ISSUE #20 2015
THE GIFT FOR GIVING...
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Contents
10 EDITOR’S PICK.
12 STYLE HUNTER. BUYER.
Peace of mind in giving.
Jaci Foti Lowe
14 STYLE HUNTER. DESIGNER. Georgie Jeffries
16 STYLE HUNTER. DESIGNER.
18 STYLE HUNTER. WRITER.
20 STYLE HUNTER. DESIGNER.
Nicci Green
Yvette Caprioglio
Shareen Joel
22 STYLE HUNTER. ARCHITECT.
24 COLLECTING BEAUTY.
39 TRAVEL.
Paul Owen
A renovated Victorian home.
An LA Guide - Four Ways.
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Editor’s Letter Since leaving Gunnedah for a life in the city almost nine years ago, this is the very first time that I will not kick off the festive season with a long, extended car trip across the country with my three now giant sons, their size 13 smelly feet and my severely over-worked, exhaustedto-the-bone husband.
holiday. And finally I would like not to have to worry about trying to maintain some shred of surprise and mystery when it comes to gift giving for the children as they travel across two states with their Christmas presents stabbing them in the head from the boot of the car.
Yes the 3 best gifts I could possibly receive this year are; Not to have to suffer through another pre dawn lecture (fight) on ‘how to pack a car’. Not to have to justify, again, why I ‘need’ to pack almost every pair of shoes that I own to go on
I can only hope that this year you are given the gift of peace too - wherever in the world you may be.
Avoiding all of this brings me peace.
Sian MacPherson EDITOR IN CHIEF
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THE BEST GIFTS ARE THE ONES YOU WANT TO KEEP.
Shop at livingedge.com.au and enjoy free shipping until December 24. Left to right: L’Oisseau, Flow Jug, Girard Dolls (various models left to right), Sunstitch Watch, Eames® Elephant, Theo Tray, Hacker Watch, Float Candlesticks, Haus Paperweights, Backenzahn Side Table, Speedy Carafe and tumblers in Amber, Nelson™ Tripod Desk Clock, Personal Essence Candle, Silent Vase, Eames House Bird, Nelson™ Diamond Desk Clock, Rotary Tray.
est GLOBAL LIVING WITH AN AUSTRALIAN TWIST
EDITOR IN CHIEF SIAN MACPHERSON sian@estmagazine.com.au
GRAPHIC DESIGNER GEORGIE MCKENZIE georgie@estmagazine.com.au
CONTRIBUTORS
EDITORIAL TRAVEL Georgia Hopkins. PHOTOGRAPHY Warren Heath, Georgia Hopkins. PRODUCTION Sven Alberding, STYLING WORDS Yvette Caprioglio, Jaci Foti-Lowe, Nicci Green, Dominique Herman, Georgia Hopkins, Georgina Jeffries, Shareen Joel.
ON THE COVER
PHOTOGRAPHY Warren Heath | PRODUCTION Sven Alberding LOCATION Capetown, South Africa.
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CONNECT
LIVING EDGE
GREAT DANE Black & Brass True Colour Vase
AC11 Stop Bookend
APPARATUS Censer
HARVEST CLAY Ceramic Plates
PLYROOM Heritage Binoculars
ROGERSELLER Bai Lu Chair
ANCIENT GREEK SANDALS Niove Leather Sandals
STAPLE&CO AT PROJECT 82 Harry Coffee Table
editors picks ROYAL DOULTON Barber & Osgerby Olio Black Matte Jug
While peace and quiet is my number one wish, there are a few more items that I would like to both give... and receive. BY SIAN MACPHERSON
PULPO Fumi Lamp
A beautiful French ceramic lamp made of two identical parts joined by a magnet which allows the head to softly rotate.
ESTﾃ右 LAUDER DayWear Moisturizer
style hunter gift guide BY JACI FOTI LOWE
ONE HOT YOGA Yoga Sessions WHEN OBJECTS WORK Primitive Key Holder LESLEY HARDING & KENDRAH MORGAN Modern Love: The Lives of John & Sunday Reed
RM WILLIAMS Boots
A great pair of RM Williams will take you from the city to the country and back again.
