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CORENET: THE INTUITIVE PLACE • The yearly pinnacle of the corporate real estate conference calendar took place in late May. Here are some of the highlights.
LOOKING FORWARD • Julia Gessler ponders some of the key takeaway messages from the Green Property Summit 2019.
IN FOCUS: SUPERETTE • Mark Simpson, joint creative director at Melbourne’s DesignOffice, talks about the firm’s new Auckland fit-out for retailer Superette.
DESIGNER INTERVIEW • Flexibility, family and a quest to provide personalised service made Chantel Fisher and Kelly Rowe leave their former, larger design firms to start their own boutique version: Maken. Julia Gessler sat down with the pair to find out more.
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DISTRIBUTING HAPPINESS • Rebecca Gross caught up with Michele De Lucchi, the prominent Italian designer crucial to the birth of the Memphis Group.
GERALD PARSONSON • We caught up with the award-winning, Wellington-based architect to discuss colour, the built environment and the sweet spot where the two meet.
Nature mirrored • Sustainability, staff comfort and a few wow moments are at the core of Mercury’s new headquarters in Newmarket.
Refreshing the inn • The newly renovated Holiday Inn near Auckland Airport presents a bright and welcoming front with a contemporary, Pacific-inspired aesthetic.
Nelson’s golden ticket • A factory unlike any we have seen before, Pic’s Peanut Butter World is equal parts manufacturing plant and tourist attraction.
HARROWS • MADE FOR HOSPITALITY
2019 Interior Awards • PRESENTED BY INTERIOR MAGAZINE, THE INTERIOR AWARDS RECOGNISE EXCELLENCE IN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN.
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AWARDS SPONSORS • These makers, importers, craftspeople, shakers, disruptors, aesthetes, business mavericks and all-around good folk, and their respective companies, have sponsored this year’s Interior Awards.
B:Hive — Smales Farm • TAKAPUNA, AUCKLAND
Harmos Horton Lusk • CBD, AUCKLAND
B:Hive — Smales Farm • TAKAPUNA, AUCKLAND
Freemans Bay School • FREEMANS BAY, AUCKLAND
Les Mills • CBD, AUCKLAND
Lumino The Dentists • CBD, AUCKLAND
Arran Bay House • WAIHEKE ISLAND, AUCKLAND
Flyde Table • EAST TĀMAKI, AUCKLAND
Nanette Cameron
Kristen Basra • MORNINGSIDE, AUCKLAND
Edward Ge • THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
STUDIO MODIJEFSKY AMSTERDAM • An all-female design firm right next door to Amsterdam’s Red Light District is proving to be a game-changer in the region’s hospitality sector.
FROM THE INSIDE • What role do interiors play in our quest for sustainability, carbon reduction and helping curb global warming? Tracey Ingram explores three projects that seem to have found some answers.
GREENING DUBAI • Federico Monsalve caught up with Ibrahim Al-Zu’bi, the chief sustainability officer at Majid Al Futtaim.
PERSONAL SPACE • Jessica Fox is an interior designer at Ctrl Space, an Auckland-based design studio specialising in hospitality. Here, she shares the things driving her forward.
