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TREND 03: RESPONSIBLE FORAGING Get to know Veld and Sea founder Roushanna Gray

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TREND 04: IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS How artist Kemang Wa Lehulere is using his work to explore marginalised histories in SA

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TRENDS 05, 06 & 07: ONYX SURFACES, SKINNY CANDLESTICKS & TRANSPARENT RED Examine an array of pieces ranging from heavenly to hedonistic

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TREND 08: LAB X GREENHOUSE Discover Cape Town’s innovative new decor store Central

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TREND 15: UNDER GLASS With its calm, considered aesthetic, this Stellenbosch home ticks all the boxes

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TREND 16: KEEP IT SIMPLE Designer Tristan du Plessis’ expert touch is clearly apparent in his Parkhurst pad

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TREND 18: GREY SCALE This Fourways home’s palette is the perfect mix of subdued and saturated

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was sitting with the HL team in Cape Town when the news broke that opera singer Montserrat Caballé had passed away. I know my team is super trendy and would rather listen to Moonchild Sanelly or Nonku Phiri – but still, I was shocked that not everyone knew who she was! I quickly found a video of Caballé’s and Freddie Mercury’s 1988 performance of their duet ‘Barcelona’.

Oh, I’m aware that she performed other pieces that reflect her talent far better, but I love their collaborative show. Plus, I needed to introduce her in as cool a way as possible, and I hoped the Freddie appeal would give her some street cred.

In the clip, Freddie is in a skinny ’80s suit and cummerbund, and Montserrat is draped in a blue silk kaftan that sparkles as she moves around the stage. Him bold and dramatic, her calm and confident. The contrast triggered something in me: as we were in the midst of planning this Trends issue, I realised that most of the items on our list spoke to these opposing worlds.

For 2019, there are clearly two lifestyle trends – one calm, one wild – and both equally directional but completely opposite in texture, tone and materiality. And, like that ‘Barcelona’ performance, these divergent ‘meta trends’ are probably best when combined, creating something new.

In this issue, we unpack these trends alongside one another, with the entire magazine forming one long list of 43 items in total – starting from our first decor feature on page 13 and running all the way through to our Style Profile with Linda Gieskes-Mwamba on page 128.

Some features are part of the more restrained, monastic look, which is chiefly reflected in natural textures and neutral colours. Think soft Pierre Frey linens and interiors by Rose Uniacke and Axel Vervoordt. It’s about spaces that reflect time, with worn wood and weathered terracotta, muted colours and handmade ceramics in old-fashioned glazes.

The opposite is a more hedonistic approach, with saturated hues, graphic shapes, sharp lines, floor-toceiling carpets and velvet S-shaped couches. It’s like a clash between a nightclub and The Memphis Group with a frisson of Dimore Studio – sexy and full of personality.

My immediate take on introducing these contrasting trends to my everyday life? My two pairs of adidas Prophere sneakers, which I bought on the same day. One is perfectly ‘calm’ for a Sunday brunch and the other is ‘wild’ enough for SCAN FOR MORE a night out at Andrea Graff’s new Wonderland Club in Cape OF TIAAN’S TREND FAVOURITES Town. 2019 really is about having your cake and eating it, too.

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MOUTH I use my mouth to taste and teach. I use it to convey knowledge and information in a succinct and effective manner so it may be remembered and passed on.

I use it when I forage, to find the best food to use when I work. This includes anything wild, fresh, seasonal, delicious and covered in edible flowers.

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EARS My ears are for listening to questions and stories, and are essential for communication in a team.

I like to create Spotify playlists and play them according to how I’m feeling. I have everything from Wild Child to The Wood Brothers in ‘Folky Tunes’, Michael Kiwanuka to Dojo Cuts in ‘Evening Music’, and The Beatnuts to The Pharcyde in ‘Watch Out Now’. I also have playlists for all of my Veld and Sea workshops to set specific moods.

But my best ideas always happen in silence – when I’m putting my children to bed, driving alone along a coastal road, or walking in the mountains.

HEAD My creative process starts with a sensory experience in nature that’s sparked by a memory, the scent of a flower, or the sight of the moon, the sea or a captivating landscape.

If I need new inspiration, I go for a long walk to free my mind of domestic thoughts and allow for the natural environment to work its magic.

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HANDS I’ve always connected to food through my hands. Growing up in a multicultural kaleidoscope of a family, we ate breyani with our fingers at Eid, scooped gefilte fish dip up with matzo crackers at Passover, and searched through a slice of pudding for coins at Christmas. I use my hands to connect with the landscape by swimming, feeling the textures of plants and seaweed, picking flowers, surfing, planting, beach-combing, harvesting, creating natural plant dyes, making sandcastles with my kids, weeding, weaving flower crowns, climbing a mountain… all of this is linked to my work.

FEET These take me everywhere I need to be – through the fynbos, up forest trails or across rocks in tidal pools.

The rhythm of the seasons is everything and ever-changing.

Wild foods have microseasons you need to tune into.

I’m barefoot in summer and have boots on in winter.

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LEGS When I’m teaching, you can find me in a rockpool, up a tree or in a bush of succulents. I walk and talk, I’m up and down, but I prefer to cook and create sitting or standing still. I used my legs the most during raging wildfire in November 2017, which surrounded the nursery where I live and work.

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emang Wa Lehulere uses performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and other media to create hauntingly affecting installations that excavate marginalised histories and personal narratives – what he calls the ‘deleted scenes’ of South African history.

His visual language incorporates a set of recurring found objects such as ceramic dogs, school desks, bones, pencils, music stands and bird houses, which he repurposes into sculptural installations.

Each of these inanimate pieces carries its own symbolic resonance, but by bringing them together and into dialogue with one another, Wa Lehulere offers the possibility of multiple narratives being contained within each one. When orchestrated together, like the notes of a score, they tell a complex story that incorporates many voices, ideas and histories.

History is a central theme in Wa Lehulere’s work, which engages with the space between personal narrative and collective history. In one of his early performance pieces ‘Ukuguqula iBatyi’ (2008) – created when he was still part of the Cape Town-based artist collective

Gugulective – Wa Lehulere used a comb to dig into the ground and uncover a cow skeleton. This performative gesture of unearthing buried histories and forgotten or neglected narratives becomes a poignant metaphor throughout his work, and also reflects his childhood spent growing up in Gugulethu township in Cape Town’s Cape Flats during apartheid. In fact, his 2015 exhibition History will break your heart, for the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, included a video that documented the chipping away of paint to reveal fragments of a mural by South African artist Gladys Mgudlandlu in a house in Gugulethu.

Large chalk drawings on blackboards are a frequent component of Wa Lehulere’s installations. These intricate yet fleeting murals sketch out scenes of fragmented stories, often bearing the traces of erasures and revisions. In an interview with writer Alice Inggs in 2016, he explains his motives for working with chalk: ‘It communicates, it writes. It doesn’t last though, it disappears.

Its lifespan is limited. It’s very ephemeral, and so is memory. For me, using chalk speaks to history – history as written, history as revised, history as to be revised and should be revised. The idea of a palimpsest as something that is written, erased, and rewritten and constantly rewritten. If, like James Joyce wrote, “history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”, then history is something that is constantly under construction.’

Since he first emerged on the art scene in the early 2000s, Wa Lehulere’s work has

T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M O PP O S I T E PAG E ‘I was never here (Blackout)’ (detail); Kemang Wa Lehulere; ‘Detention 1’ (detail); ‘They Comet Again 3’, ‘Matric 2015’ (detail); ‘They Comet Again 1’.

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gained high praise and accolades both locally and worldwide. He was the recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art in 2015, and before that, the winner of the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2012.

In 2017, he was awarded the fourth ever Malcolm McLaren Award for his sonic installation I cut my skin to liberate the splinter at Performa 17, the biennial exhibition of performance art in New York. That same year, he was the first South African artist to receive the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year award.

In 2018, Wa Lehulere was signed up by global powerhouse gallery Marian Goodman (the same gallery that represents acclaimed SA artist William Kentridge) and opened its 2018-2019 season in London with his solo presentation Not even the departed stay grounded. Recent significant solo exhibitions include showings at Pasquart Art Centre, Biel, in 2018, MAXXI in Rome and the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in Berlin in 2017, and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.

In an interview for the book 9 More Weeks (Stevenson, 2018), Wa Lehulere says, ‘I’m suspicious of meaning because I’m suspicious of anything concrete. For me, meaning is something that has to do with authority and authorship. Meaning is ultimately about power.’ Rather than creating something ‘concrete’, then, Wa Lehulere is interested in hollowing out definitions to invite in ambiguity and plurality. Through his extensive use of found objects, he asks us to reflect on how the events of the past intersect with the present (and vice versa), as well as on the ways history sways in perpetual flux between being written and erased.

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unique cross between an old-school laboratory and a plant-filled conservatory, Central is much more than a mere decor store. It’s a haven of interior ideas, where the way the simple metal shelving combines with labinspired glassware, special vintage trinkets and cascading plant life will inspire you to reimagine your home as you shop.

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by Sanet Coetzee and Rupert Smith – the team behind one of SA’s top visualmerchandising companies – over a period of just two months at the end of 2018, and is situated in a tiny space alongside Deluxe Coffeeworks in Buitenkant Street, Cape Town. ‘We want to create a feeling for people when they walk into Central,’ they say. ‘Retail is about an experience, and we want our customers to leave inspired and excited – that’s what visual merchandising is meant to do. We would also like to become the destination for gifting and all things beautiful for your home, especially if you like something a little different.’

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t’s quite common in big cities around the world – especially where space is limited – to find unassuming underground basements transformed into ‘glamorous wonderlands where one’s imagination can run free’, as Georgina Spiliopoulos of the Milk & Honey Group puts it. Part of the magic of being in New York or London is the experience of descending into what appears to be little more than a dingy urban vault, and discovering glamour, fantasy and sophistication on the other side of the door.

The Milk & Honey Group recently launched Alice & Fifth in the Sandton Sun Hotel to bring some of that magic to Johannesburg.

They worked with branding maestros Jana + Koos and interior designer Tristan du Plessis of Studio A to help them realise their vision of romance, mystery, fantasy and escapism – and the finished product is indeed fantastical.

Because of their close professional relationship, Jana + Koos and Studio A have worked on a number of projects together including the Mesh Club and A Streetbar Named Desire in Johannesburg, and the Gorgeous George Hotel in Cape Town. As a result, the branding and interiors overlap and complement one another to a level of detail and complexity seldom seen.

‘Alice & Fifth is not a run-of-the-mill restaurant,’ says Spiliopoulos. They’re calling it a supper club: not a nightclub, not a restaurant, not a burlesque venue, but a bit of all these things and more. Spiliopoulos describes it as a ‘mix of restaurant and future theatre’.

‘When our patrons step into Alice & Fifth, they can expect to be transported into the roaring 1920s, but with a dark, warped, sexy, futuristic theatre twist,’ she says. ‘Our visitors won’t only taste our delicious food, but they’ll become immersed into our world – leaving their inhibitions, expectations and realities at the door.’

Jana + Koos explain a bit of the thinking behind the concept. They settled on the name Alice & Fifth, which is essentially the address of the Sandton Sun (with the postcode 2031, a number that at once places it and references a future date) because it speaks of a kind of duality. ‘Because it’s a corner, it suggests the bridging of two worlds – an element of surprise,’ explain the design duo.

The idea is that it’s never one thing. It’s not a restaurant nor a nightclub, neither futuristic nor nostalgic, but somehow all of these things and more. And on top of that, the name also makes one think of Alice in Wonderland – a story about a character who explored a fantasy world.

