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16 SHOPPING From Seoul to Mexico City; we shop across some of the world’s greatest cities 20 CITY GUIDE Four fabulous influencers walk us through SA’s top cities 24 FOOD Brunch in the city, anyone?

30 CURATE Mother City street style 38 ROUND TABLE Our deep-dive discussion into the complexities of street art in a new decade 42 IDEAS COLUMN Rashiq Fataar, urban strategist, talks to us about retrofitting South Africa’s urban spaces 44 DESIGN SPOTLIGHT SA/Milanese duo Cara + Davide enlighten us about their residency with Conrad Hicks 50 ART DETAIL Exclusive look at Roger Ballen’s not-yet-open Centre for Photographic Arts in JHB 54 TRAVEL Explore the dynamic city of Beijing

62 PLANTATION ROAD This Cape Town abode’s split personality is more than just a product of its environment 76 HOW HALLMARK HOUSE LIVES Speaking to the first generation of residents in David Adjaye’s landmark Hallmark House in JHB 92 HIGH DESIGN A merging of Art Deco sensibility with contemporary sophistication at the new Tuynhuys building in Keerom Street 108 PLAYING WITH PROPORTION Design duo, Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama, show us their family’s London-based city cottage 117 GET THE LOOK Shop this city cottage

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120 THE NEW WAY OF LIVING Inspiration for your living room through lighting, seating, tech, greenery and room finishes

REGULARS 5 ED’S NOTE Editor Charl Edwards points the way for this issue of House and Leisure 7 ED’S MOOD A visual taster of what you can expect from this City Issue 10 READY TO SHOP A selection of on-the-go must-haves that you can shop directly from the pages of House and Leisure 12 ONLINE Explore houseandleisure.co.za for unique content on everything happening in our world, as well as added value articles and videos to support this month’s issue 53 COMPETITION 127 STOCKISTS 128 FINAL WORD

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‘We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.’

- Jane Jacobs This couldn’t be more true. In this issue we’ve gathered a small community of people who are engaging with this head-on, all making change through their work and home life. First up we take a tour of a Vredehoek house built by two architects for their two families, on page 62. For their city dwelling these friends created a house that would function as two homes. ‘We were determined to live in the city and the only way to do that was to share space’, says Stephen Hitchcock. ‘We really need to take a hard look at that, and use land more sparingly, but in a way that is still well-considered and designed well’. Urban strategist, Rashiq Fataar, echoes this in his column ‘Retrofitting Our Cities For The Future’ on page 42, as he looks at city regeneration and the revival of Durban’s inner city. ‘Our best bet is, in fact, working with what we already have: a future retrofit’.

This philosophy is evident in couple, Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama’s London cottage on page 108. ‘We believe in designing for the real world. With more people moving into cities around the world, space is at a premium and we are interested in creating hardworking homes from a small footprint’, says Nina.

With this thinking, recycling and reimagining are critical and constant themes in their work, as per their London cottage, at 45m²; tiny yet impactful.

We also visit Hallmark House in Maboneng, designed by Nigerian architect David Adjaye, where we take a look inside and see how a new generation of Joburgers have made this landmark building their home, all voicing their love, frustration, appreciation and conflicted relationship with the city they call home: ‘As Joburg citizens, we are the ones who need to help make sure it becomes the city we can enjoy living in, and remove the stereotype’, says resident and urban farmer Siyabonga Mngoma. Which takes us to this gem of a quote from urban activist and theorist Jane Jacobs: ‘The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all.’

Time for us to reflect on the way we live, how we interact with our neighbours, and how we enjoy the space we call home.

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THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Nandipha Mqoco loves Pretoria so much that she got Pretoria’s area code ‘012’ tattooed on her arm; if you’re looking for handmade artisanal goods made in the city, Nandipha recommends the Market@The Sheds; to revive your soul with culture, visit the new Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria; Nandipha Mqoco shows us her street style; view of Pretoria city taken from the perspective of the Union Buildings Gardens.

family for brunch? Khaleo.

Nursery? Plantland. Burger?

Hudson’s at The Club Hazelwood.

Country restaurant? Irene Farm.

Chefs? The chefs at Fumo, Baobab and Moo Moo at Menlyn Mall.

Jazz? The University of Pretoria’s music department hosts festivals – those students are really talented! Weekend hike?

Hennops trail. Antique store?

There’s tons inside Duncan Yard.

Market? Market@TheSheds.

Coffee? Aroma Coffee Roastery.

Favourite building? Church Square – such cool architecture.

You’re happy they renovated...

Centurion Mall. You wish they’d renovate... not so much renovate, but bring back Splash, the water park. Pretorians are... super friendly and welcoming.

Pretoria’s most stylish person?

Me, haha! It’s polite in Pretoria to... greet first before you ask or do anything. All the cool kids hang out at... +27 Cafe. Best event of the PTA calendar? Tshwanefontein. The lie you should never believe about Pretoria? That it’s an hour’s drive from Joburg. Pretoria is great because... the people here know how to have a good time!

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The best street in Pretoria?

Bronkhorst St, when all the jacarandas are in bloom.

Prettiest park? The gardens and grounds surrounding the Union Buildings. Bookstore? Protea Bookshop. Bottlestore? Johnny’s Liquor. Most comfortable couch? The ones at Bravo Pizzeria in Hatfield – best pizza spot. Store you wished your house looked like? Industrial Coffee Works in Centurion.

Pretoria’s most interesting people? Our taxi drivers. Top culture spaces? Pretoria Art Museum, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria and the Voortrekker Monument.

Space to watch the sunset?

Waterkloof. A great tree? The jacaranda, of course! Best walking neighbourhood? Midstream Estate. Cocktails? Altitude.

Cinema? Cinema Nouveau at Brooklyn Mall. Best place for a first date? De Kloof restaurant.

If you had to propose to your love one in the city, where? I would book out the entire Yadah Castle for the weekend so we could have it all to ourselves. Spa? Soulstice Day Spa. Salon? Sorbet Man at Menlyn Maine. Clothes boutique? My favourite place to shop is Brooklyn Mall. Take your

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Smith Studio curator / Performance artist The best street in Cape Town?

Kloof Nek corner, but mostly because El Burro Taqueria is there. Prettiest gardens? The garden at Rust en Vreugd in Buitenkant St. Bookstore? The Book Lounge (basement). Most comfortable couch? The long pink couch at Dorp Hotel in Bo-Kaap. Store you wished your house looked like? Mulberry & Prince eatery. CPT’s most interesting person? Martin Magner. You just. Can’t. Look.

Away. Top three art galleries?

Smith – of course – and Blank and Whatiftheworld. Most interesting museum? Zeitz MOCAA. Space to watch the sunset? ‘Sunset Rock’ at the top of Fresnaye. Best walking neighbourhood? Sea Point promenade. Pizza spot? NY Slice on Kloof St. Cocktails?

The Willaston Bar at The Silo hotel. Dancing? Multi Love at the Waiting Room. Cinema?

The Labia on Orange St is an institution. Best place for a first date? Nelson’s Eye restaurant.

If you had to propose to your loved one somewhere in the city, where? The Mount Nelson Hotel. Spa? The One&Only.

Salon? Savas from Savas Hair. Mall? V&A Waterfront.

Great venue for a family brunch?

Skotnes restaurant at Norval Foundation – take a walk through the sculpture garden.

Nursery? The tiny Gardens Nursery in Scott St. Record store? The Other Records in Observatory, run by my friends Aaron and Johan. Country restaurant? Chefs Warehouse at Maison in Franschhoek.

Chef? Zeng Meie of Hesheng makes the best dumplings in town. Jazz? Cape Town International Jazz Festival.

Market? Oranjezicht City Farm Market in Granger Bay. Coffee?

Loading Bay in DeWaterkant.

Favourite building? I adore the pink Holyrood building on Queen Victoria St. Sushi? Kyoto Garden on Kloof Nek Rd. You’re happy they renovated… the Silo District. It created a new creative hub for CPT. CPT’s most stylish person? Hands down, Peter Georgiades. It’s polite in Cape Town to… bring wine to the dinner party. All the cool kids hang out at… Zer021. Best event of the CPT calendar? ArtAngels at Ellerman House. The lie you should never believe about Cape Town? That there’s no water, and that it’s a sleepy city! Follow Jana on @jana_babez

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Curator Jana Terblanche recommends the brunch at Skotnes at the Norval Foundation; the considered interiors of Mulberry & Prince; Jana at work in the beautiful Smith gallery; the Dorp Hotel holds Jana’s most comfortable couch in the city; art with a great view are the order of the day at The Willaston Bar at Silo Hotel; if Jana had to propose to her loved one, it would be at the Mount Nelson Hotel.

Roxanne Robinson’s

Mr Price trend forecaster / Florida Road bae

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Style guru Roxanne Robinson has found home in Durban; a walk along the promenade is the perfect way to view the sunrise; an example of one of the Art Deco buildings that line the streets of Durbs; sweet treats at the iHeart market; at the Hay store the new 9th Avenue Waterside serves some delectable cocktails; kicking up heels at Fun World on the Durban beachfront.

The best street in Durban? Florida Rd is definitely ‘The Strip’ in Durban. The prettiest park?

Mitchell Park in Morningside.

Bookstore? Ike’s Books and Collectables in Florida Rd. Bottlestore? Marriott Gardens Wine Cellar. Store you wished your house looked like? Pablo Honey in Hillcrest. Top art galleries? KZNSA has the best local art exhibitions. Most interesting museum? The Natural Science Museum, in one of the most grand buildings in town. Space to watch the sunset? Durban’s thing is sunrise – along the promenade.

A great tree? A tabebuia tree on Argyle Rd that blooms brilliantly yellow in spring. Best walking neighbourhood? My hood, Glenwood. Pizza spot?

Glenwood Bakery. Cocktails?

9th Avenue Waterside. Beer?

My go-to is Dropkick Murphys in Florida Rd. Dancing? Ryan van Rooyen’s Roots Up events.

Cinema? Open-air at the Botanic Gardens. Best place for first date?

