Finalist in International Kitchen Design Award 2024

August 2024

AVÉORA is proud to announce that our Kohae project was named as a finalist in the 2024 SBID (Society of British Interior Designers) Awards.

2024 Home of the Year Awards – Maungarāhiri

April 2024

Congratulations to Lindley Naismith and the team at Scarlett Architecture who were recently awarded the 2024 Alt & Reno Home of the Year. AVÉORA was excited to be a major contributor to this project having been involved with the design and supply of the kitchen, multiple bathrooms, laundry, window seat, wardrobes, home office, media rooms, and shelving throughout. The project can be viewed online here

Thank you also to our clients for the opportunity to be involved in the grand transformation of this loved family home.

Wim de Bruin announced as member of Judging Panel – NKBA Awards 2023

January 2023

Owner and Principal Designer of AVÉORA Design Studio, Wim de Bruin, has been announced as a member of the 2023 NKBA Awards Judging Panel. Wim is looking forward to working with the other panel members to determine winners of the awards which cover a broad range of categories.

Release of Miele Dialog Oven – Kouzina Appliances

May 2021

The launch of the Miele Dialog Oven at Kouzina Appliances was a curious event… Think placing fish inside a huge capsule of ice and cooking it inside the oven without the ice melting! The Dialog Oven is not just a new oven but a new cooking technology. The oven is heavily researched and allows many disparate food items to be cooked together for the same period of time, yet they are all cooked to their optimum level. It’s so revolutionary that Miele have made their company chef available for personalised, in-home training for those who sign up for the first limited shipment of Dialog Ovens. Definitely worth checking out the Dialog Oven on display in the AVÉORA kitchen at Kouzina Appliances.

HOMELAND with Peter Gordon and Fisher & Paykel

May 2021

Awesome evening ‘team-cooking’ with our group, brought together by Fisher & Paykel at HOMELAND. If you haven’t heard of HOMELAND before then it’s definitely worth checking out this brainchild of world renown chef, Peter Gordon and his partner Alaister. An awesome facility which is fully kitted out with Fisher & Paykel appliances and designed to give everyone a hands-on cooking opportunity, learning something new alongside old and new friends. HOMELAND focus solely on New Zealand sourced food and we have to say the Chatham Island pāua and Northland hangi pork belly were amazing. Our own efforts were slightly less photogenic, but our team had a lot of fun creating it together. HOMELAND offer a range of cooking school options and some great opportunities for specific communities who can benefit from a day learning to cook something new. For more information or to book see: homelandnz.com

ARCHIPRO ‘Project of the Month’ Features AVÉORA

April 2020

AVÉORA cabinetry features extensively in Archipro’s latest ‘Project of the Month’. AVÉORA designed and supplied all cabinetry including both the indoor and outdoor kitchens, scullery, coffee station, bar, lounge cabinets, media room cabinetry, bathroom vanities, bedroom furniture, wardrobes, office and laundry cabinetry for the Three Kings Project

For more detailed cabinetry-specific photographs see ‘Pukenui Paradise’ on the Portfolio page of this AVÉORA website. We are pleased to have been associated with this landmark Far North project.

Australian Icon Maggie Beer in AVÉORA Kitchen

October 2019

We were thrilled to observe Australian culinary icon, Maggie Beer, working in the AVÉORA kitchens at Kouzina this month. Maggie is widely recognised as a farmer, food producer, food writer, television presenter and Australian Masterchef guest judge. Maggie and team were elbow deep in the AVEROA kitchens, creating delights for Kouzina’s guests for the evening. When interviewed by Mark Bateson of Miele Australia-NZ, Maggie shared her most recent drive to improve the quality and choice of food for elderly in resthomes. To know more about this great entrepreneur and her cause see the links below. Thanks Kouzina for reminding us again of the value of excellent food and great company!

Maggie Beer Foundation

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Congratulations to our sister company, Designerscope – Red Dot Laureate 2019!

March 2019

AVÉORA is sharing the great news. The AXILO™ Plinth Adjustment System has just been awarded the Red Dot Award: Product Design. The genesis of this product was Wim’s desire to make kitchen installation a safer, faster and more comfortable process. Wim, Robyn and recent industrial design graduate, Roseanne de Bruin (believe it or not- not a relative!) worked together in a spin-off company (Designerscope Ltd) for some years conducting R&D and working to protect, then commercialise the related IP. The AXILO™ Plinth Adjustment System is now exclusively, globally licenced to Häfele International, who are also thrilled with this recognition from the Red Dot Awards panel.

The Red Dot Award: Product Design is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 2019, designers and manufacturers from 55 countries entered more than 5,500 products in the competition. The international jury comprises experienced experts from different disciplines and has been convening for more than 60 years in order to select the year’s best designs. During an adjudication process that spans several days, they try out the products, discuss them and ultimately reach a well-founded decision regarding the design quality of the entries. The Red Dot laureates will receive their Red Dot Design: Product awards in Essen, Germany in July this year.

