Glam Rocker
The young couple in the old photograph sits cross-legged on a poppy-red shagpile, a collection of vinyl records spread before them. A Gordon Walters painting hangs on the wall behind and a Barcelona chair is placed, somewhat incongruously, in front of the entrance to this formal living room.
The scene, shot in 1973 for , is patently staged, yet intrinsically redolent of its time. Robert Railley doesn’t quite recall how the feature on his first home, in Auckland’s St Heliers, ended up in this trans-Tasman magazine, but he has vivid memories of designing and building the house. “I was a