The brass nameplates at the front door mirror each other, playing with the idea of a looking glass.

They’re a sign that ‘things are starting to flip’,

T H I S S PR E A D Alice & Fifth in Sandton features sumptuously moody interiors by Tristan du Plessis of Studio A. Plush velvets merge with rare marbles and handcrafted walnut wall panelling, while custom lighting – including a showcase chandelier comprising hundreds of burgundy tassels – illuminates the decadent space.

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say Jana + Koos, who designed a lot of the strategic touchpoints beyond the logos and branding, including the wallpaper. Then you move through a kind of entrance tunnel, which Du Plessis describes as ‘that moment of pause between the attachments of reality and the night full of possibilities that lies ahead’. Its ceiling is a shimmery, watery ‘handmoulded single piece of stainless steel painstakingly made in Cape Town’.

To create the ‘sumptuous and decadent’ world of Alice & Fifth, Du Plessis says he took his inspiration for the decor from the cabaret clubs of the 1920s and New York.

‘I brought that into the contemporary world of African luxury,’ he says. ‘We used lush velvets and handpicked rare marbles across various tonal spectrums to infuse the space with colour, and created a dramatic backdrop for this using handcrafted walnut wall panelling as well as curved French panelling and exposed raw concrete columns that lend support to the Sandton Sun,’ he says. The latter, he suggests, introduce ‘a raw, unrefined, underground edge’. He also contrasts vintage and contemporary elements to evoke the duality that Jana + Koos mention.

‘All of Alice & Fifth is a stage,’ continues Du Plessis. ‘The space was designed so that the performers can walk over bars, contort behind booth seating and interact with the patrons on a more personal level than may be expected. There is even a chandelier made up of a few hundred tassels and rigged with an integrated acrobatic ring, allowing the performers to quite literally swing from it.’

The blending of heady experience and performance is designed, as Jana + Koos say, to leave you with the sense that no two visits to Alice & Fifth will be the same. Afterwards, you should feel like ‘you’ve woken up from a good nightmare’.

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T H I S PAG E Retro styling and bespoke design combine for a covetable Art Deco aesthetic, which sees an inspired use of materials.

The juxtaposition of raw and refined is reminiscent of cabaret clubs of years gone by, and the curved French panelling in one of the main rooms transforms a traditionally two-dimensional surface into a piece of sculptural architecture.

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cool coral Swirling, nature-inspired patterns combine with bold colour palettes in Nicole Levenberg’s meticulous hand-drawn designs for Aureum, her Johannesburg-based textiledesign studio. While Levenberg’s focus is usually on fabric and wallpaper collections, she recently collaborated with Wanderland Collective – of which she is one half with Carike Greffrath – on a range of silk scarves and embellished velvet handbags and pouches. Levenberg is fascinated by the natural world and all things aquatic, which is why the new collection includes imagery of twirling shells, textured mosses, dancing algae, darting jellyfish and more. Wanderland Collective aims to ‘create a playful collaborative space where art merges into beautiful and well-considered product design,’ say Greffrath and Levenberg, and the brand is focused entirely on African (and more particularly South African) artists and designers. We especially love the design pictured, which is created in shades of on-trend coral in a nod to Living Coral, Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2019.

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dégradé jewels South African-born, Sydney-based jeweller Carla Kruger’s new Hybrid collection for her brand Carla Maxine embraces the natural discolourations and inclusions of semi-precious stones, and we can’t shake the sparkle from our eyes. Speaking to House and Leisure, Kruger explains that beauty comes in every colour. ‘I love playing with different hues within one piece of jewellery – and these stones provided the perfect opportunity to experiment with various tones.

The naturally occurring phenomenon of having two colours in the same gemstone makes for an incredible celebration of nature, and that needs to be accentuated and cherished,’ she says.

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working together For House and Leisure’s December issue, we asked five of the country’s coolest graphic designers to create a tribute to Johannesburg. Local agency The Bread responded with what they do best: a crossdisciplinary collaboration.

For the project, The Bread worked with the designers at Houtlander and artist Karabo Poppy Moletsane to create a special Golden City bench that combines everything the three collaborators love most about Joburg. ‘Our work tries to establish connections between people and ideas, and this piece is suggestive of the city and its inherent opportunities for connection and creation,’ says project leader Carl Ascroft.

The bench is currently at Houtlander in Robertville.

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13 This holiday home close to the Kruger National Park captures the beauty and mystery of ancient African ruins in a dazzling, contemporary reinterpretation TEXT GRAHAM WOOD STYLING SVEN ALBERDING PHOTOGRAPHS WARREN HEATH/BUREAUX

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H O U S E thornybush T H I S S PR E A D A defining feature of the Koskisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thornybush family home is the outside living area, which is topped with a bell-shaped chimney modelled on the brass bells in the temples of Kyoto, Japan. The axis created by the flagstone path culminates in a firepit under the open-air structure, whose position at floor level creates a low focal point in keeping with the horizontal emphasis of the building and sightlines.

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ven though you might leave Africa, Africa never leaves you,’ says South Africanborn Julian Koski. He left South Africa for the US in the 1980s, but his vivid memories of his childhood safari holidays stayed with him. Now living with his wife Aida and raising their twins Leo and Tess, his thoughts turned again to his childhood memories of the South African wilderness. ‘I wanted to give them a piece of what I had growing up,’ he says. He saw the potential of a holiday home in a nature reserve to open up a new realm for them, a counterpoint to the privilege of New York City.

He found a spectacular site overlooking a dam in Thornybush Private Game Reserve, pristine savannah adjacent to the Kruger National Park, and began a process that would realise his dream of a family base in Africa.

If there’s one thing that Julian loves as much as a safari holiday, it’s architecture. ‘My whole life, I wanted to become an architect,’ he says. ‘It was always my passion, and this was an opportunity for me to exercise my architectural ambitions.’ So he set about designing his family holiday home himself. Although Julian says he didn’t have a preconceived notion of a ‘dream house’, he wanted to make some sort of reference to his family in the architecture. The concept was inspired by the idea of a family legacy. ‘Me being South African, and my wife being part Arabic, part Brazilian, we wanted to merge the north and south of Africa,’ he says. ‘I bring a sub-Saharan feel; she brings that north African feel – the more Moorish side of it.

So, really, it’s the marriage of the two to make a whole.’

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of the disintegrating ancient city inspired Julian. He wanted to capture something of the sense of timelessness and belonging in the landscape, the aura of legend and ancient African civilisations. Building a house from scratch in the wilderness demands a complex response – something more than the usual reinterpretations of old lodge architecture. Julian’s vision seems like a geological construction echoing the landscape and a reference not just to its natural context, but the cultural context of the continent.

When it was complete, he and Aida christened the house Kubili House: kubili means ‘two’ in Tsonga, in reference to their twins. But the house is in many ways about dualities. Julian conceived of it in two parts, drawing on ancient and modern influences: earthy, organic materiality expressed in abstracted, Modernist-inspired forms. One part is an outside living area with a floating roof, and the other is its rocky, monolithic counterpart with ‘the more Moorish, Moroccan, Zimbabwean ruins-type look’.

In the outside living area, it’s as if the rocks are giving way to the smooth finishes of the floors and suspended ceilings. This space is all about openness and looking out. The furniture here – dominated by Donna Karan’s Urban Zen range in solid Balinese teak – is low to the ground. The fireplace, too, is on the ground, beneath a massive chimney dome that was custom-made and is inspired by the brass bells in the temples of Kyoto in Japan. It’s almost as if the furniture immerses you in the surrounds.

H O U S E thornybush T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M FA R L E F T An Indian daybed makes a spectacular spot from which to admire nearby game; homeowners Julian and Aida Koski and their twins Leo and Tess relax in the outside living area, taking in the scenery; antique French oak beams add a timeless quality to the interiors, whose walls act as an earthy backdrop for the art on display, such as a work by Peter Eastman.

The landscaping surrounding the house and on the grassy roof garden further embeds the architecture. The dam reaches right up to a retaining wall out in front of the abode. Julian says that while they were building, during a terrible drought, the dam had dried up and receded. Then, on the night that the house was completed, there was a torrential storm. ‘Within hours, the rain had filled that dam,’ he says.

The house was flooded and needed repairs, but the epic baptism seemed to welcome the house by absorbing it into the land and letting the water come up to meet it. That moment had symbolic significance for Julian. Throughout the process of designing and building the house, he had been wary of planting a ‘new gleaming construction’ in this untouched landscape. ‘It was very important to me that this house needs to look as if it has been there as long as the land has,’ he says.

That sense of belonging was something Julian carried into the interiors, too. Antique wooden beams from France brought with them a sense of human time. He also introduced reclaimed wood to some of the villa floors and sought out interior designer Jacques Erasmus to help carry out his vision. Erasmus says the interior design was about more than decorating – ‘It was about putting the house into context.’

He saw it as a process of ‘bringing to life Julian and Aida’s vision’, and complementing the ideas that informed the architecture on a more detailed level. It was a two-and-a-half-year project that evolved as it went along and required constant editing. Erasmus says that they ended up removing as much as they brought into the spaces until they were a kind of distillation, as he puts it, of all earlier iterations.

T H I S PAG E The bathrooms have been designed with bespoke steel shelves, stone tops and custom-finished taps. Bath salts with scents inspired by local flora fill the shelves, while an artwork by Andrew Putter from his African Hospitality series depicts European shipwreck survivor Lydia Logie.

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H O U S E thornybush T H I S PAG E Modernist and traditional aesthetics combine in the bedrooms, where pieces like Pierre Jeanneretâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare Mid-Century Chandigarh chair meet contemporary lighting and minimalist design.

What interior designer Jacques Erasmus calls the ‘almost disparate materials and furniture pieces’ in the home helped create a sense of the passage of time – of it being lived-in rather than ‘decorated’.

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H O U S E thornybush ‘We kept the interiors simple and understated,’ he says. ‘We’ve got so much going on texture- and layer-wise that little had to be done to enhance what was already there. It was about bringing out the natural beauty of the materials.’ Because of the scale of the rooms, much of the furniture had to be custom-made, but there was no simple thematic approach. What Erasmus calls the ‘almost disparate materials and furniture pieces’ in the home helped create a sense of the passage of time – of it being lived-in rather than ‘decorated’.

In the bathrooms, artworks by Andrew Putter oversee the bathing rituals. They are styled photographic portraits – fictional representations of real 17th- and 18th-century European survivors of shipwrecks along the South African coast who were saved by Xhosa communities and went on to form deep ties with their rescuers.

In a way, these images at the heart of Kubili House are a key to its own vision: a salvaged piece of the past that allows us to imagine the future differently. Ancient African ruins here find expression in a modern form – an intervention in the landscape that is at once boldly ambitious and almost invisible. kubilihouse.com Book this house for a luxury bush getaway.

T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M FA R L E F T Tessellated tiling in the steam room speaks of the home’s North African influences; russet-coloured lowveld grasses have been planted along the retaining wall and on the roof; the granite-clad main villa stands as a counterpoint to the outside living area’s open layout and smooth finishes; a hand-painted Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef-inspired tapestry from African Sketchbook (africansketchbook.com) references the abode’s cultural context.

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T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M L E F T ‘I have a thing for chairs,’ says Christoff Steyn, the owner of this 90m2 townhouse in Bloemfontein. His beech-and-aluminium table is paired with Harry Bertoia side chairs for Knoll (knoll.com) and a Louis 20 chair by Philippe Starck for Vitra (vitra.com). Artworks by Andrzej Urbanski (left) and Jaco Benade (right) decorate the living area’s walls in Plascon’s Bovine grey (plascon.com), while a Cecil Skotnes linocut hangs in the central passageway; eclectic touches are present throughout the home, as seen on the server with its Inception dish rack by Luca Nichetto for Seletti (seletti.it) and ‘Snooty’ (2014) laser-cut steel artwork by Marius Jansen van Vuuren.

