Some places
stay with you.

FROM THE BACKCOUNTRY TO THE BOOKSHELF.

For the hut people.

There’s something about a hut. The shape of a roof on the skyline. A veranda to drop your pack on. A place that becomes part of the story.

Hut Club began with a simple idea: turn those places into little objects you can keep. We model familiar huts, give each one its own patch of terrain, and explore the colours that make it feel like itself.

This is our first collection: twenty miniature designs inspired by New Zealand’s backcountry. Built for people who know that a small building can hold a very big memory.

How a miniature comes together.

Each one starts with the real building. We study photographs of the hut from every side, then model its roofline, cladding, decks and windows at a small scale. The details that make a hut recognisable matter most: tall legs at Routeburn Falls, red walls at French Ridge, the long veranda at Iris Burn.

Then comes the ground. Every hut sits on a circular base shaped like its surroundings, whether that is alpine rock, tussock, bush or a strip of coast. Colour is the last step, chosen to match the hut as people remember it.

Why huts?

New Zealand has close to a thousand backcountry huts, and most trampers have one they keep going back to. It might be the first hut you walked to as a kid, the one you reached in the rain, or the one at the end of a Great Walk. A photo shows the view. A miniature holds the place.