Interior features New Zealand interior architecture and design across workplace, corporate, retail, hospitality, education, public, and other interior commercial environments.
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Interior Awards • More than 400 people attended the 2019 Interior Awards prize-giving ceremony: architects, designers, sponsors and judges came out to celebrate New Zealand’s most innovative interiors. The event, which took place at the Sir Keith Park Memorial Aviation Display Hall (at MOTAT), was emceed by award-winning comedians Jesse Griffin and Jackie van Beek.
Designer interview • Interior designer Katie Lockhart has built a worldwide career that spans retail, installation, residential, editorial styling and beyond. We caught up with the Auckland-based creative.
Runways of the future • Fashion darling Salasai has hinted at what the future interiors of the fashion world might look like and… they are digital. During the most recent New Zealand Fashion Week appearance, the label integrated artificial intelligence into its collection release. Among seven separate creative collaborations, Salasai worked with Auckland AI firm UneeQ Digital Humans to superimpose digitally created fashion models onto images of a war memorial interior in Perth. With potential repercussions to fashion retail (i.e. customisable shopper avatars), we are watching this with interest.
INTO THE WILD • Camille Khouri reports back from the inaugural Oceania Biophilia Summit, which took place from 5 to 7 August in Glenorchy.
CHARLOTTE MINTY • This Wellington-based interior designer discusses the colours of her childhood and how they still hold a place in her imagination.
Fresh palette • Walk into most childcare centres and you will be greeted with a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical, commercial-grade surfaces. Not in this one.
Traditional Twist • We peel back some of the layers behind law firm Harmos Horton Lusk, this year’s winner of the Workplace (up to 1000m2) category at the Interior Awards.
Creative Chemistry • A long-established advertising agency has taken a fresh new approach to collaborative space.
intergalactic • The South Island’s seemingly endless night sky, Ma¯ori and European stargazing traditions, a nearly forgotten Victorian telescope… as far as inspiring narratives for an interior space go, the designers of the Dark Sky Project were spoilt for choice.
Stage directions • Theatre, the fine arts and a high level of empathy are at the core of Ste. Marie, a Vancouver design practice re-imagining North American commercial interiors.
MATERIAL FOCUS: WALKER MITCHELL • Kirsty Mitchell is the designer and codirector of Walker Mitchell, the Auckland-based interiors firm behind the Fabric Bistro in Hobsonville Point.
Catching the wave • Arches, circles, curves – these interiors seek a softer, more rotund way of welcoming customers.
Spiritea, New York by New Practice Studio
Est Lighting showroom, Melbourne by Christopher Elliott Design
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