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By Nikki Wilson Studio

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2021 Queenstown

Sudima Queenstown is one of a large number of hotels this group operates across Australasia. Here, at the bottom of the southern alps in New Zealand, the brief was to create a ‘local’ interior. We looked beyond the building and the immediate context and interrogated what local really means. Quite simply, life in an alpine landscape requires a presence and connection with the physical world. We aimed to provide a series of contrasts in texture, material and colour (which we took from an old water colour of the setting sun on the Lake Wakatipu) to regularly call one to attention. We worked with Mana Whenua and local artists to create site specific works for both the public and private spaces and looked at historic influences from Chinese on the visual language of the region.

Photographed by Paul Green

Nikki Wilson Studio
Arrowtown, Otago
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Formed in 2016, we are a highly experienced interior architecture studio based near Queenstown, New Zealand. We work on a wide range of projects from hospitality and workplace, to select hotels and residences, for both local and international clients.

Our work is a close collaboration with clients, and often undertaken as part of a collective of architects, developers, branding agencies, writers, chefs, craftspeople and artists. We have strategic partnerships with many of these people and work as an ‘and friends’ studio, bringing in specific expertise as needed. We love it when, in the process of creating a space, our work informs, and is informed by multiple disciplines. 

A foundation of research and writing is key for all our projects. We find histories and narratives particular to each client, their building, their brand, the urban context, and landscape. Then, working between the conceptual and the operational, the emotive and the pragmatic, we embed these stories in the design in order to make extraordinary spaces.

Our projects share a commitment to a layered and tactile approach in the use of materials, to craftsmanship, and to a level of detail that touches everything from the masterplan to the tablecloth, across all budgets.

Should you wish to explore your project aspirations, we invite you to reach out to our team.