In 2020, just before the world shut down, American artist Wayne Pate and his wife, fashion designer Rebecca Taylor, saw an opportunity to take a much-needed pause and change of perspective and moved to New Zealand to be closer to family. Together, they’ve found a way to slow down and savour life, raising their young family away from the bustle of a big city. Collaborators in life as well as creativity, Rebecca recently launched a small clothing label, A’COURT, as an antidote to the voracious traditional fashion model.

“Art is unequivocally the great passion of my life and I am dedicated to practising and championing it.”

“Many of us start in the paper world for all the wrong reasons. We get into it for aesthetic reasons because we are bourgeois intellectuals and we often have no sense of reality. Yet reality obliges us to go in a certain direction and practice allows us to refine our papermaking.”

“Living alone as I do now, rag rugging is even more important to me, however limited I am. It is a kind of addiction – my fingers need to be working, and I need to be creating.”

“But what I have learned is that while on the surface, wanderlust and domesticity might seem to be at odds, where you might feel you need to choose one or the other, they are both part of a fundamental human need.”

“I can clearly remember the moment when I announced to my mother and grandmother, ‘I want to be an antique dealer!’ I was 16 years old.”

We are so happy to publish this very special gift wish list created by Spanish photographer Yago Bruna with an informative and enticing selection of Must-Have Photography Gifts

We are so happy to publish this very special gift wish list created by Kristin Jensen, managing editor of FAIRE, creative disruptor, food writer and award-winning publisher.

Christmas gift list ideas for the cocktail lovers in your family - with Oisin Davis who runs Great Irish Beverages, a marketing and PR agency for Irish alcohol brands. His work has taken him around the globe, whether speaking at industry events or hosting Irish whiskey or cocktail demos in far-flung destinations.

Handworked by Carole Elsworth. We are so happy to publish this lovely gift wish list created by one of our favourite stores, Handworked, located in the UK.

We are so happy to publish this very special gift wish list created by Harriet Davidson, an Australian food writer and editor, and a cook, with a strong interest in food being the vehicle for change, community, connection, collaboration and conviviality.

We are so happy to publish this very special gift wish list created by Sarahbeth Larrimone, one of our favourite creatives who is featured in Issue 8 of FAIRE