Naked & Curious is a small but growing regenerative creative ecosystem of ventures, projects, and cultural initiatives.
Each exists in its own right, with its own rhythm and reason for being, but is connected to the others by shared values: environment- and community-led making, care, and building things that last.
Whether creations, restorations, publications, or experiences, all provide an analogue sensory and emotional counterbalance to a world shaped increasingly by AI and mass manufacturing.
The ecosystem’s “rules of engagement” are deliberately loose, as what matters is not coherence for its own sake, but alignment of principles and a shared way of thinking and working.
Daedalic Lightworks
Architectural lighting, hardware, and objects inspired by material explorations and long-term thinking, and starring circular, regenerative, and repurposed materials.
SYML
Objects for gathering. Tables, benches, and tools that support food, conversation, and shared rituals. Original pieces designed to bring people together without ceremony.
Creation
A modular shelving system to deliver balance, proportion, and order. Designed as an architectural framework rather than a furnishing, LEFFEL shelving is adaptable, restrained, and intended to evolve with its owners over time.
LEFFEL
Re:Make
An analogue craft residency for people at a turning point. Four to fourteen days in Matakana, Aotearoa, working with local makers, spending time in extraordinary landscapes, and letting that process do what thinking alone rarely can. For those navigating transition, seeking a creative reset, or simply ready to make something with their hands in a remarkable place.
Flø
A handcrafted mobile studio bringing intimate concerts, private recordings, unhurried dining, and accompanied adventure to extraordinary locations throughout Aotearoa. With a Nordic flair but unmistakably kiwi at heart, and built on the belief that the best experiences don’t scale, don’t repeat, and don’t need to.
A studio apartment tucked into the Matakana bush, just a short walk from the workshop and studio. The natural place to stay for anyone wanting to be fully immersed in the Naked & Curious world: waking up on site, among the making, the materials, and the birdsong of the bush.
The Bush Hut
Experiences
The Unmaking
A podcast on the work behind the work. Long-form conversations exploring the doubts, pivots and personal transitions that shape creative lives, tracing how people rebuild and reorient, even when the way forward is unclear.
Media
Ullan
The restoration and return to Sweden of a 1920s wooden daysailer. A gesture of respect for craft, history, and culture, and a reminder that some projects exist simply because they should.
A ninety-nine-year-old kauri boat held in shared custodianship. Restored, cared for, and sailed daily as a living vessel rather than a cordoned-off antique, allowing her to evolve gently over time while respecting the provenance and integrity of her original craft.
Nereides
The Axis of Even
We work at the point where brand, art, design, and strategy stop being separate things. Built around the belief that the most enduring identities are not designed but discovered.
Stewardship
The Matukituki Tangle is a global gathering of artists, entrepreneurs, makers, and thinkers, coming together to explore the role of creativity, resilience, and courage in shaping better futures. Set in spectacular Wānaka, Aotearoa New Zealand, this is a tangle - of people, ideas, disciplines, and generations.
The Matukituki Tangle
The Lightfall Invitational
A curated photography event bringing a small group of architectural photographers together to shoot an extraordinary building in a single window of light. Competitive in structure, collaborative in spirit, and built on the conviction that sometimes constraints can produce better work than freedom.