Life + Style 10 November 2017

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Comfort and style Furnishing the Bay for 27 years It’s about quality, comfort and survival. It’s about putting your money where it’ll last.

Contemporary Classics in Mount Maunganui is the place to go if you are looking to buy quality, long-lasting and comfortable furniture, and they’ve just celebrated 27 years of providing just that to the Bay. They are also expanding, with a new store recently opened on Queen Street in Cambridge.

All three stores, including Bay stores at 67C Totara Street and at 503 Maunganui Road, are helping people decorate and furnish their homes, and they’re bringing more in time for Christmas.

“Our shops are absolutely pumping at the moment,” says owner Grant Furniss.

“We’ve expanded our collections and we’ve satisfied a lot of people.

“We have many containers coming in between now and Christmas. We might not have everybody’s dreams on-board, but there’s a lot of dreams in there.”

Grant says they’ll be bringing in new stock as well as replenishing supplies of their bestselling favourites.

“A huge amount of people are loving our Cosmos swivel as well as what we call the ‘Slice of Heaven’, which is the ultimate swinging hanging chair which has legs elevated instead of dangling.

“It’s something we’ve promoted heavily but it just works. It’s the ultimate stressless chair – you will not stress out in this one.

“The stress will only come when you realise you need two of them because your husband is trying to push you out.”

Clearly, Grant understands the importance of relaxing after a long day.

“It’s the treat at the end of the day,” he says.

“We work hard, and at the end of the day what have we accumulated? You want something nice to sit on.”

But Contemporary Classics don’t just provide excellent chairs to the Bay and Cambridge.

Their range extends to lounge and dining as well as coffee tables and home accessories.

And it’s all gorgeous.

“Furniture can certainly elevate a home from a drab space to something more exciting to look at,” says Grant.

“That’s the reason we can sell visuallyappealing furniture – until you’ve seen and sat on it, it’s hard to tell.

“And our comfort is excellent. I struggle to try and sell uncomfortable chairs. It might look good, but if it’s uncomfortable it’s not going to be an easy sell.

“But if you’re just a looker, not a sitter, then buy whatever you like.”

Grant says that because they buy highquality furniture, they don’t typically get any complaints or issues with their products.

“If we do, we are embarrassed and we get the problem sorted as soon as we can.”

With their top-quality furniture comes a personalised service. Grant says they will personally deliver furniture to your Bay home.

“Our service is trying to get to people before they get home in some cases, and we personally deliver.

“We don’t load it on to a furniture truck – it’s either me or Paul or both of us that delivers it to your home, and if it’s something you can’t fit in your car, delivery is free throughout the Bay, Waikato and Auckland.

“That way we can help you in your home, because we offer free interior design help if we are there. We don’t charge for interior design.”

So go and check out the amazing range of comfortable furniture at Contemporary Classics. You won’t be disappointed.

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Future Machine infiltrates the city The tension of nature and the man-made Wandering through the gardens at The Elms Te Papa Tauranga, one is suddenly aware of something new. Standing on the front lawn is a sculptural piece that appears to be concrete blocks stacked on top of each other. On closer inspection, it’s clear it is in fact made from treated plywood, steel bolts and polyurethane.

Around it, rosellas flutter down onto the grass.

In the distance below, the sound of traffic from the bridge, Sulphur Point and the port.

Around us in the garden tuis call, and trees move in the spring breeze.

The work is called Sightlines by Mathew Elwood. An Auckland artist of national repute, he is exhibiting this piece as part of Tauranga Art Gallery’s exhibition called The Future Machine.

Intended to be part of the gallery’s outreach programme to encourage community engagement with art beyond the gallery itself, it certainly captures attention.

“There’s some nice resonance with this art work and the backdrop here,” says The Elms Te Papa Tauranga manager Andrew Gregg. “We have an unobstructed view of the Mount. This piece of art makes some commentary on building techniques and the industrial development of Sulphur Point in the early 20th Century.”

