Down
the long
driveway,
you’ll see it
![Lang House 1953 Ernst Plischke](/media/cache/39/59/3959021c13aed930c89d5f2b42e76377.jpg)
Lang House 1953 Ernst Plischke
![Einhorn House 1950 Helmut Einhorn](/media/cache/5a/69/5a6993d0d73d287d47594ac8d8f47479.jpg)
Einhorn House 1950 Helmut Einhorn
![Henderson House 1950 Ernst Plischke](/media/cache/fb/78/fb78a0de602e9c3b9492b7f76594b5cc.jpg)
Henderson House 1950 Ernst Plischke
![Sellars House 1954 Guy Sellars](/media/cache/52/b9/52b963d3f29ed8bdc93ce6d253fc865c.jpg)
Sellars House 1954 Guy Sellars
![Manning House 1960 Jack Manning](/media/cache/52/e0/52e0bbdac6b4fe43bb8eea78d4dba821.jpg)
Manning House 1960 Jack Manning
![RH Ballantyne House 1959 Warren & Mahoney](/media/cache/fa/7b/fa7b81df819f906e7d17ee6563251dbd.jpg)
RH Ballantyne House 1959 Warren & Mahoney
![Mackenzie House 1958 Cedric Firth](/media/cache/0c/a7/0ca7847e78fdc8f862e6e4bf8b6855ed.jpg)
Mackenzie House 1958 Cedric Firth
![Alington House 1963 William Alington](/media/cache/78/69/786991c329f050bb4f509f6eb48fe7bc.jpg)
Alington House 1963 William Alington
![Sutton House 1961 Tom Taylor](/media/cache/05/13/0513dfc29e9a6bbb4d8df088c45206e0.jpg)
Sutton House 1961 Tom Taylor
![Orr-Walker House 1965 Mark Brown & Allan Fairhead](/media/cache/d5/f2/d5f21815c1d5181c29cc668ac66c9990.jpg)
Orr-Walker House 1965 Mark Brown & Allan Fairhead
![Fletcher House 1961 Hall & Mackenzie](/media/cache/7e/6c/7e6c36f830480c85061792d6dc9a8359.jpg)
Fletcher House 1961 Hall & Mackenzie
![Munro House 1968 Warren & Mahoney](/media/cache/a8/57/a8578e2d399c0888f68df43e5cf25ad1.jpg)
Munro House 1968 Warren & Mahoney
![Martin House 1971 John Scott](/media/cache/41/b5/41b571f554383429fae119c3434f034d.jpg)
Martin House 1971 John Scott
![Wood House 1974 Ted Wood](/media/cache/ac/4b/ac4b90622135d147ff24e8aa16637e74.jpg)
Wood House 1974 Ted Wood
This is a book of pictures of modernist New Zealand homes.
These houses aren't new, they’re old and lived in. They can be a little dusty, slightly worn around the edges and all have what antique dealers like to call “patina”. But they’re perfect in the minds of the people who live in them because of what they represent, which when designed, was a better way of living.
Design
The International Office
336 pages
230mm x 300mm
![](/media/cache/27/8e/278e874e782cda68652281a8a4347375.jpg)
Down the long driveway
![Henderson House 1950 Ernst Plishke](/media/cache/33/b0/33b038b9b3289800dc204480c6ec5a73.jpg)
Henderson House 1950 Ernst Plishke
![Einhorn House 1950 Helmut Einhorn](/media/cache/56/3d/563d0fb8bf9fa1386f5d797c7dce2c53.jpg)
Einhorn House 1950 Helmut Einhorn
![Lang House 1953 Ernst Plischke](/media/cache/6a/ae/6aaece527241b766bfd65b9acbb4f36c.jpg)
Lang House 1953 Ernst Plischke
![Sellars House 1954 Guy Sellars](/media/cache/3b/77/3b774f19e23782304c1c5c5d0d1ce08b.jpg)
Sellars House 1954 Guy Sellars
![McKenzie House 1958 Cedric Firth](/media/cache/c5/3d/c53dfa40f7e6d9844ce672d895223dc7.jpg)
McKenzie House 1958 Cedric Firth
![Ballantyne House 1959 Warren & Mahoney](/media/cache/8b/c8/8bc8448abb186d303da667acffe95f70.jpg)
Ballantyne House 1959 Warren & Mahoney
![Manning House 1960 Jack Manning](/media/cache/60/69/60692cc63c37950812c7d9df8d17e342.jpg)
Manning House 1960 Jack Manning
![Sutton House 1961 Tom Taylor](/media/cache/9e/69/9e6978043fe76405e0912a486b902dd2.jpg)
Sutton House 1961 Tom Taylor
![Alington House 1963 William Alington](/media/cache/a6/08/a6087947ebc76bbb6eea6599d8d72e0c.jpg)
Alington House 1963 William Alington
![Fletcher House 1964 Hall & Mackenzie](/media/cache/e9/65/e965df8eb6e2978c0d092d25a8e35058.jpg)
Fletcher House 1964 Hall & Mackenzie
![Orr-Walker House 1965 Mark Brown and Fairhead](/media/cache/31/e3/31e382e8ec584ec88766573e67c5c7bc.jpg)
Orr-Walker House 1965 Mark Brown and Fairhead
![Munro House 1968 Warren & Mahoney](/media/cache/fd/74/fd742d228246f0c88f88b4cbc34f2197.jpg)
Munro House 1968 Warren & Mahoney
![Martin House 1971 John Scott](/media/cache/fe/d6/fed63925f475927552a40f4175cf4295.jpg)
Martin House 1971 John Scott
![Wood House 1974 Ted Wood](/media/cache/c1/01/c101c96f08ca3d59074ae16da217427a.jpg)
Wood House 1974 Ted Wood
Down the long driveway,
you'll see it
Photography, Mary Gaudin
Text, Matthew Arnold
Design, The International Office
Hardcover
336 pages
230mm x 300mm.
Helvetica Neue
ISBN 978-0-473-29961-3
65 NZD
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The idea for the project wasn’t so much to document the houses in purely architectural terms, but to give an idea of the way these houses were and are lived in, as well as showing details of the designs and the materials used in their construction. The use of native timbers throughout these houses has given a unique feel to the interiors. In the Martin house, for example, John Scott used rimu for cupboard doors and matai, a wood which darkens with age, for the handles.
I also wanted to look at the way these houses fitted into their surroundings. All of the Wellington homes are connected to native bush, attracting tuis, fantails and bellbirds amongst other native birds. The owners of the Einhorn house, which backs onto the Karori bird sanctuary, sometimes see rare hihi feeding in their garden. The front of the Manning house is surrounded by an enormous pohutakawa tree which, from inside the house filters views out towards Auckland’s harbour bridge.
The title of the book comes from a phrase in an email from Bruce Martin giving directions to his home at Bridge Pā. Filled with a lifetime’s of pottery both from Bruce and Estelle’s work, together with gifts from potter friends, the Martin’s home highlights the particular mix of craftsmanship and design which is reminiscent of all the homes shown in this book.
Mary Gaudin is a New Zealand photographer living in Montpellier, France.
marygaudin.com