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Inside Story: Kelly Thompson
The walls of Kelly Thompson’s apartment are beautifully adorned. Why? Because the Rotorua-born 30-year-old is a prolific illustrator (and sometime photographer) and plenty of her work ends up on...
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Kitchen maid
Ingrid Geldof has created more than 2000 kitchens and bathrooms and won 32 design awards in the process. The Christchurch-based designer’s inspired by an eclectic mix of furniture, architecture and...
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Hawke's Bay: Martin Poppelwell
“Exquisitely messy, human and scaled accordingly” is the way Martin Poppelwell describes his art. The potter and painter, known for his grid-like decorations and exposed, work-inprogress aesthetic,...
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Designing Woman
Designer Sarah Loutit, whose Ponting Fitzgerald-designed Auckland home graces the cover of issue 75 of Urbis, knows how to furnish a room. The 42-year-old mother of three works as a decorator but...
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Mr Hospitality
You can barely throw a wineglass in Wellington without hitting a café, restaurant or retail space designed by Allistar Cox. Go a bit further afield – Auckland, Melbourne, Tokyo, Dubai – and you’ll find...
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Hawkes Bay: Rakai Karaitiana and Melaina Newport
It’s 10 years since Rakai Karaitiana and Melaina Newport moved back to their birthplace of Hawke’s Bay. “We had this concept about opening a design store,” says Karaitiana, 40. “We hibernated for a...
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Hawke's Bay: Leanne Culy
It was a house that lured Leanne Culy to Hawke’s Bay. Eight years ago, while in Napier for a holiday, Culy and her husband Brian saw that the sprawling 150-year-old villa they now own was for sale....
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Inside Story: Jordan Rondel
In our latest Inside Story (Urbis issue #75) we venture inside the Ponsonby home of Jordan Rondel, aka The Caker, a self-taught baker with a penchant for artful and decadent cakes and a successful...
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Hawkes Bay: Andy Coltart
Andy Coltart has more architectural balls in the air than even he can keep track of. The 63-year-old is in the midst of designing a house in Havelock North and another in the Bay of Islands, is in the...
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Paris: Anne-Cécile Comar
She’s no old woman, but Anne-Cécile Comar could erect a house from, and possibly live in, her shoe collection, which features about 20 pairs of Tila March and 40 other pairs of heels, boots and...
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Paris: Adeline Jeudy
As someone with a PhD in art history who spent five years in Cairo, Egypt, specialising in medieval art, 33-year-old Adeline Jeudy knows a thing or two about archaic masterpieces. And yet the...
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Force of nature
Now she and one other staff member spend their working weeks creating hand-printed wallpapers, pillowcases, cushions, prints, scarves and bags that are sold at heavy-hitting design retailers such as...
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Friends with benefits
Rickie Dee and James Ridgen spend a lot of time together. They work together five days a week on their hip retail concept Superette. They travel together, hunting for new collections of clothing and...
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Sofia Antonovich and Pierre-Yves Toudic
It all started with a butterfly. “Everyone has grey cars here: very classic and boring. Our idea was to make a butterfly sticker so you could recognize your car,” says Sofia Antonovich. “We wanted to...
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Inside Story: Josh Emett
Josh Emett’s no slacker. Want proof? Here’s just some of what the chef and restaurateur did in the month of November: opened Ostro, a brasserie in Britomart, Auckland; filmed the fifth series of...
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Tokyo: Astrid Klein & Mark Dytham
It’s 25 years since Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham left the Royal College of Art in London and came to Japan. “We came on a scholarship for three months,” explains Klein, 51. “We were bamboozled by the...
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Tokyo: Kanako Ogawa
Kanako Ogawa became an artist relatively late in life. “Until I was 30, I was an office lady. I drew as a hobby but I didn’t think that I would be able to be an illustrator,” says the 38-year-old....
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Tokyo: Masashi Kawamura
Mention Masashi Kawamura to Tokyoites and they’ll tell you he’s a genius. The creative director of PARTY, a ‘creative lab’ that makes digital advertising, music videos and print campaigns, is only 35,...
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A portrait of the artist
Imogen Tunnicliffe started life as an artist in the studios of Elam School of Fine Arts, where she mixed her own ink to create prints inspired by everything from Andy Warhol’s early drawings to fairy...
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Three's company
Architects aren’t just architects any more – at least, not in the case of Anja de Spa (32), Richard Fleming (32) and Jarrod Haberfield (37). The three New Zealanders are the owners of Molecule, a...
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