On show courtesy of Matt and Melanie Roger Gallery, the installation alludes to the urban contemporary landscape that now surrounds The

Elms Te Papa Tauranga.

From the plaque nearby, the message states that “the hand-crafted, laminated plywood blocks which resemble an ordinary column of concrete blocks are stacked and organised in a nod to directional markers such as signposts and weather vanes.

“The rotation and position of each block acts to accentuate the mix of local geography and recent urban development that is so present at The Elms.

“The clash of historical and contemporary landscapes is also suggested through the use of modern materials and techniques that critiques current conversations around the carbon footprint of the building industry.”

In nearby Masonic Park, another piece stands.

Titled Promenade encourages us to take a different route and perspective through the park. Created

by Stufkens and Chambers in collaboration with sculptor Nic Clegg and Torbin Chambers Soundscapes, it highlights the tension that can exist within the city on a multitude of levels; between history and future, the natural and man-made, and between silence and cacophony.

Moving through the work, the installation provides temporary relief from the fast-paced pressures of the city environment.

The Future Machine group exhibition is infiltrating the central city environs, highlighting some of the more surprising imagery, historical and physical spaces we have in our own backyard.

The main exhibition will be held at the Tauranga Art Gallery, with works also found around the CBD. It continues until January 2018.

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Same but different Cactus in the fruit and veg When you fly in to Los Angeles you kind of hope that’s smoke from forest fires you can see. But it’s not. It’s smog. You can see the air here. And you can taste it. It’s not pleasant.

In some months, you can feel it too – it wraps around you like a soggy blanket, and drags you down the further you walk.

It’s easy to get over-whelmed in Americaland the first time you visit. Everything you take for granted is the same, but different.

The grass is different. The sidewalks are different. The sky is different – dozens of planes during the day; unfamiliar stars at night – or no stars at night in the big cities.

It’s sad. There are kids living here who have never seen stars in the sky.

The cars are different and colourless. They come in a range of four colours – black, white, beige, and grey. Occasionally you spot one that tries to be red, without quite pulling it off. A nice surprise, though, is the cost of filling one up - $25 for a Toyota Corolla (about $35 NZ). Gas is cheap.

You wonder if the WOF rules are laxer here, or just ignored. Some of the cars on the road are only held together by their rust, and gaffer tape is used for everything from holding wing mirrors or bumpers on, to actually being used to replace a missing door.

Wandering around the Mount at home, the

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occasional sweet wrapper or cigarette packet makes one grumble, and you wonder how tourists can think New Zealand is so “clean and green”. It’s by comparison.

Rubbish is everywhere on the streets of LA, ranging from over-flowing garbage strewn ten feet either side of the bin, to truck-sized piles dumped on empty lots. And mattresses. So many mattresses.

The food is different – especially at the supermarket, which are big. Really big.

Having 50 checkouts is not uncommon.

The range is huge, but you know what? Most of it is junk. There’s a supermarket with 65 checkouts, about the same number of aisles – including 12 made up of frozen TV dinners – and you can’t buy an apple, an orange, or any fresh fruit or vegetables. At others, you can buy cactus to cook and eat.

Public transport is about as reliable as it is in Tauranga. Which is not a good thing. It takes a long time to get anywhere by bus in LA. The 24kms from the Airbnb to Venice Beach? About an hour-and-a-half.

It’s easy to get the wrong impression of LA, based on where you are staying. My Airbnb was lovely, but this suburb was where the garbage was over-flowing. It’s dirty. The bins are dirty. The streets are dirty. No berms – just concrete. Broken. The houses are dirty and tagging is rife. Many people don’t pick up after their dogs, but on the plus side, they’re all chihuahuas, so the piles aren’t big.

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“It’s easy to get the wrong impression of LA, based on where you are staying.

My Airbnb was lovely, but this suburb was where the garbage was over-flowing.

