New Zealand Riviera: to entice buyers to a resort development, Pip Cheshire and Terry Hunziker designed a rustic guest lodge.

Interior Design, January, 2005 by Alderman, John

Bay of Islands, a remote spot about 150 miles northeast of Auckland, New Zealand, is a place where the outdoors means everything. Located in a part of the country known as the "winterless north"--temperatures average 83 degrees year-round--the low-key vacation destination attracts vacationers and residents with activities such as sailing, windsurfing, big-game fishing, and just taking in the magnificent landscape. Peter Cooper, a Californian who is part Maori, is one of many visitors to have fallen in love with Bay of Islands, so much so that he and his wife, Sue, purchased a 900 acre farm there and subdivided it into 10-acre residential parcels under the name Mountain Landing.

Among the Coopers' first moves was to call on architect Pip Cheshire, then managing...

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