Beyond the Curve
2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards showcase
Photography: Toni Gale
Designer Nichole Davis of Fresh by Design Interiors in Hawke’s Bay calls this style art deco with a streamline moderne twist. It’s a bathroom that’s full of personality while honouring the home’s 1930s origins.
Spatially, a new wall solves three problems: hides the toilet, holds a wall-hung vanity on a hero backdrop, and frames a walk-through shower. The vanity’s sweeping radius repeats the curves of the shower, mirror and floor edge, erasing corners and visually stretching depth.
To avoid overpowering the small space, colour was limited to one strong hue on the wall, where the ribbed tiles deliver interesting shadow-play and were installed with no cuts. The vanity was carefully templated around the tiling. Mist-green marble wraps the rest of the room.
Millimetre-tight craftsmanship turned a modest space into a tactile retreat, delivering high-end luxury in a compact footprint.
