Level Best

Level Best

Jul 21, 2020 | Knowledge, Team

How Kovacs progressed through lockdown While our movements were curtailed through the recent months of lockdown we still managed to keep up with the work… If there’s a key thing the earthquakes taught us it’s that the one constant in life is change. Yes, everything...
Farewell to a legend

Farewell to a legend

Sep 20, 2019 | Interview, Team

Bruce McKenzie retires After 47 years of diligent service Bruce McKenzie left Kovacs in 2019. We look back at his career as he looks forward to a well-deserved retirement of hunting and fishing. The world was a different place when Bruce McKenzie first walked through...
Meet the team: Simon Knox

Meet the team: Simon Knox

Nov 12, 2018 | Team

For Simon Knox the craft of furniture is undoubtedly in the blood. It started back when he was nine working for his father, Peter Knox in the family furniture business, when he “would come back after school and sweep floors and stuff cushions.” “We shut down on the...
Into the groove

Into the groove

Sep 19, 2017 | Sticky, Team

Meet the star of our latest photo shoot Maybe it’s that he’s used to being on a stage, but for our resident metalworker Steve Minson, being in front of the harsh lights for our recent photography shoot was “good fun”. “They said I was a natural,” he laughs. “But I’m...
Meet the star

Meet the star

Jun 8, 2016 | Team

The star of our latest campaign may seem worlds away from the flashy glamour of big and bold advertising shoots. However, as a key member of the team for over four decades, Bruce McKenzie was ideal for showing the ‘care in craft’ – the heart and soul of our work at...