Style: July 02, 2021

The south island lifestyle magazine 

The south island lifestyle magazine July 2021 

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Kate Preece 

EDITOR 

My seven-year-old said recently that he wished money 

didn’t exist. He thought that without it, the world would 

be a better place. 

There would always be some form of ‘money’, I explained. 

A system would emerge that ranked certain objects and skills. 

It would be driven by demand: wants and needs – some 

rational, some not. 

So, Henry decided, when he grew up, he would open a 

shop that would give food to the poor for free. 

But if he wasn’t making any money, how would he get the 

food to fill his shelves? 

He would charge the rich people who came to his shop, 

he said. 

And how would he know who was ‘poor’ and who was 

‘rich’? Henry believed he could trust that those who came 

into his shop barefoot would be the ones who couldn’t 

afford shoes. 

My advice to Henry? Shoes have nothing to do with it. 

But that kindness and willingness to support others will bring 

about the true value of life – happiness. Look for that in 

others and you’re on to a good thing. 

After spending time in Michelin-starred restaurants, rubbing 

shoulders with culinary superstars and big name celebrities in 

London, Dan Pearson found his happiness in Dunedin. It is 

there that he and his wife now run a foodie business out of 

the beautiful Port Chalmers (page 19). 

Find yourself a little joy, in Style. 

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CONTENTS 

In this issue 

Regulars 

10 NEWSFEED 

16 EVENTS 

74 WIN WITH STYLE 

A $199 dermapen, tickets to 

the latest musical & more 

Features 

19 RUNNING THE 

GAUNTLET 

From high octane restaurants 

to a spiced life 

27 RUSTIC CRAFT 

Arrowtown provides 

the muse for creation 

Entertainment 

& Culture 

42 BIDDING HIGH 

What do Marilyn Monroe 

& da Vinci have in 

common? 

66 BOOK NOOK 

New releases & the winner 

of our reader reviews 

68 GADGETS 

Drive to survive & the 

ultimate snack 

70 WHERE IN 

THE WORLD? 

Guess this mystery location 

72 SEE BE SEEN 

Were you at this 

month’s soirées? 

30 

27 56 

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THE MONTH 

THE BEST OF HOME, LIFE & FASHION 

Style is something unique to each of us. Each month Style encapsulates what’s remarkable, exciting or 

emerging in the vibrant communities from Canterbury down to the Southern Lakes. Be assured, the 

best of lifestyle, home and fashion will always be in Style. 

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46 

RESENE 

SPRING WOOD 

RESENE 

QUARTER FROZEN 

Our cover 

Home 

24 INFLUENCED MUCH? 

Items for kitchen kudos 

30 SAVE OR SPLASH 

Kitting out your workspace 

32 SUGI HOUSE 

The Wānaka home built while its 

owners were 8000km away 

37 HEAT UP 

Different ways to incorporate 

underfloor heating into your home 

40 WINTER ACTION 

Keep connected to nature with 

these gardening tips 

Fashion, Beauty 

& Wellbeing 

46 INNER FRAMEWORK 

Finding softness within 

structure 

50 WE TRIED IT 

Beauty products we applied 

just for you 

52 SPOTLIGHT ON... 

We take a closer look at IPL 

56 KID CONVERSATIONS 

How to keep nutrition at the 

forefront of growing brains 

Food & Drink 

60 SEEDY SLICE & MUFFINS 

Kid-friendly recipes perfect 

for the school holidays 

64 BEST-KEPT SECRETS 

Chasing whisky unicorns 

The spice for life Dan Pearson 

harnessed in humble Port Chalmers 

(page 19). 

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10 Style | Newsfeed 

NEWSFEED 

Yes, please 

The Cookie Monster within you is 

about to be replete with joy. Our 

publisher Charlotte Smith-Smulders 

came across this gem of a business 

– the Cookie Dough Collective 

(cookiedoughcollective.co.nz). 

It’s cookie dough, in a tub – either eat 

it straight from that or scoop it into 

balls and pop it into the oven. 

In a range of flavours like Classic 

Choc Chip, Birthday Cake and 

Nutella, there are even gluten-free 

and vegan options, too. 

Winter festivals 

How does stargazing, braziers and 

bands sound? Add wine, beer and 

whisky vendors alongside tasty food and 

you’ve got the Selwyn Winter Festival 

on July 24, at Larcomb Vineyard. 

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July also sees a month of events 

kick off in Hanmer Springs. 

The Alpine Winter Festival includes 

everything from a masquerade ball 

to a golden oldies rugby match. 

visithurunui.co.nz 

Trypophobia (n.) 

A fear or disgust of closely packed holes. When the afflicted see 

a cluster of holes, bumps or patterns, they feel queasy. 

Think honeycomb, sea sponges, soap bubbles and the like. 

This chat came about at Style after a discussion about honeycomb 

tripe. Oh, the things that emerge on those heady days in the 

office. We’re very intellectual, as you can tell.

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So Bremworth are drawing a line in the sand – and on your floor 

– and ceasing production of all synthetic carpet in favour of wool. 

We have always been champions of pure wool carpet,so we are 

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New release 

Gucci has released its new Décor 

line designed by Alessandro 

Michele. Discover new concepts, 

including decorative porcelain 

tableware crafted by Ginori 1735 

and a group of three candles in 

coloured opaline glass reminiscent 

of containers found in late 19thcentury 

apothecaries. You’ll also 

find made-to-order furniture, 

including octopus jacquard chairs 

and, of course, their cushions. 

Nature hunt 

“Art in the Forest (Hanmer Heritage 

Forest Trust, Jollies Pass Road) is 

fantastic! The family and I went on 

a hunt in the forest to spot some 

amazing sculptures. Whoever made 

these creations are very talented 

humans. The bellbirds and fantail 

were singing as we walked along – in 

the words of Darryl Kerrigan off The 

Castle (1997), ‘How’s the serenity?’” 

– Emma Rogers, Style designer 

Night wanderings 

Get your fill of local artisans at the 

Matariki Night Mākete, The Arts 

Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, 

July 9 & 10. Set in Market Square 

against the backdrop of the historical 

Arts Centre, it’s a wonderful way to 

meander into the weekend. 

Yes or no? 

Rihanna loves a stiletto nail 

(or claw nail). Still trending, 

even though they’ve been 

around since she was 

singing about her umbrella. 

Is it a yay or nay from you? 

Personally, as long as they 

don’t get to the Wolverine 

stage, they still look fierce. 

Fashion alert 

Racing red just got sexier. Ferrari 

has dropped its first in-house 

fashion collection. Former Armani 

designer Rocco Iannone is the 

creative director and, aptly, the 

first catwalk was set up on the 

assembly line for its ‘Prancing 

Horse’ V12 sports cars. 

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Visit us in store at our bright and beautiful 

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Sanctuary 

On the ground floor of an art deco 

building in Dunedin’s Warehouse Precinct, 

you’ll find a Zen venue to soothe your 

soul that began its life as a space with 

uneven floors and chipped walls. AYU 

Community Space (ayu.co.nz) is a unique 

inner-city sanctuary perfect for holding 

events and bringing people together. 

Recently opened 

Fancy a spot of vintage 

shopping with a cheeky latte? 

Christchurch now has just the 

ticket for those who like to 

caress designer wares. The 

Hanger (120 Hereford Street) 

is located at Five Lanes 

in the BNZ Centre. 

We recommend 

“Hoi An House (265 Halswell Road, 

Halswell) is well worth checking 

out. We had a large gathering there 

and the atmosphere was just lovely. 

What I really was impressed with 

was the focus on dietary needs 

– our server checked for allergies 

to onions, mushrooms and nuts and 

also checked for gluten-free and 

coeliac needs. We had a coeliac 

in our party and they provided a 

completely separate entrée and meal 

for them. We talked way after our 

meals finished and did not feel we 

were being rushed out. It was not a 

late night but it was lovely to sit and 

chat with friends and family not seen 

for a while. The food, venue and 

attentive staff are well deserving 

of five stars.” 

