Jonathan Maze Antique Restoration and Conservation

Jonathan Maze Antique Restoration and Conservation Restoration and conservation of antiques, furniture, clocks, Maori and Pacific objects, NZ specialis

Tidying up the wood finishes in Nathan House/Pukepuke Manurewa, a summer house built by the Karangahape Road dwelling Na...
21/08/2025

Tidying up the wood finishes in Nathan House/Pukepuke Manurewa, a summer house built by the Karangahape Road dwelling Nathan’s in 1925. It’s a bit of a mosh mash of styles but a grand building repurposed for public use and the gardens are delightful. The window is from a 17thc Dutch church.

Going through our mum Caroline’s old things we found the ChCh Girls High school annual from 1952 and found the names Jul...
27/06/2025

Going through our mum Caroline’s old things we found the ChCh Girls High school annual from 1952 and found the names Juliet Hulme and Paul Rieper aka Pauline Parker aka the “Heavenly Creatures” on the autograph page.

The books are back! Remuera library reopened this morning with karakia and waiata from Ngati Whatua mokopuna and elders,...
10/04/2025

The books are back! Remuera library reopened this morning with karakia and waiata from Ngati Whatua mokopuna and elders, good speech on the importance of heritage by deputy mayor and generous comments by librarian Sue Jackson about my work, Argon Construction were terrific to work with.

Fascinating to see the monumental new Mormon Temple in Auckland that looms over the southern motorway at Manukau. Was n...
14/03/2025

Fascinating to see the monumental new Mormon Temple in Auckland that looms over the southern motorway at Manukau. Was not allowed to photograph the interior but saw lots of beautiful work on the inside. Open for another couple of weeks.

I was honoured to be asked by iwi to translate their logo into a three dimensional object a few years ago and is now on...
03/02/2025

I was honoured to be asked by iwi to translate their logo into a three dimensional object a few years ago and is now on display at and lovely to hear it’s popular with visitors who like to be photographed with it.

My sister on the cover of this months Your Home and Garden, the house is a tribute to her ingenuity, creativity and pra...
30/01/2025

My sister on the cover of this months Your Home and Garden, the house is a tribute to her ingenuity, creativity and practicality - she built a deck and other things! and !

It’s that chair again….! The Larnach’s Castle chair my old boss, mentor and friend William Cottrell discovered on Tradem...
24/06/2024

It’s that chair again….! The Larnach’s Castle chair my old boss, mentor and friend William Cottrell discovered on Trademe last year that I restored and was featured in the landmark chair exhibition over the summer. The Otago Daily Times featured its return on the front page on 8 June. Will be good to visit it one day

Another bunch of winter bananas 😆
24/06/2024

Another bunch of winter bananas 😆

Huge kanuka tree crowned with a gigantic wig of wisteria vine 5” diameter at the base. It tore down some ti kouka (cabb...
03/06/2024

Huge kanuka tree crowned with a gigantic wig of wisteria vine 5” diameter at the base. It tore down some ti kouka (cabbage) trees and wiped out the Camelia. A lot of chainsawing to do 😓 Help yourself to firewood please, will require a lot of drying though.

Its so funny that my workshop with its grotty floor but featuring the Larnach’s Castle hall chair rediscovered by Willia...
05/05/2024

Its so funny that my workshop with its grotty floor but featuring the Larnach’s Castle hall chair rediscovered by William Cottrell is pasted up life size in Worcester boulevard outside the Arts Centre in Otautahi-Christchurch where I used to work. The chair in the photo by has been pinked out. The chair exhibition that started in Auckland is on at view Objectspace Christchurch in the Sir Miles Warren Gallery until May 19th.

Great fun at the 🪑“Antiques Roadshow” with and Dan Eagle , thanks for having us and to .treep for the photos 🙏
25/02/2024

Great fun at the 🪑“Antiques Roadshow” with and Dan Eagle , thanks for having us and to .treep for the photos 🙏

Rimu hall chair from Larnach’s Castle Otago photographed at my workshop by for for The Chair: a story of making and de...
03/12/2023

Rimu hall chair from Larnach’s Castle Otago photographed at my workshop by for for The Chair: a story of making and design in Aotearoa 2 Dec 2023 - 3 Match 2024 in Ponsonby, Auckland. From the description by my old employer and friend: Aesthetics Movement Hall Chair Dunedin Iron and Woodware Company Ltd 1873-74

Collection of Dr William Cottrell

This superb rimu hall chair was originally made for William Larnach's 'castle' on Otago Peninsula. It is in the Aesthetics Movement Style, but unusually for New Zealand-made furniture, the chair exhibits a culturally diverse range of decorative features, from Middle Eastern, or Moorish elements, to Etruscan, Romanesque, and Islamic influences. Given the exuberant décor of Larnach Castle, even a single hall chair can illustrate the Victorian era's fascination for the exotic and muddled focus on historic detail.

- William Cottrell

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