New Zealand-based stylist Juliette Wanty’s work may look like it was shot in your dream home, but in fact it’s all built from scratch in a photo studio. As art director of the Auckland-based interiors magazine
homestyle, she creates rooms that extend a warm invitation to fantasy. (Her
pink and mint laundry room may even leave you feeling like folding the wash.) Depending on your budget and creative inclinations, you can either make these visions a reality in your own home or choose to escape in her expertly curated pages. Wanty finds herself somewhere between both worlds: “I definitely lean towards escapism,” she says. “I find the rejection of the ordinary to be invigorating. But I still appreciate the quieter inspiration reality provides. In my work I’m trying to bring some sense of reality to such an artificial studio environment, so any true materials or visual cues are valuable to this.”