– Viv Montgomerie, sales manager 

Tea moments 

Thumb your nose at the 

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tea company, its fusion of 

home-grown fruits, herbs and 

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16 Style | Events 

See you 

there 

July 8–13 

NZ Opera: The 

Marriage of 

Figaro 

Mozart’s opera featuring 

local and international 

performers. 

Isaac Theatre Royal 

145 Gloucester Street, 

Christchurch 

Tīrama Mai 

Find lighting installations in central city 

locations like The Arts Centre 

Te Matatiki Toi Ora and in 

New Brighton. It concludes on 

July 10 with a Matariki fireworks 

display in New Brighton. 

Various locations, ccc.govt.nz 

Fire & Ice Festival 

Ice artist Victor Cagayat will 

sculpt live, followed by fire poi 

and Latin guitar performers, 

with a night market. 

July 24, Blackwell’s Department 

Store Carpark, 

Raven Quay, Kaiapoi 

July 10–24 July 23 

Disney’s Moana Jr. 

The world of Moana brought to 

life by young, local performers 

in this musical adaptation of the 

hit Disney film. 

The Court Theatre, Bernard 

Street, Christchurch 

Fashion Fridays: 

Donna Tulloch 

An inside chat with premium 

fashion label Mild Red and 

founder and designer 

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Otago Museum, 419 Great 

King Street North, Dunedin 

Aperture - The Life and 

Works of Ans Westra 

Actor and director Martine 

Baanvinger returns with an innovative 

one-woman play about NZ 

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July 23, Arrowtown Athenaeum 

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Style | Feature 19 

Spiced 

Dan Pearson went from being chased to school by machete-wielding thugs 

to working in Michelin-starred restaurants. But in high octane kitchens, chefs live 

in a near-constant state of stress and Dan had a decision to make. 

Words Shelley Robinson 

ABOVE: Dan Pearson has created a range of spice mixes, pickles and 

mustards from his base in Dunedin.

20 Style | Feature 

ABOVE: Wild Fennel’s products have been created with the home cook in mind and were developed 

when Dan found himself cleaning out the pantry of a Waikato pub. Photos: Nikki Astwood


Though we often think life-changing moments have to be big, simple 

things can show a person what they have been searching for. 

Dan Pearson is a master storyteller, with that enviable 

mix of one-part comedic timing and two-parts 

unflinching honesty – particularly about himself. It’s 

refreshing. 

He and his wife, Jo, are the founders of Egg & Spoon, 

which produces a range of gourmet spice mixes, 

mustards and pickles. Based in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, 

Dan has travelled a long road from a Northampton 

council estate where surviving the walk to school each 

day was the only priority. 

But he was introduced to the magic of food through 

his “nan”, Margaret Persor. 

“My dad had a bit of a rough upbringing and he was 

in those foster homes. My nan was the one house he 

spent the most time at. She used to be a headmistress, 

does heaps of charity work and speaks nine different 

languages. She is a force of nature that woman, she is 

probably the biggest inspiration in my life,” Dan says. 

Margaret was well travelled and she took Dan, a 

“council estate boy” from one of the roughest areas in 

Northampton, to stay in the South of France, introducing 

him to a different food experience. 

“I was just from a humble meat and two vege type of 

family and that really unlocked the doors in my brain to 

go, ‘Wow, what’s going on here? What else is out there?’ 

“Their whole philosophy of eating is so different to the 

stereotypical English: children should be seen and not 

heard; everything should be overcooked and flavourless. 

But French kids are drinking shot glasses with red wine, 

eating unpasteurised cheeses. Food was celebrated.” 

Dan knew he wanted to be a chef – not only did it 

fascinate him, but he wanted an “out” from where he 

grew up. 

“Walking to school felt like running the gauntlet; it’s 

survival mode. You’ve got to get to school without 

being punched or having your dinner money stolen – or 

getting chased by people with machetes,” he says. 

“You wake up to find a new burnt-out car in the car 

park every day, houses torched all the time – it’s not for 

the faint-hearted. Education went out the window at a 

very early age for me – I wasn’t a big bloke, so it was just 

about surviving it.” 

But it did perversely put him in good stead to work 

in kitchens. His dad was a factory worker, and his mum 

worked in factory kitchens and in a burger van. From 

age 13, Dan was washing dishes and flipping burgers 

with his mum. 

“It wasn’t an education in terms of food but definitely 

about being in that commercial kitchen environment. 

Kitchens are the same whether you are in a factory 

kitchen in a s*** town or in a two Michelin star kitchen in 

London – the atmosphere is exactly the same, there’s just 

more egos in the Michelin star one.” 

Dan trained as a chef but wasn’t ready to venture to 

London to work yet. He wanted to “party” – life had 

been too serious for the past 16 years. 

He worked in a modest hotel in Scarborough catering 

to clientele who liked their three veges and meat. Within 

six months he was effectively running the kitchen. 

“You can’t get that in a Michelin kitchen. You really are 

peeling vegetables while aspiring to be a lot more than 

what you are going to be for a few years – it is really 

long-winded. It is such a harsh environment and you get 

a lot of personality stamped out of you in some of those 

kitchens – some are hard and violent. I didn’t want any of 

that. I wanted to have fun,” he says. 

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He worked at a hotel in Jersey, before returning to the 

one place he didn’t want to be – Northampton. 

“I was a trainwreck by this point – drinking and partying 

too hard and piss-poor broke,” he says. 

Everything was becoming a bit too easy for him and he 

was lacking something. Something that connected his soul 

back to food, to that sense of wonder. He sent his CV to 

the top restaurants in Europe and to a London restaurant. 

The London one got back to him in four days and within 

weeks he was cooking in his first Michelin-starred restaurant. 

“I remember one lad saying, ‘Whatever you do, don’t 

look at the chef. He’ll go f****** nuts at you.’” Dan 

chuckles at the memory. 

Dan put his head down and worked – hard. He had 

one day off over three months – though he was defeated 

when he worked out his hourly wage worked out to 

£2.11, he kept going. Because around the corner was a 

defining moment. 

Though we often think life-changing moments have to 

be big, simple things can show a person what they have 

been searching for. For Dan, it came when a chef at the 

restaurant gave him cookbooks by Michelin-starred chefs 

Michel Bras and Heinz Beck. 

“I opened up the first page. I was like, ‘Is this food? This 

is artwork.’ All of a sudden everything made sense. This is 

what you can do with food.” 

Soon after, he worked at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 

London, in one of its restaurants. Back then it was called 

Foliage and it had a Michelin star and five rosettes. 

“It was next-level luxury. As a council estate boy I 

would never in a million years think I would set foot in 

a place like this. We were cooking for about 48 people 

but there were 26 chefs and ‘budget’ was not even 

a word that was used – it was the best ingredients 

possible,” he says. 

He cooked for people like actors Mark Wahlberg, 

Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes and singers Tom Jones 

and Mariah Carey. And then former British Prime Minister 

Tony Blair popped in for a meal. As you do. 

As long as Dan got his work done, any extra time could 

be spent playing and creating and, if it was good enough, 

it was put on the menu. 

But he was working too hard. And that takes a toll. 

THE WAIHEKE EFFECT 

Dan was on the ferry heading back to Auckland from 

Waiheke Island with a tear in his eye. 

He had followed his girlfriend, now wife, Jo to New 

Zealand for a holiday. He had developed epilepsy from 

working too hard and not getting enough sleep. He was 

at an “all-time low”. It wasn’t uncommon, he says, for this 

to happen in the high-stress kitchen environments. 

“But at the time you feel very isolated and lonely. I 

had come for a two-week holiday just to see her and 

piece my life back together and see if there was anything 

left to salvage. 

“On my last two days she took me to Waiheke – let’s 

face it, that’s pretty f****** unfair! I’m a council estate 

boy, used to burnt-out cars, houses and machete-wielding 

people and she takes me to Waiheke!” 

New Zealand enraptured him. A few years later, the 

couple made the shift in 2009. 

However, the stark contrast between New Zealand 

kitchens and London was almost too much for Dan. He 

was too used to the high-octane, harsh kitchens, where 

people ran on stress, and he couldn’t “wrap his head” 

around New Zealand kitchens where people didn’t 

“sweat the small stuff”. 