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ecause I’m quite a big person, I tend to design big things,’ explains 2m-tall Bloemfontein architect Christoff Steyn by way of ’s interiors. Despite its 90m2, the townhouse in the city’s newly developed northern suburbs comfortably accommodates three bedrooms while maintaining a generous sense of living space, partly thanks to a hefty couch he’s customdesigned, and a substantial beechwood door he’s transformed into a dining room table on sturdy aluminium legs.

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by Hanneke Benadé presiding over a brown leather couch that packs the biggest punch. ‘I’d seen “Waterweë” at Oliewenhuis [Bloemfontein’s esteemed art museum] while I was still a student,’ Christoff says of the pastel painting depicting a linen-draped man lying in bath, which formed part of the Cape Town artist’s 2011 solo show. ‘It stuck in my mind, so when I began collecting art three years later, and emailed Hanneke about any available work, I discovered that “Waterweë” had never been sold.’

It’s the first thing that catches the eye when entering the home, right before Christoff’s Italian greyhounds Kyli and Xander greet visitors – most often dinner guests. ‘I have a lot of foodie friends,’ Christoff says, ‘and because the restaurant scene in Bloemfontein is limited, we live around our kitchens a lot more.’ In his case, the kitchen from which he serves Yotam Ottolenghi favourites opens up to the living areas, making for interactive dining occasions amid his considered collection of art, design and decor pieces.

As an architectural interior retail specialist at leading architecture firm Roodt, Christoff boasts a significant portfolio that includes having worked on hotels, a radio station, the residence of the Free State premier and the preservation of historic buildings such as the Fourth Raadzaal, while also designing store interiors and currently undertaking the renovation of a mall.

He calls his townhouse a temporary ‘in-between situation’, and dreams of building his own home in the future. But for now, Christoff is content in this compact format, having turned one of the bedrooms into a study. ‘It never feels small,’ he says, looking around from one feature wall to another. ‘It’s a little box, but by using different bold paint colours, it looks bigger.’ Changing the walls to Plascon’s Bovine grey, and painting one living room wall in Moody Blue and a bedroom wall in teal Caribbean Current, Christoff has created floor-to-ceiling breadths of visual interest, carefully curating his artworks to converse with each surface.

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H O U S E pentagon park T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T Plascon’s Moody Blue paint hue provides a backdrop for works by Willem Boshoff (top left) and Johan Steyn (bottom row), as well as Christoff’s travel photos. On the table beneath them, a Lunar sugar jar from the Cosmic Diner collection by Diesel Living with Seletti gleams alongside a charming Ritzenhoff Private Hero collectable by Dominic Pangborn (ritzenhoff.com); Kyli and Xander enjoy lounging in the seating area on the custom couch by Cinnamon Originals (cinnamonoriginals.co.za).

The large floor rug is from Haus by Hertex (hertexhaus.co.za); Christoff’s open-plan social space is made for entertaining.

Christoff has created floor-to-ceiling breadths of visual interest, carefully curating his artworks to converse with each surface.

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‘A friend once pointed out that a lot of my art pieces are connected to water in some way,’ he smiles, admiring the blue walls that enhance this theme. His collection complements ‘Waterweë’ by including work by Pretoria artist Jaco Benade – of an empty swimming pool – and a seascape by Mallorca-based South African artist Johan Steyn, as well as a Cecil Skotnes linocut from his Wolraad Woltemade series, referencing the hero who died on horseback while saving shipwrecked sailors in Table Bay. In Christoff’s bedroom, a black vinyl cutout of an artwork by contemporary British artist Julian Opie, acquired during a trip to New York, is the focal point. He also turned his first-ever art purchase into a striking wall detail above his bed by sticking the work – featuring a reclining human figure that almost looks as if it is basking in seaside sun – onto white-wrapped MDF boards.

Christoff pulls out his phone to show the next acquisition he has an eye on – a blue panelled work by Cape Town artist Morné Visagie. ‘But that’s going to need a bigger wall,’ he muses.

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T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M O PP O S I T E PAG E The study is home to a zigzagging Jieldé lamp by Jean-Louis Domecq and a Marcel Breuer chair once owned by Bloemfontein architect Bannie Britz. Artworks gifted to Christoff include a picture by Caroline Gibello (left) and a work by Keenan Julies (centre); Xander spreads himself across Christoff’s bed, whose white linen and mustard scatter cushions complement the accent wall in Plascon’s Caribbean Current; Christoff and Xander – who is described as having ‘a small footprint but a big heart’ – stand to the left of a Multilamp by Emanuele Magini for Seletti.

T H I S S PR E A D The steel conservatory of Elsa Hertzog’s Stellenbosch home is a clever addition that was built by Palmers Exclusive Metals (palmers-iron.co.za) and connects the garden to the kitchen and dining areas. A Posy rug from Hertex’s Rosewood Collection (hertex.co.za) demarcates the seating area, where a Targa sofa and armchairs by GamFratesi and Wiener GTV Design from Generation (generationdesign.co.za) have been upholstered in Hertex’s Phoebe fabric in Aquamarine. The scatter cushion is from Haus by Hertex (hertexhaus.co.za).

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f us, opportunities to take the road less re few and far between. More so in the omestic architecture, where factors such nctionality of space, plot size and resale value can make or break the creative process. Imagine, then, a homeowner whose sole brief called for a ‘wonderland’ of a home.

Add an architectural studio whose design mantra is simply ‘for the joy it brings’ and an interior designer with the talent to bring the two together, and you have alchemy of the highest order.

Such was the case with Elsa Hertzog’s Stellenbosch home. Set on a leafy street in one of the town’s oldest suburbs, the house is a new build that is decidedly nonpareil. A mix of embellished European brickwork – with a slanted, asymmetrical pitched roof here and a high-ceilinged barn-like garage there – has been overlaid with forged metalwork at the front, and a serene industrial conservatory at the back. The result is an irreverent and unpretentious architectural style, best described as imperfectly perfect.

‘People often ask us to define our architectural language, but we don’t really follow any one style,’ says architect Wynand Wilsenach.

‘We tend towards a traditional language led by lifestyle that creates modern spaces with a strong connection to the outdoors.’

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Working closely with interior designer Joan Viljoen, Wilsenach’s design encompasses a space that while very much a home, is also a legacy project, as this is where Elsa wants to grow old – surrounded by her family, friends and beloved Italian greyhound Luci. To this end, although the house is new, it has an old-soul feel to it. ‘We wanted to create a layered space that felt “lived in” but that was also regal, comfortable and interesting,’ says Viljoen, ‘but always with an emphasis on quality materials that will stand the test of time.’

Elsa’s brief for a design compliant with Stellenbosch bylaws and national building regulations meant that Arend de Waal from Wynand Wilsenach had to work within the allowances of the 1 462m2 property and design a home that could cleverly accommodate multiple functions and activities. As such, the spaces in which Elsa spends the majority of her day are interlinked, while the noisier, high-traffic areas can be insulated and closed off. ‘Elsa wanted to create a sequence of areas throughout the house where privacy could be easily achieved, and then other areas that are more accessible and sociable,’ says Viljoen.

‘Another important consideration was Elsa’s love of plants,’ adds Viljoen. To this end, high-volume doors in the living areas connect

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T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M FA R L E F T Marble-topped tables from Weylandts (weylandts.co.za) complement the conservatory’s grey floors; a Quaker chair by Gregor Jenkin (gregorjenkin.com) and a vintage medicine cabinet from Onsite Gallery (onsitegallery.co.za) add an eclectic feel to the space; the main living area is furnished with numerous designer additions, including a Zeppelin 1 pendant light by Marcel Wanders for Flos from Novo Illumine (novoillumine.co.za), twin FH429 Signature chairs by Frits Henningsen for Carl Hansen & Søn from bulthaup (domum.bulthaup.com), a Bunny Chow kids’ table set from Arbor & Able (arborandable.com) and custom-designed coffee tables by David Krynauw (davidkrynauw.com).

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the front courtyard and the back garden to the living spaces. The kitchen that runs the length of the living areas is separated from them via glass doors and a picture window that runs horizontally across an entire wall, to offer a remove from the bustle of the kitchen and scullery areas. The conservatory that leads off the kitchen into the garden is smart in that it transforms the kitchen area into another living space that’s connected to the garden.

Laid out on two levels, the living areas, two en suite bedrooms, a study, Elsa’s studio and a cellar are all located on the lower level, with two guest suites and a pyjama lounge situated upstairs.

Working closely with Elsa, Viljoen created a visual look and feel for the interior and exterior that was used as a reference throughout every design stage, and ensured a seamless building and interior process. ‘I find this first step critical, especially on a project of this scale, as everyone involved can be kept on the same page and it stops us from derailing one another,’ explains Viljoen. ‘It’s easy to get lost in all the choices that need to be made along the way, but I’ve learnt that a degree of flexibility and allowing a project to develop organically can allow for wonderful, serendipitous moments, too.’

Viljoen’s determination to employ a stylistic thread throughout the house has been achieved with aplomb. ‘In the spaces where

T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M O PP O S I T E L E F T The kitchen is a calm, open-plan space with views out to the garden through the conservatory. Mongolian Bluestone tiles from Lasco (lascocomponents.com) grace the floors, while glass lights from Private Collections (privatecollections.co.za) shine from above, highlighting the kitchen island with its top made of solid oak and hammered Zim Black granite; kitchen cabinets painted in Plascon’s Aged Aloe (plascon.com) continue the subtle sage colour theme that runs throughout. The countertop is made of Bianco Aurora marble from Sangengalo (ske.co.za); Elsa’s dining area is home to a 10-seater Joburg 02 dining table by David Krynauw, with Brandberg dining chairs all custom-upholstered in leather.

Elsa spends the majority of her time, there is a softer, more feminine touch to the interiors, with magnificent light and comfortable areas in which she can escape,’ says Viljoen. ‘I was given creative freedom to a large extent, as Elsa was open to acquiring new and contemporary pieces for the space.’

In response to Elsa’s need for calm and her preference for muted pinks and greens, Viljoen formulated a varying palette of these colours throughout the house with punchy strokes of dark tones to balance areas with many architectural elements. ‘The fact that Elsa has such refined taste coupled with a love for the unusual made my role as influencer that much easier,’ says Viljoen. ‘Similarly, working closely with Arend de Waal on the design and construction process undoubtedly led to a more coherent design process from the outside in, in that we were able to refine and finesse the design as a whole.’

It’s a collaboration that Viljoen values highly and one that has proved beneficial to Elsa, too. Says the latter: ‘This home is a work of artistry created by a team with a creative vision that has afforded me the ultimate privilege – to inhabit a unique and beautiful space that I also call home.’ w2.co.za, joanviljoen.co.za 64

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T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M FA R L E F T Suffused with light, the main bathroom features an Ottocento bath by Agape from Lavo Bathroom Concepts (lavo.co.za), Cemcrete walls (cemcrete.co.za) and floor tiles handmade in differing shades by Southern Art Ceramics (tiledesign.co.za); a white Chariot trolley

by GamFratesi for Casamania from Créma (cremadesign.co.za) immediately catches the eye in Elsa’s study, which leads off the kitchen and looks onto the back garden. Perched on the custom desk built by Boland Shopfitters is a black Antony lamp by Serge Mouille from Créma; cushion covers and a comforter by Ithaca Fine Homeware (ithacahomeware.com) adorn the master bedroom’s bed, whose headboard covered in Mavromac’s Easy Velvet in colour 573 (mavromacandthegatehouse.co.za) was made by Sofa Studio (sofa-studio.co.za). The round Ainda bedside table by Roberto Lazzeroni for Ceccotti Collezioni is from Limeline (limeline.co.za).

