https://douglaslloydjenkins.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-13 https://douglaslloydjenkins.com/books daily 0.75 2022-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/983c5b5d-6096-480d-88ba-73e63f040ef7/Screen+Shot+2022-02-13+at+18.49.35.png Books - 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? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/1644366744531-GO1KPRLEKJ9B8WW9J88E/Beach+Life.jpeg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/1f71c364-df34-4652-a97d-471a826f39ce/IMG-4581.jpg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/6ec0c1ef-6887-4dfc-8b26-9338919d6f21/9166te7C2PL.jpeg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/56362580-5ed5-461c-85b9-839afc5d2aca/large_9781869621209.jpeg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/83c019b3-147c-4666-9cc3-f08a6690a57f/Dreamland.jpg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/dcb53dd3-0c0a-44be-a8e5-8a657c6bdca3/at+Home.jpg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/e568308c-0588-442f-ab2c-811c554fa546/Scan+12.jpg Books - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/deccea47-1b88-4235-9f16-f037f0c5fb21/Scan+10.jpg Books - 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'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/8654c5f6-a6bd-4a9b-9979-5f7328be66d0/Screen+Shot+2022-02-09+at+17.40.51.png Books - Strain, Grate, Whisk, Scrub: The Jewellery of Pauline Bern (2000) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/cac05960-91da-4f2c-9df1-e856c346fdad/Scan+4.jpg Books - 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. https://douglaslloydjenkins.com/about daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/6fb43d87-3f19-45fd-940d-52a2417ba84e/author_pic_ed+copy.jpg About - About Douglas Douglas Lloyd Jenkins is a New Zealand writer, academic, museum director and television presenter. He has been described by Wallpaper magazine as, ‘one of the most influential design writers in the Southern Hemisphere.’ Douglas was born in Epsom, Auckland on 22nd November 1963. His birth coincided with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a point often referenced in biographical summaries. In 1967 his family moved from Massey, West Auckland to Beach Haven on the North Shore where Douglas later attended Birkdale College. Here he showed an early interest in exploring local history. In 1994, he graduated from the Bachelor of Arts programme, University of Auckland. Between 1984 and 1987 he completed a large part of a Diploma in Design (furniture) at Carrington Polytechnic, subsequently working as a furniture designer for Morgan Brothers Ltd, Auckland. He completed his Master’s degree (Art History) University of Auckland in 1998 with a thesis on the German/New Zealand weaver Ilse von Randow. Douglas joined the Staff of Unitec, School of Design in 1990 where in 2000 he was appointed Associate Professor. Douglas began writing and curating soon after his appointment being one of the first academics to emphasise and promote the new discipline of Design History in New Zealand. In 1991 he curated the design component of the Auckland Art Gallery’s 1950s Show, then the largest exhibition undertaken by that institution. In subsequent decades he went on to complete a number of other curatorial projects largely in association with the Hawke’s Bay Museum, Napier. Between 1997 and 2000 Jenkins was a regular weekly design and architecture columnist for the New Zealand Herald. This was followed by a period with the New Zealand Listener. He also made regular contributions to Art New Zealand, Architecture New Zealand and Home New Zealand as well as to Australian publications through the 1990s and early 2000s. Columns written for Home New Zealand later appeared as 40 Legends of Design (2006). In 2001 and 2002 Jenkins presented the television series The Big Art Trip co-presenting with screenwriter Nick Ward and subsequently musician Fiona MacDonald. Repeat screenings of this programme over the decade that followed made it one of the most widely watched arts programmes in New Zealand. In 2005 Jenkins also appeared as a panelist on New Zealand’s Top 100 History Makers, screened on Prime Television September 2005. In 2005 Douglas published At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design. Described as ‘an important contribution to the initial charting of the territory of New Zealand domestic design in the twentieth century.’ This won the Montana Book Award: Medal for Non Fiction and was subsequently made into a 8 part television series, written and presented by Douglas, made for MF Films for TVNZ. Screening in July 2006. In 2003, Douglas presented the Inaugural R. H. Toy Memorial Address, College of Fellows New Zealand Institute of Architects and in 2009 awarded the New Zealand Institute of Architects Presidents Award: Contribution to Architecture. He was a founding trustee of Objectspace Gallery, Auckland and President of the NZ Costume & Textile Association (2009-2012). In 2008 he was made a Member Order of New Zealand Merit: Contribution to Architecture & Design. In 2006 Douglas was appointed Director Hawkes Bay Museum [& Art Gallery] one of New Zealand’s oldest and exhibiting institutions where he undertook a significant programme of revitalization and collection development. This included the acquisition of important art works including Christopher Perkins, ‘Portrait of Annette Stiver,’ (1931), Dick Frizzell, Apollinaire at 21,’ (1978) and Philip Clairmont, ‘Erotic Couch,’ (1977). He was also instrumental in building the design and costume collections including the acquisition of the iconic wardrobe of politician Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan. In 2010 the Hawkes Bay Museum & Art Gallery closed and underwent an $18 million development project reopening in September 2013 as MTG Hawke’s Bay. In 2014 Douglas, resigned in order to focus on writing. In 2016 he published Beach Life: A celebration of New Zealand Beach Culture which won the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Best Illustrated Book award. In 2018, Douglas while remaining active as a commentator on the subject of masculinity and gay history, turned his attention to fiction. His first novel Shelter was published by David Bateman in 2022 Douglas Lloyd Jenkins identifies as gay and lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Awards Best Illustrated Book – Beach Life, PANZ Book Awards - (2017) Finalist: New Zealand Post Book Awards for The Dress Circle - (2011) NZIA Presidents Award: Contribution to Architecture - (2009) Member Order of New Zealand Merit: Contribution to Design - (2008) Montana Book Award: History Category for At Home - (2005) Montana Book Award: Medal for Non Fiction for At Home - (2005) https://douglaslloydjenkins.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/cb65e473-0ab8-4b84-b8dd-425ab5479f80/A3_Email+Version.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/983c5b5d-6096-480d-88ba-73e63f040ef7/Screen+Shot+2022-02-13+at+18.49.35.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6202e2a77cd08632a999e673/6fb43d87-3f19-45fd-940d-52a2417ba84e/author_pic_ed+copy.jpg Home - About Douglas Douglas Lloyd Jenkins is one of New Zealand's best known writers specialising in architecture and design and has been described by Wallpaper magazine as 'one of the most influential design writers in the Southern Hemisphere'. He has also written extensively on fashion and contemporary masculinity. He has previously had columns in the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Listener and HOME magazine and presented the television series The Big Art Trip and New Zealand at Home. His landmark book At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design was the Montana Book Awards Non-Fiction Winner in 2004 and The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design since 1940, (co-authored with Lucy Hammonds and Claire Regnault), was shortlisted for the same prize in 2011. Beach Life, an in-depth look at New Zealander’s relationship to sea and sand, won the PANZ Best Illustrated Book Award 2016. Other books Douglas has written include Architecture of the Heart, 40 Legends of New Zealand Design, New Dreamland: Writing New Zealand Architecture and Avis Higgs: Joie de vivre. In 2008 Douglas was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his contribution to architecture and design, and in 2009 the New Zealand Institute of Architects awarded him the President’s Award for his contribution to architecture. Since 2019 Douglas has concentrated on writing fiction and published his first novel Shelter in 2022. In late 2018, Douglas married his long-term partner Peter Wells. Wells died in early 2019. 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