Buy a soft serve and go to Fun World on the beachfront. Clothes boutique? Adele Catherine in Kloof. Family brunch venue? Parc in Glenwood for all-day breakfast and mimosas. Nursery? Hingham

in Durban North. Record store? Khaya records at the bottom of Florida. Jazz? The Chairman, in Mahatma Gandhi Rd. Weekend hike? Krantzkloof Nature Reserve. Antique store?

Eclectic Antiques, Haden Rd, Morningside. Market? The iHeart market at the Hay store. Coffee?

Humble Coffee on Churchill Rd. Favourite building? Las Vegas apartment block on the beachfront. Chappie-wrapper fact you recently learnt about your city? Durban has the most Art Deco buildings after Miami.

Most annoying thing people ask Durbanites? Is it always this humid? (Yes). Durbanites are... mostly wearing slops. Best event of the Durban calendar?

Wavescape film festival. The lie you should never believe about Durban? Anything about ‘winter’.

Winter never arrives in Durban.

Burger? Surf Riders’ mushroom burger. Country restaurant? La Lampara Italian restaurant in the Midlands. Sushi? Durban is better for curry – spots like Little Gujarat and Happy Chappy.

Durban is great because... in some ways you never really stop feeling like you’re on holiday.

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Investec brand manager / Recovering gallerista The best street in Johannesburg?

Any street embellished with fallen lavender from jacarandas in spring. Prettiest gardens?

Beechwood Gardens and the Northwards House gardens are beautiful. Bookstore? The Commune. Bottlestore? Dry Dock in Parkhurst. A place you wished your house looked like?

The Tiaan Nagel store in Hyde Park. Top three art galleries?

Goodman, Stevenson, BKhz. Most interesting museum? Wits University’s Origins Centre and Johannesburg Art Gallery.

Space to watch the sunset?

Pablo House in Melville. Best walking neighbourhood?

Illovo. Pizza spot? Coalition.

Cocktails? Sin & Taxes. Dancing?

Mamakashaka’s (Nandi Dlepu) parties. Cinema? The Bioscope.

Best place for first date? Farro in Illovo. If you had to propose to your loved one somewhere in the city, where? Somewhere private, but beautiful. Maybe View at Four Seasons Hotel The Westcliff.

Spa? The Saxon Hotel spa. Salon?

Trip Tik, Sandton. Mall? Hyde Park Corner. Clothing boutique?

Convoy. Family brunch venue?

Breezeblock in Brixton. Nursery?

GardenShop, Bryanston. Record store? Mr Vinyl at 44 Stanley

Ave. Chef? Sasha at Brik Café.

Jazz? Untitled Basement in Braamfontein. Weekend hike?

Magalies Mountain Sanctuary Park. Antique store? Our House, Melville. Market? Victoria yards, First Sunday. Coffee? I’m a tea person. But if I must do coffee, it’ll be Seattle Coffee at The MARC. Favourite building?

Lotus House – Lezaan Viviers’ studio. Chappie-wrapper fact you recently learnt about Joburg?

It has been rebuilt four times in the span of a century. Sushi?

Yamada in Illovo. Most annoying thing people ask Joburgers? Do you ever have anything to do here? (We have everything to do!)

You’re happy they renovated…

The Victoria Yards precinct, which is fantastic. You wish they would renovate libraries and more public spaces in and around the city. Joburgers are … kind and generous in spirit. Joburg’s most stylish people? People who carry themselves with unapologetic confidence. All the cool kids hang out at… Royale. Best event of the JHB calendar? The FNB Art Joburg and Noble Vice Wine and Culinary Event, and the Mandisi Dyantis concert will be a goodie this year. Follow Cassandra on @cassmiat O

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT Cassandra Twala and Joburg go hand in hand; the courtyard at Breezeblock is the perfect spot to soak up some sun and enjoy a family brunch; Cassandra found her feet in the art world, and is now bringing the art of investment to Investec; the Saxon Spa is her best spot for some R‘n’R; Mountain Sanctuary Park in Magaliesburg is the perfect escape from the city; Lotus House in Parktown North, the home of Viviers Studio.

unch n th city It’s a good morning when brunch is on the menu...

And in the city anything goes, from focaccia and figs to cheeseburgers with spicy slaw.

CHEESEBURGERS WITH SPICY SLAW BURGERS 800g coarsely minced beef with a good amount of fat (about 20 per cent) 3 tsp oil 6 bacon rashers, rind trimmed and halved 6 soft burger buns 100g coarsely grated cheddar 100g coarsely grated Emmental

Sriracha and tomato slices, to serve SPICY SLAW 500g cabbage (about ⅓ small cabbage), thinly sliced ½ small white onion, thinly sliced 75g (¼ cup) mayonnaise 2 tbsp sour cream 3 small red chillies, finely chopped (seeds optional) Handful of flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped 2 tsp white wine vinegar

1. For spicy coleslaw, combine all ingredients in a bowl, season and refrigerate until required.

2. For the patties, season beef with salt, form into 6 patties and flatten to 1.5cm thick.

Heat a large frying pan to a high heat. Add oil and bacon and fry until starts to crisp (45½ mins). Toast the cut sides of the buns on a grill pan or under a hot grill in the oven (1-2 mins).

Fry patties on one side until browned (3-3½ mins), then turn

and cook until almost medium (2-2½ mins). Top with cheese and cover with a lid, and cook until cheese melts and beef is cooked to your liking (1 min for medium).

3. Top your toasted bun bases with Sriracha, patties, tomato, bacon and spicy coleslaw, sandwich with the bun top and serve.

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1. Preheat oven to 100°C, line a baking tray with baking paper.

Cut each slice of bread into four triangles and place half on a sheet of baking paper.

2 Top with a heaped teaspoon of cheese, placing it in the

centre of each triangle.

Brush the bread edges with egg wash and sandwich with remaining bread, pinching edges to seal. Heat half the clarified butter in a frying pan over medium heat, add half the toasties and fry, turning once, until golden (2-3 mins each side). Place on prepared tray and keep warm in oven. Serve with soup.

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HOT BUTTERED PRAWN ROLLS PRAWN ROLLS 1.3kg - 1.5kg prawns 8 hotdog rolls, sides trimmed, with a pocket cut into the top lengthways Thinly sliced chives, to serve

BROWN BUTTER SAUCE 150g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing 2 whole garlic cloves, crushed 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, or to taste Âź tsp smoked paprika, cayenne or chipotle powder, plus extra to serve

1. Defrost your prawns.

2. For brown butter sauce, cook butter in a saucepan over high heat until browned (3-4 mins). Add garlic, lemon and paprika, season to taste and keep warm.

3. Butter sides of rolls and fry in a frying pan over high

heat, turning, until golden (1-2 mins each side).

Keep warm.

4. Add prawns to saucepan with brown butter sauce and stir over low heat to warm through. Spoon into rolls, top with chives and paprika to serve.

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GRILLED BEAN SALAD & LENTILS SALAD 100g (½ cup) small green lentils 600g mixed Roman and green beans, trimmed 1 tbsp olive oil 6 radishes, coarsely chopped Handful of flat-leaf parsley,

coarsely chopped Lemon halves, to serve GREEN TAHINI DRESSING 2 tbsp tahini 1 garlic clove, crushed 150ml olive oil Juice of 1 lemon ¼ cup mixed coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley and coriander 1. Cook lentils in a large saucepan of boiling water until tender (20-25 mins),

drain well and cool. Lentils can be cooked a day ahead; refrigerate them with a little cooking water to prevent them from drying out.

2. Meanwhile, heat a char-grill pan to high heat. Toss beans with olive oil, season to taste and grill, turning occasionally, until charred and tender (3-5 mins). Transfer to a bowl.

3. For green tahini dressing,

blend all dressing ingredients in a small food processor until combined. (Add 2-3 tbsp water to loosen if necessary.)

Season to taste.

4. Add lentils, radish, parsley and tahini dressing to beans, toss gently to combine and serve with lemon halves.

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FOCACCIA WITH FIGS, BLACKBERRIES AND SOUR CREAM FOCACCIA 1½ tsp dried yeast 350ml luke warm water 450g (3 cups) strong baker’s flour, plus extra for dusting 80ml (⅓ cup) olive oil, plus extra to drizzle 175g blackberries

(reserving half for topping) TOPPING 8 figs, cut into wedges 1 tbsp icing sugar, sifted Juice of ½ lemon Sour cream, to serve 1. Combine yeast and 350ml lukewarm water in a large bowl and stir to dissolve. Combine flour, oil and 1 tsp sea salt in a separate bowl, then add to yeast mixture and mix to

combine. Cover bowl with a clean damp tea towel and stand in a warm place until doubled in size (35-40 mins).

2. Preheat oven to 200°C. Knock back (press down) dough and dust with extra flour to prevent it sticking (dough will be quite wet).

Divide into four equal parts, then place on a large oven tray lined with baking paper or lightly oiled, and lightly press

each piece into a rough oblong (about 20cm x 8cm).

Press half the blackberries into the surface of the focaccia, drizzle with oil and bake until golden and puffed (20-25 mins).

3. Toss figs and remaining blackberries in bowl with icing sugar and lemon juice.

Transfer focaccias to plates, top with fig mixture and serve warm with sour cream.

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BACON AND CHEESE TOASTIES WITH GRIBICHE TOASTIE 500g smoked bacon, rind removed and thinly sliced Softened butter, for spreading 12 thick slices crusty bread, lightly toasted Dijon mustard, for spreading

400g Gouda, coarsely grated SAUCE GRIBICHE 3 eggs 2 golden shallots, finely chopped 120g gherkins, finely chopped 50g (¼ cup) capers, finely chopped 3tsp finely chopped tarragon 1 ⅓ cup finely chopped parsley 60ml (¼ cup) olive oil 1. Preheat oven to 220°C.Line a tray with baking paper.

2. For sauce gribiche, cook eggs in a saucepan of boiling water until hard-boiled (910 mins). Peel, finely chop, then place in a bowl with remaining ingredients and stir to combine. Season to taste.

