$ 75
$ 75
Lance and Nicola Herbst first started designing baches in the late 1990s with their own small bach on Aotea Great Barrier Island (see page 68). Since then, they’ve gone on to produce award-winning houses that – even as they’ve got larger and more luxurious – have managed to hang on to the spirit of the bach through the careful observation of sun and wind, ritual and habit. There is a romance to Herbst houses, wherever they are.
Now, 12 of them have been gathered together in a beautiful book, with an introduction by John Walsh and personal notes on each project from the couple. Writes Walsh: “A house in a beautiful place should properly acknowledge its site; refuge should involve some renunciation of the regimes of normal life; habitation should bring joy. Each holiday house the Herbsts design is a candle lit on the altar of architecture to the spirit of the bach.”