“It was like being kicked in the nuts. ‘What have I done?’” 

He did contract work and worked on a series of successful 

pop-up restaurants in Auckland. But he was becoming 

something he himself had hated – a chef with a temper. 

“If I could have my time again, I would do it different. 

You get thrust into these positions and end up falling into 

this category of what you hate.” Dan sounds defeated. 

Things needed to change. He didn’t want to be a chef 

and single. Because that is likely what would have happened, 

he says, because he had seen it over and over again. 

“You ask, was it really worth it? The answer is probably 

no. At the end of the day you are just putting food on a 

plate. You can pomp it up as much as you want but when 

it comes down to it, it’s just putting food on a table and 

that is all it will ever be.” 

He has a way of cutting through to the truth of things, 

does Dan. And with that said, Dan had decided he 

wanted to prioritise his family. But he still needed to 

create and, for that, he needed a new recipe. 

“SALT OF THE EARTH” 

While working at a Waikato country hotel, he 

rediscovered his passion for creation. 

The place was not pretentious but a place full of “real 

people” – including a “salt of the earth” 74-year-old 

woman, who was the dishwasher and reminded him of 

his nan – which made him feel at home. 

One day, he headed into the pantry in a foul mood, 

using that as fuel to clean it up. He found some spices and 

remembered his friend telling him about a spice rub he 

had made, so Dan decided to give it a go. He made three 

spice mixes in that cupboard. 

“By this time my mind was fizzing and bouncing off the 

walls.” He had found his new niche. 

Wild Fennel Co. gourmet seasonings were created and 

Dan, Jo and the family made the move to Dunedin. Their 

spice mixes are now in 250 stores around the country. He 

has also created ranges of mustards and pickled onions. 

Dog Town Mustard is a nod to the affectionate 

nickname for Port Chalmers (where Wild Fennel has 

its headquarters), while Gorilla Pickles is a nod to his 

own family. 

“Every year my family tries to outdo each other to 

make the spiciest pickled onion. As a joke, I thought, well,


“But it’s nice, you know? To see kids where we 

live having that good upbringing.” 

I’ll start a pickled onion company – which one of you are 

going to beat that!” 

The company has gone from strength to strength, 

which means Dan can push as much work as possible 

through to Dunedin’s Cargill Enterprises, the trading 

arm of the Disabled Citizens Society (Otago). 

He feels a bit guilty sometimes, does Dan. 

You imagine he is looking out the window of his 

Careys Bay home when he says it. 

“There are about 50 houses here surrounded by trees. 

There is birdsong and you are just lapping up the sun. 

Kids are laughing,” he says. 

Early this morning, he was surfing at St Clair – keeping 

a wary eye on a sea lion that surfaced near him and sent 

him paddling in the other direction. 

It’s that tranquillity he feels guilty about, unable to 

completely shake that “council estate boy” still within 

him that says life shouldn’t feel like this. He knows 

somewhere there is a 13-year-old kid just as he was: 

“stealing and saving dinner money to buy fags and weed”. 

“You work your arse off, just to feel guilty about it,” he 

says almost to himself. 

“But it’s nice, you know? To see kids where we live 

having that good upbringing.” 

So he’s off now, perhaps to do the school pick-up or 

take a walk where the sea lions bellow. He’s got things 

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Nature’s lure 

In Arrowtown, every bit of timber is honoured by Niall Walsh and his team. 

They create new bespoke chapters within the old stories of wood. 

Words Shelley Robinson 

ABOVE: He wasn’t expecting to stay in New Zealand, but Rustic Soul Designs founder Niall Walsh found 

the natural environment sparked his creativity. Photo: Rustic Soul Designs


Where some people write off a bit of timber for 

being old and filled with nail holes, Niall Walsh 

sees an opportunity for an old story to be turned new 

once more. 

Woodwork takes on a whole different meaning 

when you talk to Rustic Soul Designs’ founder. It is 

not simply a transaction of wood to create a piece 

of furniture. 

“It comes from my soul – it is the only way to 

describe it; every part of my being goes into each piece 

and the company, everything we’re growing here,” 

he says. 

He takes you on a bit of journey when he talks, 

where at the very heart is honouring each bit of wood 

that nature has provided – even if it is filled with 

“character marks”. 

“I’m looking at a big stack of timber we got from 

the Arrowtown Museum; the timber that came out is 

from one of the oldest buildings in the area, so it’s got 

character and history and we try to celebrate that. If we 

are selling a piece of furniture to a client, it comes with 

a story,” he says. 

And honouring its story means using every part of it, 

right down to the sawdust. 

Once the piece of bespoke furniture is created, 

smaller leftover pieces are used to make business card 

holders or bottle openers. 

“Then the sawdust is given to local community 

gardens to use for compost – it’s the circle of things, 

regenerating life once again to grow plants,” he says. 

Nature influences Niall’s designs, which makes sense 

when he describes his surroundings at his Arrowtown 

base on Bush Creek Road. 

“Sitting here in my office, it is just trees all around me 

wherever I look, and so many colours. If I walk out the 

front door and look out, there are mountains all around 

me. It is hard to deny nature is part of everything here.” 

Niall seems very sage when you talk to him. But 

watch out. He’ll get you. 

When asked what brought him to our fair shores, 

without hesitation and with what you imagine could 

only be a cheeky smile, he responds, “An airplane.” 

Bugger. Fair enough, he’s got you there. 

Turns out it was the Christchurch rebuild after the 

February 22, 2011 earthquake that saw him board the 

plane, but it was our natural environment that seduced 

him into staying. Working in dry, dusty Queensland with 

nothing for miles and miles had left his soul somewhat 

drained. His friends knew he was moving on and 

suggested he go to New Zealand on holiday. 

“I came to Christchurch first and I just got an instant 

warm feeling – it felt like home in so many ways. People 

would ask if you were here for the rebuild and you 

would feel their gratitude. 

ABOVE: Niall loves to work with contrast, including colours and new and old techniques. This chess table, from the 

Charred Collection, was made using shou sugi ban, a Japanese technique of charring timber. Photo: Rustic Soul Designs


“There were a lot of similarities from where I 

come from in Ireland [Tipperary] – similar people 

and similar countries.” 

It wasn’t part of the grand plan to stay, but then he 

drove down to Queenstown. 

“I was blown away by the scenery – I’ve never seen 

anything like it. 

“Queenstown is a very unique town in New 

Zealand – such a mix of cultures and so much going 

on here. Initially, I was enjoying the night life, but after 

a while you realise there is so much more and so many 

opportunities here – if I wasn’t here I don’t think I 

would have started Rustic Soul Designs,” he says. 

Niall was inspired to start his own business by 

his colleagues in the building industry. 

“You think, ‘Yeah, they’re just normal people like me, 

if they can do it I can do it too,’” he says. 

It started when he made a table for a friend who 

wanted something very specific to match the trusses in 

his living area. 

“That was around the time I realised this is what I 

wanted to do. But it took a while to materialise it; I 

didn’t really have a reputation and I didn’t have the 

workload,” he says. 

So he worked part-time in a job and part-time with 

his furniture. Now Rustic Soul Designs is four years old, 

with employees. 

But Niall hasn’t lost his soul. 

“We’re not really focused on being the biggest 

business or making the most money. We just want 

to make a difference with the environment and make 

cool stuff. I just don’t want to make things, I want to 

make them as nice as possible, as functional and as 

good looking as I can, and that’s what excites me and 

the team.” 

He loves contrast, which is a theme throughout his 

work. He uses different techniques, such as contrasting 

colours, or mixing modern and old materials and 

techniques. With his own business, he can embrace 

the creativity and art behind woodwork. 

“I kind of got into carpentry thinking I’d be carving 

beautiful pieces of wood, but the reality is quite 

different – more like following a set of rules strictly 

with no creative flair,” he says. 

So, yes, his creativity did become muted for a few 

years, he says, but New Zealand helped bring it back 

to life. 

“Experiencing Kiwi culture helped me get back into 

that creative mindset. Just the positive influence from 

some of my Kiwi workmates of enjoying your work, 

which is something I regained in New Zealand, which I 

think I had lost.” 