3. Cook the bacon in batches in a large nonstick frying pan over high heat, turning occasionally, until golden (3-5 mins).

4. Butter all bread slices on

one side, spread lightly with mustard, then place half the slices, mustard-side up, on prepared tray. Top with bacon and cheeses, then sandwich with remaining bread, mustard-side down, pressing lightly. Bake in oven until golden and cheese has melted (10-15 mins). Spoon gribiche onto toasties to serve.

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THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT Pebble pollen and pebble brazil pillow R640 (excluding pillow inner), Skinny la Minx; Black and white throw R349, H&M; Red Volkswagen Beetle for rental POR, Club9; Hand-pinched open bowl in Yellow R10 200, Imiso Ceramics; Cha Cha in Pastel Turquoise R3 910 (D450×H400), Haldane Martin Furniture; Jolipier vase by Carin Dorington, R3 800, KLûK CGDT; MOORE bench R16 600, Bofred; Face scatter cushion R1 390, Pezula Interiors; Lightolight P Floor Lamp designed by Jaime Heyon for Parachilna, R39 707, Crema; Kannitraki half-half basket in Blue R1 100, Design Afrika; African cork stool in Pink by Wiid Design R13 800, Robert Sherwood; Jambo mat in Black and White R865, Heartworks; Solid oak chair in Green painted finish R4 830, James Mudge.

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ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Margaret Howell Anglepoise light in Yellow R3 733, Newport Lighting; Customised Husqvarna 701 Vitpilen motorbike R129 500, Woodstock Moto Co; Ellen floor lamp in Matt Black finish R3 733 both Newport Lighting; Square rita mirror R2 995, La Grange Interiors; Boom task light by Tom Dixon POR, Crema; Black Eames house bird by Vitra R3 710, Crema.

THIS PAGE, ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Captain block jug by Tom Dixon R4 278, Crema; Half mirror in Silver R3 800 (small), Bofred; Oval folding screen in Nude R18 995, La Grange Interiors; Snakes and Ladders by David Brits R12 000, Robert Sherwood; Fautieul metal chair in Grey R2 999, La Grange Interiors; Metal sculpture by Rodan Kane Hart R21 850, Robert Sherwood; Sinusoidal Nebulous 0.1 Sculpture by David Brits, Artist’s own collection.

THIS PAGE, TOP RIGHT, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Olivié Keck deep dreamer ceramic sculpture R15 200, Chandler House; Cristina olive glass vase R4 695, La Grange Interiors; Light green sculptural vessel R5 000, Clementina Ceramics.

THIS PAGE, RIGHT, CLOCKWISE FROM LIFT Ceramic vase with face R895 (large), Pezula Interiors; Large terracotta tete bust in R525, Weylandts; Blue head sculpture

by Woodcutters Collective R1 200, Villa Afrika; Painted cork bottle in Blue by Wiid Design R4 485, Robert Sherwood; Blue Chinese beaded vases by George Magaso & Michael Chandler R1 200 each (small); White and blue beaded vase by George Magaso & Michael Chandler R2 200, both Chandler House.

‘First door on the right Life filled to the brim As I stood by my window And looked out on those Brooklyn Roads’ - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn Roads

THIS PAGE, ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT White eames bird by Vitra R3 710, Crema; White half face vase R349, White bubble vase R299, both H&M; Chimu vase R445 (extra small), Weylandts; Tall ivory box vase R935, Facet white satin vase R688 (medium), both Voster en Braye; White terrazzo picnic plate from Country Road R89, Woolworths; Chimu vase R695 (medium), Weylandts; Crochet flower in Pink by Peta Becker from Projekt R720, Chandler House.

THIS PAGE, ABOVE RIGHT, CLOCKWISE FROM BACK LEFT Medium hill hand-woven runner R11 000, Bofred; Blue hand-pinched vuyo vase R12 100, Imiso Ceramics; Rug in Black and White R11 950, Pezula Interiors; Map-print kids rug R399, H&M. THIS PAGE, RIGHT, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Xhosa ingobozi basket by Kannitraki R590; Half-half basket R1 100; Garlic gourd R950 (small); Pink frill basket R450; Porcupine basket R950 (28cm); Malawi yellow stripe laundry basket R1 200; Malawi yellow stripe tray R560; Natural palm hat R320, Plastic mossi shopper in Blue R520, all Design Afrika; Itawuli towel in Blue R705, Mungo; Tia basket raffia bag by AAKS R2 770, Design Afrika; Alexander Sack with bowls persimmon design R695, Skinny la Minx; Vespa for rental POR, Club9.

‘Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City’ -Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City

ABOVE CLOCKWISE FROM BACK LEFT Tall carafe in Yellow by Wiid Design R920, Robert Sherwood; Champagne glass in Yellow, H&M; Mustard Wabi Sabi ramekin R160, Clementina Ceramics; Storm bowl in Yellow R250, Heartworks; Silo cup R265 (medium), Vorster en Braye; Tero highball cup R99 from Country Road, Woolworths; Pink decanter R149, H&M; Pink wabi sabi milk jug R380; Afro deco platter R2 500, both Clementina Ceramics; Janice Rabb jug R490, Heartworks; Plate in Pink R30, MRP Home; Afro Deco espresso cup R470, Tall Afro Deco beaker R550, Wabi Sabi cup in Yellow R270 (small), Carved bud vase in Yellow R450, all Clementina Ceramics; Storm mug R305, Heartworks; Mexican glass in Yellow R699, The Storer; Yellow Glass R99, H&M Home; Terro tumbler R89, Country Road; Ivory chef plate R292 (medium), Viridian Miso bowl R242, both Vorster en Braye.

ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Vintage bicycle R8 500, Woodstock Cycle Works; Red and white basket bag R500, Heartworks; White ceramic dog, Stylist’s own; Miss less chair R4 545, True Design; Hula stacking stool in Coral Red R2 530, Haldane Martin Furniture; Generic C chair R2 895, True Design; Pink stool by Pilastro R5 090, True Design.

OPPOSITE PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Abstract multi scatter cushion R1 900, La Grange Interiors; Pink fancy cushion cover R199, H&M; Green felix dining chair R3 250, Pezula Interiors; Ochre ZigZag scatter R1 400, La Grange Interiors; Colour pop round pillow in Persimmon and Shell R590, Skinny la Minx; Pink pillow from Country Road R499, Woolworths; Colour Pop Round Pillow in Spruce and Lemon R590, Skinny la Minx; Yellow Ceylon Linen Scatter R890, Pezula Interiors; Pink pillow R79, H&M Home; Velvet round rose cushion R449, @home; Pink stripe R199, H&M Home, Pink cushion cover R99, MRP Home, Blue Fiat for rental POR, Club9.

‘My love waits there in San Francisco Above the blue and windy sea When I come home to you, San Francisco Your golden sun will shine for me’ - Tony Bennett, I Left My Heart in San Francisco

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THIS PAGE, FROM LEFT Dbongz, professional graffiti street artist and recent recipient of a New York City painting residency from the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach foundation; Pauline Borton, longtime public art facilitator for The Trinity Sessions and project lead of placemaking NGO #ArtMyJozi; Karabo Poppy, graphic designer, product developer and street artist extraordinaire; MJ Turpin, former street artist and co-owner of artworld disruptor, Kalashnikovv Gallery.

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House and Leisure and four pioneering street art practitioners sat around Houtlander’s Pride Bench to deep dive into the complexities of street art in a new decade WORDS & PRODUCTION GARRETH VAN NIEKERK PHOTOGRAPHY JONO WOOD LOCATION ORCHARDS PROJECT, JOHANNESBURG

ew topics inspire so much debate among city residents as street art, in particular graffiti, which is why we wanted to get a few of the country’s most prolific street artists and public art practitioners together to understand the finer points of the conversation. We gathered around Houtlander’s fantastic Pride Bench, created to raise funds for LGBTQ pride shelters, in the new offices of celebrated public art initiative #Artmyjozi (an arm of The Trinity Sessions) to understand what all the fuss is about.

Around this month’s ‘table’, House and Leisure’s Garreth van Niekerk was joined by rising star Dbongz (fresh from his recent trip to New York City where he was painting walls in Brooklyn as a guest of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Foundation); Kalashnikovv Gallery’s former street artist-turned gallerist MJ Turpin; The Trinity Session’s Pauline Borton, who recently completed the installation of the biggest mural in South Africa; and superstar designer Karabo Poppy, a House and Leisure Next Level alumnus, who just sold out all of her recent Nike sneaker collab within 24 hours, among other inspiring things.

It’s a stellar group if ever there was one, and the conversation covered everything from the difference between street art and graffiti, the importance of breaking away from anonymity, and how to convince your family that becoming a street artist

doesn’t mean you’re becoming a vandal.

Read below for our highlights from this fascinating conversation.

Garreth: There’s still a lot of doubt about street art, particularly in the context of a developing city like Joburg, where so much is changing and so much is still needed.

Karabo: I think the debate about whether street art is building better cities needs to come to an end. First is what it does aesthetically, obviously. It’s adding optics that are really unique to the city, and local street art is doing things in a way that other countries aren’t. It’s adding to the none-typical tourism opportunities and is

‘IT’S STILL ABOUT SUSTAINABLE MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE IN THE PUBLIC REALM ’ MJ TURPIN bringing a lot of traffic into South Africa that other things, which are always better funded, aren’t. When I travel outside of South Africa I find that certain artists are creating works for places that see those artists actually making heritage sites out of places that people would’ve broken down without the art drawing attention to it.

Pauline: I think what has been amazing about the #Artmyjozi project, which is a placemaking project and process, is that it’s

about collaborating with people, different communities and stakeholders, and their narrative is actually being recognised in the form of a public artwork. It goes beyond seeing something that just decorates a façade, but is now actually giving a place identity, and kind of puts a place on the map. It encourages community members to take ownership of the site and invites others to the space, and to hopefully share their stories.

MJ: To some degree perceptions have changed, but there are also complex narratives around gentrification, and how quite often artists are used as the first tier to create comfort before it becomes built up and completely commercialised.