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Although the house is new, it has an old-soul feel to it. ‘We wanted to create a layered space that felt “lived in” but that was also regal, comfortable and interesting,’ says interior designer Joan Viljoen.

T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M L E F T Designer Tristan du Plessis built his Parkhurst home around its courtyard, where a brass-footed table by Egg Designs (eggdesigns.co.za) and Mr Impossible chairs by Philippe Starck with Eugeni Quitllet for Kartell (kartell.com) overlook the sunken swimming pool; a sculpture by Haas Brothers stands in the corner of the dining room, with its table by Iron Banister (ironbanister.co.za), chairs by Guideline MNF (guideline.design) and Okha (okha.com), and Aim suspension lights by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Flos (flos.com).

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t’s only been four years since designer (and 2018 House and Leisure Next Level alumnus) Tristan du Plessis founded his design house Studio A, but his fiercely glamorous aesthetic is already causing a serious stir in the industry. From richly aces like the newly completed Alice & Fifth in Sandton (see page 32) to more laidback s luxurious – residential spaces, he’s arguing ous simplicity that’s hard to find elsewhere.

The Johannesburg-born designer, who just turned 30, started his career as an intern at a construction company, where he was quickly promoted to design director. Since stepping out on his own five years later, his fledgling practice Studio A has grown into a thriving firm that is, at the time of publishing, operating in nine cities around the world. As well as taking on multiple design projects in South Africa at the moment, he’s also just moved house from a downtown loft to this new place in the Joburg suburbs.

After extensive renovations, Tristan’s new house in the ‘village’ of Parkhurst has become a more inwardlooking interpretation of his professional work – but it is just as spectacular. His overhaul of the three-bedroom property combines lessons from his commercial projects with what he loved about inner-city apartment living: the designer has taken the brass, glass and industrialstyle open spaces and incorporated them into a suburban setting where his knack for dramatic colour and graphic lines meets natural, more homely elements.

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H O U S E parkhurst T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M FA R L E F T Tom Dixon salt and pepper shakers from CrĂŠma (cremadesign.co.za) bring a pop of tangerine into the otherwise all-black kitchen area; in the passageway, two artworks by David Brits hang above a custom sidetable and Gucci bag; a Cone Light Stand light by Tom Dixon echoes the black-and-white circular appearance of a vintage tub chair in the lounge, whose nesting tables are from Weylandts (weylandts.co.za), The Frame TV from Samsung (samsung.com) and skateboards by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Museum of Modern Art gift store; Tristan explains that the trick to achieving a successful dark colour palette is an emphasis on light â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both natural and artificial.

T H I S S PR E A D The designer sits on one of the Guideline MNF chairs that formed part of his kitchen collaboration with blu_line (blu-line.co.za), as well as Streamlight (streamlight.co.za), True Design (truedesign.co.za), Moroso (moroso.it) and Diesel Living (global.diesel. com/living), which debuted at Design Joburg 2018.

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everyone should do,’ says Tristan. ‘What makes it different to the way I designed my old apartment is that you have more freedom in a house to create a holistic experience because you aren’t bound by the body corporate or the other residents. So you have the opportunity to do anything you can imagine.’

Architecturally, the house plan rotates around a courtyard with its walls painted pitch black, and both the public and private areas open up onto the pool located at the courtyard’s centre. This dramatic, moody backdrop connects seamlessly to the interiors, which have also been built up from a dark palette – a feeling, Tristan explains, that he’s become ‘at home with’ from his work designing high-end South African nightclubs such as Sumo, Harem and Taboo.

‘A dark palette is difficult at first if you don’t understand what it’s being used for,’ he says. ‘What I’ve learnt from designing nightclubs for the past five years is that you’re setting a stage for the light. That’s why it’s important to make sure you have enough natural light if you’re using it in a residential environment, and to make sure that your design makes the best use of the lights themselves.’

This play between dark and light moves throughout the interiors of Tristan’s home. Hidden LED strips in the kitchen, for instance – tucked behind a giant piece of black marble at the back of black-glass cabinet doors, and below black veneer cupboards – create an entirely different atmosphere in the space when they are switched on. They move the interior away from the domestic into high-end restaurant territory, immediately bringing the home back to the pleasure of the food spaces Tristan has been responsible for, like the interior of the new FYN restaurant in Cape Town (see page 92).

The all-black-everything kitchen was literally lifted from the showroom floor after debuting at Design Joburg 2018, where Tristan collaborated with kitchen specialists blu_line, as well as Streamlight, True Design, Moroso and Diesel Living. ‘Nobody wants to be stuck in a small kitchen, facing the wall, with no interaction with your guests or family. So I approached the kitchen design as a space that should promote sociability,’ he says. Today, it’s the home’s locus, flowing outdoors to the deck in one direction and to the living room in the other, while also connecting to a meditation garden at the property’s rear.

In addition, the back end of the house has just become the new home of the Studio A office, an open-plan workspace where Tristan’s team is preparing to launch projects like their forthcoming Italian design hotel Chapter Roma, a new restaurant in Bahrain called Clay, the Americano bar in Dubai, and a whole slew of other big-budget hospitality projects. He’s brought his work life into his home life, but it’s a natural extension of who he is, Tristan says. ‘I don’t separate what I do from who I am. My work and I are one story, and I’m excited for the next chapter.’ tristanplessis.com

T H I S PAG E , F RO M T O P A photograph by Jonathan Wood adorns the passageway wall; the bathroom’s floor is tiled with silver marble from WOMAG (womag.co.za), while the sinks are by Studio19 (studio19.co).

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H O U S E parkhurst T H I S PAG E , C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P Japanese linen wallpaper from Lemon (madebylemon.co.za) covers a tactile accent wall in the main bedroom, which frames the bed from Weylandts, sidetables from Studio A (studioa.co.za), and lights by Tom Dixon (left) and Verner Panton for &tradition (right), all from CrĂŠma; David Britsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work takes the form of a mural on the wall of the pool area, where a lounger from Mobelli (mobelli.co.za) is paired with gold plinths from Weylandts; in the bedroom, a sideboard designed by Tristan is topped with a bowl by Seletti (seletti.it), a Tic & Tac clock by Philippe Starck with Eugeni Quitllet for Kartell and an artwork by Cyrcle.

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T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M L E F T The Atholl, Johannesburg, home of Artlogic CEO Dr Cobi Labuscagne is filled with furniture and objets collected over a lifetime of supporting the local design and art industries. A brown leather couch and coffee table from GOET (goet.co.za) that were used at Artlogic events take pride of place in the lounge, where an olive chair that was bought from Vintage Cowboys at 44 Stanley before it closed picks up on the green hues outside; merging the indoor and outdoor spaces was an important part of the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redesign, and the living areas are connected to the garden via large glass sliding doors and big windows.

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elf-professed ‘design evangelist’ Dr Cobi Labuscagne is the CEO of Artlogic, the company behind some of the country’s most important design events, including FNB JoburgArtFair and Sanlam Handmade Contemporary Fair. Which is why it makes sense that objets collected over a lifetime spent promoting local design find sanctuary in her home.

The house that Cobi shares with her husband Nduka Mntambo – who heads up the Film and Television programme at Wits School of Arts – and their two children Lunga-Lwazi and Ellen, is also very much a family space. Located at the end of a long, vineclad driveway in the relaxed Johannesburg suburb of Atholl, the interior combines a palette of pale wood, grey steel and crisp white into a clean backdrop for the family’s much-loved array of South African and international furnishings, and artworks.

It did take an extensive renovation to transform the property into what it is today, however, with the family living in the house for the seven years it took to complete. Previously characterised by fairly dark, enclosed spaces typical of the Schachat houses (named for the family of property developers who created them in the mid- to late20th century) that are common in this part of the city, it’s now a lightfilled sanctuary in which indoor and outdoor spaces seamlessly merge.

‘It was a challenging yet beautiful time of thinking, dreaming and creating,’ says Cobi of the renovation process. ‘When we got here, we found a string of smallish north-facing bedrooms on the one side, balanced out by a north-facing living area on the other side of the axis. The kitchen and bathroom were facing south at the back, and there was a giant organic-shaped swimming pool with slasto paving around it, as well as electric heaters in every room and down the passage – the electricity supply and cost was of another era!’

Their solution was to move the kitchen northwards, connecting the house to its garden, which has been lovingly filled over the years with indigenous plants. And the swimming pool, which is most easily accessed from the master bedroom, is a long, rectangular concrete form. As for those inefficient heaters, they have been replaced with more environmentally conscious offerings.

Rather than following a grand master plan for the renovation, the couple says the overhaul was a series of ongoing experiments with materials and colour. ‘One of these was trying to paint over the unyielding slasto flooring in the living room (that didn’t turn out well!) because it reminded us too much of a particular time in our country’s history,’ Nduka says. ‘The renovation involved many hands of workers, family and friends coming together – knocking down a crazy wall partition, plastering over roughcast plaster on the wall, trying out different pieces of art, and generally labouring to actualise what is now the place we come home to.’

A standout feature of the home is the use of wood both inside and out, with saligna being used to form internal partitions and balustrades, and pine slats to clad walls. ‘Being able to bring wooden features into the house has been very special for us,’ says Nduka. ‘There’s something beautiful in the symmetry of the slats and the warmth of the wood; the different shades of pink, brown and grey that emerge. We initially tested the feature in a small wall of our entrance space, and we really liked the feeling. Then we thought it might frame the fireplace area and also start an interesting conversation with the floor. It helps that we had a wonderful carpenter, Lucky Mkhululi, who ended up doing all our carpentry, including the two pergola structures in the garden.

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T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T An inherited Gregoire Boonzaier print and a Shibby Zen radio (shibbybeats.com) fit into a niche in the house’s ubiquitous wooden panelling; Lunetta Bartz’s light from Maker (makerstudio.co.za) is suspended above a Kika stool by Peter Mabeo and Patricia Urquiola. On the server to its left stands a Norman Catherine maquette and ‘Dumb Waiter’ wooden work by Peter Schütz; guests are welcomed to the house by a bench from Amatuli (amatuli.co.za) and wall-mounted artwork by French artist Alain Clément.

T H I S S PR E A D, CLOCKWISE F RO M L E F T A table, riempie chairs and shelves by James Mudge (jamesmudge. co.za) are arranged alongside chairs from Maker in the open-plan dining area; woodwork by an array of local designers features in the kitchen, with its lights from Dark Horse (darkhorse.co.za), island by Studio 19 (studio19.co) and box shelves by Koop Design (koopdesign. co.za); a photograph by Zanele Muholi reflects the dark tones present in the black leather chair from Jeremy Stephen Antiques (jeremystephenantiques. co.za) and steel table

by Gregor Jenkin (gregorjenkin.com).

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We also called on Tau Skosana of Artlover, who helped with basically everything else, and we still work with him extensively.’

Very much reflecting the feeling of warmth created by the wooden slats, the finishes and furnishings in the house come together in a complementary fashion, with the individual pieces being connected by a similar design philosophy. In the kitchen, for instance, rather than a fitted configuration, separate creations by various South African designers share the space – many of which were collected after being featured at Artlogic’s events over the years.

