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Style

Scout • We’ve been shopping for your home.

Fair share • Get art smart with our round-up of emerging talents to keep an eye out for at the upcoming Auckland Art Fair.

Social work • A high-class yet homely fit-out designed to facilitate business and pleasure — we’re pickin’ up what this place is puttin’ down.

On the shelf • Your other favourite reads.

A thing or two • Spaces that can multitask have never been so essential. Let us teach you how to use paint to create kids’ rooms that are both this and that.

HOME STYLE 100 • For our 100th issue, we asked some pals of homestyle whose work we’ve featured over the years 10 questions on subjects close to our heart, then turned the spotlight on the top 10 answers.

People

The luminaries • A former factory in inner-city Christchurch houses the chic HQ of some inspirational interior designers.

Power to the people • Super-slashie Emma Kaniuk has started a fantastic new directory that stands to benefit us all.

KEEPING IT TIGHT • For makers of metal works Powersurge, quality and family are fundamental.

Homes

UNDER THE SUMNER SUN • Shades of mid-century New Zealand and Palm Springs, Italy and France dapple this house with character.

CONNECT FOUR • A fashion designer and her family ground themselves at home by the beach.

THE PLACE TO BE • The attention these homeowners paid to every inch of their build has resulted in an abode that’s all they ever wanted.

MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Take five gables, add two more, and you’ve got yourself a home that honours its history while securing a sophisticated new life.

Design

Push the limits • All the great things about a classic bach are included in this Mt Maunganui holiday home — but better.

SHE SAYS YES • For the next in our Architecture+Women NZ series, we spoke to member Christina van Bohemen, winner of the Chrystall Excellence Award.

Living

Well & good • Everyday luxuries that make life more liveable.

That’s just Dandie • Colourful and free-spirited, this Mt Maunganui store is a world unto itself.

Wild suburbia • New read Living Outside profiles gardens that take a leaf out of the mid-century-modern book. This is one of our favourites from it.

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