Llandudno is an enclave cut into a steep mountainside, surrounded by sweet textures of earth shades and fringed by a frolic of white-capped waves. Through the years it has retained an exclusivity that could hardly be bettered anywhere in the world. The house, called Emanzini, which in Xhosa means ‘On the Water’ lies close to the shoreline and is filled with a lambent light generated by sky and sea. For Vanda and Peter Jewiss it was love at first sight. “The house was nothing really, we had to reconstruct, renovate, pull down, go up and out. It was more innovation than renovation,” she says. “It was all about position.”