MUSEUM MEMBERSHIP I live in Victoria, so my picks are Heide Museum of Modern Art and the NGV.
ILSE CRAWFORD A Frame For Life
I love giving and receiving beautiful books, you can never have too many.
BYRON BAY HANGING CHAIRS Coco
This will be the perfect addition to our new home in Lorne.
MULLER VAN SEVEREN Seat
PHILLIP LOW Sculptures
SASKIA DIEZ Sling Ring
TAKEAWEI’S CHELA EDMUNDS CUP MAKING CLASS Handmade clay works
My sisters will be receiving handmade gifts made at Chela Edmunds cup making class at Guild of Objects.
JASPER MORRISON FOR FLOS Glo-Ball Basic Lamp
style hunter gift guide BY GEORGINA JEFFRIES
CUTIPOL Goa White 24 Piece Cutlery Set
R.J.PALACIO 365 Days of Wonder
This book has so many buried treasures hidden in the words for the special kids in my life.
HERMES Goliath Leather Bracelet
JULIAN TWIGG
I love Julian Twigg’s ‘Shipping Views’ - such a talented artist. Fingers crossed for one of these.
CUTLER & GROSS
Aviator Sunglasses
SIA TAYLOR Dots Necklace
Whimsical, artisanal and delicately small seed like forms in yellow and white 18 karat gold.
style hunter gift guide BY NICCI GREEN
RINA MENARDI CERAMICS Ondene ALISON JACKSON Utensils 2
Combining traditional silver smith techniques with a contemporary aesthetic to create special pieces for everyday use.
PETER.D.COLE
I have wanted one of these sculptures for years.
I am coveting all and any of the Rina Menardi ceramic works.
LEICA CAMERA Leica X Moncler Edition
Snap the behind-thescenes party action like a pro. Post on Instagram at your own risk.
SOPHIA WEBSTER
ITALIA INDEPENDENT Velvet Double Bridge Sunglasses
‘Evangeline’ Sandals
Dance the night away in style!
KITX Unity Wristband
COMME DES GARÇONS Colour My Love
THE FLOWERS Dr Lisa Cooper
Photographic essays by artist and philosopher Dr Lisa Cooper.
NARS
‘Chinatown’
Paint the town a distinctive shade of Bordeaux. Wildly chic.
INGVAR KENNE ‘Anonymous Couple. Holiday Makers’
ARTICOLO Lumi Lamp
Set the mood with the right lighting.
SMYTHSON Panama Diary
Thumb your nose at technology and carry a jaunty pocket diary.
GAN Mangas Original Spaces Rugs
MECCA Beauty Sleep
style hunter gift guide BY YVETTE CAPRIOGLIO
Who doesn’t need an eye brightener in party season before and after the party?
ARCHITECTMADE BY FINN JUHL Turning Tray 3
SORI YANAGI Flatware
MENU Pepe Marble Mirror
FRAMA TDE Monogrammed Pouch
MENU Afteroom Coat Hanger
Ceramics
KEVYN AUCOIN
GEORG JENSEN
Volume Mascara
I don’t tend to wear any makeup but this one I can’t leave home without!
Ilse & Mama Vase
STUDIO OLIVER GUSTAV X MAD ET LEN The Noir Candle
DIANNE SCHREIBER Personalised Bangle
One of the most personal treasures from my friend Dianne Schreiber.
STILLEBEN Kopper Cups
I was just in Copenhagen and I fell in love with these coloured glazed cups at Stilleben.
style hunter gift guide BY SHAREEN JOEL
BYREDO Gypsy Water
LEE BROOME Clear crystal bulb
STANLEY Hip Flask
ROSENDAHL Grand Cru Tumbler
MR BRAITHWAIT The Classic Slim Wrist Watch
HARD GRAFT 1st edition travel bag
MARCS Brando Tee Shirt
style hunter gift guide BY PAUL OWEN
MESSERMEISTER Olivia 23cm stealth chef knife
ROWSAAN Sugar Spoon
OMEGA Speedmaster
OWEN ARCHITECTURE Knife Roll
ERIK MAGNUSSEN Stelton Ships Lamp
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COLLECTING BEAUTY Interior designer and events planner Otto De Jager’s Cape Town pied-à-terre is brimming with an enviable assortment of what he dubs ‘artisanal antiques.’ PHOTOGRAPHY Warren Heath | PRODUCTION Sven Alberding WORDS Dominique Herman
‘The books are a nonsensical idea of making it look lived in, but obviously curated.’
