Clare Athfield

Nancy Clare Athfield (née Cookson) is a retired New Zealand interior designer.

In 1964 she moved to Wellington, and in 1971 she began working in her husband's architectural firm, Athfield Architects.

[3][4] Athfield influenced the colours and names of paints used in New Zealand, developing limewashes for Aalto Paints and contributing her 'knowledge of the effects of colour and light on spatial quality and materials to both Dulux and Resene paint ranges'.

[3] Their family home built in the 1960s is one of New Zealand's most iconic modernist pieces of architecture, winning in 2019 the New Zealand Institute of Architects Enduring Architecture award.

[7] In 2014, Ian Athfield was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

a shapley curved building single stroy entrance entrance with sunshine and shadow play on the white walls. Whimsical pink decorative columns at the entrance can be seen.
First Church of Christ Scientist, Willis Street, Wellington