It’s dirty. The bins are dirty. The streets are dirty. No berms – just concrete”

Skip a few blocks away and you’re driving through a lifestyle magazine.

Beautifully manicured lawns and sculpted mansions.

Los Angeles is a crazy juxtaposition of people and their situations.

One street is a gated-community with multi-million dollar mansions, and the next is stucco 1950s boarding hostels, another gated-street, then a community of homeless people living in tents – with the lower class on the pavement, the upper class further up the bank under the bridge.

The differences are overwhelming at times. And frustrating. If you’re staying somewhere for a night and need a small bottle of milk for breakfast, the smallest available size would do a family of four for a week.

Need a doctor after a spider bite turned septic? $NZ220. Bought a SIM card because the unlimited data and calls to NZ for $US100 a month was a good deal? Yes – but not if you move more than 12 feet from a cell tower.

Coverage is useless.

Other differences are a joy. The customer service is next-level awesome.

Been in a queue for 30 seconds?

The checkout-operator apologises profusely for the long wait. The waiter remembers what you ordered and fills

your water glass without you asking.

The $10 meal is three times the size of the $30 meal you buy at home.

How about three pairs of optical glasses in designer frames, with polishing and buffing, and the clearest, thinnest lenses you’ve ever looked through? The same price as one pair at home in cheap frames, with no frills.

And an optician who knew what he was doing.

Expectations, however, can be different to reality. Hollywood? Dirty, over-crowded, and horribly kitsch.

It’s an hour on a bus to Hollywood Boulevard, but I lasted seven minutes there. I saw a bus with the same route number heading the other way, and jumped on it.

A scriptwriter cousin with a black sense of humour enjoys sitting at a cafe overlooking the Walk of Fame, watching the faces of the tourists fall as they get off the buses.

Venice Beach? I expected it to be dirty, over-crowded, and horribly kitsch. It was clean, sparsely populated, and not quite as kitsch as expected.

Los Angeles. It takes over. This was supposed to be an article on travel tips – but this ugly/beautiful city is overpowering and worth the visit.

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Mini Christmas Cakes

Christmas isn’t Christmas without a great cake, and Vetro has all the right ingredients.

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125g butter 3/4 cup muscovado sugar (we love Billingtons, who offer a light or dark version) 1 kg Fruit Cake Mix (from Vetro, so you’ll get a beautiful moist mix) 1/2 cup sherry/port /brandy/whisky (use your favourite flavour) 1 tsp mixed spice 1 tsp baking soda 3 Tbsp Date syrup (this fruit syrup substitutes cane sugar well) 2 eggs 225g plain flour (00 flour gives impressive results here) 1 tsp baking powder 1 Tbsp of fruit peel or lemon zest In a saucepan, over a medium heat, cook the butter, muscovado sugar, fruit cake mix, sherry, mixed spice, baking soda and date syrup, stirring often for two-three minutes.

Leave to cool completely.

Heat oven to 150C and grease 16 normal or 12 Texas muffin tins (straight sided tins are great if you have them).

Beat the eggs and mix through the fruit mixture. Sift flour and baking powder and mix thoroughly with fruit, adding in the peel.

Spoon into tins and bake for 50-60 minutes.

Decorate once cool, and let your imagination run wild – use marzipan icing/chopped nuts/fruit/Christmas ribbons/icing and cherries or serve warm with brandy flavoured mascarpone for dessert.

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It’s a dog’s world Spoilt for choice in dog walking parks I’ve been told that dog owners in Tauranga are spoilt for choice with the large number of parks, reserves, beaches and public areas where they can exercise their dogs.

However, Mount Maunganui Main Beach, Pilot Bay, Mauao, Moturiki Island, and within 200m of surf clubs are dog-free. People are often surprised to learn that hundreds of little blue penguins live in these areas, along with vulnerable native bird life. Other dog-free zones include Elms Reserve, McLaren Falls Park, Papamoa Hills Park, inside any fenced children’s playground and the Otumoetai Pa Historic Reserve in Levers Rd. So where are the ‘spoiled for choice’ dog walking parks?