And now we get to enjoy the aesthetic that has 

been reborn. 

ABOVE LEFT TO RIGHT: Every bit of timber is utilised, with small pieces used to create something special. Photo: Isaac 

McCoubrey; Each bespoke creation is created from “every part of” Niall’s being. Photo: Harry Shelswell


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of numerous top performers. These often 

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At our recent in-house awards, I shared 

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me of the years of work that preceded the 

minutes of glory. 

Harcourts gold began as a franchise 

of four offices (the same four we have 

today - although it once included the 

West Coast and Wanaka) and was first 

formed in 1998. We purchased the 

Papanui office less than six months 

prior to the franchise being formed and 

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of blind faith and trust. This was helped 

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term mentor Stephen Collins. He 

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forward and backing the underdogs 

(which is what we definitely were). His 

belief in us and what we could accomplish 

sustained us in the darkest of moments, and 

we can never thank him enough. 

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with only five consultants (the majority 

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to build the business and our profiles. 

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moved on to other ventures, I am grateful 

to both of them for their commitment over 

those early years. To be brutally honest 

with you – what I do remember from those 

years is a bit of a blur. 

Work and people, people and work, more 

people and more work. Debts paid off, 

larger debts gained, sleepless nights, and 

the birth of my first child. Success followed, 

albeit quietly at first but it soon became 

loudly acknowledged within the Harcourts 

brand nationally as well as internationally. 

Over the last financial year (April 1, 2020 – 

March 31, 2021) the Harcourts gold team 

wrote $1,016,266,237 worth of property 

sales and listed 1,422 properties. We are 

a company of 140 and have an incredible 

business comprised of four offices, an 

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Sugi House 

It was on a Japanese ski trip that the owners of this Wānaka house 

came to appreciate the efficiency of small spaces. 

Words Kim Dungey Photos Simon Devitt

Style | Home 33 

Building 8000km away, with borders closed and 

countries in lockdown, would challenge the most 

determined of homeowners. 

But for a former Dunedin man and his wife, now living in 

Singapore, the result has been worth it. 

Unable to visit their Wānaka site, Chris Stewart and 

Vicky Windsor found that online meetings and trust in their 

architect and builders were crucial. Decisions were made 

with the help of Skype and email. 

The couple were last able to visit their holiday home in 

February last year, when it was not much more than a shell. 

The following month, as builders began adding its distinctive 

shingle cladding, New Zealand entered Level 4 lockdown. 

“Building materials and building works were delayed due 

to the lockdown but since we couldn’t travel anyway, it 

wasn’t something we stressed over,” Mr Stewart says. 

“With my grandma living next door and my family visiting 

regularly, there was no shortage of updates.” 

Even now, they are still unsure when they will be able to 

see their completed home for the first time. 

Pre-Covid, the couple and their children visited Wānaka 

once or twice a year, staying in a house on the site that 

until recently was home to Mr Stewart’s 91-year-old 

grandmother. However, they always liked the idea of having 

their own place and their children maintaining a strong 

connection with Wānaka. 

Sugi House (sugi means ‘cedar’ in Japanese) was 

built on a part of the 1084m 2 section, which previously 

accommodated a cricket pitch and trampoline. 

“We were after a simple, eco-friendly lodge, which 

would complement the main house but add a modern 

touch,” they say. 

“It needed to be something that was cosy in winter, 

cooling in summer, that would blend into the street and 

mountain backdrop and be easy to maintain. 

“On one of our ski holidays to Japan, we stayed in a little 

two-bedroom ski lodge for a week. It was very efficiently set 

out, as only the Japanese could do, and we realised a family 

of five could comfortably live in a small house if we were 

smart about making maximum use of the space.” 

After seeing Kirimoko Tiny House – a 30m 2 home by 

Condon Scott Architects – the couple engaged Barry 

Condon to bring the vision for their holiday home to life. 

To Condon, delivering on a Japanese aesthetic meant 

creating something that was simple and unobtrusive. 

The 96m 2 property is not a ‘tiny house’ but it does 

contain key elements commonly associated with that style of 

living, including a simple form, a mezzanine level and clever 

storage solutions. 

The lower floor contains a double-height living and 

kitchen space, separated from the children’s bathroom and 

bedroom by a staircase. Upstairs is a double bedroom with 

en suite, an office and storage. 

Condon says there are no walk-in wardrobes, oversize 

bedrooms or sprawling living spaces (there is also 

no television). 

As the house faces the street, glazing is restrained and 

aimed towards views to the west of Mt Roy

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“Rooms are compact, yet still make for comfortable 

living. There are shoe racks built into the walls, storage 

tucked away behind walls, drawers under the stairs. 

The bathrooms are small, tiled wet-rooms with a 

shower.” 

To increase the feeling of space and continuity, 

materials were also pared back to a bare minimum. 

Interior walls and ceilings are clad in ply, which is 

broken up by negative detailing, creating a linear design 

feature out of the joins. On the outside, cedar shingles 

are used on the roof and walls. 

“It’s not a typical cladding in Wānaka, but it does 

tie in with the style of the house and the alpine 

environment,” Condon says. 

“Over time ... you’re going to get variation and it’s 

going to have this lovely dappled quality to it.” 

The house was built by Christie Brothers 

Building from structural insulated panels (SIPs), which 

were taped, sealed and wrapped in a secondary 

layer of building wrap plus plywood to maximise 

thermal efficiency. 

Due to the high level of insulation and the small 

footprint, a wood fire provides enough heating to cut 

through even the chilliest of winter days. 

The board-marked concrete fireplace is thermally 

broken from the floor slab and from the windows that 

seem to rise up through the middle. 

The owners say they love the contrast of the cedar 

shingles against the black window frames and chimney, 

as well as smaller touches such as their concrete 

bathroom basin, black sculptural fan and concrete 

kitchen benchtop. 

Initially, they budgeted $500,000 to $750,000 

for the build, but they quickly realised it would need 

to be at the top end of that range to get the quality 

they wanted. 

“We tried to make sensible decisions along the way, 

choosing quality local products and not cutting corners 

on what we saw was a long-term investment.” 

“We are absolutely delighted with the result, 

although a little sad about not being able to be the 

first to live in it.” 

While they continue to work in Singapore – Mr 

Stewart for Westpac, and Ms Windsor for German 

software corporation SAP – a tenant is “babysitting” 

the house and keeping an eye on the garden. Given 

current quarantine requirements, they plan to wait until 

a travel bubble opens with Singapore before heading to 

Wānaka themselves. 

Even then, there is no guarantee that their three 

children will choose to stay in the home that was more 

than a year in the making, they joke. 

“The kids seem more than happy to stay in the big 

house next door with their cousins – and a TV.” 

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Ground up 

Your quick guide to underfloor heating options. 

Words Michelle Laming 

ABOVE: Keep the whole family cosy and warm with underfloor heating.


Embrace heat from the ground up with underfloor heating. 

This is a great option for those who want to opt for less noise and mess, 

as compared to other forms of heating. 

It is particularly good, too, for those who have breathing issues. 

Tiles 

Under-tile heating is the best type of 

heating for tile and stone floors as 

they have high thermal conductivity. 

This means the heat from the heating 

wire transfers to the floor surface 

quickly, warming the floor where you 

require it, without cold spots or chilly 

drafts. Many bathrooms have undertile 

heating in the shower area. 

You can maintain the effectiveness 

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Nature’s connection 

It may be cold outside, but it doesn’t mean you can’t create something 

in nature. Here are a few winter-friendly tips and tricks. 

Words Rachel Vogan 

3. Look to year-round edibles 

If silver beet was likened to a rugby 

player, it would be in the front row 

– this is a grunty green. It is a reliable 

campaigner that produces all year 

round. You can sow seeds now, both 

indoors or in rows in the garden. Allow 

four to six weeks from sowing to 

transplanting at this time of year. Space 

plants 50cm apart, but if room is tight 

you can plant them closer together in 

patio planters and tubs. 

1. Keep your house 

plants happy 

With many indoor plants 

originating from the tropics, try 

to keep room temperatures as 

close to a constant as possible. 

