A place for ideas worth making

Naked & Curious is a regenerative creative ecosystem.

Our work serves Aotearoa New Zealand's most considered built environments, and those who design and inhabit them.

A small but growing ecosystem of ventures, projects, and other initiatives.

Daedalic Lightworks

Architectural lighting, hardware, and objects.

SYML

Tables, benches, and tools that support food, conversation, and shared rituals.

Creation

A modular shelving system designed to expand and contract with your life.

LEFFEL

Our pieces are made to work with people, not to compete for their attention.

Re:Make

An in-studio residency for those seeking a craft-centred analogue creative reset.

Flø

A handcrafted mobile studio repurposed from a former rental horse float.

A peaceful studio apartment tucked away into the Matakana bush.

The Bush Hut

Analogue interactions designed to shift something. How you think, how you feel, how you make, how you see.

Experiences

Ullan

The restoration and return to Sweden of a 1920s wooden daysailer.

Keeping a ninety-nine-year-old kauri boat seaworthy.

Nereides

Helping ideas, objects, collaborations, and ventures find clarity, balance, and direction for the long-haul.

The Axis of Even

We work at the point where brand, art, and strategy stop being separate things.

Stewardship

Media

The Unmaking

A podcast on the work behind the work.

Conversations worth having, with people worth listening to.

A gathering of international artists, entrepreneurs, makers, and thinkers.

The Matukituki Tangle
The Lightfall Invitational

A curated architectural photography event.

Gatherings

Structured encounters for people who find the edges of a subject more interesting than the centre.