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Featuring Home furnishings | Art & creativity | Discover Mount’s treasuresTHE WEEKEND

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They understand how important your furniture purchase is – and so does the friendly and experienced staff at Harmony Home Furniture.

“Our staff are committed to the customer and want to ease the process of furnishing the home interior,” says Aliz.

“If you are looking for a different option in furnishing you’ll be

amazed by the range of design we can offer.”

Whether you appreciate Old World European, urban deco

or the latest trends, Harmony Home Furniture collections make

it easy for home owners to create a high end designer look.

A brand new range also has arrived into the store with more corner and leather suites, tables, home offi ces and dining furniture available.

“There’s something for everyone to fall in love with and you don’t have to spend

a fortune,” says Aliz. “A beautiful home can be even more affordable if you visit us now. The grand opening sale for every-thing in store with up to 40 per cent until stocks last is an opportunity not to miss.”

Harmony Home Furniture is conveni-ently located on 301 Cameron Road, with plenty of free parking.

Opening hours are from 10am-6pm Tuesday to Sunday which Aliz hopes will suit customers’ needs.

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Relax in luxury

Whether it’s your fi rst buy into real estate, fi rst build or fi rst forever home – your house says a lot about

who you are and what you’ve achieved. That’s the ethos behind a luxury furniture store in Tauranga

that recently opened its doors to the public.

Harmony Home Furniture only opened two weeks ago, but store manager Aliz Hart-mann says the store is already a popular spot for home owners who are looking for quality furniture at affordable prices. “Affordable luxury is not a slogan, but reality.”

The new store at 301 Cameron Road, Tauranga, between Second Ave and Third Ave, opened its doors on April 3 – and offers luxurious home furniture without the price tag, including dining, bedroom, home offi ce, occasional tables, barstools and upholstery designed in the United States of America.

“We are proud to be the fi rst exclusive Ashley store in New Zealand,” says Aliz, who notes Ashley is a US design brand that is highly popular in Europe and around the world. “They embrace the latest design with true quality.”

Harmony Home furniture offers the latest and most popular interna-tional designs, colours and fabric and the amazingly diverse products cater for a wide range of tastes.

Ashley claims to have become one of the number one selling furniture store brands in the world and the number one retailer of furniture and bedding in the United States of America and now available in Tauranga. Ashley Furniture Industries know it takes more than just the ability to make good furniture to becoming the number one selling brand of home furniture in North America.

“There’s something for everyone to fall

in love with and you don’t have to spend a fortune”

Sophisticated and stylish home furniture

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Three of the Tamaki brood had drifted back home to the

nest from points abroad. But for how long?

And the fourth had joined the Navy so she’d be off to see the world soon.

The family dynamic was changing and there was a small window of opportunity. “If it wasn’t for my wife I probably would have let it slide,” says Dad, Doug Tamaki.

What Kate wanted to capture was a family together again – a precious moment before the kids took fl ight, a family portrait before the moment ran off, disappeared.

“The next photo portraits would probably be with husbands and wives and grandchildren,” says Doug.

“This would be the last with just Mum, Dad and the kids.”

They started looking for a photogra-pher, the right person. “There are a lot of players out there and their work also looks good. But Bob’s work shone, it stood out from everything else.”

Bob is Bob Tulloch – a photogra-pher with history, experience and a reputation in this town. Forty-two years a professional lens man, Bob has done eight offi cial Mayoral portraits, recorded the creation of the Sulphur

Point expansion, new motorways and harbour bridges.He’s won dozens of national awards, but what’s more pertinent or relevant in this case is the fact he’s been photographer to thousands of Tauranga families.

“Memories fade, impressions change but with a photograph the moment and the people are permanent. Physically the moment has gone, but a photo captures people in a moment of time and it’s retained forever.”

Bob had done an exhibition on Maori art and shot some images in the Ureweras as a personal project.

“I looked at some of that,” says Doug. “The facial expressions, the mood, the settings and it was pretty cool.” The Tamaki family had their man. And “their man” considered it a privilege.

“Because if you look at a portrait of your grandparents, or even great-grandparents, the picture becomes increasingly precious with time.”

The Tamaki family had their own thoughts on how this shoot should go.

“Bob was very good. He listened to us and took those thoughts on-board.

He did not bully us through the process,” says Doug.

Bob was listening because he had inveigled his way into this family’s

thinking to fi gure the right place, the right time and the right mood.

“It’s a challenge but after years and years of doing it you become acutely aware when the moment presents itself.”

The Tamakis chose the beach at Mount Maunganui for the shoot.

The beach is an extension of the family’s backyard. It identifi es who

they are and what they like. Bob often gets the ‘I hate having

my photo taken’ line. He says it’s probably the legacy of a bad experience along the way.

“Perhaps they’ve had bad snaps taken, they’ve never had a good professional experience and a good professional looking after them.” Like the experience enjoyed by the

Tamakis. “I get as much pleasure out of creating something that is good as the clients gets from seeing and accepting the fi nal product,” says Bob.

