $45 There are many flipsides to the tragedies that were the Christchurch earthquakes – and they all seem to start with ‘re’. From the vibrant Re:start…

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BODHA IS THE CUMULATION OF Emily L’Ami’s lifelong fascination with rituals and aromatherapy. It was this, combined with a desire to help people reconnect with themselves, that led her to start Bodha in Wellington in 2013. Just two years later the business is now based in LA, after Emily and her husband Fred applied to the Green Card lottery on a whim and won. It might not have been planned, but the move has worked out. Soon after arriving in LA, the couple found their dream home and studio in West Hollywood. From there Emily designs Bodha products alongside Fred, who designs for his own business, South Society. They invited us in to see how it all works. How did you get into the business of creating ritualistic products? Emily:…

DELWYN AND CAMPBELL CLAYTON-GREENE ONCE envisioned putting a small house on their large site on the Hauraki Plains; something that would make the point that a family doesn’t need a huge amount of interior space to live well. But their architect Malcolm Taylor of Xsite Architecture had other ideas; talking them into a structure better suited to the wide, open countryside surrounding them. In fact, the end result differed so much from the original intention it ended up being called the “Big Sky Farmhouse” – or, as the architect puts it: “a lightweight building in a sky-dominated landscape of rolling pasture”. There were other design influences too. Not many farmhouses can claim to have been conceived in a cowshed, but this one could – if the walls were the talkative…

The smokiness of the cardamom spiced coffee pairs perfectly with the slighty sweet, creamy flavour of coconut milk in this dairy and refined sugar-free iced treat. FOR 2 SERVINGS YOU WILL NEED 3x Nespresso Livanto Lungo shots to make the ice cubes 4x Nespresso Vanilla Cardamon Limited Edition Variations capsules 2 tsp maple syrup (optional) 250ml coconut drinking milk 2 tsp toasted coconut You will need to make the coffee ice cubes ahead of time, using three Nespresso Livanto Lungo shots to fill an ice cube tray with coffee, then freezing overnight. Prepare the Nespresso Vanilla Cardamom coffee in a small jug, stir in the maple syrup and leave to cool. Fill glasses with the coffee ice cubes and pour over the cooled coffee. Slowly pour the coconut milk in,…

FLUX BOUTIQUE Decorating Flux holds a carefully curated Scandinavian-inspired selection of affordable giftware, homeware, soft furnishings, artwork, lighting and furniture. Amazing new season collections from Karlsson, PT Home, Leden, Me & My Trend, Art Club Concept and Zakkia are in store and online now. Flux ships worldwide, with flat-rate shipping both nationwide and to Australia. contact@fluxboutique.co.nz fluxboutique.co.nz IKO IKO Decorating Iko Iko Auckland has moved! You will now find them at their beautiful new shop on Ponsonby Road. Pop in store or online to check out their full range of adorably collectable Sonny Angels. info@ikoiko.co.nz ikoiko.co.nz THE IVY HOUSE Rugs Situated in Herne Bay, Auckland, The Ivy House is New Zealand’s sole stockist of the full Armadillo & Co rug collection. They have a large range of standard-sized rugs available,…