Alfie Hall, the official ‘spokesdog’ for Western Bay of Plenty District Council and winner of the New Zealand Office Dog of the Year 2016 clearly knows, as I discovered from his doggie Facebook profile. There’s parks and reserves from Waihi to Pukehina. They include Huharua Park at Plummer’s Point, Kaiate Falls Reserve, Maketu, Ongaonga Scenic Reserve, Pukehina, Puketoki Reserve in Whakamarama, Uretara Walkway in Katikati, TECT All Terrain Park, and areas of Waihi Beach and Omokoroa.

Alfie’s human has organised ‘Wander Dogs Summer Walks’ doggie days through the WBOPDC website and through the Wander

Alfie

Dogs Club Facebook group.

“I went to about four of them,” says healthcare practitioner for dogs Di Scurr, who loves to take her dog Baxter along on the walks. “They were brilliant. Plus the opening of the TECT Park dogdesignated exercise area in Upper Pyes Pa. There are heaps of dog walking options around if people explored a bit.”

Alfie’s 2016 summer dog walks were such a success that the council has rolled out another series. Over on the Tauranga City Council website, a brochure sets out the popular walkways and cycleways.

Waikareao Estuary takes about two hours to complete the full loop. There’s Fergusson and Kulim Parks, the Matua Saltmarsh, Gordon Carmichael Reserve and the Waimapu Estuary.

Yatton Park is home to some of the city’s tallest trees and is a popular dog walking area.

Di Scurr and Baxter

The Lakes provide plenty of cycle and walkways suitable also for mobility scooters and learner cyclists. Nearby K Valley has a network of tracks linking Bethlehem to Cameron Rd through bush and alongside waterways. Ohauiti Reserve has open grasslands, and the tracks through Owens Park and Waioraka

Reserve in Welcome Bay are among the city’s most scenic pathways.

Streams, wetlands, native bush and open grassed areas – there’s plenty there to keep a dog happy. And later, a good run along the ocean beach chasing waves, with a human bringing the mandatory poop bag and leash.

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Antony Warnes An iconic painter

Baz Mantis Photography

Antony Warnes was re-introduced to a collection of his past paintings this week. The substantial oeuvre constitutes favourite and significant works gathered from people who have acquired pieces over a 50-year period.

“I asked Tony if he would paint me a Mini once,” says Lynette Fisher, who contributed her Warnes painting ‘Monty’s Place’ to the retrospective exhibition. “He turned up with Monty, my old Mini, parked outside of our old local, The Parallel Bar. “Tony told me his old nickname was Monty, and signed the words Antony S.W. He told me the S was for Sebastian. I can remember wondering if he was having me on, and feeling pretty lucky that I had a unique signature and it only cost me a bottle of vodka!”

Simone Anderson, director of The Incubator Creative Hub, which is holding not just the retrospective exhibition but also a show of Antony’s current work, recalls the Parallel Bar days.

“Antony had one of the first exhibitions at the P bar,” says Simone, who points to her Warnes painting ‘Monday Night Moggy’. “It was of full sized, giant cats and they were all snapped up that night, including this one for me.”

There are other stories – recollections by

purchasers of over 100 paintings on display in The Peoples Gallery – Toi ka rere.

Remembrances of where they bought their Warnes, and what they mean to them.

Tauranga City Councillor Catherine Stewart used to work opposite the city’s well-known aspen tree in Willow Street.

When she saw Antony’s painting of the aspen come up for sale 35 years later in a charity auction, she delightedly snapped it up.

“I think some of the earlier pieces were quite mad,” says Antony in ‘The Super Sonic Vagrant’, a documentary made by Baz Mantis.

“I saw a story once on a whole front page of the newspaper that Antony Warnes was going insane. I was 45 and locked myself in a house for three days. I didn’t want to come out.”