“Whether I think it’s a great photo doesn’t matter.

“If my customer is happy with the process and the product, then I am happy too.”

The gift of the master craftsmanA photographer with history, experience and reputation

Hunter Wells

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One of Brigid Lennox’s mosaic busts graces the “powder room” of some

London socialite.

Three or four thousand dollars worth of Te Puna artwork stuck in a fl ash dunny in the big global city.

But for an artist a commission is a commission, money in the bank. “It was a real buzz – one of my cool jobs,” says Brigid.

The London socialite just happened to be on holiday in Noosa, Queensland, when she saw Brigid’s work. It was a seamstress’s mannequin fashioned from fragments of china and porcelain.

“Something beautiful from something broken,” says Brigid. So beautiful the socialite bought two.

A funky one for her friend in Melbourne, for the bach apparently. Nice.

“Seven thousand dollars was nothing to these people,” says Brigid. “Like going down the road and buying a bottle of milk.”

That annoyed her a bit. But only until the cheque was banked.

Brigid Lennox is a mosaic artist. She’s been tinker-ing with mosaics for 20 years, fashioning pieces of china, porcelain and glass into busts, shoes and wall hangings. She’s highly regarded globally, as we have discovered, and locally.

“Much as I am heartbroken when the family china was broken, I have enjoyed the reincarnation in the gorgeous torso.”

This was an observation from someone at a café where Brigid’s work was exhibited.

“And I think I get more pleasure from the new artistic pieces than I did from the beautiful crockery tucked out of sight in the cupboard.”

It could be the mix of colour, the structure, the sculpture, the fun – but out of the old and broken, Brigid is creating new life.

So where did mosaic busts and bird baths begin?“Well there was no eureka moment. I am not that

interesting,” says Brigid. It all began in her twenties, in Perth, in the garden.

“I was rummaging around and discovered the handle off a broken gravy jug. I thought: ‘What the hell can I do with this?’,” says Brigid.

She was messing around with concrete at the time – in a creative way. So she made a “tile kind of thing with the jug handle sticking out”.

By her own admission it was quite an amateurish thing and probably would never have made it to the powder room.

She thinks that’s how she got started. “You forget these things. I am nearly 50 and a tired,

single parent.”The antique dealers saved her “all their damaged

gear and broken stuff ”. And it metamorphosed into very saleable installations.

“I got a name for myself over time and started doing commission work.”

And there could be an explanation for why she is tired. The fashionable mosaic artist, who works out of a very unfashionable studio – a third bedroom tacked onto the side of her Munro Road home – is also a part time cleaner, helps with after school care and works in a plant nursery.

You break it, I make it From broken china come works of art

“Something beautiful from

something broken”


We’ve thrived

on word of

mouth for nearly

20 years

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“My son Sam is always asking me why I don’t just do one job.”

And there’s the other job, designing and making women’s clothes.

“A lot of chiffon and silk. I sell some of it in the shops here.”

But she also sells in Auckland and the markets including Mission Bay. That’s a good address which should be a good market. “So I am fl at out.”

Brigid also does mosaic shoes, more Victorian ladies boots. “I have always loved anything vintage.”

A woman in Queensland had amassed a collection of Brigid’s mosaic shoes. Ten in fact.

“She was a nutty collector. She always had so much cash it used to blow me away.”

But as the story goes, the woman with the shoe fetish had her fi ngers in the till is now in jail.

It’s unclear whether Brigid’s shoes were seized under provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act.

And it seems people who commission work can be a bit diffi cult, a bit precious.

“I had to do a mauve piece for a home in Remuera. “A mauve bust. Everything had to be mauve.”

The problem was sourcing mauve china pieces. “It was a real challenge. I had to use some glass, and

some tiles as well.” The commissioner even provided swatches from

curtains and furniture so the bust tied in.“It was very important darling,” says Brigid, a tad

facetiously. An artist is always on the lookout for a commission.

So even a Christmas holiday to the Sunshine Coast turned to business for this businesswoman.

“I had a piece sitting in my brother’s living room for a couple of years. It was a deal that went bad.

“But I sold it. And a gallery bought a couple of smaller pieces that I carried in my luggage.”

That paid for the holiday. Another project, another bust, which sponsored some stress just before Christ-mas is now dignifying a Bethlehem home.

And she’s cobbling together another pair of mosaic shoes. The artist is at work.

Brigid’s 10-year-old son Sam, who’d hoped Mum might end up with just one job, has also been invei-gled into the world of mosaics.

“He broke his bedside lamp,” says the artist, the sculptor. More broken china, more raw material, a new interest and potentially a new career.

Like mother, like son.

“I was rummaging around and discovered

the handle o� a broken gravy jug. I thought what

can I do with this?”

Hunter Wells

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