Reducing your watering regime will 

also help toughen up your plants. 

4. Grow your own garlic and shallots 

Cold ground is what is required to kick garlic and shallots into action. Make 

time now to plant these out. Garlic needs to be planted well below the soil 

surface, at around 10cm deep, while shallots prefer to be nestled in the soil 

close to the surface. Good drainage is essential for both crops. Be patient, as 

it will take a number of weeks for the green growth to pop through the soil. 

2. Add a low-admin plant 

If you are after a love-it-andleave-it 

plant, turn to the delightful 

forget-me-not. Seeds can be sown 

and seedlings planted now. This 

generous wee bedding plant starts 

flowering at this time of year and 

will continue until summer arrives. 

Plant in drifts under shrubs or 

trees, as they suit shade as well 

as sunny spots with a reasonable 

level of moisture. Blue, pink and 

white colours are available. 

5. Invest in microgreens 

Find a sunny spot on a windowsill or ledge, hunt out a shallow 

dish or container (like takeaway containers or yoghurt pottles, 

for example), poke some drainage holes into them and you are 

ready to grow. All that is required is some seed and potting 

mix/seed-raising mix. Seed blends are available in the shops and 

in all the online catalogues, or you can make your own. Lettuce, 

mizuna, kale, broccoli, bok choy, parsley and coriander are all 

good options. 

Sow seed thickly in trays, water to moisten the potting mix 

and leave to germinate. Shoots will appear within a week or so. 

Harvest when the leaves are finger-length or smaller. Expect to 

get two to three cuts off each container.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 

with Tim Goom 

Landscape Design... 

it’s a Creative 

Process. 

The construction of landscapes is a tangible process 

where each step is visible. The creative process of 

design is more nebulous but is the foundation of the 

project. I sat down with Jessica Staples and Emma 

Johnston, two Landscape Architects within our 

design team, to discuss their creative process. 

(Jessica) For me, it starts with the client and the site equally. Often 

having a tricky starting point (a difficult brief or site) leads me to a 

more interesting outcome than a clean site with less to play-off. 

Q: When does the client learn about the costs involved? 

A: A feasibility study is created. We sit down with our quantity 

surveyor and formulate the costs. We then present this with the 

concept to the client, accompanied by 3D visual drawings to bring it 

to life. This meeting is vital is to ensure we are all on the same page 

and have captured the client’s vision accurately. It is fundamental 

to design a landscape that is within our client’s budget so clear 

communication about this is crucial. 

Q: Is the concept set in stone at this point? 

A: Absolutely not. We allow the client as much time as they need to 

ruminate on the concept and provide feedback. Once the client 

is completely happy with the concept we move into developed 

design, which is where we formulate the details and materials used. 

This forms the basis for a fixed quote. Providing a fixed quote is 

a vital part of the Goom process to ensure there are no nasty 

surprises. The quote is presented to the client with the proposed 

construction timeframes. The client can reflect on the mechanics 

of the quote and process and can still raise concerns about any 

design issues before confirmation. 

Q: What directly inspires you in your designs? 

Jessica Staples 

Q: How does your process start? 

Emma Johnston 

A: First meet the client and listen carefully! Often the client is looking 

for particular guidance - helping define the parameters of their brief 

is vital. A site plan is drafted with all the necessary information to 

begin developing the concept. 

We each have a different way of finding inspiration for the project. 

(Emma) I find my Eureka moments often come during sleep - my 

first job in the morning is deciphering night-time inspiration into a 

realistic plan! From this point, the original idea will be tweaked into 

a concept that meets the client’s brief. 

A: (Emma) Concrete is one of my favourite products. I thrive on 

finding solutions to landscaping challenges and I am always on 

the lookout for new ways of doing things. Landscapers are reliant 

on the same resources but thinking of clever ways of using these 

resources to create innovative functional and aesthetic design is 

my goal. While I have my preferences, it is vital in my role as a 

Landscape Architect to capture the vision of the client even though, 

on occasion, it doesn’t align with my design ethos. Care is needed 

to avoid repetition and give clients a landscape as unique as they 

are. It can take time to get the concept exactly right! 

(Jessica) At times inspiration occurs during the first meeting, but 

personally I work best when I have time to think things over. 

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Access to the internet/social 

media has been great for sharing ideas. I am constantly inspired 

by our team and their capabilities to bring new ideas to life. It’s 

rewarding to be able to work through details together to explore the 

potential of our materials - floating concrete a little further, curving 

timber a little tighter, suspending objects and obscuring fixings. 

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42 Style | Art & Culture 

The highest bidder 

Here’s a few things that fetched eye-watering prices. Totally within 

your budget – just go without a few soy lattes. 

Pretty in pink & in price 

If your beloved doesn’t at least attempt 

to get this 15.8-carat Sakura diamond 

for your engagement ring, then you may 

want to rethink the whole affair. All 

they need to do is track down the 

mystery phone bidder who bought it for 

US$29.3 million (and probably pry it 

from their laser-controlled, underground 

safe). Yes, you’re worth it. 

Bombshell prices 

Imagine having a wardrobe where you own 13 of 

the most valuable women’s dresses ever to sell 

at auction. Well, starlet Marilyn Monroe did. Her 

subway grate dress from The Seven Year Itch was 

once the most expensive piece of clothing in the 

world when it sold at auction for US$4.6 million. 

However, a few years later, the infamous skin-tight 

Jean Louis-designed dress – which she had to be 

sewn into to sing her breathy rendition of ‘Happy 

Birthday’ to then US President John F Kennedy in 

1962 – fetched US$4.8 million at auction (it was 

purchased by Ripley’s Believe it or Not). 

Where in the world? 

You’d have to forgo a few avocado on toasts to get your 

hands on this – and then have to hire a crack team of 

detectives to find it. Reportedly the most expensive painting 

known to be sold at auction, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator 

Mundi fetched a cheeky US$450 million at Christie’s New 

York in 2017 after it was unearthed from obscurity in 

an estate sale. It was allegedly bought by Saudi Arabia’s 

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, though he has never 

confirmed this (DM us, Your Royal Highness – we’d love 

to get the scoop). But now it appears everyone is playing a 

game of where in the world is Salvator Mundi: since it was 

sold, it hasn’t been seen again. It’ll send you down a right 

rabbit hole following all the tantalising theories.

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EXHIBITIONS 

GUY NGAN, HABITATION 

Guy Ngan (1926–2017) was a second-generation Chinese-New 

Zealand artist. Originally exhibited at The Dowse Art Museum, 

this is a tailored version of Guy Ngan: Habitation, with the artist’s 

sculptures, prints and paintings alongside the large-scale aluminium 

sculpture, Newton Post Office Mural (1973), from the 

collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. 

Until July 18, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 

30 The Octagon, Dunedin 

Guy Ngan No. 216 1987. 

Bronze. The Ron Sang 

Collection. Photo: Calvin Sang, 

director at Eyes and Ears 

TIM WRAIGHT, NEW WOOD FOR OLD IRON 

The works for this show take old iron and steel tools 

and gift them new intricately carved handles. 

This is Wraight’s way of honouring the role these hand 

tools have had in shaping our places and environments 

in the past and a rejection of the ease with which we 

alter our landscape with powerful machinery. 

Until July 27, Little River Gallery, Main Road, Little River 

DARRYN GEORGE 

WATER LILIES 

Darryn George’s paintings draw upon 

the Christian narrative of “the Garden 

of Eden, a place of purity before the 

Fall”. Beyond this, however, George’s 

canvases express a universal yearning for 

a time free from the litany of social and 

environmental ills that scroll across our 

screens daily. 

Until July 13, Milford Galleries, 

18 Dowling Street, Dunedin 

FAUNA 

Fauna looks at the animal and human 

life of our place in the world through 

the artworks of Dick Frizzell, Joanna 

Braithwaite, Nigel Brown, Chris Heaphy, 

Neil Dawson and many more. 

Until July 27, Milford Galleries, 9A Earl 

Street, Queenstown 

MICHAEL NICHOLSON 

REAR WINDOW PROJECT 

Described by the artist as “the first 

example of a fully mature musical form 

addressing the human eye rather than 

the human ear”, The Visual Music Project 

Ops 1–4 is a digital video work inspired 

by the German/Russian artistic group 

Der Blaue Reiter (whose members 

included Paul Klee, Franz Marc and 

Wassily Kandinsky). 

