Somewhere was originally established in 1971,

in the South Pacific.

Located on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, it was a property (and a kitchen) of rolling sandstone hills, of native forest, and a fresh-water spring, with wild rambling watercress and a soft, salty sea air. The land that had been home to four generations of the Bain family, and it was a place that believed in the spirit of exploration: of travel, of summer’s first salt-water swim, sailing, surfing, seeking mountain tops and sleeping under the stars.

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Somewhere was conceived, created and built on the saddle one these sandstone ridgelines and hosted an open-plan and open-door kitchen that believed the beauty of the place, should be matched by the beauty on the plate. Somewhere’s kitchen was designed on a set of core principles to live life by. These were: