Urbis Designday launches

Urbis Designday launched at the Mini showroom on Ponsonby Road as a foretaste of what’s to come. On 19 March you can buy tickets to tour in Minis around 13 of Auckland’s premium designer showrooms decorated by fashion designers…

Urbis Designday launched at the Mini showroom on Ponsonby Road as a foretaste of what’s to come.

On 19 March you can buy tickets to tour in Minis around 13 of Auckland’s premium designer showrooms decorated by fashion designers as well as other top creative practitioners from the worlds of art, music, multimedia and architecture to create unique installations around the city.

The showrooms and designers participating in Urbis Designday 2011 include:

§ Halo NZ and Trelise Cooper Interiors
§ design denmark / Sylvia Sanford
§ Häfele / Esther Diamond
§ Poggenpohl / Make Something
§ Automation Associates / Matter
§ ECC / Scrap Wall
§ Antipodes Design Store / Luxaflex / Taylor Boutique
§ Kohler / Salasai
§ Essenze / NZ Design Collective (Te Rongo Kirkwood, David Trubridge, Anzac Tasker, Peter Collis and Brogen Avril)
§ Furniture Lab / Dulux / We Love Inc
§ Fisher & Paykel / The Alt Group
§ Media Design School / HP Future Designers at MINI Garage
§ Designer Rugs / Corporate Culture / Nathan Goldsworthy curating the Kiwi Icons rug range from (Dick Frizzell, Boh Runga, Kevin Roberts, Zambesi, Max Gimblett, Kate Sylvester and Codi Design.)

Left: Laura Furey and Anah Jordan of Urbis.

Below: Boh Runga and Corporate Culture.

Mark Thompson and Vicki Taylor.

Gabriela Gazi, Kirsha Whitcher, Dan Ahwa and Kelly Watson.

A new Mini Countryman with some of the designers.

Urbis Designday 2011
Saturday 19 March 10am to 5pm
General Admission: $30.00
General Admission – Double Pass : $50.00
Tickets at www.urbismagazine.com