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F.L. Bone's new Auckland store, located at no. 409 Manukau Rd, called for a design that would elevate the client's profile to a contemporay status while at the same time maintaining an appreciation of the traditional.

Drawing on the precedent of the F.L. Bone store in Hawkes Bay, the richness of colour and texture that characterised the earlier store became a borrowed directive within the new project. While the Auckland store offers a more limited variety of hardware than its predecessor, the aim was to retain the rich texture of the original store environment that was due to the variety of materials, shapes and surfaces of merchandise on display

Ron Seeto  B.Arch(Hons)