One of our favourite houses in our February/March issue is Selby, the 1973 gem just outside Havelock North designed by Miles Warren. It's pure class, from its park-like setting shown above right down to its signature foundation stone and exterior lights:
These are some more of the outtakes from Paul McCredie's excellent shoot, images that we couldn't fit into the magazine. Here's the entry court, which shows the drama of those sawn-off gabled forms. 
This particular diagonal line (in the shot below) points to the main entrance.
Just inside the front door, a window reveals a smaller sitting room, set a few steps down from the home's main pavilion.
The main living room is a much more baronial affair, with lofty heart rimu ceilings supported by dramatic diagonal beams. 
Selby's owners, John and Helen Foster, gave the house the garden is deserved, a beautiful, formal blend of manicured plants overlooking the tree-lined sheep paddock. 
Incidentally, Selby is for sale (you can view the listing at the Bayleys website here). We normally avoid featuring properties for sale in our pages, for fear of becoming a real estate publication, but in Selby's case we made an exception because the house is so exceptional.
An elegant stone fireplace separates the living area from the library, up a couple of steps.
The image below shows the cedar-lined bedroom with a view out to the garden, which runs down to Lake Rotoroa. The shot below that shows the view of the house from the garden.
This view shows the stone wall of the living pavilion that borders the old creek bed and the path between the two structures.
Here's our June/July cover - a photograph of the lodge at Mountain Landing designed by Pip Cheshire. The photograph is by Patrick Reynolds. We hope we've captured a warm winter mood that will seduce thousands of potential readers into purchasing this issue. For any of you fretting about text legibility, the actual magazine features a more vivid fluoro orange that speaks much more loudly than this CMYK version.
And here's Toaki again, this time photographing Tim Wigmore's 'Pil' light:
The chair in the image below is the 'Starling' by Cameron Foggo:
And some more of the finalist objects, waiting for their close-ups. The pink 'Hostess' table at right is by Katy Wallace, and is made of pieces of junk-shop furniture. Beside it, the blue 'Table/Cloth' table is by Juliette Wanty.
The Design Awards 2010 winner was chosen by designer Humphrey Ikin and Michael Lett (of the eponymous Auckland gallery). Remember to watch out for full award coverage in our June/July issue - we just sent the final pages to the printer yesterday, so it won't be long until it hits the shelves.
And here's a view of the bay from the home's terrace:
"Yes," he says. "The nervousness here stems from two aspects, that I might stuff up a great opportunity and a nice paddock and, more importantly, that the site is so loaded - high landscape and heritage values - that the building couldn’t blink, it needed to be strong without dominating."
"I think that Murcutt line of touching the earth lightly is great and certainly fits
You can read the full Q+A with Pip and the story he's written about the property in our next issue (it isn't often that architects are also authors - in Pip's case, his recent book Architecture Uncooked - so we took the opportunity to commission him to write about his own project for this issue). Keep an eye out for it on newsstands soon.
