Shelter (2022)
When twenty-one-year-old builder Joe Wright meets Leo, he falls in love hard, and seemingly for ever. Mature, philosophical and intensely handsome, Leo teaches Joe an appreciation of music and literature, and, most importantly, a passion for the beautiful old buildings that are disappearing from Auckland’s central city. But when Leo suddenly vanishes from his life, then drifts back again years later, Joe – now a powerful developer of heritage architecture – is unable to move on from this first affair. As the years pass, and Leo stays just out of reach, can Joe open his eyes to new possibilities?
Beach Life: A Celebration of New Zealand Beach Culture (2016)
A fascinating account of how the beach has influenced New Zealand lifestyle, culture and identity.
Experiencing beach life is simply part of being a New Zealander. It has helped shape our annual summer holiday, the games we play, the clothes we wear and the houses we build. It has also played an important role in the development of Kiwi identity.
In this compelling and generously illustrated exploration of beach life over the last 90 years, writer, historian and style commentator Douglas Lloyd Jenkins examines how attitudes towards the beach have evolved and how the beach – a hot bed of hedonistic pleasures as well as a magnet for holidaying families – has in turn brought about important social change. Open to all, yet increasingly fringed with expensive property accessible only to the rich, the New Zealand beach has always been a place of extremes
In Beach Life, Lloyd Jenkins provides a colourful account of the pioneering trends and pivotal influences that have shaped Kiwis enduring attraction to the beach and the lasting impact the beach has had on every aspect of New Zealand society.
Architecture of the Heart (2013)
Architecture of the heart explores the notion of home as it has been expressed by New Zealand artists. Drawing from the rich and idiosyncratic collections of the Hawke's Bay Museum's Trust, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds present their unique perspective on the meaning of 'home', and how both the place and idea are reflected in New Zealand art.
The home is a site of common experience; it is a place of origin, of shelter, community and intimacy. In bringing these elements together across time, culture and media, the authors weave aspects of art and design history together to present their picture of how the house and home are positioned in our cultural imagination. Focussed strongly on the 20th century, and bringing together both celebrated and lesser-known artists, this book creates a lively discussion of what home is and means.
In this book Lloyd Jenkins and Hammonds present four richly illustrated chapters with works ranging from painting, photography, and sculpture through to design and applied art. In a narrative approach that combines interpretation and imagination, their unique perspective explores the connection between people and their sense of home. From the ancestors that shape our sense of identity and place, through to the private interior spaces in which we are truly comfortable, this book celebrates the home in all of its forms.
The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design since 1940 (2010)
"The Dress Circle" inserts seven decades of history into the family tree of New Zealand fashion design in a landmark book that celebrates both the achievements of New Zealand fashion designers from the recent past and the high-profile success of the contemporary generation.
In over 400 fully illustrated pages, authors Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault reveal the wealth of stories that underpin the development of New Zealand's unique fashion design history. They showcase the talents and undeniable flair of a wide range of New Zealand fashion designers, from the well-known to those who have slipped out of the public eye.
At the same time the book explores the key social shifts that empowered change in fashion, offering a new view of a vital and exciting branch of New Zealand design culture. Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards.
40 Legends of Design (2006)
This gorgeous book takes a look at the work of forty of New Zealand's leading designers and craftspeople of the twentieth century. Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, well known as a writer, lecturer and critic on design, has been writing columns for the magazine Home and Entertaining for the last 15 years, and this book gathers together some of his best columns, plus several new profiles.
The format is a series of short, authoritative, highly accessible biographical profiles, detailing the careers of top New Zealand designers and craftspeople, from textile and wallpaper designers, to furniture, jewellery and industrial designers. The profiles are accompanied by the information necessary to identify the work of these creative people, and illustrated with a combination of new and original photographs.
The design 'legends' covered include: * Reuben Watts, who worked in jewellery in the 1920s and 1930s. * Avis Higgs who designed textiles in the 1940s. * John Crichton and his interior designs of the 1950s-1970s. * Danske Mobler and furniture from the 1960s. * Levi Borgstrom, who carved wooden spoons in the 1970s. * Warren Tippett and his ceramics of the 1970s and 1980s.
New Dreamland: Writing New Zealand Architecture (2005)
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins brings together in one volume a selection of key essays (28 in total) that have shaped 20th century New Zealand architecture and architectural thinking.
The essays have traditionally appeared in journals and magazines, but with an increasing popular and scholarly interest in NZ architecural history, particularly as it pertains to the 20th century, there is considerable renewed interest in these difficult-to-locate works.
Each decade is well represented, particularly the 1940s and 1950s with the influences of the Central European refugees such as Plischke, Porsolt, Kulka and Cacala and the renowned Group Architects, and the 1970s with the innovative philosophies of Peter Beaven, Miles Warren, Chris Brooke-White and David Mitchell, both in the areas of residential and commercial architecture.
At Home - A Century of New Zealand Design (2004)
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, described by Wallpaper magazine as "one of the most influential design writers in the Southern Hemisphere," is currently Associate Professor of the School of Design, UNITEC, Auckland. He has established a high profile with his curated exhibitions and published works, has lectured on New Zealand design and architectural history around the world, and contributes regular design criticism to journals in New Zealand and Australia.
Winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Montana Medal for Non-Fiction 2005 and Montana New Zealand Book Awards: History Category 2005. Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2005.
Jovan Rancich & Wally Silva (2003)
The exhibition Jovan Rancich and Wally Silva : pioneer potters was held at the Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson, Waitakere City, 4th December 2003 - 8th February 2004.
Frank Carpay (2003)
A participant in the curatorial team for this exhibition, Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins has continued to explore the works and lives of the designers of that period. Ten years later, Frank Carpay was celebrated at the Hawke's Bay Museum, the culmination of a trilogy of shows in which Lloyd-Jenkins has rejuvenated interest in the wallpaper and textile designs of William Mason and the fabric designs of Avis Higgs.
In this striking exhibition and accompanying publication, Lloyd-Jenkins finally gives due recognition to the life and work of Dutch-born designer Frank Carpay (1917-1985). Previously, we have only known of Frank Carpay during his employment with the Auckland commercial pottery, Crown Lynn. He was employed as a designer from 1953-56 of one-off pieces in the 'Specials Department'.
Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub: The Jewellery of Pauline Bern (2000)
Avis Higgs: Joie de Vivre (2000)
Avis Higgs Joie de vivre. The second in a trilogy of biographies that explore the life and work of postwar New Zealand artist and textile designers, this book charts the life and work of Avis Higgs (1918-2016).
Covering her early role in the development of a wartime Australian printed textile industry, including early surf culture textiles, through the development of her iconic textile portfolio, and including her later work as an artist, this book was seminal in the revival of Avis Higgs’ reputation and put her back on the radar of New Zealand design.