But essentially it’s still kind of leading to platforms that are accessible to the public by virtue of being in the public realm, highlighting socio-political messaging, social ills, leading to conversation that creates education-based dialogue, and the creation of our own unique aesthetic.

Perceptions have changed but they haven’t really changed. It’s still about sustainable, meaningful dialogue in the public realm.

Garreth: The movement feels like it’s in a bit of a renaissance. How does it feel to be out there now, what is your sense of the scene at the moment?

DBongz: It feels amazing at the moment, with the roots being from graffiti and seeing the progression from graffiti to street art, which is basically bringing what’s in the streets and what’s in the

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gallery together, and making people aware of what street art is, and that it is not just writing your name, and just basic vandalism.

It’s making people aware of the value of art, and what it does for buildings, environments and communities especially. And to be right in the midst of that, moving from an era of just doing street art as a hobby to doing it as

‘I THINK THE NOTION OF CELEBRATING ANONYMOUS ‘PURISTS’ IS A BIT FLAWED BECAUSE IT CUTS OUT AN ENTIRE GENDER ’ KARABO a profession and doing it on a daily basis, and not having to do other stuff on the side, it’s really amazing.

Karabo: Of course they are at the forefront of graffiti in New York because they kind of invented it, but another country that does things well is Australia, where the magnitude of the murals is extraordinary. It really sets them apart in terms of just how large of a scale they are able to let their art exist.

MJ: There’s also an interesting distinction there, which Karabo just pointed out. A lot of those artists working at that scale don’t actually call themselves graffiti artists, they call themselves mural artists. And I don’t know if it has to do with scale or with medium, but a lot of them will do large-scale murals but they won’t puck up a single can.

So there’s quite a big distinction between a mural artist and a graffiti artist.

Karabo: I would call myself a street artist.

Not a muralist, or mural artist, even. I think identifying as a street artist gives me more leeway with the kind of messaging I want to do. I can create an artwork without even using paint at all, and it still falls under creating accessible art, which falls under street art, which can still fall under graffiti.

Pauline: I think there are still negative notions attached to the word graffiti, yes. But we normally work with a collective of artists - street, graffiti, and traditional visual artists - and the artists work with the community in a skills-transfer program. So then it is a completely different thing and is more about creating a collaborative process.

Garreth: DBongz, do your family see you as a real artist, or do they still think of their child as a vandal?

DBongz: [laughing] They believed it when they started seeing that I was making money!

Karabo: Hey… black families, my friend!

DBongz: But it is interesting that you should ask that. I was recently invited to an international public art festival in Cape Town that was about the people in the community who were organising it. So you don’t come with a preconceived idea of what you are going to paint, but you actually speak to the family about what you are going to paint, discuss the impact it is going to have to the people on that street, and try and understand the problems they have so you can tackle that.

Garreth: MJ, Kalashnikovv Gallery has always been in the city, so in the time you’ve been there would you say that street art has built Braamfontein into the cultural hub it’s become today, or was it the people? i.e. Was the chicken before the egg?

MJ: I think the people have built Braam, and graffiti was a parallel development. It’s essentially seen as a creative precinct, so that encompasses street fashion, music, bars, and they created the social scene, and then that became the creative scene, and they all grow from that epicentre. But I don’t think one came before the other. I also know a lot of graffiti artists who would never work on a collective graffiti project with other artists.

They literally exist to do their own work for themselves. The notion of ever seeing your face anywhere near your own work, there’s a few of them who would never appear on any graffiti art project, they’re just not about being known personally. The way they get

known is by what they put up.

Garreth: How do you all feel about the idea of anonymity?

Karabo: I need to say something about that. One of the characteristics, and what started graffiti is the concept of anonymity.

People do really respect, value and praise people who maintain their anonymity…

MJ: Well the purists, basically…

Karabo: Yes. But do you sometimes think that to be able to be a purist you need to be a man?

MJ: Graffiti is a totally male-dominated industry, just by virtue of the numbers.

It’s always been a very ‘4am on the streets’ kind of world.

Karabo: Please tell me what girl is walking around Joburg at 4am in the morning? I always try and challenge that because often the work I create means that I have to do it during the day, I’ll have people with me,

‘IT’S ABOUT COLLABORATING WITH PEOPLE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR NARRATIVE IS ACTUALLY BEING RECOGNISED IN THE FORM OF A PUBLIC ARTWORK ’ PAU NE and sometimes projects will even invest in security guards to be with me. And I’ve gotten a lot of backlash for that. Because many people say they think this is tainting what art within Joburg city was working towards. But I think this is closing the whole idea off to a lot of people who want to be ‘in’ – in street art, in graffiti – but it felt very difficult for someone that was female, or identified as female, to go in as

organically and keep to the characteristics of being anonymous as well. I’m really glad that it’s opened up the conversation, and maybe more women are able to call themselves street artists now, or muralists.

So I think the notion of celebrating anonymous ‘purists’ is a bit flawed because it cuts out an entire gender.

DBongz: Totally. Being purist is very counter-productive. Not just for me as an artist, but for the industry as a whole.

We are trying to grow a movement and South Africa, and if we are all going to be anonymous it’s not going to work for anyone. In a lot of the projects happening in the country at the moment I would say that only 20% of street artists are actually taking part. Because street artists are not easily accessible. It really doesn’t work. You look at Shephard Fairey and Banksy. Banksy yes is doing everything because of his anonymity, but Shephard is everywhere, he is famous now. So it’s a thing of identifying who you are, and not trying to be someone else, and doing it responsibly. I am in a place now where I’m not just trying to pay my dues, get credibility, or be famous, and suffering, and doing a 9-5 in order for me to be an artist. You find a lot of graffiti artists who are like ‘yeah, you have to be pure about it’ but they are behind a desk all day, and then at night they go out bombing and pretending that they are hardcore artists.

That’s not a hardcore artist. Being an artist, a full-time artist, is about taking a risk, and putting yourself out there. O

‘BEING AN ARTIS A FULL-TIME ARTIS IS ABOUT TAKING A RISK AND PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE ’ DBONGZ

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AS DIRECTOR OF OUR FUTURE CITIES, URBAN STRATEGIST RASHIQ FATAAR WORKS TO CO-CREATE MORE INCLUSIVE, SUSTAINABLE AND FUTURE-FOCUSED SPACES, HOPING FOR A FUTURE WHERE SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES POINT THE WAY

hy can’t we complete the incomplete Foreshore freeways? Why don’t our cities have vibrant public squares like Puerta del Sol in Madrid? Can’t they bring back trams? What if we built a High Line like New York?’

Very few dinner parties pass by without these questions being thrown my way when I share my passion for improving cities, communities and spaces in my work at Our Future Cities.

In a period of rapid urbanisation – 900 million people are expected to move into African cities in the coming few decades – economic and political volatility, a housing crisis, and our energy crisis, for the individual or household, the path to creating better cities for all to live in can seem quite daunting, if not overwhelming when faced with a barrage of statistics and data. The odd retweet and share of Greta Thunberg’s activism is far from enough, so how can South African society play a part?

One has to resist the false notion that the deployment of tech-based solutions, new apps (how many do we need?) and ‘smart cities’ will fix our lives.

Fortunately, the benefit of finding myself in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg many times in a year is that I get to see the positive signs and projects that signal a way to better design for more liveable future cities.

Our best bet is, in fact, working with what we already have: a future retrofit.

We know that the low density, sprawling nature of all South African

cities is locking us into high-carbon emission societies. The refurbishment of existing building stock and vacant buildings will have a significantly lower impact on carbon emissions, and in most cases, remains a more efficient delivery mechanism than greenfield developments (even those which embrace ‘green’ principles).

In the heart of the Durban CBD, the revival of the inner city has been underway for some years, led by innercity regeneration specialists, Urban Lime. A Sunday morning in December saw 14 tall trees hoisted onto the 4thfloor terrace of Durban Club Chambers (previously the Nedbank Building). This iconic building designed by eminent South African architect, Sir Norman Eaton, is being transformed into a new members club, the Chambers Club, with the design led by Robert Sherwood. It opens in February 2020 and is open to the public after office hours. It forms the latest piece in the puzzle of The Professional Quarter precinct, which has repurposed over 23 000m² of vacant buildings to cater for the legal and financial professionals who needed proximity to the courts.

The backdrop of the terrace is a depiction of the late Anton Lembede, founding president of the ANCYL, showing that public art can play a role in respecting our history and heritage. It is the largest privately funded public art piece in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province and one of the largest in the country covering just under 600m².

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is being partially pedestrianised to become more walking-friendly, a local tailor has found a home within the lobby, and a duo of chefs have returned to their home city from London to open the café Taylor’s Kitchen.

For smaller and micro-businesses – just two blocks away in Dr Pixley Kaseme Street – the vacant floor space of Pioneer Place was broken up into smaller units and redesigned as a micro-manufacturing hub. Despite the large amounts of vacant space in the CBD, smaller businesses struggled to find rentals as building owners hoped for larger tenants to return. Today, it is fully occupied and is home to a tight-knit community of tailors, leather workers, T-shirt manufacturers, fabric printers and other small traders, with very low rentals.

With a target of 450 000 new people to be housed in the inner city in the coming decades, the extension of the Durban Beachfront Promenade is a fantastic addition but more can be done to unlock the true potential through activations and tactical interventions, from kiosks to beach clubs, truly manufacturing a 24/7 city.

Up north, the new City of Johannesburg Council Chambers designed by studioMAS – wrapped in a curved glass envelope – stands proud in Braamfontein as an icon for civic and democratic engagement in South Africa. The building’s round plan is drawn from the forms of the Setswana ‘lekgotla’ meaning ‘court’ and the Greek ‘agora’ meaning ‘centre’. These spaces

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are welcoming to locals and visitors, as well as job-seekers.

More can be done to stitch the surrounding area together, from the frenzied welcome at the Gautrain Park Station (the busiest transport hub in South Africa) as one is met with a maze of car-centric pedestrian crossings moving between the Council Chambers and Constitution Hill. Cue Johannesburg-based architecture and urban design firm Local Studio with a bit of refurb surgery, working on Rissik Street to create a Jozi-style ‘promenade’ by widening pavements, adding seating and landscaping. This route and the conversion of former high-rises into affordable rental housing is promoting a more integrated city.

