Rosie Herdman

Melbourne-based designer Dustin Fritsche handcrafts minimalist chairs and tables alongside quirky Memphis-inspired pieces finished with bold colours and patterns. Plus, get custom cabinetry, built-in furniture and sculptural cat towers for your home.

For Kew-based creative Jorja Brown, a 1960s Robin Boyd-designed home serves as an ever-changing furniture showroom as much as it does her place of rest. She collects and curates unique second-hand furniture, and lives among her treasures while they're for sale.

The boundary-pushing interior designer cut her teeth creating bold spaces for boutique hotels and celeb abodes. Now she’s helping revamp local houses (and a much-loved telly format) with Grand Designs Transformations. Here, Ghoniem shares her easiest transformation tip - and why you shouldn’t ignore your ceilings.

An excellent independent market, an aperitivo hour offering $2 oysters and $12 cocktails, and a new floor-to-ceiling-tiled coffee shop to check out.

The Ponsonby-based small-batch business specialises in premixed Negronis with a smoky, vanilla lean – and you can also purchase an entire barrel of your own.

The chef and restaurateur shares his favourite pizzeria, an intimate and high-level fine diner, and a menu he thinks is unlike anything else in Auckland.

Talented baker couple Benjamin Eyres and Sarah Tabak met while working at Daily Bread – now they’re transforming the well-known neighbourhood spot that recently came up after 30-plus years.

Handmade pasta, small plates, homely desserts, and cocktails that’ll transport you to Sicily: Jordan and Sarah MacDonald’s second venue brings Italian flair to the north shore neighbourhood.

Ahead of her Pilates empire’s first New Zealand event in November, Australian founder Kirsten King chats to Broadsheet about Fluidform’s secrets to success, a typical day in her life and movement as medicine.

With the elegant venue having just opened on the corner of Chancery and O’Connell streets, we talk to executive chef Glen File about must-order items from the classic and contemporary all-day menu.

Yu Mei releases a new regenerated nylon collection. Gloria launches a new custom catalogue – and a Wellington visit. Mahsa now does basics. And Perriam releases summer-ready linens and new ultra-soft knits.

Behind the scenes at the fashion not-for-profit’s home base in Collingwood Yards, Cooke talks well-mended workwear jackets, vintage family hand-me-downs and the ethical, craft-forward clothing brands she reaches for.