wanaka based caz cruden and rachel bowering undoubtedly have chosen one of the most beautiful places in the world to live in, and have managed to created their own little paradise within that … their contemporary design store, gifted design.
gifted design embraces style with the latest new zealand and international designer items, including our luxurious cashmere-blend scarves. there is something for everyone and all things beautiful … join us as these busy mum’s and curators of the finer things in life, share their ‘six favourite things’ with bird and knoll.
1. gifted design store – every day we get to play in our beautiful store with our fantastic crew. visithttps://www.facebook.com/GiftedDesignStore to see more!


2. the river cafe in london – this is our all time favourite restaurant.

3. wine – you just can’t go past a central otago pinot noir. a favourite of ours is shaky bridge from alexandra.
4. holiday destination – we have differing opinions for this one. caz would head to powder mountain, utah in the usa and rach would be happy anywhere in the indian ocean!
5. wanaka – the place we call home with beautiful views, divinet food and wine and loads of great friends to spend time with in the amazing outdoors.
6. our kiddies – nico, henry, lyla, joe and george (below are two of the little darlings, rach’s daughter lyla and caz’s son joe).