With 27% of carbon emissions in Cape Town coming from transport use, hopping onto public transport, sharing a ride to work or walking could have a positive impact on the carbon footprint.

But much more needs to be done to lure people towards public transport interchanges, which are often sterile, poorly lit and unsafe.

The masterpiece Merriman Square

by Square One Landscape Architects located at The Towers in Cape Town is a welcoming space to pause, enjoy and survive the Foreshore winds. According to Square One the super canopy and plant life ‘countered the existing sterile environment through the manipulation of scale, enclosure and light to create the generous and welcoming urban room it is today’. It stands in contrast to the adjacent MyCiTi Civic Centre hub, which offers little wind protection and wasn’t envisaged as a mixed-use space during the day or night.

Despite the negative press, we are starting to see more developers find models to include affordable housing into their developments, prioritising local residents and essential workers who commute up to two hours daily.

The future may be complex but it need not be complicated. I firmly believe less individuals driving, less food waste, integrated neighbourhoods, improving safety through urban design and placemaking and retrofitting our current stock of buildings is our best bet.

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WAYS OF A Milanese-South African design duo recently spent time in the Conrad Hicks design residency to reimagine the perception of Southern Africa’s ubiquitous corrugated metal WORDS GARRETH VAN NIEKERK

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orrugated metal, in all its shapes, colours and textures, is inextricably tied to the contemporary South African landscape and for Cara / Davide – a South African-Milanese design duo – the metal’s possibilities go far beyond material. The two designers, Cara Judd (South African) and Davide Gramatica (Italian), who are based in Milan, recently spent some time as designers-in-residence at the Conrad Hicks Metal Studio working with Conrad

‘WE DIDN’T WANT TO ARRIVE WITH ANY PLANNED IDEAS OF WHAT WE WOULD DO... BUT WE WANTED TO BE INSPIRED BY THE CONTEXT, TAKE TIME TO UNDERSTAND IT AND MEET PEOPLE TO COLLABORATE WITH.’ and other local artisans and specialists to realise a prototype collection of beautiful furniture pieces called Ondulato, that challenge our perceptions of the material.

‘When we develop a project it is important for us to be coherent to the context in which we find ourselves,’ the pair explain to House and Leisure from their studio. ‘In Ondulato’s case, it was quite literally in a context where corrugated metal is iconic to the South African landscape and it stood out to us as a beautiful and graphic material to work with. But this material can be misconceived. We were concerned about how we could lift the inaccurately negative associations attached to this material without distorting the image of it, in the sense that we didn’t want to

make it something that it wasn’t, we just wanted to change the perspective on it.’

Over a period of six weeks at the Hick’s design residency (housed in the historic Bijou Cinema in Cape Town) the pair experimented; playing with techniques like rolling, folding, soldering and riveting. ‘Our intention was to develop a site-inspired work in Cape Town and the residency represented a way to understand our South African heritage.’

Being born and trained in South Africa Cara preserves a strong connection to her heritage in the work she does. ‘We didn’t want to arrive with any planned ideas of what we would do or develop in terms of a collection but we wanted to be inspired by the context, take time to understand it and meet people to collaborate with.’

‘I’ve done quite a few corrugated iron projects myself but they [Cara and Davide] work differently’, says Conrad Hicks about the duo, ‘[They work] in a sort of metaphorical way, and it creates a way of looking at things, of creating a relationship between the material and product. They took a very simple shape,

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Cara / Davide’s recent Ondulato collection saw the South African-Italian couple exploring the material realities of corrugated iron; form and material inform one another as can be seen in the studio’s older work like the Territorio Chief Chair Ivory Edition, made of pigmented epoxy putty.

and by focusing on corrugated metal, they derived a form from the inherent engineering principles of the material.

It’s also been lovely for me to see the old corrugated iron rolling machines being used in a contemporary way – they are giving the machines and the material new life.’

‘Being based at the Bijou, our setup was different from what it usually is back in our studio in Milan, and it helped to influence our design methods and processes. We mixed up drawings with manual testing of materials on beautiful machinery, discussed our ideas with Conrad along the way, visited local artists to see what they do and rally opinions,’ explains the duo.

The local businesses and artisans they worked with shared a common passion for the humble material and allowed the prototypes of Ondulato to fuse their heritage with South African eccentricities and differences, creating a collection fused with the context of various cultures, starting with their own. ‘We worked with Themba Jijwa, a local tinsmith from Rainqueen Tanks. It was a special collaboration because there was a common desire to experiment and test the material. This can actually be a rarity and it made a huge difference in developing the work.

We spent a number of days together, observing the process of production and were able to get involved during the process to adjust the design.

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT The Calandra Cabinet, made in Milan in rolled sheet metal (not corrugated metal). ‘We did not have easy access to corrugated metal in Milan like we did in Cape Town. The shape remained the same as the Ondulato Cabinet because it was interesting for us to make a direct formal comparison between the two contexts and experiment with the available materials and techniques’ - says the duo. In this way the Calandra collection became an extension of the Ondulato, although still distinct in itself; South Africa-born designer Cara Judd and Davide Gramatica, from Italy, met while studying product design at the prestigious IED Milan; the Territorio Rest Chair looks beyond traditional forms and asks how they can be interpreted in today’s context.

This merging of the production and designing phases represented something very interesting for us.’

The collaboration, beyond the finished pieces, offers a rare example of how design can cross borders, and how fresh eyes can reimagine perceptions and design’s brave new future. caradavide.com O

IT’S BEEN LOVELY FOR ME TO SEE THE OLD CORRUGATED IRON ROLLING MACHINES BEING USED IN A CONTEMPORARY WAY – CARA AND DAVIDE ARE GIVING THE MACHINES AND THE MATERIAL NEW LIFE .’

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The move is significant as Moloto becomes the continent’s first black woman to anchor and host a commercial talk radio breakfast program solo. Moloto takes over from the beloved Kieno Kammies, who moved to a new daytime slot.

We caught up with Moloto a few months into her new gig to get inside her remarkable story.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN RADIO? As a contributor to Business in Africa on the Afternoon Drive show with John Maytham. I’m an economic strategist - my background is in economics, investments & asset management - I used to share my insights on business, economics and investment on the African continent. I then stood in on the Money Show for Bruce Whitfield a few times, and it seemed Cape Talk and I had a strong synergy.

WHAT IS IT LIKE BEING THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN IN AFRICA TO SOLO HOST A BREAKFAST SHOW ON COMMERCIAL TALK RADIO? It’s an unfortunate reality that there are still so many firsts for women

and black people in so many fields in 2019 - the acuteness of the lack of strong female voices driving the agenda in talk radio was concerning enough, but discovering the void as pertains to black women really floored, and frustrated me.

The weight of “firsts” can never be taken lightly. Until one becomes the norm, there is an inordinate amount of scrutiny that extrapolates opinions or confirms biases about a group - that’s par for the course.

Cutting through the bias by leaning into one’s individuality is a necessity and also very natural for me, without trying to separate myself from the group. I am a woman, I am black - I adore being both those things, and they certainly play a massive role in who and how I am - but they aren’t all I am.

And informing onlookers of that fact, elegantly and authentically, is the burden of all who are “firsts” of any kind. It’s a responsibility I carry proudly and with honour - I’m enjoying representing my sisters, as much as myself.

WHAT CAN WE LOOK FORWARD TO ON YOUR SHOW? Well, the show has been on air for a few months now. We have been offering the news and views one would expect from a breakfast show - except I’m deliberate about extending the discourse beyond the neighbourhood and city.

Cape Town is a global city, and competes as such - from investment to talent to tourism and industry, so we can’t talk in a vacuum. It’s critical to participate in our

local daily lives as the global, African and South African citizens that we are - each of which implies its own - and so, being informed on all those is imperative.

We have a great deal of fun informing our audience in addition to the news and views. The show has daily features, like Moolah Mondays and Trendspotting Thursdays where our resident experts and other guests give great personal insights and interesting mega trends affecting your business. We love shining a light on persons of excellence, and our weekly Friday Trailblazer highlights just that, with people like business titan Nolitha Fakude and retired Constitutional Court Justice, Judge Edwin Cameron. Our Chef’s Corner feature every fortnight, for example, has fast become a listener favourite.

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B E Y O N D T H E I M A G E THIS SPREAD Artist Roger Ballen is preparing to launch the Roger Ballen Centre for Photographic Arts in Johannesburg later this year; the Centre’s architect Jo van Rooyen has designed a cylindrical core for the building that acts as a sculptural element in the entrance to the space, and storage for Roger’s lifetime collection of works and artefacts.

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House and Leisure got a first look into The Roger Ballen Centre for Photographic Arts in Johannesburg while it is still under construction WORDS GARRETH VAN NIEKERK PHOTOGRAPHY BRETT RUBIN

outh African photography is being celebrated at exhibitions and art fairs around the globe, but there are few spaces within South Africa itself where local audiences can go to appreciate and learn more about the intricacies of the medium. It’s one of the reasons why there is so much excitement around the launch of the forthcoming Roger Ballen Centre for Photography in Forest Town, Johannesburg – and why we just had to get a look inside the space before it even opened, or actually even installed its front doors.

The centre, located across the road from the iconic Four Seasons Hotel and the recently-completed Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, will realise the Roger Ballen Foundation’s 15-year dream to bring a photographic centre to the city. And, as we learnt on a tour through the space with Ballen himself and the architect of this bold structure Jo van Rooyen, the space will also become the new administrative home of the Ballen Office, the artist’s new studio and workshop,

as well as the new storage facility for his immense archive of work and collection of artefacts.

‘Ultimately it’s a place where I am doing my own work,’ Roger explains as we walk around the construction site, ‘but more than that, we are really trying to make it a great place to display photographs and to create an environment that will uplift people’s understanding of photography and photography related to other art forms,’ he says.

