Life + Style 4 September 2015

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As the adage goes, “The devil is in the details”, but architectural designer Jon McAlpine thrives on the challenge of getting every aspect working

in harmony – fl oor to ceiling.

It’s just one of many examples of the lengths Jon and his team go to to create beautiful works of architectural art – something he’s passionate about bringing to his clients.

“Whether it’s $300,000 or $3 million, your home is your baby and you have to treat every client like that,” he explains.

“Everyone works in synergy at Thorne Group – from a concept that starts with me to fi tting out the interiors at the end, everyone is very passionate about design.”

Thorne Group’s motto is “good design is about time, not money”, and it’s a mantra Jon holds true. From fi rst meeting to fi rst turning of the soil, Jon is with his clients every step of the way.

“We’re a little more personal in that sense,” he says. “The point of building is you want something for you, for your needs and requirements. For me, the fun and interesting part is working with clients to fi nd that out.”

So what’s his process? “The fi rst step is

knowing what you have to work with – the fundamentals of the site in terms of the land – then you need to think about neighbours, prevailing winds, sun, and also the contour of the ground. And, of course, budget. Budget is a massive part of it all and you’ve got to design to that.”

From there, Jon will work tirelessly with the clients, consulting with them to understand their style and how they want the home to function, as well as the wider Thorne Group

team of project managers, quantity surveyors, builders and suppliers to ensure everything runs smoothly.

“It’s the full package. That’s the beauty of Thorne Group, we work very closely with other departments on site so clients are kept in the loop every step of the way.

“It’s their biggest investment – it means so much to them. It’s not a dress to a pair of shoes, every detail is important.”

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With great pride, he’s walking me through Thorne Group Architecture’s three-bedroom showhome at The Lakes. At 200m2, the brief was to design a home that married form and function with style and fl air.

Take the entranceway, for example. As soon as you enter, you’re greeted with

a view of the dazzling lake and you’re immediately wowed. To complement, the black brick from the exterior fl ows seamlessly through into the hallway – bringing the outside in; the cool tones are offset with stained plywood and strip LED recessed ceiling lighting for a bit of oomph. Suddenly, a house becomes a home.

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‘Indulge without guilt’ is Cecilia Strachan from Nurtured for Wellness’ catch phrase, so I took it upon myself to partake. This was not hard to

do and I jumped at the chance to review her raw food workshop.

Raw food has become popular lately with people becoming more aware of what they feed their body. Raw food is anything uncooked and unprocessed, and not heated above 44 degrees Celsius.

So if you are not lucky enough to be Cecilia’s husband Peter, or neighbours Anne and Mirella, then you probably need to get along to a workshop and absorb her wealth of knowledge.

I went along to the cakes and snacks class with wide eyes and an empty stomach, along with 10 other wannabe chefs.

Carrot cake with lemon cream icing, date and cherry bars, chocolate shortbread, brownies and rum balls, apricot and coconut logs and the

most popular, the mixed berry cheesecake, were on the menu – and did not disappoint.Everyone went back for seconds on the cheesecake and made positive

noises for all of the treats on the plates passed around.Cecilia’s cheerful personality made for a great relaxed afternoon where

we inundated her with every question we had up our sleeve about raw food.She also showed us how to make almond milk, which is great as it doesn’t

require getting up at 5.30am and sitting on an upturned bucket. I came away from the class very enthusiastic and will be the envy of the offi ce

when I bring in my slices and cakes. I can’t see me sharing it though – maybe once, just to prove raw food is fantastic.

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Naturally slender, dressed head to toe in black, and hiding

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New Zealand’s Next Top Model.

As she poses for our photographer, she turns it on, working her best angles, displaying high amounts of patience as she’s made to repeat her strut down the Mount Maunganui boardwalk again and again.

But as soon as the camera is off, and we’re sitting at a café for a chat, the Danielle we’re familiar with comes out. Foul mouthed, brutally honest and an abundance of stories – you can take the

girl out of New Zealand, but you can’t take New Zealand out of the girl.

It’s been fi ve years since 62 Models’ Sara Tetro announced Danielle from Kawerau, then 19, as the winner of the show’s second season.

She’s spent her early twenties doing what many of us can only dream of: high-fl ying travel, exotic locations, penthouse apartments and getting paid to party and rub shoulders with Oscar winners and award-winning pop stars.

Has this become the new normal for the small town girl?

“I guess so,” she says, “but coming back here I’m like ‘what’s normal to me?’ I needed a break – I had been working for two years nonstop, so

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I came home to recap, put things into perspective and fi gure out who I am besides modelling.”

It hasn’t been an easy ride for Danielle, who was painted as the wild child of the show. Frequently reprimanded for her attitude, many were surprised when she took the coveted title – including Sara.

“After the show, I was told all sorts of excuses, so they didn’t put the time and effort into moulding me,” she says. “Sara said I’d never work overseas.”

It took three years to get out of her contract, her winner’s prize, during which time she went back to study and stayed away from the all-consuming, expensive Auckland market. Then, an Australian agent, who had just fi nished watching NZ Top Model, got in touch to offer representation.

