Mad Hatter's Tea Party
From the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards: a kitchen by Natalie Du Bois of Du Bois Design, Auckland.
Mad Hatter's Tea Party is playful by design and precise in execution. The wit is in the choices; the discipline is in the detailing that makes them work.
Colour and pattern are deployed in defined moves rather than scattered, which gives the room a sense of composition instead of chaos.
The working kitchen underneath is sober and well organised: appliances contained, storage plentiful, benches clear enough for the personality to register.
It is a good reminder that character in a kitchen does not come from softening everything — it comes from making a decision and detailing it properly.
A kitchen by Natalie Du Bois of Du Bois Design in Auckland, entered in the 2025 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards.