MIELE LAUNDRY SHOWCASE OPENING – KOUZINA APPLIANCES

October 2018

Miele recently hosted a soiree for architects and designers at Kouzina to celebrate the completion of its new laundry showcase. AVÉORA was proud to have designed the boutique laundry space to inspire clients. Guests viewed the fit-out with its fresh architectural feel and enjoyed canapes prepared in the AVÉORA working kitchen, recently upgraded with Miele’s new range of cooking appliances.

ARCHIPRO Meet, Greet and Eat Showcase Gala 2018

March 2018

NKBA 2017 AWARD WINNING ENTRY

August 2017

AVÉORA was pleased to be named among the winners at the 2017 NKBA Awards held in Sydney, Australia. Take a closer look at our award winning entry – See ‘Fast Forward’ in our Portfolio section.

Interzum International Trade Show

May 2017

This year we headed to Interzum in Cologne with even greater enthusiasm than usual… the AXILO™ Cabinet Levelling System was being launched by Häfele International. AXILO™ was designed by AVÉORA Director, Wim de Bruin and patented and commercialised in another of our companies- Designerscope Ltd. See the AXILO™ video below to see what we are so excited about!

AXILO™ Cabinet Levelling System will be available globally later this year through Häfele.

After all the excitement of the 4 day launch and buzz of mixing with the 69,000 industry visitors at the show we headed to Spain to experience some iconic art and architecture from the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, the City of Arts & Sciences in Valencia to Picasso and Gaudi in Barcelona.

Dutch Design Tour

May 2017

With a Dutch lineage and close family ties in the Netherlands it was time to explore Dutch design in greater depth. To this end, we spent a day with Gijs Stork and Lilian Tilmans who organised visits to established Dutch designers and emerging artisans. It was fantastic to see the studios of these designers and artisans and to chat through their design philosophies and processes. We explored modern Dutch architecture and boutique design stockists. Gijs explained that design has always been a necessity in the Netherlands with even the emergence of bare land being a product of good design and engineering. This contrasts with New Zealand where the abundance of natural beauty is sometimes used to compensate for insufficient attention to built architecture and design. It re-emphasized to us that the opportunity to build is a privilege and one that should be used responsibly to enhance and contribute to the quality of urban and rural experiences.

Frederik Molenschot’s spectacular Studio Molen workshop

Gaggenau 333 Celebration

November 2016

To mark 333 years since inception, German appliance manufacturer Gaggenau treated top designers and appliance retailers to a spectacular dinner at Clooney Restaurant, put together by Gaggenau brand ambassador chefs: Ivan Brehm, Des Harris and Jonny Schwass. The sense of celebration was palpable despite being so far from the Black Forest where this esteemed brand began. Appliance choices are an integral part of kitchen design – AVÉORA has a network of top suppliers of high end brands to ensure you obtain the right advice and support for these important decisions.

Eurocucina International Kitchen Fair and Salone del Mobile 2016

May 2016

The Directors of AVÉORA have recently returned from visiting the Eurocucina and Salone del Mobile show in Milan, Italy. The show is a culmination of the world’s latest offerings and technology in kitchens and cabinetry and as ever, was a visual feast of detail and experimentation.

Key trends observed this year were:
-Use of black aluminium and steel profiles
-Heritage tiling
-Unseen hobs incorporated in to bench tops
-Lightweight stone finishes on cabinetry
-Continued incorporation of plants in to the kitchen environment.

Before returning to New Zealand we took the opportunity to visit the Mercedes Benz manufacturing plant, observing their process for delivering high end luxury products and then soaked up the art and historical details of Rome before heading back to incorporate our findings in to AVÉORA designs, systems and processes.

AVÉORA Fit-out in Supreme Award Winner – Registered Master Builder’s Competition 2015

December 2015

AVÉORA is proud to be the primary designer and supplier of the kitchens and cabinetry for the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Supreme Award winning home in Mount Maunganui. Other awards received by the home and relevant to AVÉORA’s work included the National Craftsmanship Award, the Regional Lifestyle Award for Kitchen and the Regional Lifestyle Award for Bathroom. This project involved close co-operation with the award winning builder, Shaw Builders Ltd and architect Brendon Gordon. The team is justifiably thrilled with the result.

Dedicated focus on the AVÉORA Brand

May 2015

Twenty-one years after founding their highly regarded business de Bruin-Judge Furniture Ltd, Wim and Robyn have sold their manufacturing company to focus specifically on kitchen and cabinetry design for sophisticated homes and upmarket private retreats under the AVÉORA brand.

Wim and Robyn launched AVÉORA while running de Bruin-Judge Furniture and are looking forward to bringing their full vision for the brand to fruition.

The concepts embodied in AVÉORA are so tangibly exciting… As Robyn explained to architects and designers at the red-carpet launch of the brand in 2012…

“The goal of AVÉORA is not just to deliver a kitchen or fit out that has been manufactured and installed with precision. We want to deliver you and your clients a brand that is consistent with the architectural philosophies and styles of Australasia and the Pacific. We are not seeking to simply emulate foreign brands, but to build a unique brand that encompasses the best of global influences and fuses these with our knowledge of Oceanic lifestyles, materials and values” – © 2012 Robyn de Bruin-Judge