Haven is a brand new home and living magazine for a brand-new world. With many of us spending more time at home than ever, our homes are our safe haven from the challenges we face beyond our front doors. Step inside the pages and stay awhile. We celebrate everything that makes a house a home — inviting spaces, inspiring people, delicious food, and homes with heart.
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EDIT Whakatika • The sea fog rolls in as a Dunedin jeweller shows us around her creative harbourside community, we indulge in homewares that sing of Greek drama and tonal atmopshere, then seize the clay with an Auckland potter.
MY HAVEN • Jeweller and museum communicator Octavia Cook takes us port side and shows us around the creative Dunedin village her family calls home.
NOTEWORTHY • Heart-warming homewares and clever design.
Pink crush
Melissa Wallace from Turua Gallery
Classical studies • Bring timelessness to your interiors with striking pieces inspired by Graeco-Roman art.
Naumi Studio, Wellington
Take it home
TRUE TO FORM • Balance comfort and design by mixing artful handmade pieces with warm textures and a touch of nature.
Fire and earth • Renowned ceramicist Elena Renker mixes pottery with gardening at her peaceful property near Auckland’s Long Bay.
LIVE Te Oranga • Enter three unique dwellings that are creative expressions of their owners – a mud-brick house in the hills near Nelson, an art-filled urban family abode in Wellington and an artist’s graphically abundant home in the trees at Piha.
The hills are alive • A couple of former Londoners found serenity in a creative home near Nelson.
SWIPE the STYLE
BLANK CANVAS • When a Wellington entrepreneur needed to downsize, she found a garage conversation that at first sight seemed unpromising. But upon walking in, she saw the potential to create an art-filled home for her family of three.
SWIPE the STYLE
TRUE COLOURS • An artist’s creative spirit shows its true colours against the backdrop of a classic Kiwi bach where living with intent is honoured.
SWIPE the STYLE
TRANSFORM Whakahuri • We head to West Auckland and visit the most luxe art studio we’ve ever seen. Back on the home front, we have fresh ideas on how to create a stylish and sustainable bathroom, and share clever tips on the best ways to display art in your haven.
WORK OF ART • In a complex of creative studios in West Auckland, two artists have found a balanced composition.
KEEP IT CLEAN • Make a stylish, sustainable statement in your bathroom with artistic fittings and water-saving features.
Saving liquid assets
ART HOUSE • Ten ways to display wall art to perfection in your home.
EAT Kaingia • Nici Wickes dishes up-easy-to-master Japanese dishes that are as exquisite to look at as they are to eat. We whip up pasta, gnocchi and a divine sourdough carrot cake using ingredients from the garden, and discover tasty new eats to munch on this month.
THE ART OF EATING • It’s hard to go past Japanese cuisine for its sheer beauty, simplicity of flavours and intricate presentation. And believe it or not, it’s much easier to successfully make than most people think. It’s fun to get creative with lots of little dishes of sauces and condiments, sprinkles and splashes. Turn your dining table into a canvas of deliciousness.
Comfort cooking • Get cosy in your kitchen and whip up hearty stews, soups and casseroles galore with the Briscoes lady.
Flour power • Kiwi gardener and cook Elien Lewis shares hearty recipes for pasta and sourdough carrot cake using produce from her garden.
EPICURATED • Settle...