New trends in furniture

Press, 23 September 1987, Page 25

New trends in furniture

Once New Zealand was behind overseas trends, but now we can buy the latest furniture and furnishings. McKenzie and Willis is displaying their newest arrivals from overseas on their ground floor showroom.

This has been redesigned since the store moved from its former premises in Hereford Street.

The new store is spacious and has free customer car parking. Leather furniture from Moran, McCann and Module in Australia is very much in evidence. Along with the traditional black and browns are a wide range of re-

freshing pastels, peaches, blues, greens and more unusual hues as well as reds. The wide selection of furniture has been made possible by the easing of import restrictions, says the store’s advertising manager, Jeanne Cooper. What is even better is

that all imported goods are affordable and no more expensive than those manufactured in New Zealand. McKenzie and Willis have their own licence for importing rugs and are displaying a diverse range from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Belgium — a range that many New Zealanders may not have seen before, or only overseas if they have.

Also from Australia is a beautiful range of ceramic lamps called Doris Kelly. These will grace any room and are no more expensive than New Zealand lamps. For cane furniture lovers there are .cane suites from the Philippines at surprisingly affordable prices, Jeanne Cooper says.

The latest decorator prints from France, Britain and the United States are readily available. The store can frafae Them for the customer and they cost from as little as $l2O. -