The 50-minute documentary runs in a side room at the ‘Reluctant Melancholia’ exhibition, the name given to this celebration of work

by Warnes. Running until November 22, the exhibition is actually a series of three concurrent exhibitions and events, recognising this iconic Bay of Plenty artist.

Part One, at the Incubator, features works for sale, giving an overview of his current painting style. Some unframed, they feature portraits, landscapes, gardens, fish, cats and birds.

Bursting with life and colour, there is warmth and joy hidden within the cerise and manganese blues. Rich purples and cherry reds, they evoke moments and ideas, the creativity and

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“The paintings go back to 1972, with the owners recounting often humorous stories about their provenance”

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local painter David Warriner to be the Bay of Plenty’s most eminent painter.

He is also inspired by local painter Graham Bell, and international artists Egon Schiele, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Gogh and Picasso.

“I like the idea of a retrospective because I can have a look back,” says Antony. “It’s not often I can see them again. There’s homes I go past, but I can’t go banging on their door.”

“To my mind, Antony Warnes is one, if not the most important Bay of Plenty artist of our time,” says Simone Anderson. “The epitome of raw, gritty talent.”

Photo: Nikki South

life caught by birds in flight and flowers bursting from the soil.

He sometimes changes the names of his paintings, even years later.

“I’ve got to stop being melancholy, I like to be more happy,” he says in the documentary.

Asked about the painting process, Antony muses that it’s not a process.

“It just happens. I can’t explain it.”

The second part of the exhibition is the retrospective display of more than 100 paintings in the nearby gallery recently reopened as ‘The Peoples Gallery – Toi ka rere’. The paintings go back to 1972, with the owners recounting often humorous stories about their provenance. Mac and Kate O’Brien have collected 25 works spanning his whole career.

“We first met Monty in the 1970s on Willow Street whilst he was looking after his mother,” write Mac and Kate. “We took him on holidays to the Coromandel and had great fishing missions with plenty of banter. We have drifted, but regularly pick him up hitchhiking in Katikati and drop him off at the Forte Leza.”

The third part of the Reluctant Melancholia series will be held at the Forte Leza. Fans and old friends have the opportunity to dine with him at the restaurant surrounded by his paintings.

Built in 1902, Forte Leza was purchased by the Belcher family in 1979, and Phillip Belcher is a close family friend of the artist.

Asked about his techniques, Antony responds bemusedly.

“Techniques? No, I just throw them together,” he says. “I guess you can call that a technique.”

He paints daily, often with his cat Sylvester close by. He considers friend and

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Devonshire tea at The Elms Continuing on a loved tradition The South Pacific Packard Car Club decided to motor to the Bay and visit The Elms Te Papa Tauranga.

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A couple of committee members had visited about 12 months ago and were so impressed with what they saw, they wanted to bring the club down from Auckland and enjoy a tour with Devonshire teas.

“The Elms is open to group visits,” says manager Andrew Gregg, “and this is an example of the kind of groups we like to attract – those who have a passion and an interest in all things heritage.

“Visitors receive a tour around the property with our guides and then the opportunity to have Devonshire teas afterwards. The whole package is really fantastic.”

Andrew is originally from Wellington, and his wife was born and raised in Tauranga.

They were living in Auckland, with Andrew working at the museum there.

“We had a young family and wanted to move closer to the grandparents, so I looked for a job in the arts, culture and heritage sector. I was delighted to see this job come up.”

Andrew worked at the Waitangi Tribunal for seven years and started at The Elms in December 2015.

In late 2016, the name changed to The Elms Te Papa Tauranga.

“Our new name reflects the totality of our history,” says Andrew. “For a long time this site has been known as the Mission House or Mission Station.

“But in actual fact the history is much broader than just the mission period.

“There’s centuries of Maori history prior to the arrival of the missionaries, and then following the missionary period, the site became a private family home. We try to represent all of those different periods.”

