It sounds obvious, and simple, yet two Paris-based New Zealand companies – Moaroom, and Kōkō – have taken the educational approach to getting the French onside and interested in New Zealand designer goods.
Based in Paris, “Moa - Meubles et Objets d’Aotearoa” has as its main activity the promotion and distribution of the work of New Zealand designers in Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland.
Earlier this year two Paris based New Zealand entrepreneurs – Catherine McMahon of “KoKo” (New Zealand fashions) and Charles Crotty of “Tiki Tourtes” (good ol’NZ pies) – got together to organise a
About Catherine The passion behind Kōkō, the New Zealand concept store in Paris, Catherine was born in New Zealand in 1967, and has always been very proud of her South Pacific roots.