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alongside opening her first South Island store. 

Juliette Hogan has always had a strong affinity to the 

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realised a longstanding dream when she opened her 

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50 Style | Beauty 

Tried and tested 

The Style team trial the latest beauty products. 

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Eye Patches 

The tired eyes I saw on the 

video calls made it easy for me 

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Following the advice to “cover 

the crow’s feet”, I placed each 

slippery curved sliver under an 

eye. Ten minutes later, off they 

came, and into the skin I rubbed 

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I don’t tan. Naturally that is. But 

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out as white foam so I knew I had 

to be thorough. I was a bit dubious 

as to what the results would be 

as I’m used to the foam being 

a brown colour, which tells me 

where I have already applied it. As 

the day drew on, I was pleased to 

see that I had applied well. Now, 

for all you self-tanners out there 

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Bondi Sands have outdone 

themselves. They do say it is 

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My skincare regime consists of using 

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that putting something else on my 

skin would make it revolt. So I did as 

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and night before my moisturiser. It 

has an interesting scent, perhaps best 

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Two days later, there was a 

moment when I caught my reflection in 

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I remembered the serum. So yes, I’m 

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than an ill-fitting sheet mask that inhibits your sight 

or breathing abilities! After 15 minutes, my skin felt 

supple, soft and noticeably glowy. 

The mask boasts an impressive mix of freeradical-fighting 

and soothing ingredients, and I 

appreciated the fact it was biodegradable and 

made from bamboo. My tip would be to pop the 

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Getting intense 

Turning the clock back 10 years in terms of your skin’s health is one of 

the benefits of intense pulsed light (IPL). But its popularity has 

brought increasing concerns over its lack of regulation. 

On average, New Zealanders look five years older 

than our northern hemisphere counterparts, says 

New Zealand Society of Cosmetic Medicine (NZSCM) 

education officer Dr Paul Nola. We have our thin ozone 

layer and lack of continental dust to thank for that, which 

allow high doses of harsh ultraviolet rays to reach us, 

he says. That’s why he is a big fan of intense pulsed light 

(IPL) – and not just for its cosmetic effects of permanent 

hair and skin pigmentation reduction. 

“It has a proven clinical effect where the light energy 

stimulates the cells of the skin in such a way that they 

truly do behave 10 years younger – that’s been shown by 

measuring which proteins the cells make.” 

Sometimes incorrectly grouped in with lasers, IPL 

releases light of different wavelengths, as opposed to a 

single concentrated beam. 

IPL’s increase in popularity, however, is seeing an 

unwanted side effect. 

New Zealand Laser Training Institute director Ruth 

Nicholson says that outside of Auckland, it is a largely 

unregulated treatment. Under its Health and Hygiene 

Bylaw 2013, the Auckland Council set out a code of 

practice that requires, among other things, that a provider 

must have the knowledge and skill to provide services 

obtained under specified training and experience as 

outlined in the code. 

“Outside of Auckland, the reality is a member of the 

public can purchase any device, including lasers for vaginal 

rejuvenation, tattoo removal, lasers used inside the mouth 

– any sort of IPL or laser skin rejuvenation – over the 

internet, with absolutely no intervention from Medsafe,” 

Ruth explains. 

“They can put it in their garage, put a sign up at 

the gate and start operating tomorrow, with no one 

intervening.” 

Though she has been fighting this since 2011, she still 

sounds a little in disbelief herself when she says it out loud. 

Dr Nola says it is an issue the NZSCM has raised 

“multiple times” with Medsafe, which regulates the area 

around medical devices. 

A Medsafe spokesman says “at least in some contexts” 

IPL and lasers could be used for a therapeutic purpose,

Style | Beauty 53 

but in all other instances “it is likely” the products are 

used for cosmetic purposes only. 

“Where used for a therapeutic purpose, these products 

are considered to be medical devices,” the spokesman says. 

Under the Medicines Act, medical devices can only 

be sold and used if notified on Medsafe’s Web Assisted 

Notification of Devices database. 

“Notification to this database does not imply any form 

of regulatory approval; there is no requirement for premarket 

assessment of medical devices in New Zealand. 

The Medicines Act does not restrict who may use these 

products. Restrictions on access to and use of devices is 

a matter for consultation under the Draft Therapeutic 

Products Bill,” said the spokesman. 

Dr Nola feels there is little interest in regulation 

generally because there is an “underlying misogynistic” 

response to the field on the part of regulators. 

“Like, who cares what happens to these people [who 

opt for cosmetic procedures]? There are women and 

men who feel shame even having a cosmetic procedure 

and, if something goes wrong, they feel like they almost 

brought it on themselves,” Dr Nola says. “It is a real 

unacknowledged negative in this country.” 

While rare, the things that can go wrong with IPL can 

include burns, subsequent scarring or post-inflammatory 

hyperpigmentation. You can also end up with striped 

skin, Dr Nola says. 

“Unless you take care, you may not get good 

overlap and you can end up with stripes. Someone 

who has rushed to churn people through, this is where 

it can happen.” 

Ruth agrees with Dr Nola, and says the science behind 

the devices “is complicated”. 

“Unless taught well, most incidents are directly related 

to the lack of understanding in this core essentials 

science. I see this regularly being the cause of adverse 

outcomes,” she says. 

It also takes a trained professional to recognise when 

not to treat skin that has a lesion on it, which could 

potentially be melanoma, she says. 

“The lesion has the potential to come back, but also 

go deeper into the skin, then into the blood stream and 

spread. It is frightening – this is an educational battle I 

have every day with our industry.” 

She says it is important a person gets checked by a 

doctor before proceeding with IPL. 

A Ministry of Health spokesman said lack of training, 

particularly with lasers and IPL devices, “is a concern” 

in New Zealand and IPL devices pose risks “particularly 

due to their misuse, and duration of the pulsed light 

influences the risk of harm”. 

“Each can easily disfigure when used incorrectly 

or for a condition for which the devices or the client 

are ill-suited. Medsafe and the US Food and Drug 

ABOVE LEFT TO RIGHT: IPL is a popular therapy for skin rejuvenation and hair removal, but it is largely an unregulated 

area. Photo: NZ Laser Training Institute; Dr Paul Nola says IPL should be used more by New Zealanders, but says this 

does not mean anyone should be able to administer it.


“What the public read on websites 

does not necessarily reflect the 

knowledge and duty of care that 

they will receive.” – New Zealand 

Board of Professional Skin Therapies 

chair Julie Martin. 

Administration have both warned against the use 

of lasers and other energy-based devices for vaginal 

rejuvenation purposes,” said the spokesman. 

Dr Nola says that not all IPL machines are created 

equal. Sometimes cheaper machines do not deliver 

the light energy evenly. 

“They might deliver that same amount of energy, 

just not evenly. It might have a super strong peak at 

the beginning and tail off, and that peak is where you 

are most likely to get burns. 

“Sometimes you need to deliver that energy in a 

very short amount of time – that is the main thing 

you pay for, the ability to deliver the energy in a 

very short pulse. Cheaper machines can’t do that so 

treatments often do not work. When operators try 

to adjust them so that they can, the pulse becomes 

too long,” he says. 

“It is a bit like holding something hot to warm 

your hands – it gets warm and you put it down, but 

if you keep on holding it you are going to get burns.” 

The New Zealand Board of Professional Skin 

Therapies chair Julie Martin says it is important if 

anyone experiences an adverse experience that they 

report it to the board in confidence. 

Like the NZSCM and Ruth, she has been lobbying 

for regulation. In order to get further ahead on this, 

she says they need to know of these incidences in 

order to convince officials harm is occurring. 

“What the public read on websites does not 

necessarily reflect the knowledge and duty of care 

that they will receive,” she says. 

But consumers can protect themselves from this, 

by checking their practitioner has training from a 

reputable place. Because, while there is a way to go 

on regulation of the industry, it doesn’t detract from 

the effectiveness of the procedure. 

“I think IPL should be done more in New Zealand 

than it is. The two types of treatment that cause 

the most natural tissue changes are IPL and needling 

– both of these are excellent treatments. I wouldn’t 

want people to shy away from IPL,” says Dr Nola. 

“Biopsy studies show IPL actually causes the cells 

to behave like they used to. I think that is great, but I 

don’t think everyone should be able to set up shop.” 

Advice from registered 

practitioner Shelley Frost of 

Face Value 

Do your homework and ask what machine is 

being used and the training and professional 

background of the practitioner. “It’s really 

important that whoever you put your face or 

body in the hands of is appropriately trained. 

It is important to know when to treat and, 

perhaps even more importantly, when not to 

treat and when to refer on to a dermatologist 

or other practitioner.” 

EFFECTIVE AND SIMPLE 

“Put simply, IPL targets the elements under the 

skin’s surface that cause visible signs of ageing 

and it can stimulate collagen regeneration, which 

improves general volume and elasticity. It will 

fade pigment changes due to sun damage and 

also will target diffused redness, spider veins and 

broken capillaries. It is not an invasive treatment, 

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the skin; there’s no downtime.” 

HOW DOES IT FEEL? 

“It feels like someone flicking a rubber band 

against your skin, but shouldn’t be beyond that.” 

AFTERCARE 

After treatment, your skin can feel tight and 

hot, a little like sunburn. “The most important 

thing, while you are having IPL, is that you are 

meticulous with sun protection because you 

become more sensitive to UV damage.” 

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56 Style | Wellbeing 

Kids and food 

You may notice your children eating 

foods that you would prefer they 

didn’t. But how do you navigate 

this without creating negative 

beliefs around food? 

Words Deanna Copland 

W 

e learn about food from an early age, 

so the way we teach our kids to eat 

and nourish their bodies will have a profound, 

flow-on effect for their own children. 

We can see this in our own relationship 

with food. It was informed by a number of 

things, from what our parents served us to 

how food was eaten and what constituted 

a snack food. From indirect experiences, we 

learned how we should behave around food 

– for example what ‘adults’ eat and what 

‘children’ eat – and we even learned from the 

expectations our parents had around dinner 

times. What we understood from all this 

observation, including our observations of the 

world around us (plus our experiences), is 

not necessarily true – they are beliefs about 

food. And beliefs can be changed. 

In saying this, you may feel like this is 

now a bit of a communication minefield; for 

instance, you may notice that your children 

enjoy a lot of foods that you would rather 

they didn’t eat, but also be aware that you 

don’t want to make foods ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 

So, here are a few easy tips to help your 

children develop a good relationship with 

food, including embracing nutritious foods.

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Don’t cut – add 

Rather than cutting out the things they enjoy, you might first 

focus on adding more wholefoods into their diet. Wholefoods 

are those items that either don’t need a food label (for 

example, veges and fruit) or only have one to two ingredients 

added if they are out of a packet, like rice cakes, peanut 

butter and raw nuts. Introducing and eating more wholefoods 

will improve your little one’s nutrition and see them start to 

choose those items more as they grow up. 

SNACK IDEAS 

• Try adding some cucumber sticks and cherry tomatoes or 

a bliss ball to the morning snack container. 

• Add a few leaves of shredded baby spinach to a cheese 

sandwich or mix spinach into mashed egg and mayonnaise 

sandwiches, with some carrot sticks alongside it. 

• Swap high-sugar cereals for porridge – a warm breakfast 

in cooler months is a wonderful way to begin their day. 

Opt for plain rolled oats made in water and then add 

your own twist, such as fresh fruit (like grated apple), 

freeze-dried strawberries or cinnamon. 

• Swap out low fat/sweetened yoghurt for natural Greek 

yoghurt or coconut yoghurt. You can make your own 

flavours to add – for example, by melting frozen mixed 

berries in a pot until broken down and syrupy. If there are 

strawberries in the mix it should be sweet already, but if 

it does need to be sweetened slightly you can add honey. 

Store in the fridge and add to natural yoghurt for a snack. 

• Add some fresh fruit and natural yoghurt to their porridge 

or top their morning toast with scrambled eggs instead of 

a spread. 

• Make a nutritious smoothie for an after-school snack. Try 

putting banana, frozen berries, coconut milk and half a 

courgette into a blender and pulse until smooth – they 

won’t even realise you’ve added courgette to it! 

• Add lots of veges to your Bolognese sauce. 

• Swap out bought frozen fries, which can include cheaper 

inflammatory oils and other additives, and make your own 

using waxy potatoes and adding chopped rosemary or 

chicken salt. 

Number check 

Check food labels for numbers and 

other foreign ingredients. These are 

indicative of what has been added during 

processing to preserve shelf-life and 

add colour and flavour. Preservatives 

are added to stop bacteria from 

growing on food in order to increase 

its shelf-life. Unfortunately, when we 

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Include them 

No matter what age they are, you can get 

children involved in the kitchen. If they have 

been involved in the creation of food – whether 

by planting and caring for herb seedlings, picking 

out the vegetables, or chopping, mixing, cooking 

or serving the meal – then they will be more 

interested in eating it. A good book on this is 

Healthy Little Eaters: How to Help Your Children 

Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food by Wal 

Herring. 

• Challenge your children to plan and/or cook 

a family meal using only foods that come 

straight from a plant or animal. 

• Take them shopping for food with you 

and ask them to choose three vegetables 

and three fruits they would like to eat that 

week. You could then look up some new 

recipes to include them in. 

• Help them look up a healthy snack recipe 

they would like to try. Shop together for 

the ingredients and help them follow the 

recipe to make it. 

Brain ingredients 

Include sources of good fats regularly 

in your children’s meals – these are 

crucial for brain development and keep 

blood sugar levels more stable. This 

makes learning and concentration easier. 

Good examples include avocado, salmon, 

nuts, seeds, coconut oil, olives and olive 

oil. Mashed kūmara, canned salmon and a 

beaten egg mix together well and can be 

shaped to make easy patties, which can 

be pan-fried or baked in the oven for an 

easy weekend brunch or meal. 

Nut-free Muesli Bars 

This is a great recipe to get children involved in the foodmaking 

process and provides a good alternative to storebought 

muesli bars. 

INGREDIENTS 

125g butter 

½ cup raw honey (or brown rice syrup) 

1 tsp cinnamon powder 

1 cup jumbo rolled oats 

½ cup sesame seeds 

½ cup pumpkin seeds 

½ cup sunflower seeds 

1 cup shredded coconut 

Optional 1–2 Tbsp chopped dates, cacao nibs, dark 

chocolate pieces, chia seeds or flax seeds 

METHOD 

1. In a small pot, combine the butter, honey (or brown 

rice syrup) and cinnamon over a low heat, stirring 

until melted and combined. 

2. Pop the oats, seeds and coconut into a large fry pan 

and toast over a low heat for 5–10 minutes, stirring 

often (the coconut will colour and the pumpkin seeds 

will start to pop). 

3. Add the dry toasted mix to the melted butter mix. 

Add in optional dried fruit, cacao nibs, chocolate or 

chia/flax seeds, if using. Mix until combined. 

4. Press into a 20cm x 30cm slice tin lined with baking 

paper. Use the back of a big wet spoon to really 

compact it into the tray. 

5. Put it in the freezer for at least 10 minutes or until 

set. Remove from the tin and cut into squares or 

rectangles. Keep them refrigerated or frozen so you 

can add them to the children’s lunchboxes each day. 

These muesli bars can be made dairy-free by swapping out 

the butter for coconut oil.

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60 Style | Recipes 

For the kids 

We are going kid-friendly this month. The Dairy-free Seedy Slice is 

great for getting children involved in the process of making food, while the 

Curried Pumpkin & Bacon Muffins show how vegetables can be made into super 

yummy baked goods – and both are perfect for lunchboxes!

Style | Recipes 61 

Dairy-free Seedy Slice 

Getting involved in making food helps children to build a positive relationship with food. 

This seedy slice is so simple to make, and it makes a great baking project for the school holidays. 