‘At Artlogic, we’d just completed a project with Richard Stretton of Koop Design for our fair furniture, and I’d fallen in love with the Finnish Ply units he makes,’ Cobi says. ‘I bought a few of them without being able to measure the new kitchen, as we were still in our previous apartment, and so I had to just push them together once we moved in. But I love the integrity of individually designed pieces, and that has become the structure of the kitchen – it’s full of different pieces that speak to one another.’

While showing us around, Cobi touches almost every piece of furniture, and tells the story of how it came to be in the family’s lives – saving up for one item, for example, and trading opportunities and advice for another. This commitment to the ethos of the objects makes a strong statement about what can happen when South African designs are given a chance to be themselves, and is testament to the family’s belief in the simple pleasure of well-made things. artlogic.co.za

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H O U S E atholl T H I S PAG E Cobi, her husband Nduka and their children Lunga-Lwazi and Ellen enjoy leisurely family lunches around a table bought from Narina Trogon Restaurant in Braamfontein after it closed.

O PP O S I T E PAG E , CLOCKWISE F RO M T O P L E F T Clarisse Designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delicious light (clarissedesign.com) makes a striking statement in the bathroom, whose freestanding cabinets are by Koop Design; indigenous plants surround the pool; a bed from Weylandts (weylandts.co.za) continues the slatted wood theme in the bedroom, while a chaise from Anatomy Design (anatomydesign.co.za) adds a plush element to a corner of the room.

A standout feature of the home is the use of wood both inside and out, with saligna being used to form internal partitions and balustrades, and pine slats to clad walls.

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H O U S E fourways T H I S PAG E In the lounge of Sylvester Chauke and Tumelo Mmusiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Fourways, Johannesburg, a cobalt Dokter and Misses lamp (dokterandmisses.com) and a painting by Nelson Makamo contrast with a leather and velvet armchair from Bakos Brothers (bakosbrothers.com).

Fresh foliage on the wooden sidetable from Weylandts (weylandts.co.za) enlivens the predominantly grey space.

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grew up in a very colourful home in Protea North in Soweto. My mother’s house is cream and beige, with a red wall there, brown floors, a red floor here… and every time I visit, I tell her it’s too much. I always say, “Let’s paint the walls grey!” and she always screams, “No ways!”’ laughs Sylvester Chauke, founder of pioneering agency DNA Brand Architects.

Sylvester’s current home in Fourways in Johannesburg is the complete opposite of his childhood abode. The wellconsidered entrance sets the tone for a contemporary and completely renovated space, and features grey walls, a blue Dokter and Misses lamp, a leather and velvet armchair, and a vase of leafy foliage balanced on a wooden sidetable – all perfectly offset by a giant Nelson Makamo painting.

Sylvester shares the space with his husband Tumelo Mmusi, a brand manager, and their three dogs Xiluva, Nyiko and Muschka. The double-storey house is in a quiet corner of a charming residential estate close to the countryside, but despite Sylvester immediately connecting with the property four years ago, he was unconvinced by the neighbourhood.

‘It was the house that made me accept the suburb,’ he explains. ‘I never thought Fourways was the area for me – there was no Tashas or Exclusive Books close by – but since moving here, there has been lots of interesting development happening. It’s much like when I lived on the farm side of Fourways, and they were still busy building conveniences like Montecasino and Design Quarter.’

The architectural bones of the house were good (and non-traditional enough for it to be appealing to him) but Sylvester says he changed pretty much everything else before moving in. ‘It just needed a more modern feel,’ he adds.

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H O U S E fourways T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M L E F T Sylvester and Tumelo stand in their kitchen with one of their three dogs; a MaXhosa by Laduma rug (maxhosa.co.za) anchors the living area, and on top of it stands a steel and glass coffee table with a mesh bowl, both from Weylandts. The round red wall clock is from Edgars Home (edgars.co.za).

The colour scheme in the house is predominantly grey, with a dark concrete floor, smoke-toned kitchen cabinetry and walls painted in a dove-grey shade. This bold use of a single colour sets a base tone for the entire house, from where Sylvester adds colourful touches and layered texture. There’s tan leather furniture, romantic velvets, white bedding, and glass and chrome surfaces, as well as regular pops of bright red and turquoise accessories throughout, which help lift the neutral background. ‘But,’ Sylvester warns, ‘the base needs to be calm and cool for it to work.’

Luckily, he and Tumelo share the same aesthetic when it comes to style and decor. ‘Tumelo brings in the light, always sliding the doors wide open to give you a feeling of living in a bigger, very airy space,’ he says.’ For Sylvester, it’s Johannesburg itself that brings constant inspiration – both in decor and in life. ‘I love Johannesburg,’ he says. ‘Growing up in Soweto, the city was such an aspirational place. A trip to town always came with new clothes or a takeaway from Chicken Licken. I love the hustle and bustle, the diversity, the colour, languages and cultures, and the people it brings together.

T H I S PAG E , C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P The all-grey kitchen features high-gloss cabinetry by Fabri (fabri.pt) and stools from Iconomy (iconomyonline.com); the couple loves languid afternoons spent hanging out by the pool with their ‘girls’ Xiluva, Muschka and Nyiko; a custom-made dining room table, surrounded by chairs from @home (home.co.za), creates an ideal space for entertaining. One of the vases was sourced from House & Home (houseandhome.co.za) and the other gifted.

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T H I S PAG E Underneath the original staircase is Dokter and Missesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; teal Hinge unit, bookended by a coat stand from @home and a magazine rack from Carrol Boyes (carrolboyes.com). Among the objets displayed on it are a blue Buddha figurine bought on a trip to Bali, a watercolour portrait by Luke Batha, a typewriter found at a Johannesburg flea market and an Airedale Terrier lamp from Iconomy.

You’re forced to interact and then you become more colourful as a result – and if you’re interested in other people, you’ll be able to speak many different languages and get along with and engage with people from every walk of life, at every single level of a community.’

Having found his career calling on the set of a television commercial he was cast in at a very young age, Sylvester graduated top of his brand and communications class at the University of Johannesburg. He started his own agency six years ago, having previously worked at ad agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather and FCB, and has been both national marketing manager at Nando’s and director of marketing and communications at MTV Networks.

‘There’s a clear need for African and South African stories to be told. At university, we learnt about David Ogilvy and Charles Saatchi, but we didn’t study great black marketing professionals.

Now, our job at DNA Brand Architects is to showcase them and how they have paved the way,’ he says of his young company’s ambitious vision. Sylvester’s home is an extension of this drive to live authentically and well – a message you can feel in every part of this unique and creative space. dnabrand.co.za

T H I S PAG E , F RO M T O P The bedside tables and lamps in the main bedroom were all gifted (find similar lighting accessories from KARE Design; kare-johannesburg.co.za); Bevan de Wet’s ‘Homo Oscillum’ (2012) artwork takes up an entire wall in the study, where an office chair by Antonio Citterio for Vitra (vitra.com) and a MaXhosa by Laduma cushion add a warm red detail to the space.

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T H I S PAG E , CLOCKWISE F RO M T O P Sylvester and Tumelo have gone the extra mile to ensure their pets have every creature comfort, and a trio of bespoke dog beds is positioned at the foot of their bed; an artwork by Lehlogonolo Mashaba complements the dark tones and cabinet from @home in the guest bedroom; natural light fills the monochrome bathroom, which includes a bath from Eurotrend (eurotrend.co.za).

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T H I S PAG E Head chef Wesley Randles leans against a mural by Skullboy at The Commissary.

O PP O S I T E PAG E , C L O C K W I S E F RO M TOP LEFT The hole-in-the-wall eatery is situated on Cape Town’s Shortmarket Street; oysters with a bracingly spicy nam jim dressing; a detail of the custom-designed chairs by Sandalene Dale Roberts; massaman-style lamb roti; simple design combines with eclectic accents in the interior; more of Skullboy’s graffitied work adorns the stairway.

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Hip-hop playlist. The Commissary on Shortmarket Street is the latest Luke Dale Roberts/Wesley Randles/ Simon Widdison partnership, and it breaks all the rules except for one – faultless food.

This restaurant is nothing like the LDR eateries that came before it, in spite of sitting neatly under the same roof as its big sister, The Shortmarket Club. Where Shortmarket is the responsible older sibling, The Commissary is the rebellious young gun of the family. Inspired by the food they like to eat, Randles and Widdison (alongside a youthful team that includes Randles’ wife, Juliet, and seasoned Shortmarket chef Katlego Mlambo) have created a restaurant that rejects any notions of fine-dining grandeur. ‘The whole point of the space is for people to have some fun,’ says Randles.

‘Come in, eat good food, get a little drunk – and it’s not going to hurt your pocket.’

Sandalene Dale Roberts took the lead with the design and has created a space that works with the devil-may-care vibe. Owing to its compact interior, The Commissary required a different format from the other LDR establishments, and as such, Dale Roberts designed communal tables specifically for the room. She also enlisted Louis de Villiers (aka Skullboy) to decorate the exterior, interleading staircase and bathroom with his iconic graffiti style, while local designer Jade Klara has created a seasonal animation that is projected on the dining room wall.

The food and drinks experience takes on a choose-your-own-adventure form: orders arrive as and when they are ready on humble, mismatched flatware. ‘We’ve set up the menu so you can come in, have some drinks and snacks, and it won’t cost much. Or you can go all out and order our pricier items,’ says Randles. ‘You don’t have to overthink it because it’s affordable and accessible.’

On the drinks side, Widdison has created a wine list heavy on food-focused wines.

‘There are a lot of whites that work with the spicy nature of the food as well as some lighter reds,’ he says. The list is varied and starts at entry-level prices, increasing up to more expensive bottles for those who want to treat themselves. A curated selection of beers is on offer too, as well as fruity cocktails.

‘The concept was to strip away every nonessential that you think you need to run a restaurant,’ says Widdison. The Commissary is a big departure from the rest of the LDR group’s establishments, reminding us that they’re not afraid to push the boundaries. It’s no wonder, then, that the restaurant has been packed to its exposed rafters since opening in late 2018. thecommissary_ct

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Recently opened by chef de patron Peter Tempelhoff and his partners Jennifer Hugé and Ashley Moss, FYN combines Japanese-inspired fine dining with tactile interiors by Tristan du Plessis of Studio A

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T H I S PAG E Upon arriving at FYN restaurant in Cape Town, you pass through a dramatically dark entrance hall into spectacular interiors by designer Tristan Du Plessis.

O PP O S I T E PAG E An array of natural materials have been combined to eyecatching effect, ranging from the wooden tables, trays and hanging decorative element to the granite-topped ‘Kitchen Counter’ bar and stone accents.

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n your first visit to FYN, aim to arrive at sunset. Located on the top floor of the Speakers’ Corner building in Cape Town, its interiors are among the most beautiful in the country, while its view through a wall of floor-toceiling windows is out of this world. Table Mountain, Kloof Nek and Lion’s Head are all arrayed before you – with, if the weather is right, the sun setting behind the latter.

Tearing your gaze away from this spectacular sight is made easier by FYN’s elegant yet earthy interiors. Featuring natural materials such as stone, leather and different types of wood, they were created by Tristan du Plessis of Studio A. The double-volume space is both softened and enlivened by the spectacular hanging decorative element, made from hundreds of wooden discs ‘strung’ onto steel poles, which ‘lowers’ the ceiling above the dining room.

The detail, says Du Plessis, was ‘inspired by the soroban (Japanese abacus). I wanted to use a material that felt equally Japanese and African, and the carved wooden beads

were a perfect fit. Its scale brings down the height of the double-volume space while also celebrating it.’ No wonder that the ‘soroban’, which was made by Christoph Karl at Guideline MNF, is Du Plessis’ favourite part of the interior – and it also beautifully complements the food by chef de patron Peter Tempelhoff and his team.

