For over 30 years, philanthropist and author Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyday objects of mid-century New Zealand craft, design and folk art. She talks to Jim about the collection, which is documented in her new book, Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection, and how she managed to come across all of her treasures.
20 Oct 2019
Christine Fernyhough: Mid-century living in the Butterfly House
From Sunday Morning, 10:20 am on 20 October 2019
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- author interview
- history
- Auckland Region
- Aunt Dairy
- Bell Cult radio
- Berlington Bertie
- Butterfly House
- Christine Fernyhough
- Crown Lynn
- Demoria cigarette
- Don Clarke's footy boot
- Dorothy Thorpe
- Frank Karp
- Hillary's Honey
- Mangawhai Heads
- Maori imagery
- New Lynn
- New Zealand Sports Foundation
- Paul Holmes
- Picasso
- Royal Doulton swans
- Titian pottery
- Tom Clark
- Waitakeres
- avant garde
- boot sales
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- mid century living
- monarch butterflies
- racism
- racist lamp stands
- sexist lamp stands
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