‘Every house should have a cabinet of curiosities,’ says Otto De Jager, smoothing his hands over an old leather wallet embossed with his initials that belonged to his father and grandfather. Surrounded by family photographs and memoribilia, the Johanesburg based interior designer and events planner describes his Victorian duplex in Capetown, as a part investment, part lifestyle property purchase he made 13 years ago – after midnight, while drunk. ‘Friends told me the house was for sale. We were drinking down the alley. We walked over at about one o’clock in the morning, drunk. We walked into the kitchen, we had another bottle of wine and then about 2, 3 o’clock in the morning the owner says to me, you want to buy my house? and I said yes and I said how much and he said so much and I said, your house is sold. I didn’t even have a look at how many bedrooms the house had.’ Otto then embarked on what he describes as a ‘helluva renovation’. The 103 year-old cottage was stripped, walls were knocked down and windows were installed for better views. ‘It had over a hundred years of paint on. We spent three months taking about 20 different layers of paint off the balustrade of the staircase. The bathrooms were a mess. I had a bathroom in the kitchen, which I hated. It was a dump, but a good dump.’ The ‘dump’ is now white, light and bright, with soaring ceilings and back-to-back original fireplaces (with original Victorian tiles). The kitchen is clad in stainless steel juxtaposed with old, bull-nosed columns, marble countertops and reading lights on the wall. ‘A lot of what we did is to bring a Victorian semi into a modern era. It’s really about throwing things together, bringing it into the new but, really, the integrity had to remain.’ ‘There are no modern appliances; there are no microwaves, dishwashers, TVs – and there’s a very good reason for that. I wanted people to read and to talk in the space and to do
menial tasks together. It’s amazing how serious conversation and big a catch-up time it can be when friends or lovers or parents and children do dishes together,’ he says. ‘I wanted to bring it back into a certain era. We can listen to music, we can read. Let’s get to bed early, let’s cook together, let’s bake together, let’s have tea together. It’s a place of nostalgia and calming down and spending time with people.’ The stategic quiet is aided by the religious paraphernalia all over which Otto says was completely unintentional, attributing it to a phase he ‘must have been going through’. There are Catholic statues, Christian crosses, the Star of David on a lot of his silverware and a Hindu granite marble slab in the entranceway. And the theme extends to the white dove in the oversized photograph on the living room wall and the biblical olive trees in the courtyard next to the kitchen – a spot where Otto takes outdoor showers. On the upstairs landing is the ‘gallery of instant ancestors’: another charmingly named decorative motif in the house. ‘In photography, in art and in collecting, I love a good portrait,’ he says. These oil painted portraits were collected separately across South Africa and sit beneath a skylight that provides the sort of dazzling reverence reserved for a Rembrandt retrospective. In his coastal home, amid the narrow streets of Green Point village, there’s an old flower press on the wooden kitchen table from the British Museum. In the one living room is an English grandfather clock that used to live in his grandparents’ home. Otto recalls waking up as a child in the middle of the night to its chimes. In the smaller guestroom, a stack of books on the dresser are also from his late father’s practice, and form a complete encyclopedic edition of medicine published prior to 1914. ‘The fact that a lot here is collected, is who I am. I love collecting beauty – of nothing in particular. It’s not about being planned. It’s about having an eye and realising that something will work.’
‘I hate kitchens that read as kitchens. Traditionally they become dumping grounds of anything messy.’
The ‘gallery of instant ancestors’ on the staircase landing.
‘A house needs to reflect stories and memories.’
‘I think interiors are too generic. They don’t always reflect people’s priorities or the spaces that they live in.’