After a little negotiating, she packed up her bags and headed to Melbourne. It was a mere four months more before she was off to the US, where her career took leaps and bounds. All before her 25th birthday.

Has she always been this driven? Growing up the middle child of fi ve, Danielle admits fi nding her own focus was key.

Martial arts helped with that – from age fi ve she was training taekwondo with her uncle in Opotiki, then later her father. It’s easy to imagine the hard-nosed beauty taking no prisoners.

“I was scared of my opponent!” she reveals with a laugh. “She was 10ft tall and I was only little – about six or seven-years-old. I stood there and I just cried.”

While she’s been given the hard word from her agency to stay away from contact sports, there’s enough going in her life now to keep her focused.

Ask her to choose a highlight and there’s many: Be it her 23rd birthday in Sweden, shooting for Elle magazine, or Harper’s Bazaar in Munich. Then there’s the Jean Paul Gaultier runway for Paris Fashion Week.

“I wasn’t familiar with his work. I didn’t realise how big he was,” Danielle admits, ever the down-to-earth Kiwi girl, unfazed by her surroundings. “That was the fi rst time I got to meet Rihanna too. She got to check out the gowns backstage.”

The former celebrity journalist in me has to ask: So what was she like? “She was short! Most Americans are quite short.”

That’s Danielle for you. Rihanna’s just one name of many she’s encountered – Cuba Gooding Junior, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lenny Kravitz. As a model, she says, you get paid to party, to look good. But for Danielle, there’s nothing glamorous about hard work.

“Every two months I was in a different country – how bizarre is that? When you get thrown into a new country, you have to fi nd your own way, learn the language. It’s a whirlwind.”

Our coffees come out, accompanied by a baking sample. In an industry obsessed with image and body weight, does Danielle watch what she eats? “I eat whatever,” she affi rms, biting into a biscuit.

The fi ckle industry hasn’t changed the Bay of Plenty girl. Pragmatic as ever, Danielle knows this wild ride won’t last forever and is already starting to put plans in place for her next step.

“I’m just ticking things off my life,” she says. “Anything is possible, you just need to make your mind up and do it.”

“Anything is possible, you just need to make your mind up and do it” Fashion comes and goes, but

one thing remains – women the world over love a classic.

“Yes, diamonds will always be a girl’s best friend,” says gold buyer for Pascoes The Jewellers Jenna Evans.

“Women’s love affair with diamonds has survived the decades.”

However, with a mindfi eld of options available in the jewellery stakes, where do you start when choosing a gift for your loved one – be it your partner, spouse, family member or friend?

This season’s trends include plenty of geometric shapes, as well as a fabulous array of statement earrings, including ear cuffs, ear climbers and jackets.

“There has also been a movement towards layering different shapes and styles and wearing an eclectic mix of jewellery together,” adds Jenna.

“The traditional rule of wearing just one metal colour, ie just silver or just yellow gold, is out in favour of mixing a wide range of coloured metals.”

When looking for a quality item

to buy for yourself or someone else, Jenna recommends looking for a design to be cherished long term and one that works with your personality and lifestyle.

“If your budget allows, it can also be worth spending a little more on solid, classic pieces that you can expect to have in your jewellery box for years to come,” she says.

“Think about the type of jewellery you or your loved one already wears and then consider everyday style – are you/they modern and trendy, or more classic and girly? This will determine important details such as if they would prefer fi ne jewellery or something a bit heavier.”

Complexion plays a big part in determining if silver or gold is best for you – pick the metal that’s most complementary.

“People with darker skin and yellow undertones should look to gold, while cooler complexions with rose undertones suit silver,” says Jenna. “It’s defi nitely important to consider your budget and personal preference too!”

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District Council’s Portraits of Our Place, retro-style postcards that epitomise our coastal/rural region.

By contrast, illustrator Ross Murray’s apartment offi ce is a montage of worldly infl uences. A postcard of his room would evoke images of international destinations – masks and waving cats from Japan, a whiskey decanter inspired by his Scottish heritage, comics and magazines accumulated from his travels to inspire.

Underneath the city-style trappings of a third-fl oor apartment, there’s true country hospitality. I’m welcomed with a smile and fresh lemon muffi ns that his wife, Kate,

has kindly baked. The coffee’s ready to go.The Murrays are farmers – Ross is the son of a farmer,

and his father before him for several generations in Otakiri on the Rangitaiki Plains. So how did he end up in illustration?

“I always preferred drawing the cows to milking them,” Ross affi rms. “I mean, my fi rst word was tractor and growing up I was out there helping my dad, but I felt my calling was somewhere else.

“I was obsessed with drawing from an early age and it seemed like what I should do, so I ran with it.”

The country boy headed for the big smoke, studying graphic design (illustration major) in Auckland.

He began, as most do, picking up work experience wherever he could during his studies.

“I worked for an animation studio alongside animators who had worked at Disney and I learnt a lot. I also did freelancing storyboards for TV ads.”