Tempelhoff looks set to cement his considerable reputation with FYN, and describes the food as ‘ingredient-focused cuisine drawing inspiration from South Africa’s culture, lore and society, as well as my jaunts around the world, especially to Japan.’ His brief for the interiors ran along similar lines. Tempelhoff wanted ‘a space that blurred the lines between kitchen and front of house, an integrated, foodfocused experience,’ says Du Plessis.

And he wanted the space to ‘represent the cuisine; Japanese with an African edge.’

Seating is either at tables or around the ‘Kitchen Counter’, a granite-topped bar that adjoins the kitchen and links it to the restaurant. Seated here, you have the ideal

vantage point from which to view the chefs going about their work, making the skills and sheer attention to detail that go into creating dishes of this calibre very evident.

‘Our challenge,’ adds Tempelhoff, ‘was to create a menu that can be experienced in around two hours, but that has all the flavours and excitement of a three-hour menu. We looked to Japan – and kaiseki (traditional multicourse Japanese dining) in particular – for the answer, and have designed the starter and dessert courses to be served on small oak trays.’ Used on the trays are a variety of textured bowls created by Roché Müller of Claylat and Corinne de Haas.

FYN is named from ‘the Afrikaans word for fine, but,’ says Tempelhoff, ‘I also like to think of it as the better half of the word “fynbos”.’ It’s also a reflection of ‘the better half’ of fine dining, in that the restaurant is all about innovative, delicious food, served beautifully but without any pretension, in a very lovely space. fynrestaurant.com, tristanplessis.com

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CREAM OF THE CROP Patrón is arguably one the world’s most famous sipping tequila brands, and the best of its offering is Gran Patrón Piedra Extra Anejo Tequila. It’s aged for three years to create a smooth and lasting finish, while aromas of fresh fruit, mushroom and French oak lead into complex tastes of agave and vanilla – all contained in an elegant crystal bottle. R5 269. patrontequila.com

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T H I S S PR E A D Trapezoid-shaped beds of water-wise endemic specimens are separated by a series of formal Dutch-style grass paths in the Isibindi garden in Sandton.

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u skyscrapers of the Sandton CBD lies one of Johannesburg’s most remarkable private gardens – an almost 11ha expanse of indigenous grasslands, wetlands, forests and formal gardens that is currently undergoing a dramatic, environmentally sensitive redesign.

The sprawling estate is called Isibindi, which means both ‘courage’ and ‘seed’ in isiZulu, and has been owned by the same family for nearly as long as Johannesburg has been in existence. And now the next generation is imagining a new future for the property, with a plan that asks what the landscape would have looked like before their historic garden was planted.

Landscape designer Patrick Watson heads up this project of removal and restoration, a 10-year labour that culminated in a highveld meadow the size of a soccer field where thousands of rare endemic specimens grow.

Many of these were rescued by Watson from neighbouring properties where new developments have seen native plants uprooted for malls and housing estates, or grown by him in his nursery. The trapezoidshaped beds teem with butterflies and other insects between a maze of grassed pathways.

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the garden is essential, explains Watson.

House and Leisure sat down with him in his own garden in Greenside (a wild suburban jungle, for those curious) to learn more about Isibindi, understand the move toward endemic gardening in South Africa, and discover how this new gardening style can be achieved in your own space at home.

Why did you decide to go endemic for the new garden at Isibindi?

The client wanted a prairie garden once the big house was built, and she didn’t want to water it, so I suggested an endemic garden.

Essentially, the endemic idea is quite old: an endemic garden contains only plants that are native to the specific area in which the garden is located. Johannesburg is a Highveld area, and so gardens in this city should look almost like prairies, but the reality is that they are rare if not impossible to find, which makes no sense really. It was important to me that the land become more of a garden than a piece of veld.

The garden appears undesigned, but when you look closer, the planting is very complex.

How did you go about blurring the lines?

The goal is to make it stylised, so it’s not just a veld. The paths do that here. I used a classical Dutch path that references the Cape Dutch of the house’s architecture – so it’s not English, nor is it Romantic, which would be foreign to the area. The garden is also specific to the client, who is very into natural, low-key solutions, as is her mother, whose own gardens also embrace indigenous gardening. When you go into the veld, you see the same plants as at Isibindi, but we clustered them, removed One of theand most widely admiredplants. grasses, added flowering

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T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T Isibindiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head gardener and estate manager Ricard Strauss; clustered plants exaggerate the sense of being in a highveld meadow; thanks to the expansive nature of the garden, it can sustain plants that grow in the shade as well as those that thrive in full sun; a wetland area has been created on the property to catch water that feeds the rest of the garden; the Acacia karroo is a drought-resistant tree native to the highveld; different areas of the landscape are separated by the wetland lake; with its pinkish tones, Hilliardiella oligocephala brings colour to the beds; a butterfly enjoys the fragrant nectar of the Scabiosa columbaria.

Should we create our own endemic gardens at home?

An endemic garden in Gauteng dies off in the winter, so if you don’t like a dry garden, I wouldn’t suggest a garden like this. In the Cape, you could use fynbos, and in tropical areas like Durban, make a jungle.

But you mustn’t irrigate it or compost it, which is actually ideal today. In many ways, the Isibindi garden is more like a restoration project than a garden design. It’s important from a conservation point of view. Now all the birds and flowers are coming back to the area, which is big for me and the client. The environment we live in has been degraded – there are no butterflies or termites, and we tend to forget how important insects are to the survival of the environment. Every insect only eats certain plants, and there are millions of them, and fewer birds, and even fewer mammals. Insects are the main base for restoration. If I use plants from KwaZulu-Natal, the bugs don’t come here, and when you use Karoo plants, the Karoo bugs don’t come. But more than anything, it’s morally right to plant like this, and it’s time we do it. Where I live – in a suburban area – there are almost no natural insects.

There are only fruit-eating birds. So we’ve destroyed the environment.

In the next 50 years, there won’t be a scrap of Egoli grasslands. Hollard HQ in Parktown has put a highveld garden back into a space where there was once only exotic plants not native to the area, and a few other private gardens are trying to do the same, but more people should be following suit.

T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T ‘Embracing a mixture of flowering plants and dormant grasses creates a sense of time and seasonality, which is crucial to the overall experience of a true highveld garden,’ says landscape designer Patrick Watson; the Isibindi estate aims to eventually be completely off the grid, and has recently installed a solar farm adjoining the property to power its water pumps; shrubs are left untamed wherever possible; shaded areas allow for some of the more difficult specimens to grow; the blue Egyptian lotus flourishes in the pond, flowering in the late afternoon and early mornings; grassed paths form strong, angular lines between the wild beds; the abundant pale-hued grasses provide a romantic backdrop to the silhouettes of trees.

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TERIYAKI PINK OYSTER MUSHROOMS AND SHEEP’S MILK FETA SALAD WITH TRICOLOUR TOMATOES 6T teriyaki sauce 6T olive oil 1 garlic clove, peeled and halved 100g pink oyster mushrooms Salt and black pepper, to taste 4 yellow tomatoes, thinly sliced 4 red tomatoes, thinly sliced 4 green tomatoes, thinly sliced ¼ red onion, finely sliced 100g sheep’s milk feta, sliced 4T olive caviar* Baby leaves, for garnish Heat a pan on a medium to high heat and add 2T teriyaki sauce and 2T olive oil. Add the garlic to infuse while cooking.

Split the mushrooms into 4 portions and sear in a pan until just caramelised on both sides. (The heat removes some of the ‘pinkness’ of the mushrooms, so be careful not to overdo them). Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

Remove the oil mixture from the heat and add the remaining teriyaki sauce and olive oil. Stir and set aside. This will become your salad dressing.

Arrange the tomato slices on 4 plates (1 of each colour for each plate). Place the onion slices around the tomatoes and evenly arrange the sheep’s milk feta over the 4 plates. Top with olive caviar, the pink oyster mushrooms and baby leaves.

Remove the garlic clove halves from the teriyaki and olive oil dressing, give it a thorough mix and drizzle all over the salad.

SERVES 4 *The olive caviar used is made by Mont Rouge. As an alternative, finely chop 10 dried black olives and 1t fresh rosemary, and season with salt and black pepper.

MAGIC GOLDEN MUSHROOM TEA 750ml water 10g dried porcini mushrooms 1 rooibos teabag 1 finger fresh turmeric, peeled and thinly sliced lengthways 4 sprigs fresh thyme, 8-10cm long 4 sprigs fresh origanum, 8-10cm long 4 sprigs marjoram, 8-10cm long 1 garlic clove, peeled ½ white onion 104

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2 bay leaves 20g shimeji mushrooms, sliced 20g portabellini mushrooms, sliced 1t fresh chilli, finely chopped 1t fynbos honey 1t fresh ginger, peeled and grated 1T chia seeds 1T tukmaria seeds (sweet basil seeds) Black pepper Flaky sea salt, to taste Bring the water to the boil and pour over the dried porcini mushrooms, rooibos teabag and turmeric to make a stock.

Let it stand for about 10 minutes.

Rinse all the herbs. Add the mushroom stock and the rest of the ingredients to a pot (except the chia and tukmaria seeds). Add 4 grinds of black pepper and bring to a very low simmer for 15 minutes.

Remove from the heat and carefully remove the turmeric, herbs, garlic, onion and bay leaves, squeezing them to release all their flavours into the tea. Sprinkle with the chia and tukmaria seeds and simmer for another 5 minutes; the seeds will swell and absorb the tea. Season with salt and serve as a broth or chunky tea.

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SWEET PRESERVED GINGER AND HONEY ENOKI MUSHROOMS WITH ROASTED HAZELNUT CRUMBLE For the hazelnut crumble

100g raw hazelnuts, peeled 75g butter 8 chocolate digestive biscuits 1T preserved ginger For the sweet preserved ginger and honey enoki mushrooms

100g black and white enoki mushrooms Syrup from 1 jar of preserved ginger 2 large endives 1 sprig fresh wild rosemary Toast the hazelnuts in a pan until brown and fragrant, and set aside. Melt the butter and then blend with the biscuits, hazelnuts and 1T (one piece) of preserved ginger to form the hazelnut crumble.

Heat a pan on a medium to high heat and add the enoki mushrooms and 4T of the preserved ginger syrup, and toss.

The mushrooms will brown quickly and caramelise with the syrup.

Peel the most beautiful endive leaves and place them on a platter. Add a spoon of crumble onto the middle of each endive leaf and top with the mushrooms. Garnish with small leaves of torn wild rosemary (use fresh thyme leaves as an alternative).

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LION’S MANE MUSHROOMS WITH SQUID INK PASTA, ROASTED BEETROOT AND SAGE 1 bunch baby beetroot, peeled and sliced lengthways (about 2mm thick) 2T balsamic vinegar 1t fynbos honey 100ml water Sea salt, to taste 100g squid ink pasta 3T olive oil 20 sage leaves Black pepper, to taste 4T butter 2 garlic cloves, crushed 50g lion’s mane mushrooms 1t beetroot sprouts, for garnish 1t onion sprouts, for garnish Place the baby beetroot in a pan with the balsamic vinegar, honey and water.

Simmer slowly and watch them carefully as the water evaporates and the balsamic starts to thicken. You don’t want it to burn, so add more water if the beetroot isn’t cooked through. You want the balsamic and honey to coat the beetroot in a glaze.

Heat a pot of water to a rapid boil and season with sea salt. Cook the pasta to al dente and drain.

In a small pan, heat the olive oil, add the sage leaves and fry until they become translucent. Take them out of the oil and drain on kitchen paper, seasoning lightly with salt. Set aside until serving.

