Issue 61

Vintage Modern Issue

The breadth and scope of Habitus has always been extraordinary. With how we live at heart of every issue, we have stepped it up with Guest Editor David Flack of Flack Studio shaking the ‘how’ and looking at new ways to make a house a home. With Vintage Modern as the issues theme, we look at the way iconic design has stayed with us, how daring pieces from the past can add the wow factor and how architecture and good design defy the pigeon hole of their era.

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Delight in this Modernist 1960s Messervy House by Allan Mitchener

New Zealand

When the original owner of this 1960s home in Iiam, Christchurch came to sell Mr and Mrs J. Messervy jumped at the chance of buying it, mainly because they were worried about what would happen if they didn’t.

After purchasing the dwelling by architect Allan Mitchener, the owners began sympathetically restoring it; repainting the interior and exterior with the original colours, laying new cork flooring, replacing cracked windows, curtains and wallpaper, fitting a new kitchen benchtop and generally repairing the bits that needed some love and care.

Two extra bedrooms were also incorporated into the original layout making it a four bedroom home with an additional open mezzanine bedroom and light-filled, double-height living and dining room, which opens on three sides to a private garden.

The Messevery House is currently for sale, so if you’ve fallen in love you can make your dream a reality for $630,000.

Photography by Sam Hartnett.

Messervy House
messervyhouse.co.nz