Down The Long Driveway

"Down The Long Driveway, you'll see it" is an independently published book.

Beautifully designed, it features 14 of New Zealand's best modernist homes.

The 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.

Read all about it here.

Buy it here.

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