Add the pasta to the pan of beetroot and coat it by gently turning it over with tongs, heating it on low. Season with salt and black pepper.

Heat another pan on a medium to high heat and add the butter and garlic until foaming. Add the lion’s mane mushrooms and let them sear until just golden, for a minute on each side. Toss quickly and add to the pan with the pasta.

Turn out onto plates and garnish with the sage leaves and sprouts.

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TREE OYSTER MUSHROOMS, CROTTIN GOAT’S CHEESE AND BERRY RELISH WITH FRESH FENNEL FLOWERS AND BLUEBERRY SHERBET For the blueberry sherbet (optional)

250g blueberries 4T white sugar 2t citric acid 2t bicarbonate of soda 100g fresh cherries, pitted 250g blueberries 150ml water ½t fennel seeds 1 cardamom pod, crushed open

4T butter 50g tree oyster mushrooms Salt and black pepper, to taste 1 wheel of French crottin Fresh fennel flowers, for garnish To make the sherbet, dry the blueberries in the oven on 50ºC until completely dried (it can take up to 8 hours depending on the size of the blueberries, so do this in advance).

Blend with the sugar. If the sugar becomes wet, dry it in the oven again on 20ºC until it is completely dry and you can crumble it with your fingers.

Add the citric acid and bicarbonate of soda and set aside for garnish.

Heat the oven to 160ºC. Place the cherries in a pan with the additional

blueberries, water, fennel seeds and cardamom. Simmer until thick and ‘jammy’ and set aside. This will become your berry relish.

Melt the butter, then brush the tree oyster mushrooms with it and season with salt and black pepper.

Roast the mushrooms in the oven for 5 minutes, remove and add a slice of crottin to each one. Return to the oven and roast for a further 10 minutes until the gills and stems of the mushrooms start to go golden in colour and the cheese is soft and melted.

Serve the mushrooms warm, topped with the berry relish and fennel flowers.

Sprinkle the plate with the blueberry sherbet for a fun addition.

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T H I S S PR E A D, F RO M L E F T The palm-fringed curve of Hiriketiya Bay in the south of Sri Lanka is a littleknown paradise, dotted with just a few beachside restaurants that spill out onto the shoreline; surfing is a central part of the lifestyle in Hiriketiya, and in many of the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other coastal towns, too.

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Plan a stay in Sri Lanka carefully and you’ll find that one week is all that’s required to fall deeply for this richly layered island – and understand why it fully deserves its status as Lonely Planet’s top destination to visit in 2019 TEXT DAYLE KAVONIC PHOTOGRAPHS DAYLE KAVONIC, UNSPLASH.COM

ere’s the thing about Sri Lanka: it doesn’t necessarily grip you on arrival. The commercial capital, Colombo, which lies just south of Bandaranaike International Airport, is a colourful, cosmopolitan place, but it offers little hint of the wonders that rest beyond its bounds.

The real charm of the island unfolds in waves as you wind your way inland, passing roadside stalls, smiling school children, temples and tuk-tuks, as the journey unwraps dense forests and misty peaks, valleys and streams like precious gifts.

DAYS 1–3: ELLA It would seem all roads that snake away from Sri Lanka’s shoreline ultimately lead to Ella, a delightful town in Hill Country that, being fairly centrally located, is a fine first stop. Once a sleepy village hugging a single road, the area has, in less than two years, exploded outwards, thanks in no small part to its position at the end of the legendary train route from Kandy further north. Its main artery is cheerful and bustling, and home to cafés, bars, curio shops and traditional Ayurvedic spas, but if you prefer a little breathing space, it’s best to base yourself a few minutes outside of town amid the alluring silence and intense greenery of the tea plantations.

For complete seclusion, there’s Mamma Shanti, a guest house and yoga retreat run by a young South African woman, but if you want to be closer to the main attractions – Ella Rock, Little Adam’s Peak and Nine Arch Bridge, an engineering marvel – book into a Deluxe Cabana at Ella Flower Garden Resort. Opportunities to hike abound, and you can’t depart without stepping inside a working tea factory – Dambatenne is a favourite and lies just 6km below the famed Lipton’s Seat lookout point. For dining with a view, there’s nowhere better than the restaurant at 98 Acres Resort & Spa. At this sophisticated hillside property, you can also enjoy one of Sri Lanka’s finest massages while gazing out at an endless ripple of peaks and vales.

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But here’s a vital word of advice: don’t chase the tourist pack to the likes of Arugam Bay or Hikkaduwa; instead, journey south from Ella to the oftenoverlooked cove of Hiriketiya. Hidden somewhere between the more established coastal towns of Tangalle and Mirissa like a carefully guarded secret, this idyllic bay has managed to hold tight to its rampant natural beauty while also welcoming a smattering of civilisation – a few boutique hotels and a handful of beachside eateries and bars. Mangrove swamps and tropical jungle thrive amid local residences and villas, and a dense brush of coconut palms skirts a horseshoe-shaped curl of sand – the cup for swim- and surfperfect waters.

In Hiriketiya, you’ll wake to the calls of peacocks and parakeets. You’ll break bread – or, more likely, a spicy dal curry and coconut roti – while watching toque macaque monkeys (they are endemic to Sri Lanka) leap from rooftop to branch. And then, around mid-morning, you’ll roll onto the beach, where you’ll probably remain, seesawing between cocktails and ocean dips until the sky turns salmon and the shoreline restaurants switch on their fairy lights. Dozy as it may be, the area is base to a fair amount of evening activity – there’s live music at Dots Bay House almost every weekend, for example – and as the community here is rather small, it’s a great place to engage with the locals, who deal in warmth, optimism and generosity.

DAY 7: GALLE FORT Less than 100km west of the bay and a twohour drive south of Colombo is Galle Fort, edged by the Indian Ocean and the city of Galle. The proximity of this historic town-within-a-town to the airport makes it an ideal final destination on a Sri Lankan trip, as does its reputation as the best place to shop on the island (leave the buying to last, right?). A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the fort feels like an ancient European city frozen in time. The crisscross of slim streets and alleyways, the fortified walls and bastions, the clock tower, the lighthouse, the colonnades – they’ve all been preserved (or restored) since the Dutch first occupied the area in the 1600s.

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T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T At the southern end of Galle Fort stands a prominent, historical landmark in the form of a lighthouse; Ella’s Mamma Shanti guest house and yoga retreat (mammashanti.com) has only nature as its neighbour; tuktuks driven by Sri Lankan locals are a convenient way of getting around the island; a visitor to Hiriketiya walks along the edge of the bay after a day spent in the ocean; fresh coconut water and a Wicked Chocolate smoothie bowl make for a heavenly breakfast at Hiriketiya’s Salt House; a bird’s-eye view of clear waters and patient surfers in Hiriketiya; Summer Green restaurant in Galle Fort offers a cool respite from the midday heat.

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When the heat starts to overwhelm the senses – it tends to lie over the town like a blanket – seek relief in any of several courtyard restaurants and coffee shops.

And later, as the day cools, you’ll find a seafacing bar upstairs at the Dutch Hospital shopping precinct the perfect resting place from which to contemplate the peace that settles over the fort, and the island it calls home, when darkness begins to fall.

HANDY HIRIKETIYA TIPS Travel to Hiriketiya via taxi from Ella’s main road – rates are fairly reasonable. Stay at Jasper House ( jasperhousesrilanka.com), Salt House (salthousesrilanka.net), Verse Collective ( verse collective) or Mango House ( Mango House – Hiriketiya), where management will cook up a curry-centric Sri Lankan feast for dinner on request.

Dine at the Salt House restaurant (try the mahi-mahi fillet), Dots Bay House ( Dots Bay House Hiriketiya) and The Grove ( the grove lanka), and pick up traditional Sri Lankan roti and kothu street food at the Roti Hut. Book a morning yoga class at Salt House or Dots Bay House, and a surf lesson through one of the small academies based on the beach.

Pack mosquito repellent (this is a tropical paradise, after all), a torch (for walking around at night) and a good book.

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T H I S S PR E A D, C L O C K W I S E F RO M T O P L E F T Hiriketiya’s sandy shoreline is peppered with colourful old fishing vessels; the view down the valley from the top of Little Adam’s Peak; a Dots Bay House breakfast of granola, yoghurt, fruit and chia seeds is a great way to start the day; Ella’s hillsides drip with lush greenery; watching the train pass over the Nine Arch Bridge is a popular Ella pastime; rooftops and alleyways in Galle Fort; smaller waves make Hiriketya a good place for swimming and beginner surfing; frangipani trees are a common sight in southern Sri Lanka; a worn door in Galle Fort speaks to the history of the walled town; egg hoppers and curry awaits lunchtime diners at Jasper House; in Galle Fort, a peacock perches on the roof of Exotic Roots (exoticroots.com) store and gallery.

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Formerly known as Byzantium, and then Constantinople, Istanbul is a diverse melting pot of history and culture. It’s Turkey’s most inhabited city, as well as its financial and cultural hub, and millions of tourists pass through every year. If you plan to be one of them, add these activities to your to-do list.

Indulge in a traditional Turkish bath It would be sacrilege to visit Turkey and not enjoy a traditional Turkish bath, or hammam. It starts with a tea ritual followed by you undressing and wrapping yourself in a towel before entering the hararet (hot room). Here, you’ll lie down on a marble ‘bed’, have water poured over you and be scrubbed vigorously by an attendant. Depending on the hammam you’ve chosen, the final part of the treatment is usually a rose-scented massage. kilicalipasahamami.com 114

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Eat (all) the food, the glorious food From balik ekmek (a popular and delicious fresh fish sandwich) to simit (molassesdipped, sesame-crusted pastry) and handmade Turkish delight, you may want to wear elasticated trousers in Istanbul.

Street-food vendors can be found all over the city, but to get an authentic fix, a food market is the place to head. The famed Grand Bazaar and the Egyptian Spice Market are good starting points, or visit the Sunday market in the Beyoğlu district.

Get your caffeine fix The ritual of drinking Turkish coffee is practised by almost everyone in the city daily, which means that most cafés get it spot on. Traditional coffee is served hot and black, with a glass of water and Turkish delight on the side. For a modern take, try Fes Café (fescafe.com) or keep it classic at Mandabatmaz (mandabatmaz.com.tr).

Browse antique treasures Bomonti Antiques Bazaar is a local flea market where sellers flog everything from old doorknobs and leather jackets to vintage jewellery and artefacts. There are some real treasures to be found here, which is why people have been returning to its stalls for years. Find it at Lala Şahin Sk, Feriköy.

Wander through Istanbul Modern Opened in 2004, Istanbul Modern was Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art honouring cultural identity and local creativity. For the next three years, it’s situated in a temporary location in Beyoğlu while a new building is being constructed. istanbulmodern.org Fly Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines flies between Istanbul and both Cape Town and Johannesburg frequently. Book at turkishairlines.com

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Cruise the Bosphorus Take in the city from the water while enjoying Turkish meze and floating past some of the country’s most important sights, like the Galata Tower and the Bosphorus Bridge. Cool down with a dip in the Black Sea when you stop off at the charming seaside town of Anadolu Kavagi. An afternoon well spent. bosphorustour.com

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DUAL- OR MULTIPURPOSE LIGHTING DESIGNS OFFER SPACE-SAVING SOLUTIONS THAT SUIT THE CURRENT MOVE TOWARDS MINIMALISM AND COMPACT LIVING.

