MATERIAL FOCUS: MATERIAL CREATIVE

Olivia Patience – one half of award-winning interior design firm Material Creative – discusses some of the selections made for the studio’s colourful and tactile Naumi hotel Auckland Airport.

Interior: What influenced your material choices for the Naumi hotel? Did you take any references from the pre-existing Hotel Grand Chancellor? Olivia Patience (OP): Our brief from the client was to take this original building and transform it into a hotel like no other within the New Zealand market: a true experience and feast for the senses. Part of this requirement was also for it to be intrinsically ‘Kiwi’ and to have ‘no white’. Without being too obvious for cliché, we decided to take inspiration from an iconic national bird, the tui. We gleaned inspiration from its colour, hues, layering and song, and allowed this to lead us on a colourful and rich design journey, including jewel tones and gold-leaf feathers. What colour, material and, more generally, design considerations did…

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Interior (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2019 / February 2020

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