Some 22 months into the job and Andrew is thrilled with the Devonshire tea parties that Shirley Barr-Smith and Lyndsay Bluck, two of the volunteers, initiated around four years ago.

“Gertrude Maxwell used to put on Devonshire teas to help the family finances,” says Lyndsay, who is keen to continue this tradition.

“In the past we have hosted Devonshire teas on the front lawn and had the doors open with somebody playing the piano from the dining room.”

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“Visitors receive a tour around the property with our guides and then the opportunity to have Devonshire teas afterwards.

The whole package is really fantastic”

The original piano is still there. Visitors were able to order afternoon tea by ringing a bell and Gertrude would bring out tea and scones.

Shirley has been a volunteer for 17 years, and Lyndsay became involved in 1997. There are about 45 volunteer guides who take groups on tours through the grounds.

“We have all types of groups,” says Bev Corbett, who has been guiding for five years.

“We have heritage garden tours, school visits and special interest tours like the South Pacific Packard Car Club.”

The tours are run all year round with a focus on the summer cruise ship season. Cruise ship tours are 45 minutes long, with the visitors continuing on to see kiwifruit in Te Puke.

The car club group was split into two, each receiving a one-hour tour ending with Devonshire tea in the Fencible Cottage, which was built in the 1840s and brought down from Auckland in 1872.

“The cottage was built for use by the Royal New Zealand Fencible Regiment during the early colonial period,” says Andrew. “‘Fencibles were retired soldiers sent out to New Zealand as a defence force.

“A lot of them were housed in cottages like this one.”

“Duff Maxwell bought it,” says Bev. “He was going to have a museum in Tauranga which we haven’t yet got, and this is part of his collection.”

Nearby, two old houses have been removed from the corner of Chapel Street and Mission Street.

“We’re developing a new garden of historical

Shirley Barr-Smith and Lyndsay Bluck

Manager Andrew Gregg, grounds custodian Rose Burr, exec. admin RomaniHarrison and head grounds custodian Troy Edgecombe.

significance there,” says Bev, “designed by garden historian John Adams. It’s going to be a garden of serenity. We are just finalising the design.”

Troy Edgecombe and Rosie Burr are the grounds’ custodians. Troy points out the flowerbed next to the coach house. “Edith and Alice Maxwell used to grow a lot of violets here,” says Troy. “They’d take them into the market to sell to help with the war effort. Eventually we’re going to look at developing a Soldiers’ Garden here to acknowledge this part of our history.” The main room in the Fencible cottage is set out with tables and china ready for the members of the car club. Delighted to be able to park their

mostly pre-war 1930s and 40s classic cars on the front and back lawns, some donned bonnets before enjoying the tea party. One of the couples own the Packard and Pioneer Museum in Maungatapere near Whangarei.

“A lot of us are interested in history,” says club chairperson Leyton Chan.

“Many people have been to Tauranga numerous times and just driven past this. It’s great to see one of the most historic places in New Zealand.”

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D TO BE LOCALLY Offer valid 30/10/17 to 26/11/17 or while stocks last. Bed is defined as a mattressPROU and standard base set. Excludes Everyday Dream prices and OWNED ANDFinancial OPERATED clearance stock. Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Q Card and Latitude Services lending criteria, fees, terms and conditions apply. *No payments and no interest for 24 months (“Payment Holiday”) is available on Flexi Payment Plans for in-store purchases only from 1 November 2017 to 30 November 2017. Minimum spend $200. Annual Account Fee of $50 applies. New Cardholder fee - $55 Establishment. Existing Cardholder fee - $35 Advance. Standard Interest Rate, currently 25.99% p.a or 22.95% p.a (depending on your card) applies to any outstanding balance at end of Payment Holiday. Lending criteria, fees, terms and conditions apply. Rate and fees correct as at date of publication, subject to change. Visit bedsrus.co.nz for more information.