C L O C K W I S E F RO M O PP O S I T E L E F T Melt Trio system by Tom Dixon R48 520, Créma; Cloud pendant R1 995, Weylandts; Pear hanging lamp R2 995, La Grange Interiors; Lake table lamp with shade in Stone R1 750, SHF; Moonjelly standing lamp in Terracotta R27 600, Dokter and Misses; Hat hanging lamp R3 995, La Grange Interiors; Melt surface light in Blue by Tom Dixon R13 050, Créma.

F RO M L E F T Cambridge bookshelf floor lamp R5 995, Weylandts; Eye Speaker lantern R1 495, Eurolux; Gaku lamp by Nendo for Flos R6 080 (wired) and R7 970 (wireless), Créma.

RED IS AN UNASHAMEDLY BOLD HUE IDEAL FOR ACHIEVING A PUNCH OF COLOUR IN A NEUTRAL SETTING. C L O C K W I S E F RO M L E F T Barberton A pendants in Plum R4 700 each, Type 75 Mini desk lamp in Signal Red by Anglepoise R7 135 and Funiculí wall light in Red by Lluís Porqueras for Marset from R5 690, all Newport; LED coloured globes in Red R50 each, Eurolux; LED strip lights in Red R220/m (12v 7.2W), K Light; Taz table lamp in Yellow/Red

by Cristián Mohaded R33 610, Roche Bobois; Bicoca lamp in Red Wine by Christophe Mathieu for Marset R5 850, Newport.

Petal 001 pendants in Pale Gold from R5 175 each (30×51cm), Mema Designs.

(Pendant system pictured R25 875; made to order)

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C L O C K W I S E F RO M L E F T Stellar candleholder R7 579, Okha; Agogo terracotta pendants from R2 900 each, Egg Designs; To Be Two steel standing lamp in Black with cotton shade and dimmable foot switch R21 351, Okha; Messina rattan pendants R1 295 each, Block & Chisel.

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These alluring additions are a great way to inject organic texture into your interiors and embrace the resurgence of traditional craft techniques.

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1980s NEON IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, WITH ECLECTIC CREATIONS IN IRIDESCENT DISCO SHADES PROVING HOW SHOWSTOPPING LIGHTING CAN BE. F RO M L E F T Linea lights (available in Green, Pink, White, Red, Blue and Yellow) by Selab + Alessandro Zambelli for Seletti POR, Generation; LED Orb ball light from R1 700, Mobelli; Bourgie table lamp in Multicoloured Sea Blue by Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell R8Â 635, True Design; Chroma table lamp (available in a range of colours) by Arturo Erbsman R22 320, Roche Bobois.

F RO M T O P Campilo2 pendant in Satin Chrome by Eurolux R392, Glolighting; Bamboo Bukag Gohanoy bamboo hanging lamp R1 795, Weylandts; Juniper rattan pendant R1 495, Block & Chisel.

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F RO M L E F T Planet low table lamp in Fume R6 590, Planet suspension light in Yellow R7 710 and Planet table lamp in Crystal R8 825, all by Tokujin Yoshioka for Kartell, True Design; Luminaire Gueridon Cirque light by Fabrice Berrux R34 510 and Pasteur floor lamp from R25 290, both Roche Bobois; Serena table lamp by Patricia Urquiola for Flos R10 336, Créma; LED G4 Eight Light Glass Ball pendant R7 335, K Light.

35. RETURN OF THE FAN These updated takes on the classic ceiling fan combine a retro feel with contemporary lines.

36. NATURAL MATERIALS

DESIGNERS ARE LOOKING TO THE CHINESE ELEMENTS OF LIFE, COMBINING WOOD, FIRE AND STONE TO EARTHY EFFECT.

F RO M T O P Turbo Swirl six-blade ceiling fan in Satin Chrome/Cherry Wood R1 630 and Comet fiveblade ceiling fan in Black R2 290, both Eurolux; Decor Petit Star MA ceiling fan R999, Builders.

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C L O C K W I S E F RO M L E F T Rock tea light candleholder by Tom Dixon R1 860, Créma; Andesite stone handcarved candleholder R395, Weylandts; Mojo Carbon timber candlesticks from R2 544 each, Okha.

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ROSE GOLD HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A MORE CLASSIC METALLIC VARIANT THAT EXUDES LUXURY.

impactful trend, where mixing materials and finishes in one fitting is not only encouraged, but essential.

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F RO M L E F T Stone lamp R4 600 (including raffia shade), Egg Designs; Mamo Deluxe table lamp POR, KARE Design; Concrete lamp R8 500, Dokter and Misses; Beetle Wood light R3 600, Studio19.

CLOCKWISE F RO M T O P Disc hanging pendant from R695, Weylandts; Lux table lamp in Gold by Sixth Floor R1 000, Superbalist.com; Olivier single wall lamp by Eichholtz R9 801, Core Furniture.

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CAGED INDUSTRIAL DETAILING MEETS ORNATE LATTICE-WORK IN GORGEOUSLY GEOMETRIC SILHOUETTES THAT WILL DRAW THE EYE IN ANY ROOM.

C L O C K W I S E F RO M L E F T Newton floor lamp R1 275, Eurolux; Oval Cage ceiling lamp R3 495, La Grange Interiors; Leaf pendant lamp R795, Weylandts; Traffic Broad lamp R9 192, Okha; Kabuki floor lamp in Black R16 900 and Mini Kabuki table lamp in White R8 635, both by Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell, True Design.

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FULL CIRCLE Clean-lined and contemporary, this Chinese Disk cabinet in Yellow with copper-plated frame and handles (R35 309; 1.2×1.8m) is fashioned after a traditional Chinese wedding cupboard. kare-johannesburg.co.za

FINE LINE Colour-blocking in subtle shades is huge in interiors right now, making this Block Party geometric-print rug in Citrus with charcoal and grey accents by Hertex (R2 500; 1.6×2.3m) bang on-trend. superbalist.com

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If bright yellows seem daunting, turn to a warm bronze in the form of this Lacuna sidetable in Gold (R2 000) shf.co.za

CRASH PAD Softness meets structure in this Jacobs Collection lounge chair, which boasts a black epoxy-coated steel frame and upholstery in Dijon (R8 880). knus.co

COTTON ON Add warmth with a Waffle cushion cover in Mustard (R300; 50×50cm). superbalist.com

BUSY PRINTS AND BOLD HUES ARE A PERFECT MATCH: OPT FOR FABRIC (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) IN TRICK, ACROBAT, FLIP AND JUGGLE FROM THE CARNIVAL RANGE (FROM R570/M). HOMEFABRICS.CO.ZA 122

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BRIGHTEN UP A SUBDUED LIVING SPACE WITH POPS OF LEMON, OCHRE AND CANARY YELLOW

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FOR A PUNCHY DOSE OF TANGERINE ON YOUR BATHROOM WALLS, TRY THESE MODERN GLASS TILES IN RUST FROM THE CRYSTAL COLOURS RANGE (R68/SHEET; 30×30CM). DOUGLASJONES.CO.ZA

SWEET DREAMS Diamond stitching and quilting provide a touch of individuality to this plush Baroque-style Bed City Spirit Boudoir bed in Red (R35 319; 1.6×2m). kare-johannesburg.co.za

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Go minimalist with an HV1-05 basin mixer

by Arne Jacobsen for Vola in Orange R8 125. stillbathrooms.co.za

TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE BY USING PINKS AND ORANGES IN UNEXPECTED WAYS

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PILLOW TALK Adorn your bed with a Burgundy Velvet or Burnt Orange Stripe cushion (R399 each; 60×60cm). houseofsofia.co.za

HANG TWELVE Blur the line between functionality and decoration with an eye-catching powder-coated steel and concrete Cactus coat stand in Signal Violet (R7 500; 1.7m tall). dokterandmisses.com

SCREEN TIME Update a shower enclosure with brightly coloured yet translucent glass in bold jewel tones for an extravagant look. Get the basics right with a Kessel Ultra Flat shower trap by Geberit (from R2 585 at Flush Bathrooms) for perfect drainage, and pick a round shower head in chrome for a clean-lined, unfussy look. flushbathrooms.co.za

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GROW ON Thanks to its expert sub-irrigation system, the Lechuza Cube 14-herb planter in Green (R229) will ensure all your herbs’ water needs are met. home.co.za

MAKE THE CUT Whether you see a glass as half empty or half full, it won’t matter with these fine faceted offerings (R349; set of four). superbalist.com

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OPEN HOUSE Plantation security shutters in Matt Grey White (from R5 405/m²) make secure indoor-outdoor living a breeze. Because they run on a top and bottom track, you can simply slide and fold them back to open up your space, and close and lock them when not in use. plantation.co.za

SIT BACK Comfort is key in the timber Loop chair in Jungle (R3 450), whose form-hugging rolled-aluminium backrest has been ergonomically designed to provide ultimate support. dokterand misses.com

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HOT STUFF With its heat-resistant handles, high-quality finish and five-year guarantee, this whistling kettle in Rosemary is a worthwhile investment (R1 650). lecreuset.co.za

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LIEBHERR IS KNOWN FOR PRODUCING LUXURIOUS AND INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS, AS SEEN IN ITS NO-FROST COMBINATION FRIDGE (R18 000; 304L), WHICH MAKES A VIBRANT STATEMENT WHILE ENSURING LONG-TERM FRESHNESS. HIRSCHS.CO.ZA

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43 NATURAL SKINCARE Suki Suki Naturals founder Linda Gieskes-Mwamba lets us into her beautiful life

I am a Congolese Jozi girl, a former lawyer, and CEO and founder of Suki Suki Naturals.

Suki Suki Naturals is a natural haircare and skincare brand born in Johannesburg.

I came up with the idea for it when I decided to grow my Afro back in 2010. I couldn’t find anything natural for my hair on the market, so I blended my own products, which I then shared with family and friends.

When I saw how popular they were among my close circle, I chose to turn my passion for natural beauty into profit. I like what I do because it allows me to challenge my creativity and create something beautiful that people can experience on a daily basis.

The worst part of my job is having to wear many hats. Running a small business means you have to fill different roles, like being your own marketing department and accountant at times, as well as your own HR. Natural skincare in South Africa is a return to exploring truly natural beauty.

It’s uncomplicated, diverse and efficient.

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in Joburg’s inner city is dinner at Yeoville Dinner Club. They serve Pan African meals hosted by Sanza Sandile at an 18-seater dining room table. Sanza blends traditional meals from East, West, South and Central Africa, so you really get to taste the continent through his dinners. Plus, his stories are the best. The best view in South Africa is the view of Johannesburg from Northcliff Ridge, when the jacarandas are blooming. I’m definitely not timid and softspoken. When I was younger, I used to think that I would be a practicing attorney. When I’m tired I put on an overnight facial mask, pray and sleep. My kitchen cupboard staple is organic coconut oil – I cook everything with it. The best advice I ever received is to not take anything personally. Working in the beauty industry has taught me to always differentiate my product and remain unique.

Every South African brand should diversify and seek to claim a place in the global

market. Don’t leave Johannesburg without trying a pizza from Coalition. My go-to comfort food is home-cooked Congolese food. I especially love pondu (cassava leaves cooked with smoked fish) and rice. I always travel with too many cosmetics. I’m paranoid that I won’t have enough for potential skin emergencies. And a good book. The one place I’ve travelled to that I’ll never forget is Paraty, Brazil, a charming town on the edge of Rio de Janeiro province. From my travels, I always bring back a better knowledge of the country I visited, food and local recipes.

My next dream holiday destination is Sri Lanka. If money were no object, I’d build schools and train teachers across Africa, and travel for six months every year. I’m reading The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli (Hodder & Stoughton). I’m listening to Jorja Smith, Snoh Aalegra, Sabrina Claudio and Vincent Delerm. sukisukinaturals.co.za sukisukinaturals

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