‘I have had the foundation for 15 years now, so the issue became what we would do with it going forward, how we were going to bring people together, how to get people aware of things we’re involved in, as well as get them involved in what we’re doing.’

‘I’m passionate about this city. In Johannesburg, there is already a museum in the city, but there is no centre for international photography where we can display, discuss and assist in the process of getting people to reinterpret their understanding of this medium in particular.’

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‘I’m passionate about this city. In Johannesburg... there is no centre for international photography [to] assist in the process of getting people to reinterpret their understanding of this medium in particular.’

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about the idea once they had found the right property for the project, and together with the rest of the Ballen family and foundation, they imagined a ‘blank envelope’ inspired by the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando – an iconic figure in the industry due to his creations of large-scale concrete museums. ‘The process was completely collaborative, and Linda [Ballen, artist and Roger’s wife] played a wonderful role,’ Jo explains. ‘She has a great eye being the daughter of a very good architect herself, so she and Roger had a very clear idea of what they wanted to achieve.’

As we walk through the site we move past Ballen’s new studio, a tall, long space with simple porthole clerestory windows cast high in the concrete walls, almost resembling camera apertures.

They cast light in directional sheets across the room, which continues to illuminate through ensuing spaces, capturing the simple textures of the cast concrete walls, and slicing views of the surrounding urban forest subtly

THIS PAGE, FROM TOP Ballen shows House and Leisure around the new space; after 50 years of working in black and white, Ballen recently revealed a collection of new images taken in colour that have the art world enthralled, as seen in this artwork Superman.

into the space. The building is radiant, and stands in stark relief to the dark, neargothic work that Roger has typically come to be associated with.

‘I think one has a certain idea about Roger because you associate him with his work, but once you get to know him he’s such a contrast, as a person, to his work.

And that has been very exciting to explore both for me personally, as a fan of his work, and as an architect working on a project like this,’ adds van Rooyen. ‘He is such a well-known personality, so I hope that the building is able to step back, to be a clean envelope, because it shouldn’t compete.’

For Roger the centre has the same goals as his work: ‘My hope for the centre is the same as my hope for my pictures; that it stays in the mind of the person viewing it, and changes their mind, and expands their consciousness. It’s about producing work that has an impact on people’s subconscious, not just telling them what they know, but about having a subconscious impact. It’s about one person coming out of the other… that’s what I always say.’

The centre opens it’s doors in Spring this year, but until then follow @rogerballen on Instagram for updates and @jvrarchitects for insights into the building and design process. O

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NEW WORLD China’s dynamic capital city of Beijing is a place of fascinating contradiction – where counter cultures exist in chaotic yet contemplative harmony WORDS KERRYN FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHY RUSSELL SMITH

Tiananmen Square is not only the largest public square in the world but also of huge cultural importance as it has been the site of many important events in Chinese history. It’s a good place to start your day tour, as it leads into the Forbidden City and from there you can carry on up to Jinghsan Park for fantastic views of the Forbidden City.

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he unveiling a few months ago of Beijing’s second long-haul international airport (and the world’s largest single terminal building), the futuristic mega starfishshaped Daxing Airport (designed by the late ‘starchitect’ Zaha Hadid) must have been a good omen for the Chinese, opening on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. As China’s capital city and one of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing is home to a powerhouse of cultural icons with seven UNESCO-World Heritage sites (Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Ming Dynasty Tombs, Zhoukoudian Site Museum, Peking Man, Chengde) and The Great Wall of China (one of The Seven Wonders of the World).

But Beijing’s epic history (spanning three millennia) and sprawling megalopolis

(with a population of 21 million) is getting some stiff competition in the form of a flourishing new art, design and architectural skyline. Since being made a UNESCO City of Design nearly 10 years ago, a slew of new galleries and design studios have sprung up in and around the modern buildings that were built when the city hosted the 2008 Olympic Games. Rem Koolhaas’ angular CCTV Headquarters Building, a zany robotic structure; and the ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium designed by Hertzog and de Meuron, come to mind. As does Zaha Hadid’s twisty Leeza Soho, the recently completed 45-storey skyscraper with the world’s tallest atrium twisting through its centre.

Of course, Beijing’s new design persona is best viewed against the city’s historical legacy. From the city’s hutong

neighbourhood’s – where you will get a tangible sense of the old Beijing complete with locals hunched over a game of Xiangqi (Chinese chess) to the Great Wall of China – reportedly more spectacular in its stages along Beijing than anywhere else along its course. Hire a driver and skip the most popular entrances such as Badaling, and head instead to Mutianyu, about 2.5 hours from Beijing by car, for a more authentic experience. Prepare to climb some (4000 plus) steps but if you get there at sunset your reward will be the iconic sight of the wall disappearing for kilometres into the distance.

For the best time to be there; we travelled to Beijing in early autumn between September and November when the weather is mild, air pollution is less and the city less crowded. O

OPPOSITE PAGE China has such a large population of people that have not seen their own country, that the city is not specifically geared for international travellers but rather the Chinese, with most tours in Chinese too. It’s not uncommon that your driver won’t speak a word of English, so plan ahead if you want to book an English guide.

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Glass and light play together to create a modern visual spectacle in this hotel interior; there’s much to see in Beijing central from the Forbidden City to the Summer Palace Park (a large imperial park frequented mostly by locals), 798 Art District, Tiananmen Square and more.

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THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The alleyways of Beijing’s hutongs will give a glimpse of the city’s cultural persona; beat Beijing’s off-the-charts traffic by hiring a moped or bicycle; a traditional home in the hutongs; an opulent hotel lobby interior; a modern building facade in the 798 Art Zone; Wangfujing Snack Street is the place to go for a sense of what constitutes traditional Chinese snacks; Jingshan Park offers not only plenty of green space (in a dusty city 100km from the Gobi Desert) but also an elevated vantage point from which to see the Forbidden City below.

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LIVING Step into two adjoined symmetrical homes in Vredehoek, Cape Town (p62) / We take a deeper look at Joburg’s legendary Hallmark House (p76) / Two spaces in Robert Silke’s Tuynhuys complex (p92) / Travel abroard to this London-based city cottage (p108) / Get the look of this London home (p117)

LIVING / CAPE TOWN THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT According to their website, friends and business partners Stephen Hitchcock and David Long ‘work and collaborate side by side on every project’. Perhaps none more so than their own house – a property shaped by both a shared vision and their individual needs; split down the middle and at the juncture of modern city and rugged mountainside, the three-storey row house is an exercise in duality and how everything can have its place, even in a small space and with a view like no other.

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PLANTATION ROAD Bordering the city edge and mountain, this Cape Town abode’s split personality is more than just a product of its environment WORDS ANNIE BROOKSTONE STYLING STORM ROSS & CHARL EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY GREG COX

ver heard that thing that people say about not taking your work home with you?

Stephen Hitchcock and David Long of Stretch Architects are certainly not those people. In 2015, the friends and business partners were facing the same dilemma – both wanted to move their families into Cape Town’s City Bowl but both were impeded by prohibitive property prices. ‘We were determined to find a way to live in the city and the only way to do that was to share space,’ says Stephen.

So when a little sliver of a plot in Vredehoek became available – situated at the foot of Table Mountain, and overlooking the city and Cape Town’s harbour beyond the scenic Philip Kgosana Drive – it was, as David says, ‘a no-brainer’.

While budget constraints prevailed, it was no student digs that the two architects, both family men, set out to construct.

THIS PAGE, FROM ABOVE The ground floor is a light-drenched space where volume and openness are prized over belongings, and a generous amount of greenery allows an almost seamless transition between home and garden – allowing even a small space to feel expansive. The sculptural quality of the stairs creates a subtle differentiation between kitchen and living room while still occupying a minimal amount of space; David, wife Bonnie, and children Grayson (1) and Frankie (3) occupy one half of the split property. ‘I was looking at creating a house that could be visually and acoustically connected through all the levels,’ explains David.

The plan was to build boundary-to-boundary, creating one house that would function as two homes: Stephen’s abode for himself, wife and one-year-old son, and David’s home with his wife and two children, aged three and one.

‘From the outside, it’s one facade, but internally it’s split down the middle, almost like two Amsterdam-style row houses – both very narrow and set over three levels, with a lot of stairs,’ says Stephen. It’s a multifunctional space shaped as much by practicality as it is by ingenuity. ‘The design was completely driven by the restrictions we had – building line restrictions, fire regulations, space, budget – and that’s what makes for interesting architecture,’ he explains. ‘On a very limited budget, you have to get creative to find ways to still employ good architecture within these constraints. It’s then that you figure out things you wouldn’t otherwise have done, because you’re forced to flip ideas over and rethink them in new ways.’

THIS PAGE, FROM ABOVE Unlike other projects Stretch has taken on, this one gave the architects the luxury of immersing themselves in the space.

‘Spending time in a space allows you to pick up other things you might not have thought about before,’ says Stephen. ‘The house evolved from our living in it, and realising what we do and don’t need’; Stephen, wife Tanja and son Daniël (1) are a wall away from David and family. Although the house footprints are mirrored, they’ve taken a visually different approach.

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT David and Stephen’s individual needs resulted in different interpretations of the internal space; the Longs’ lounge has one piece of furniture – a large L-shaped couch, for space saving; pockets of space are created for storage while verdant pot plants bring life into every corner and niche.

‘The house also afforded us the opportunity to experiment a fair amount,’ says David. ‘We did a lot of things we had never done before, that we probably wouldn’t have tried with clients. It gave us more freedom. Often, as architects, we design spaces that we never get to live in. Living in this house now, though, we have moments when we think, “Ha, we thought this was going to be good, but it’s even better than we’d hoped for.”’

While the two designed the external facade together, beyond the side-by-side entrances, their individual needs at the time resulted in different interpretations of the internal space.

‘Space’ is the keyword here and, much like their budget – and, indeed, their company name – the design lay in stretching the space as far as it would go.

For Stephen, this meant utilising every available inch and beyond – even the house’s sweeping city and mountain views are cleverly framed by generous windows and skylights to constantly draw your gaze beyond the enclosing walls. ‘We used a lot of built-in furniture to make the most of compact areas,’ he says.

