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Juliet Batten, author of Growing into Wisdom and Spirited Ageing takes you into the intimacy of her own experience of ageing from seventy-five to seventy-seven. Along with the challenges, she shares the gifts and surprises of growing older, all beautifully held by the unfolding m...etaphor of the pomegranate.
A book for anyone curious about what lies ahead and seeking to be companioned along the way.
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In 2000, when I was just seven years old, my family immigrated from Iran to New Zealand. Fresh off the plane, we settled in Timaru, a port 'city' where everyone farms and wears gumboots under their rugby shorts. There, we stood out like a bunch of Middle Eastern immigrants in a t...own where everyone farms and wears gumboots under their rugby shorts. We arrived with zero knowledge of our new country nor the English language.
Surviving Marmite chronicles our wild Kiwi journey; brimming with serious culture shock to hilarious misunderstandings and everything in between.
It features my unconventional family: my overly optimistic taxi-driver father, my overly pessimistic eyebrow-threading mother, and my sister and I, frizzy-haired, confused and clearly incongruous third-culture kids.
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From the 150 Best series, a gorgeous collection of inspiring design ideas for transforming tiny interiors into beautiful and inviting living spaces. Over the past decade, tiny spaces have grown in popularity thanks to skyrocketing real estate costs, increased awareness of climate... change, and a return to urban living.
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Shares a new approach to community engagement that brings art and creativity into discussions about urban design.
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A memoir written by Mary Langridge about Fred Wilkinson, now retired at Moor Park House in England. Fred was born in Waipu in Northland and left NZ in the 1960s to take up a position as gardener at Winkfield Place, a finishing school established by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hum...e to teach young women about the domestic arts. Fred moved quickly from gardener to floral decorator, utilising the Constance Spry style, arranging flowers for royalty and governments, meeting famous people and visiting their gardens around the world. Relating his story to author Mary Langridge, Fred is modest about his achievements, and the tone of the memoir is anecdotal and often humorous. Colour images illustrate the many fascinating stories.
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An inspiring guide to the daunting task of renovation, this book covers the whole process of renovating an old house, and provides fitting examples of work from around the world.
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A beautifully designed new book that champions recent film, animation and video art made by Maori artists. Whether it be 16mm film, hand-drawn animation, 4K video or footage recorded on a phone, moving image artworks create a unique space for Maori artists to connect the forms, p...atterns and concepts of toi ataata (Maori visual arts) with the oral histories, performance and music of nga mahi a te rehia (the arts of performance). This new book acknowledges the senior Maori artists who have led the way, and the newer generations working with moving image to convey concepts of whakapapa, whenua and whanaungatanga.
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A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect
James Hackshaw (a member, for a time, of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on 14 New Zealand buildings - from churches ...to school halls. Drawing on interviews with James Hackshaw before his death and on the McCahon archive, this book brings into the light a body of work and a collaboration that has been little known or examined, even by old McCahon hands. Richly illustrated with Hackshaw's plans, McCahon's drawings, letters and journal entries, and contemporary images of the surviving buildings and artworks, and with expert essays by Peter Simpson, Julia Gatley and Peter Shaw.
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'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON ___________________ A love letter to the cities of the world, from the bestselling pilot-autho...r of Skyfaring. Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These places were sources of endless fascination and escape- streets unspooled, towers shone, and anonymous crowds bustled in cities where Mark could be anyone - perhaps even himself. Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent nearly two decades crossing the skies of our planet, touching down in the cities he imagined as a child. He experiences these metropolises in short layover visits that repeat month after month and year after year, giving him a unique perspective on the places that form our urban world. Interweaving travelogue with memoir, Mark celebrates the cities he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. Exploring the emblematic emblematic facets of each city's identity - the sweeping roads of Los Angeles, the old gates of Jeddah, the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasilia - he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home. 'Enriching... Luminous... A touching survey of human dreams and endeavours' PATRICK GALE 'Will transport you around the globe and back again without leaving your seat' MARK OVENDEN, author of Airline Maps and London Underground by Design
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Homes by the Water is a beautiful compilation of photogenic residences from around the world, designed to make the most of their waterside locations.
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