It’s so delicious that they’ll also want some in their lunchboxes when school returns! 

Words Deanna Copland 

INGREDIENTS 

2 cups sunflower seeds 

½ cup flax seeds 

½ cup dates 

½ cup shredded coconut 

½ cup peanut butter (or 

tahini to make it nut-free) 

½ tsp salt 

½ cup coconut oil 

3 Tbsp raw honey or 

brown rice syrup 

2 tsp vanilla extract 

125g dark chocolate (50 

per cent cocoa) 

This mixture 

can also be rolled 

into balls and drizzled 

with chocolate 

for variation. 

METHOD 

1. Prepare sunflower seeds, flax seeds, dates and 

coconut by processing them in a food processor 

until finely chopped. 

2. In a small pot, melt the coconut oil, peanut butter, 

honey and salt and then add the vanilla extract. 

3. Add the melted mixture to the food processor. 

Pulse the ingredients until well combined. 

4. Press into a slice tin (20cm x 30cm) lined with 

baking paper (use the back of a big wet spoon to 

really compact it into the tray). 

5. Chill in the fridge while preparing the chocolate. 

6. Break the chocolate into pieces and add to a 

heat-proof bowl. Melt over a double boiler 

(placing the heat-proof bowl on top of a pot of 

boiling water works well), stirring frequently. 

7. When melted, take off the heat and dip a spoon 

into the chocolate. Drizzle the spoon back and 

forward over the slice to create a pattern. 

8. Allow to set in the fridge before cutting into 

squares or rectangles – they’ll look like storebought 

muesli bars. 

9. Store in the fridge or keep cool until serving.

62 Style | Recipes

Style | Recipes 63 

Curried Pumpkin & 

Bacon Muffins 

I recommend making two batches of these muffins because they 

don’t last long. Tangy and moist, they honestly do melt in your mouth. 

And here’s the best thing: teenagers love them! You can also tweak 

the recipe to make it dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan. 

Words Kristina Jensen 

INGREDIENTS 

1 egg (use egg replacer for a 

vegan alternative – follow the box 

instructions) 

¼ cup vegetable oil 

1¼ cup cold mashed pumpkin 

2 Tbsp red curry paste 

½ cup plain yoghurt (you can use 

dairy-free yoghurt or thick coconut 

cream if preferred) 

½ cup milk (or dairy-free milk) 

2 cups self-raising flour (or use 

gluten-free self-raising flour) 

1 cup wholemeal flour (or switch 

for ¾ cup buckwheat flour) 

1 tsp baking soda 

2 tsp caster sugar 

2 tsp ground cumin 

2 tsp ground turmeric 

½ tsp salt 

2 rashers bacon (for a vegan 

alternative, fry a large, chopped red 

onion until slightly caramelised or 

use ½ cup vegan bacon bits) 

¼ cup pumpkin or sunflower seeds 

METHOD 

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. 

2. Beat together the wet ingredients (the egg, oil, 

pumpkin, curry paste, yoghurt and milk). 

3. Sift together the dry ingredients (the flours, baking 

soda, sugar, spices and salt). 

4. Combine the wet mix and the dry mix. 

5. Finely chop the bacon and fry until crispy. Add to 

the mix and combine until just mixed. 

6. Spoon into a well-greased 12-hole muffin pan. 

7. Lightly toast the seeds in a pan and then sprinkle 

over the muffins. 

8. Bake for 25–30 minutes. A skewer will come out 

clean when they are ready. 

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tips on page 56

64 Style | Drink 

Into the 

unknown 

Hayden Preece tastes a few ‘reserve’ 

whiskies you might have missed. 

Limited-edition whiskies are sought-after 

by collectors and whisky lovers alike. 

Here for a short time only, it’s always 

a mad grab to get them before they’re 

gone – because these whiskies are unique. 

An Orkney Distillery ‘Single Malts 

of Scotland’ 13-year-old 

While independent bottler Single Malts of 

Scotland hasn’t identified it as such, I would 

say this was a Highland Park, if I had to guess 

between the two distilleries in Orkney. 

Sweet natural honey and overripe bananas 

come through on the nose, while a slight 

peppery spice was felt on the palate, which was 

a touch savoury. 

A well-finished, well-rounded combination of 

flavours, I would expect anyone could find some 

pleasure in this one, whether new to whisky or 

an old hand. 

Sorry, it’s gone, but Whisky Galore 

recommends: 

• Old Pulteney 15-year-old 

• Kilkerran 12-year-old 

SMWS 10.188 

‘New Acquaintance’ 14-year-old 

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) acts as an 

independent bottler and prides itself on highlighting the 

merits of “cask-strength, naturally bottled whiskies”. 

The number in the whisky’s name describes the distillery 

from which it came and its cask number. In this case, look 

up the society’s list and you’ll find that the ‘10’ tells us 

‘New Acquaintance’ came from Bunnahabhain, cask No. 

188. SMWS is particularly good at choosing casks to bottle 

– I’m yet to taste a bad one. The downsides are that 

you have to be a member to buy a bottle and, if you 

like it, it’s very hard to get another bottle. 

‘New Acquaintance’ stood up to the benchmark. 

The high alcohol content is more prominent on the nose 

than the mouth. Adding to the nose is the smell of a 

rain-filled ashtray and Mayceys Pink Smoker sweets. 

It is a spectacularly drinkable cask-strength Islay. 

Dufftown ‘Cadenhead’ 10-year-old 

The Dufftown-Glenlivet distillery often delivers 

whiskies of an acquired taste, and this one proved 

the rule. 

A mustiness reminiscent of the rind on a white 

cheese or damp soil on a post-match rugby field is 

what hits you with the ‘Cadenhead’. 

Sickly sweet on the palate, with a touch of almost 

artificial strawberry, not a lot follows on. The flavour 

drops off with a distinct lack of finish, leaving me 

wanting. 

While the sweet whiskies are some people’s goto, 

this one, for me, missed the mark. 

Whisky Galore instead recommends: 

• An Cnoc 12-year-old 

• Balblair 12-year-old 

• Glengoyne 12-year-old

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70 Style | Travel 

Where in the world? 

We can’t help but think of faraway places, planning for travels yet to come. 

Do you know the destination we’re dreaming about this month? 

CLUES 

• This cosy, understated home was 

created for just one person, King 

Ludwig II – but he only ever spent 11 

nights at the castle. 

• King Ludwig II was a bit of a fanboy of 

German composer Richard Wagner, 

so much so that many of the rooms 

in the castle are inspired by his operas 

– it’s like having your room filled with 

Justin Bieber posters, just on a much 

larger scale. Old Ludwig even took it 

a step further with the name of the 

castle – ‘New Swan Stone’ deriving 

from a character in one of Wagner’s 

operas, the Swan Knight. Imagine 

naming your house after a Cardi B 

song – perhaps Ludwig took it a bit far. 

• Walt Disney popped along and 

visited this castle one day while on 

a tiki tour with his wife, and it later 

became the inspiration for his fairytale 

castles, including the castle in the 1959 

Sleeping Beauty movie. 

• It took 14 carpenters more than four 

years to make the woodwork in the 

bedroom (and we can’t even get a 

roofer to show up for one day). Like 

all good building projects, it’s never 

been finished. If it had been, it would 

have had 200 interior rooms – but 

only 15 were finished. 

• During the Second World War, 

Nazi plunder from France was taken 

here. In 1945 the SS (Schutzstaffel) 

considered blowing up the building 

holding the artwork to stop it falling 

to the enemy. But the fella assigned 

to the task didn’t do it and the palace 

was left undamaged. 

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The stars aligned on the eve of Matariki when SCAPE Public 

Art, in collaboration with Bergman Gallery and Wrightmann 

House & Collection, presented ‘Pacific Art In Residence’ at 

the welcoming home of Anthony Wright and Selene Manning. 

Guests celebrated the magnificent art of the Pacific enjoying 

delicious Pacific canapés, handcrafted artisan gin cocktails and 

live music. Funds were raised for the artist Mahiriki Tangaroa to 

exhibit at Personal Structures during Venice Biennale 2022 (a 

first for the Cook Islands) and SCAPE’s charitable trust. 

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