‘The more you can affix, the easier it is to use every inch. We also played around with the staircases – usually staircases take up a massive amount of space, but because ours are made out of bent steel, they’re only about 8mm thick, and so we created pockets of space underneath and around them.’

Moving into the outside areas – even these, verging as they do on a busy road below and rugged mountain slopes above, are carefully considered. ‘It was important to create a connection to

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT With the Hitchcocks’ front door always open for a visitor from next door, bagged brick, concrete and pine take centre stage; making the most of both space and a budget meant a DIY approach throughout – Stephen mentions that even his mom chipped in and made the couch pillows; an inherited dining table and chairs are showcased beautifully in the uncomplicated kitchen space, viewed here from two different perspectives.

some kind of a garden because we’re directly next to the road, so we planted trees and attached planters to all the facades.

Over time, they’ll grow dense enough to visually remove the road. Our landscape architect friend Wallace Honiball helped us select fynbos endemic to Table Mountain, so that our home becomes an extension of what’s growing behind it – as well as a constantly changing visual offering to the people travelling in and out of the city.’

‘I’ve always liked the idea of a home that can be extremely open and connected, yet still allow for privacy,’ explains David of his half of the house. He considers nothing to be one of his home’s greatest luxuries – quite literally. ‘We created a vertical connection with a void that spans all three levels. I can have a conversation from the ground floor with my wife in the bedroom upstairs. The void also serves to allow natural light in through a skylight on the roof. All the rooms connect to it via large sliding doors. When the doors are open, one room flows very easily into the next room, with the visual connection making each room feel larger than it actually is. So the doors are more like large, moveable walls.’ The key, he says, is that in a small space you have to be generous – with floor-to-ceiling heights, natural light and windows. ‘The space feels bigger and luxurious, not because of plush finishes and furniture, but through space, volume and light.’

The finishes throughout the two homes are intentionally modest. ‘The external walls are unplastered and unpainted, so

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT A view ‘over the void’ where there is also a visual connection to the lounge below, allowing for an uninterrupted flow of volume and light; playful in pastel, Dave’s three-yearold daughter’s bedroom; large pine sliding doors bring warmth to all the rooms; in the Long home a lastminute decision was taken to create an opening into the bathroom. The room is still private but has high level views into other rooms and the city beyond.

the building weathers interestingly and changes colour when it rains – which we like. Inside, we have more unplastered walls, exposed timber beams, and no ceiling – it’s all really stripped down to bare bones, but it works,’ says David. ‘For example, we wanted timber floors and thought, ‘Pine is cheap, good and sustainable; let’s do it in pine.’ That was the end of the decision and we never had to revisit it. There’s a nice correlation between a material that performs well and is also affordable – which resonates with us.’

Both Stephen and David are adamant that it’s not just in Cape Town’s trendiest neighbourhoods that spaces need to stretch to accommodate a new, more communal way of living. As Stephen says, ‘We’re living in a time where living on huge plots of wasted suburban space is not really possible – and to be honest, nor is it desirable any more. We really need to take a hard look at that and find ways to retrofit old buildings to get more people in, or use land more sparingly, but in a way that is still well considered and designed well.’

On living so closely together, there is a mutual agreement between the both Stephen and David that it creates a new social dynamic and, in essence, a mirco-community. ‘We designed the house to function so that you don’t have to be friends with your neighbour,’ adds David. ‘But we think it’s a great way to live.

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THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT The connecting stairway functions like the spine of the home; the Longs’ master bathroom is cleverly enclosed with glass doors to make the space more expansive and make the most of the natural light; ‘With the house split over three levels, my wife and I have a sort of sanctuary at the top of the house that generally remains a kid-free zone,’ says David of their master bedroom; the central void that connects every space is filled with plants, light and a hanging pendant, which hangs from the top floor down to the bottom.

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THIS SPREAD CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT In the Hitchcock home, Stephen jokes that it was a choice between a fireplace and doors, ‘and we chose the fireplace’.

The lack of doors means that all spaces in the home are connected, with the staircase virtually flowing into the master bedroom; the Hitchcock’s floating, built-in concrete bath has a view over Lion’s Head. ‘When the late afternoon sun comes in, the entire room takes on a sunset glow,’ says Stephen; sweeping city and mountain views are cleverly framed by generous windows; pine cladding creates a beautiful and economical finish.

It’s a multifunctional space shaped as much by practicality as it is by ingenuity.

‘On a limited budget, you have to get creative to f ind ways to still employ good architecture within these constraints.’

- Stephen

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Hallmark House was redesigned

by Ghana-born, London-based architect Sir David Adjaye in 2015 to reveal, rather than hide, the structural elements of the original modernist building. At the time Adjaye called the original building ‘one of the signature icons of the industrial heritage of Johannesburg’.

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THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT: In the home of Phil Baker reclaimed steel artworks by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda take pride of place between the lush greenery growing on the balcony overlooking the city; Denzil Arendse, general manager of Hallmark House, prepares coffee in the building’s foyer where Studio A’s Tristan du Plessis is due to transform the space in March 2020.

board to take the project forward. Du Plessis has completely hen Hallmark House launched in redone the interiors of the ground floor, including the new Thorn Johannesburg’s Ellis Park precinct, restaurant, as well as overhauled the rooftop pool and cocktail the developers asked a simple question bar-cum-gallery called 999, which features a small art gallery in their campaign material: ‘Would and casual tapas menu by Mlambo, focusing on Sunday brunches. you live here?’ It was, in fact, a big ‘We invested in town about five years ago and we have just question for their new investors in been growing our investments since then, ’ says Dale de Ruig, CBD developments, particularly for one of the country’s most one of the partners in the redevelopment of the building. ‘We ambitious inner-city residential schemes. The multibillion saw an opportunity a couple of years ago to take over an iconic Rand project brought in super-starchitect Sir David Adjaye building, but it was a no-brainer on Hallmark House because it is to reimagine the giant residential tower, who said at the time, so iconic, and we knew we could get the right characters on board ‘I am very excited about Hallmark House. I could have gone as an example of how you could take a project like this and turn it anywhere in SA and built a luxury living space, but my focus is around. We have bought more properties in the precinct as well, redeveloping buildings in areas with strong potential. This part so we can continue our next phase of development in 2020,’ says of Johannesburg has tremendous potential and Hallmark House De Ruig. will be the start of a new wing of Maboneng for the city.’

‘To be honest, it was a relatively difficult design for me to Investors scrambled to get their piece of the action, but since come up with, mostly because there were really good ingredients the initial success of Hallmark House’s launch and first phase – already, and I didn’t want to impose myself on what was there which includes (over and above the residential component) retail already,’ Du Plessis explains of his vision. ‘But essentially, I spaces such as a barber, restaurants like the famous Marabi Jazz wanted to realise the original, beautiful dream that David Adjaye Club, and its namesake boutique hotel and spa — the building’s and his team had for the building, and come up with something enormous promise drove to a grinding halt. When the news that will celebrate that. It has a very strong Johannesburg broke that Maboneng’s developers Propertuity had gone into flavour, and by working with Joburg designers such as Tonic liquidation, any further investment in the project stalled. It Design and Dokter & Misses, we are really hoping to make it a left the building’s first generation in a kind of property limbo, showcase of the best the city has to offer,’ he adds. waiting for their dream of Hallmark House to be realised.

The new phase of the building launches in March 2020, but Now, some five years since the project kicked off, Hallmark before the grand reveal, House and Leisure had a look inside to House’s new dawn is on the horizon. The next wave of young THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT see how some of the residents live in their spaces, and why they investors, spearheaded by Steyn Investments, along with the A glimpse into the living room from the entrance hall. A pair of artworks by Jeanette hang above a desk crafted by chose to answer and beautifully’ to theand developers’ help of visionary designers such as Tristan du Plessis of Studio A husband, Stefan Walther. The woven chair is from Hoffz, and the ceramics were ‘yes, collected from flea markets various question as to whether theythe would live there. and up-and-coming chefs Mlambo, have come onart by Jeanette artists; softlike lightKatlego enhances the dining area, wall completes furnishings, also from Hoffz.

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Everard Read gallery curator, art dealer, and celebrated photographer Musa Nxumalo’s burgeoning personal art collection includes artworks by Michelle Loukidis, Guy Ferrer, and one of Nxumalo’s own photographs; Nxumalo moved a couch into his studio apartment onto the balcony to maximise space, and better appreciate the sunset views over the CBD; a monochrome Andrzej Urbanski and a specialedition Brett Murray publication and sculpture by Bad Paper; a new basketball hoop has been installed in the building’s basement.

hotographer and Everard Read gallery curator Musa Nxumalo rents an apartment in the space and, naturally, it’s packed with some wonderful pieces from his burgeoning collection of contemporary art. ‘Everything that I own at this stage is because I genuinely fell in love with it. I don’t think about the pieces that I own as major investments, or collect art based on race and gender. I have a simple rule… if I can’t stop thinking about it, I get it.’

Musa says that living in the building has given him new opportunities to explore the unexpected energy of places he has never explored in Joburg before. ‘Living in the CBD obviously depends on what you are looking for. But if your ideas about the city are mostly associated with stereotyping it as disordered and a crime zone, then you are wrong. One thing I love about being in the CBD is that it’s almost like you are in an experimental neighbourhood, where a pinch of every African country is put together for a study of some sort, bringing with it new challenges and vigour. As an artist, it gives me energy and convenience. My work has a lot to do with energy, and being in the CBD, I know exactly which club or shebeen to go to for a particular energy.

That has been incredible for me, on a professional level.’

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Artworks come freshly unpacked to Musa’s place; a leather and steel chair from MRP Home (mrphome. com) becomes a makeshift bookshelf in the compact space; the bedroom opens up onto the balcony, with a prized Nefertiti headdress overlooking the space; a young Nxumalo smiles down on the bathroom area; a closer look at the Nefertiti headdress.

‘My work has a lot to do with energy, and being in the CBD, I know exactly which club or shebeen to go to for a particular energy.’

