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Design, Life and Culture • Art, design, books, events, people, and places of note.

Woven art

Atollo

Lock up

Rothko

A spatial evolution

Passage of time

HOME OF THE YEAR 2023 • In 2023, we are celebrating the 28th Home of the Year programme. As you are reading this, our team will be visiting each of the finalists to determine the winners of each category: Small, Rural, Green, City, Multi-Unit, and Alt & Reno, as well as the overall winner, which will be named the 2023 Home of the Year.

The Dart • Climb Mount Manaia and the triangular form of this family home appears as a subtle marker in a striking landscape.

Rural hues • Situated on a working farm between Christchurch and Kaikoura, this home for two artfully utilises Colorsteel cladding to create a dynamic definition within a palette of duality.

Crafting emotive spaces • Whether subtle or distinctive, polished plaster interior finishes offer a beautiful realm of possibilities.

Farm and coast • On the west coast of Te Ika-a-Māui, the climate is harsh. Black sand shimmers under the summer sun, the peak of Mt Taranaki is just visible, and a rocky and wild coastline offers some of New Zealand's most striking scenery.

Crater's edge • A Lyttelton bachelor pad designed for an 80-year-old former Christchurch resident cleverly softens the boundaries between old and new.

If the walls could talk • A house with a colourful history becomes a calm inner-city home for an interior designer.

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Living

Emerging Designer

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Of note

Fiction special • From guerrilla gardeners and imaginary empires to tips on how to become unemployed: we preview upcoming fiction books with big escapist potential.

Infuse vitality • Warm hues and elegant curves define timeless modern.

Art Edit • We explore the latest in New Zealand art from emerging and established artists traversing medium, geography, style and subject.

A beachfront loft • High on a cliff between Red Beach and Orewa, this family home delivers something beautifully unexpected.

Natural harmony • On the west coast of the North Island, just outside New Plymouth, a group of residential properties operate independently, but together make up a vast country estate that doubles as a working farm.

Six y six • Initially envisioned as a prefabricated modular structure, this perfectly understated bach in Mangawhai seamlessly integrates cuboid forms with Japanese influences.

Folded lines • Located on a sheep farm in rural Canterbury, this home is devised as a modern interpretation of the ad hoc iterations of a farm shed.

Urban beach life • Pragmatic but enticing, youthful but mature, sculptural but proportionate: this Omaha house marks a promising residential debut for its designer, Jo Aitken.

Homegrown • An exploration of local building products and suppliers delivering innovation in the New Zealand design sector.

Stone, dekoded • An abstract form on a rugged site between the Tasman Sea and rolling farmland, this Gibbons Architecture-designed home is one of versatility and connection, drawing in the outdoors and providing refuge from it.

Purity of form • Sleek edges meet raw texture to deliver an intimate sensory experience in the latest collection by Windsor Architectural Hardware.

Timeless charm • Delivering...