THIS SPRING MARKS AN EXCITING MILESTONE: MODERN’s tenth anniversary. It just so happens that in this issue we also commemorate another landmark anniversary, the...

SIMON JAMES’S CHAIRS CAN BE SO understated they’re almost self-effacing. At first, you might wonder whether you’re looking at a designed object or just...

IN 2012 RICHARD CLARKSON, WHO GREW up on a farm in Hawke’s Bay, was in New York, enrolled in the School of Visual Arts’...

DOUGLAS SNELLING AND BEC DOWIE’S professional relationship began when they constructed a laminated plywood lamp together, but their personal relationship was established much earlier...

The sensational yet sensible work of Verner Panton

WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS WORK, David Trubridge brings up a TEDx lecture that his son William, a world-class free diver, delivered in Christchurch in October.