Sneak Peak: Our Place

Exciting times as we gradually renovate our new home in Blenheim.  

This is just a sneaky peak as we are also getting ready for a photo shoot early next month, then all will be revealed.

What we have done here:

All Beige walls have been painted white 

All wood work has been painted white

Original tim pressed panels painted dark navy

New lighting from David Trubridge, Corals in White (from Essenze) and Tom Dixon, Jack Light (from ECC Lighting and Furniture)

Other products include Balinese Water Container and Magis Paradise Tree Coat Rack (from ECC Lighting and Furniture)

Giveaway: URBIS Design Day

The URBIS Design day is a fun designery day out in Auckland City, New Zealand.  

It's a lovely conglomeration of spacial design, fashion, art, food, automotives, graphic design, colour, photography, lighting, furniture, architecture and schmoooooozing.

Collaborations make it all the more fun and they have just been announced - very exciting indeed.

They are:

MINI + Switch
Hewlett Packard + Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

Geyser + Design Assembly
ECC Lighting and Furniture + Tape Art NZ
BoConcept + Styled by You
Backhouse + Gather and Hunt
Paterson + Studio Frazerhurst
spazioCasa + Yvonne Bennetti
Youmans Capsules + Simon Devitt Photographer
Resene + Matter

Each collaboration is supposed to interpret this years theme, which is 'Journey of Connections'.  The collabs were announced at the new venue in town called Citizen Park.  Tres cool.

Here at AFD we are giving away 2 double passes to some lucky design heads (NZ peeps only sorry).  All you need to do to get your name in the hat is to tell me a favourite collaboration you have seen or would like to see.  

e.g.  Tom Dixon + Habitat (all time favourite wallpaper)

Kate Sylvester for Douglas + Bec (golden beaked swans, say no more)

Louis Vuitton + Yayoi Kusama (those polka dots!)

You can either put your answer here on the comments section or on our AFD facebook page, here.

Good luck (you have x2 chances) and I will draw this prize next Thursday the 15th March.


*******Our lucky winner was Missy Bayer********

Here's some images taken last year...

All images provided by URBIS Magazine

URBIS Design Day double pass tickets provided by URBIS Magazine

To be used on the day of the 23rd March.  This prize does not include accommodation or flights in/to Auckland.  To find out more about the day please see here for details.