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IT’S BEAUTIFUL HERE Melbourne born, LA living Georgia Hopkins shares her guide to LA - whether you’re there on a girls trip, staying for business or taking a family vacay. WORDS & PRODUCTION Georgia Hopkins
GRACIAS MADRE
GIRLS TRIP Stay: Chateau Marmont, West Hollywood. Caffeinate: Alfred Coffee in Melrose Place (after smoothies from Beverly Hills Juice (LA’s original juice bar) - order the Banana Manna shake with Apple, Ginger and Coconut). Eat: République for brunch; Gracias Madre for long lunch; Pace for dinner. Sip: On a chilled bottle of rosé in the sunny courtyard of the Chateau. Later, head to Sunset Towers for a nightcap. Shop: Melrose Place (we love Ten Over Six, Isabel Marant, Zimmerman). Creatures of Comfort. Just One Eye. Opening Ceremony. Cos. Play: Hike Runyon Canyon. Gracias Madre
CHATEAU MARMONT
WITH THE KIDS Stay: Beverly Hills Hotel (for old-school LA, and a 24-hour concierge on-call for any child-centric requests such as bottle warming or babysitting). Caffeinate: Grab coffee from The Trails cafe at Griffith Park, so the kids can run around outside. Eat: Breakfast at Superba Food + Bread in Venice (high chairs and change tables on offer), lunch at Malibu Farm (on the Malibu pier). Early dinner at Gjusta (Gjelina’s bakery) for incredible salads, smoked fish, pizza, and more. Super casual, friendly vibes. Sip: Have a drink by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, while the kids splash around in the water in front of you. Shop: Burro (for kids) on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice Beach. Play: Walk along the paved oceanfront boardwalk down at Venice, starting at the epic pirate-inspired playground and along to Santa Monica. Make stops at the skateboard park, and the multiple playgrounds along the way. Beach time is also fun - we recommend family friendly Paradise Cove (full of kids). Point Dume is also good.
SUPERBA
GJUSTA
BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL
HOTEL COVELL
COUPLES ONLY Stay: Hotel Covell, Los Feliz. Caffeinate: Dinosaur, or Dinette (and try the avo toast). Eat: Sqirl for breakfast (always); République for lunch, Ostrich Farm for dinner. Sip: Bar Stella for their Sophia cocktail, or L&E Oyster Bar for a bottle of rosé (and oysters, of course). Shop: Mixed Business for vintage, Mohawk General Store (for all your favorite brands), Apolis (menswear), and Alchemy Works (for a bit of everything).
OSTRICH FARM
Play: Book in for an evening tour of the Stahl House, then catch a show at the Hollywood Bowl or Greek Theatre.
ALCHEMY WORKS
DINETTE
SQIRL
VERVE CAFE MELROSE
IN TOWN FOR BUSINESS Stay: Ace Downtown, DTLA. Caffeinate: Verve Coffee Roasters, or Blacktop (and order their luscious toast). Eat: Healthy breakfast (and smoothies) at the Springs, grab lunch at Grand Central Market (plenty of food stalls to choose from), dinner at Bestia. Sip: Ace Hotel Rooftop (essential as the sun goes down). Shop: Kathleen Whitaker (for jewellery), Apolis (for men’s threads), Alchemy Works (for a bit of everything), Poketo, APC and Acne. Play: Swap your suit for your workout gear and hike to up to the Griffith Park Observatory at sunset.
A.P.C
ACE HOTEL
VERVE COFFEE ROASTERS
SURF SAFARI Stay: Rose Hotel, Venice Beach. Caffeinate: Menotti’s, Blue Bottle, or Gjusta. Eat: If in Venice - Cafe Gratitude for breakfast, Gjusta for lunch, Gjelina for dinner. If in Malibu Malibu Farm Cafe for breakfast, Sun Life Organics for smoothies and healthy stuff, Cholada Beach for low-key thai in a beach shack (post-surf), or Cafe Habana for tacos and margaritas. Sip: Venice Beach Wines, or Rosenthal wines (if in the Bu) Shop: Lincoln Blvd (for the General Store (our #1), Dawn (vintage dresses), Tradesmen (for mens), Bassike (hello, Australia!), Nick Fouquet (for custom hats), Deus, and Mollusk Surf Shop - closer to the beach. Play: Surf, of course. Venice (for little waves), or head further up the coast to Malibu or the Ventura County Line.
DAWN
ROSE HOTEL VENICE BEACH