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We're hoping that those of you who aren't already subscribers to HOME might be tempted by this offer: subscribe now for one year (six issues) for $43 (which saves $17 on the cover price) and you'll receive a gift that's way better than your normal plastic giveaway tat: a free pair of decidedly non-plastic Riedel Ouverture tasting flutes worth $72. Visit the link here to take advantage of the offer (the terms and conditions are on there, but basically, every new subscriber before June 3 gets a pair of the flutes). Do it!

We like: Home Work (subscribe to HOME and get a free copy)

We like Home Work, a new book that invites readers inside the homes of twenty New Zealand architects - the rules being that the architects must have designed their homes themselves and still be living in them.

It's a fantastically eclectic selection of houses, from 1950s classics to contemporary extravaganzas such as Neville Price's Northland home on the cover. (We've run an excerpt from the book about Tony Watkins' house at Auckland's Karaka Bay in our current issue).

The photographs, we're proud to say, are by HOME New Zealand contributor Patrick Reynolds, with erudite text and informative interviews with the architects by John Walsh, editor of Architecture NZ.

The good news is that if you subscribe now (or renew your subscription) to HOME New Zealand, you'll get a copy of Home Work (worth $75) absolutely free. You can do so by visiting www.magshop.co.nz/home. An ideal Christmas gift, we suggest? You can give somebody a subscription and keep Home Work for yourself...