At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design By Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, one of NZ's best known and most highly respected architecture and design writers.

This is second hand but is in excellent order.

Soft Cover. Pages: 342 Published by: Godwit Publication date: 2005 reprint

At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design is a personal journey by leading architecture and design writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, in pursuit of a distinctive New Zealand sense of style. At Home is the story of those New Zealanders who put the creation of a contemporary living environment first, not only as an expression of Individualism but as their contribution to the development of a recognisable New Zealand culture.

Taking the first decade of the twentieth century as its starting point, At Home joins the story of the New Zealand house just at the point when its inhabitants began to ask whether a uniquely local expression might be possible. It charts the way in which imported movements, fashions and styles in twentieth-century architecture and design were adopted - or adapted - by New Zealanders to create personalised home environments, whether international in style or an attempt at something distinctively local.

In At Home Douglas Lloyd Jenkins draws on his depth of knowledge to tell in an accessible style, an alternative history of New Zealand, in which style and fashion have been key in building local culture. He sheds light on many lesser-known architects and designers, as well as those more widely recognised, challenging the notion of the architect as the sole creative force behind the progressive house.