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New Zealand

Symbiotic Sustainability

Symbiotic Sustainability

Andrea Stevens visits a holiday home on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand that works as an organic element of the environment it sits within.

From the Inside Out

From the Inside Out

Black/white, solid/open, permanent/temporary are some of the contrasts at play in this house on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand. Andrea Stevens meets the architects, Jeff Fearon and Tim Hay to talk about active skins, screening and creating privacy.

Meeting the people behind Secret Gardens

Secret Gardens’ talented and experienced team has enjoyed tremendous success over the past 18 years. This month Secret Gardens talks to Habitusliving.com about their garden design company’s evolution and give you a chance to win a magazine subscription by liking their brand new Facebook page.

Muuto Celebrating 5 years!

New design is forged by young designers. But it takes marketing consortium’s such as smart Scando outfits like Muuto to push the names of individuals into the stratosphere, as Belinda Aucott reports.

Genuine and True Houses

This month in Habitus #14 Paul McGillick explores the notions of house and home, in an essay about three books. Here we get a taste of what he is speaking about…

Snapshot, Helsinki

Jane Burton Taylor shares a little excerpt of her Snapshot story on Helsinki– taken from Habitus December issue, on sale now.

Stratos

Designed by prominent Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein, Stratos visually references a folded sheet of paper, endowing the chair with a striking leaf like form.