CLOUDBREAK
BISHOPSCOURT, CAPE TOWN
Serenity Beauty&
If you combined the glorious arching space of a country church, an art gallery with enough volume to showcase fine works and a modern take on the great hall of a manor house, you may begin to take in Cloudbreak’s grand proportions. But for all this, it has the look and feel of a sophisticated urban farmhouse in colours, textures, fabrics, furniture and collections that combine to create a comfortable, embracing lifestyle for family and friends.
The house, says the owner, grew as it was rebuilt and morphed into its current proportions and is filled with inherited artworks and commissions. It accounts for the ‘surprise and delight’ factor of the home. There are works by photographer David Goldblatt, provocation and engagement by Willem Boschoff and Guy Tillim, a striking armchair in fabric inspired by the late Wonderboy Nxumalo of Ardmore Ceramics fame.
It is a home that invites instant and easy relaxation; sofas are large and comfortable, floors screeded or maple wood and are silky underfoot. In the study, books reach to the rafters and demand that you drift from title to title and wonder why anyone could even suggest that the book should take second place to the Kindle.
