Down the long driveway reissue
First published in 2014, the book Down the long driveway, you’ll see it by Matthew Arnold and Mary Gaudin has been reissued in a short run of limited copies.
Ten years ago, Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold released Down the long driveway, you’ll see it — a book of mid-century modern New Zealand homes described by design commentator Douglas Lloyd Jenkins as:
‟Exceptionally beautiful, full of real surprises and destined to become a much-sought-after collector’s item.”
The book has long been out of print and second-hand copies scarce, but it’s now available again in a very short and limited run. The revised edition has a new cover in gloss black, an updated design, and the photographs have a fresh colour grade.
Say the authors: “These houses aren’t new, they’re old and lived in. They can be a little dusty, slightly worn around the edges and all have what antique dealers like to call ‘patina’. But they’re perfect in the minds of the people who live in them because of what they represent, which when designed, was a better way of living.”
Pick up your copy before it sells out at downthelongdriveway.com
Houses featured
Henderson House - 1950 - Ernst Plishke
Einhorn House - 1950 - Helmut Einhorn
Lang House - 1953 - Ernst Plischke
Sellars House - 1954 - Guy Sellars
McKenzie House - 1958 - Cedric Firth
Ballantyne House - 1959 - Warren and Mahoney
Manning House - 1960 - Jack Manning
Sutton House - 1961 - Tom Taylor
Alington House - 1963 - William Alington
Fletcher House - 1964 - Hall & Mackenzie
Orr-Walker House - 1965 - Mark Brown & Fairhead
Munro House - 1968 - Warren and Mahoney
Martin House - 1971 - John Scott
Wood House - 1974 - Ted Wood
Down the long driveway, you’ll see it: Specifications and details
- First Published in 2014
- Second edition published 2024
- Photography, Mary Gaudin
- Text, Matthew Arnold
- Design, The International Office
- Hardcover
- 336 pages
- 290mm x 230mm
- ISBN 978-0-473-29961-3
- Cost: $110 NZD
About the authors
Mary Gaudin is a New Zealand photographer currently living in Montpellier in the south-west of France with her husband and a Labrador named Aalto.
Matthew Arnold lives with his family in Christchurch in a 1960s Warren and Mahoney-designed house. Like everyone, he has opinions on architecture.
*ArchitectureNow have one copy to giveaway*. Make sure you are subscribed to the ArchitectureNow newsletter and see the Instagram post @architecture.nz Wednesday 30 October for entry details. Entries close Monday 4th of November 2024. The competition is available to New Zealand residents only.