Like most Kiwis, Ross wasn’t immune to the pull of the big OE, and after university headed to Japan, teaching English to primary aged children in rural schools.

“It was a good way of ignoring the real world for a while,” he says with a laugh. “I was plunged into another world, where drawing was my main means of communication with a lot of these kids.”

As well as providing him with life experience, it was also where he met his now wife.

“We grew up a couple of hours away from each other, but it took going to Japan to meet,” he says.

On returning from Japan, ignoring the real world was no longer an option and Ross became a “slave to the coffee machine” at an agency in Auckland.

“Lots of hair-raising deadlines, working through the night, going home at 4am – but when you’re young you don’t mind so much.”

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Ross, 36, and his family have now settled in Omanu, with his offi ce in Mount Maunganui.

“It’s healthy having an environment away from home,” Ross says. The toys strategically tided away in a basket beside the couch imply that work and home often collide.

“I used to work from home and there’s all sorts of great things about doing that,” he adds.

“Kate was really sick during both pregnancies. With Millie, our second child, I was looking after [oldest daughter] Ella, working full-time, trying to keep my wife alive. Without the fl exibility I wouldn’t have been able to do that.”

For an artist there is plenty of artwork strewn around the Mount apartment – his own, inspirational works and his daughters’ drawings, which have their pride of place on the fridge. Notably absent are pens and paper, typically the tools of the trade for an illustrator surely?

“No, no, everything is electronic these day,” explains Ross, much to my disappointment. I have images of the artist at work, loose leafs thrown about the room in a whirlwind of creativity and thought.

“It’s sad,” he adds. “Plenty of people still do it that way. I admire that, but this is purely for effi ciency.

“It cuts production by at least a third. I made the shift about eight years ago – I draw on a Wacom Cintiq now. It’s basically a fl ash iPad that you draw on, that’s just like putting pen to paper.”

It’s a process he used when creating the Western Bay of Plenty postcards, among many projects. To name a few, he’s illustrated for Thomas Cook airways, Mercedes and more recently ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine – a personal highlight.

Ross has become known for his vintage style, as

exemplifi ed in the postcards, and says it’s a look he’s long admired.

“The nostalgia, a kind of romance about those images, combined with nice typography... it’s the golden age of design. It’s something I like and used for a few jobs and now keep getting asked to do.”

Does he ever get attached to any of his commissions?

“The client doesn’t always make the best decision...” he says tentatively, laughing, before adding, “but at the end of the day they’re paying for it.”

He does spend his spare time – when he fi nds it – creating his own sketches, particularly comics. He’s also written a children’s book titled ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, dedicated to Ella, which focuses on the impact of deep sea oil drilling.

“It’s nice to have personal projects to go to – it keeps you enthused about the ad work, and vice versa.”

Of course, there’s always the whiskey to turn to should things go south, I suggest. The portrait of a true artist.

“I must look like a real tragic,” jokes Ross. “I hardly ever get to pour myself a dram – or

luckily, I should say. Or I would never get anything done.”

“I was obsessed with drawing from an early age and

it seemed like what I should do, so I ran with it.”

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Maketu pies, Kombi by the beach, rugby on the marae. All scenes of New Zealand, iconic

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By contrast, illustrator Ross Murray’s apartment offi ce is a montage of worldly infl uences. A postcard of his room would evoke images of international destinations – masks and waving cats from Japan, a whiskey decanter inspired by his Scottish heritage, comics and magazines accumulated from his travels to inspire.

Underneath the city-style trappings of a third-fl oor apartment, there’s true country hospitality. I’m welcomed with a smile and fresh lemon muffi ns that his wife, Kate,

has kindly baked. The coffee’s ready to go.The Murrays are farmers – Ross is the son of a farmer,

and his father before him for several generations in Otakiri on the Rangitaiki Plains. So how did he end up in illustration?

“I always preferred drawing the cows to milking them,” Ross affi rms. “I mean, my fi rst word was tractor and growing up I was out there helping my dad, but I felt my calling was somewhere else.

“I was obsessed with drawing from an early age and it seemed like what I should do, so I ran with it.”

The country boy headed for the big smoke, studying graphic design (illustration major) in Auckland.

He began, as most do, picking up work experience wherever he could during his studies.

“I worked for an animation studio alongside animators who had worked at Disney and I learnt a lot. I also did freelancing storyboards for TV ads.”

Like most Kiwis, Ross wasn’t immune to the pull of the big OE, and after university headed to Japan, teaching English to primary aged children in rural schools.

“It was a good way of ignoring the real world for a while,” he says with a laugh. “I was plunged into another world, where drawing was my main means of communication with a lot of these kids.”

As well as providing him with life experience, it was also where he met his now wife.

“We grew up a couple of hours away from each other, but it took going to Japan to meet,” he says.

On returning from Japan, ignoring the real world was no longer an option and Ross became a “slave to the coffee machine” at an agency in Auckland.

“Lots of hair-raising deadlines, working through the night, going home at 4am – but when you’re young you don’t mind so much.”

Retro romanceIllustrating a passion for the past

“I always preferred drawing the cows to milking them”


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