LAHOOD® AND LUXAFLEX®

The Perfect Combination To Screen The Sun And Control The Heat In Your Home

Luxaflex® Roller Blinds’ slim and contemporary profile and design versatility makes them a perfect choice for any interior.

From screening the sun and filtering the light to creating darkness, they allow you to unify your home with one window furnishing style while giving every room the individual attention and treatment it deserves.

Maintaining privacy and light control day and night is an important consideration for many homeowners, particularly for bedrooms. With a Luxaflex® Roller Blind you have the freedom to select fabrics and functions that best suit the needs of your space. For the likes of north-facing rooms with beautiful views, sunscreen and sheer fabrics can be selected for UV protection while maintaining a view and privacy.

Lahood offers a broad range of motorisation and automation options for our window furnishings. Making control effortless, automation greatly enhances your blinds benefits—and your lifestyle. The pinnacle of operation and function is achieved through automation. Unlocking the ability to operate your roller blinds via smartphone, voice control or the press of a button, you can reduce energy consumption, improve convenience and comfort, increase security, and schedule your blinds to operate on your timeframe.

If you want the best advice, service and support available for your window furnishings and home design ideas, then contact Lahood and see what their 40 years of experience means.

When selecting a roller blind; fabric, you should have the freedom to balance both function and style. Lahood is the only Luxaflex Gallery Store in Auckland, so they proudly maintain the largest range of premium window furnishing fabrics on the market.

From inspiration to installation, Lahood Window Furnishings do it all. www.lahood.co.nz

@ SCOTT LAWRIE GALLERY

Benjamin Aitken: You’re so vain, you probably think these paintings are about you.

Benjamin Aitken is one of the most dynamic young Australian painters of his generation, being a five times finalist in the AGNSW Archibald Prize, and the Sir John Sulman Painting Prize, all while showing in numerous galleries in Australia and overseas.

Ben’s practice is anything but conventional, creating inspiring mash-ups of blatant consumerism, art world tropes, nightmarish cartoons, and the shadow of addiction. There’s a fervour and determination in these works which epitomise struggle, both as an individual, and as an artist determined to make his mark within the pervasively benign culture of late capitalism.

Either way, astute collectors will immediately recognise these as good paintings. There are seven small paintings (spelling the word ‘OPIATES’) and one major painting of four panels, measuring 6m across. It’s a truly spectacular show.

We’re also proud to introduce the work of another Australian artist – Coady. Fresh from extraordinary shows at Finkelstein gallery in Melbourne, as well as sell-outs at the recent Australian art fairs – this is Coady’s first solo show in New Zealand and it’s a ripper! With things being the way they are, we could all do with some happy pills – and I promise, these will make you smile!

Inga Fillary is welcomed back with a major installation of her burnt furniture, where she explores ideas of consumerism, materiality, and the recent anti-anthropocentric turn in continental philosophy – into a dialogue with contemporary art.

The gallery has never looked better. All welcome!

The show is on at Scott Lawrie Gallery in Mount Eden and runs until Saturday 19 March.  PN

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