– Musa

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT: Wisconsin-born, New York City native Nicole Siegenthaler — Art Joburg’s fair manager — shares a two-bedroom unit with a friend overlooking the South West side of the building; some of Nicole’s prized mementos from home, including this Gorilla figurine that she says she would take first if anything had to happen to the building; a pink sunbeam fan adds a unique colour pop and keeps the space cool.

or Nicole Sieganthaler, a Wisconsin native, the sterility of the suburbs was never going to satisfy her desire to live the city life. ‘I tried staying in Illovo, because my workplace, and lots of shops, galleries and restaurants are closer on that side, so I thought that made more sense. That lasted a month before I became bored with the area, so I cancelled and moved to Hallmark House. I think it’s because I’m not living in Joburg for the peace and quiet… I decided to live as much in the city as I can,’ she says from her two-bedroom place on the 13th floor, overlooking the south-east part of the city.

The changes to the building’s management are reviving the initial enthusiasm that Nicole felt for the building when she first moved there in 2018. ‘It’s exciting to live here now.

I really believe in the benefits of apartment living for a city’s development. To see Dale and his team think about the building in such a holistic way (How does it fit into Maboneng and the greater area? What are the residents potentially missing that we can provide?) is encouraging.’

The city itself is going through a whole set of changes. It’s a time that Nicole – who is the fair manager at Art Joburg – says resembles the changes that happened to New York when former mayor Rudy Giuliani took up office – a controversial period in the city’s history.

‘I lived in NYC for six years full time, and sporadically at other points in my life. I’ve made quite a few friends who grew up in the city and are nostalgic for the “old” NYC – the dirty, crime-ridden, lawless “Gotham” before mayors Ed Koch in the ’70s and later Rudy Giuliani in the ’90s cleaned it up into the vibrant (and very safe) metropolis we know today. That’s something I never really understood… A New York friend told me she used to have to run into her elementary school in the ’70s because junkies would throw eggs at kids on the street. The 21st century NYC we know today is one of the safest cities in the world – it’s clean and boasts an incredible public transportation system that runs 24 hours a day – so what could you miss about that old New York?’

‘Now that I live in Joburg, I think I get it. It’s a sense of pride, a love for a place that’s definitely not perfect. And those imperfections sometimes make you love the flawed thing even more. Because even though Joburg has its drawbacks, it’s also exciting and has allowed me to grow in a career I love, connected me to some seriously talented creatives and played host to some of the best, most unplanned, evenings-turned-into-late nights with incredible friends.’

And it’s a shared feeling by those who visit from home. ‘We all persist, we set down roots, we make homes, and we grow and flourish in our beloved – if flawed – city of Joburg,’ Nicole says.

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: A beaded bird from one of Yeoville’s talented streetside artisans in the dining room recently painted a punchy shade of pink; a LRNCE (lrnce.com) vase, ceramics by Farah Hernandez (farahhernandez. co.za) and books on the dining table; bold colour choices continue throughout, with sage green welcoming you into the bedroom, where a Mungo throw (mungo. co.za), Ninevites rug (theninevites. net) and artwork

by Banele Khoza take pride of place; the dining table scene against a pink backdrop; a Robin Rhode skateboard on the hallway server table.

‘It’s exciting to live here now.

I really believe in the benefits of apartment living for a city’s development.’

– Nicole

THIS SPREAD A ‘welcome to the jungle’ rug prepares you for the extraordinary views from urban farmer Siyabonga Mngoma’s apartment, who herself lives among a forest of indoor plants.

he chance to live in a David Adjaye-designed building was why Siyabonga Mngoma bought one of the first apartments for sale in the building. Siya is the entrepreneur behind Wholesome Abundance Foods, a veggiebox delivery service used by many of the residents in Hallmark House. Her place, much like the rest of her life, overflows with a jungle of healthy plants – her ‘plant babies’, as she likes to call them.

‘Moving to downtown Joburg was an intentional decision on my part. I wanted to add something to my life and make it as rich as possible without lots of ‘stuff’. At my old place, I had outdoor plants that I didn’t pay much attention to. So when I moved into a smaller space in Hallmark House, I decided to do away with the ‘things’ and keep only what I really need and use. Then I got an indoor plant as a gift, and when I searched the internet about its keep, I discovered a world of indoor plants. That was something – it became a warm, green space for myself in the concrete jungle. I receive so much joy from taking care of plants, and being able to observe their growth patterns, what works and what doesn’t.’

The sense of community has changed the way she lives,

she says, ‘When I had just moved into Hallmark House, I had moments when I questioned whether I had made the right move.

Johannesburg as a city is tough – I guess like any other big city in the world. Unfortunately, we have socio-economic challenges as a country and I feel that anywhere in the country is tough. You just need to be conscious of your environment constantly. At first I was very limited in my movements, always planning my routes to and from the building, but I realised it is not how I want to live my life, and I had to toughen up as well.’

‘Also, the community at Hallmark House is very diverse – my neighbour Ivy is Kenyan. She studies at Wits and she walks whenever she can. When I saw that, I started walking as well.

I see tourists walking everywhere in our neighbourhood of Maboneng, and I’m tempted to shout: “Don’t go there!” And again I realise that I’m just projecting my fears. For most people, walking in the city is just part of their daily lives. I guess the reality is that downtown is like any other neighbourhood in Joburg. We just need to become a part of it. As Joburg citizens, we are the ones who need to help make sure it becomes the city we can enjoy living in, and remove the stereotype.’ O

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT: Most of the house was put together from vintage and second hand furniture, such as the sideboard, adorned with gifted Zimbabwean basketry; and a dining table that she cut new glass for; even a bedside table becomes a nursery for propagating new plants; a reproduced image of the old arcade in downtown JHB that Siyabonga bought from print archivist Rita Potenza, Hallmark House’s towering exterior is an eyecatching addition to the CBD skyline.

‘As Joburg citizens, we are the ones who need to help make sure it becomes the city we can enjoy living in, and remove the stereotype.’

– Siya

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OPPOSITE PAGE The sinuous curves of Robert Silke & Partners’ Tuynhuys building in Keerom Street, Cape Town, proves that beautiful high-rise apartment blocks are possible – and covetable. While being responsive to, and respectful of its historical environment, Silke’s architecture is ‘joyful and optimistic, and doesn’t take itself too seriously’.

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The architecture’s sense of timelessness is perhaps a quality that will ground it in Cape Town’s skyline for ages to come.

trailblazer in Cape Town’s urban renewal movement, Robert Silke cares about making buildings that extend the rich mythology of the city, woven by artists and storytellers. The architect’s most recent creation, Tuynhuys, wedges into a narrow site on historical Keerom Street in the city centre – a former gracht (canal) where sailors who rowed their dinghies up from the harbour into an unexpected dead end were forced to turn around or keer om (turn around).

As a contemporary building that has only just come into being, Tuynhuys feels like a structure that dates from the past, yet belongs to the future. Traces of the Art Deco movement can be read in the building’s sculptural forms. Silke speaks openly and enthusiastically about his great love for Art Deco, explaining that ‘what inspired us about Deco is not the style, but the optimism about the future’. The architecture’s sense of timelessness is perhaps a quality that will ground it in Cape Town’s skyline for ages to come.

Tuynhuys is undoubtedly a bold new addition to the CBD, embodying as much personality as its characterful architect does. But no matter how bold, it remains considerate of its

surroundings. ‘It speaks as much to the Victorian and Art Deco as it does to Senator Park,’ explains Silke – in a nod to its neighbour, Tuynhuys has echoed the arches of the 1980s postmodernist Senator Park and turned them sideways to create one of the most distinct features of its curvaceous facade. Silke worked closely with heritage agencies during the development of the project and proposed a strategy where the building steps back respectfully from the street front in plan to open up space around the adjacent Victorian building’s historical turrets.

In making this building, Silke explains that many lessons were learnt from Holyrood – the iconic, flesh-coloured apartment block around the corner that Silke calls home. ‘I believe Holyrood is the greatest Art Deco building in the city,’ he says. While many similarities exist between the two, Silke would describe the buildings as siblings and not twins. Unlike Holyrood, Tuynhuys has discarded symmetry for a more organic and asymmetrical design with sufficient complexity to absorb imperfections in the construction process, and adaptations that inhabitants will make in time.

You might think it would be a challenge to sculpt the interior of an apartment in so strong and unique an architectural shell – but, according to two of the designers, it’s been a joyful process.

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT Tuynhuys’ light, modern foyer is lined with tiles that were turned vertically so they could round the curve of its walls smoothly; the building was conceived in careful collaboration with the Cape Town Heritage Resources Department and, in a nod to its neighbour on Keerom Street, it echoes the arches of the 1980s post-modernist Senator Park, turning them sideways to create one of the most distinct features of its facade.

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT ‘It was fun working with Tommy,’ says architect and illustrator Lucie de Moyencourt of her brother, with whom she decorated their studio apartment 303 in Tuynhuys; ‘In the beginning especially, we didn’t really know where we were going, but we agreed on starting with buying vintage Knoll pieces and building from there. A lot of the stuff we restored was a big mission! It was so worth it in the end.’

or brother and sister, Tom and Lucie de Moyencourt, it all started with some vintage Knoll. ‘The [building’s] windows are rounded; the facade is rounded. It can sit in any space. I think it will age beautifully. Same with vintage Knoll,’ says Lucie, as she gestures to the classic Tulip chair and table in front of the curved window.

Tom and Lucie bought their first property, studio 303 of Tuynhuys, as an investment piece for short-term rentals. Their individual life paths currently take up more space than the 34 m² studio apartment can provide – which Lucie cites as the reason neither of them lives there – especially since she is just starting her own family. Even so, Tom and Lucie have designed the interior with themselves as the clients in mind. ‘It’s our first flat ever, so we definitely wanted the chance to decorate,’ says Lucie.

‘Tommy and I grew up in old houses with antiques,’ she explains that buying a brand-new flat felt quite strange and clinical to them at first. Their Tuynhuys interior cultivates a delicate balance between the newness of the architecture and the oldness embedded in the histories of the antique furniture

elements, creating the kind of place they could associate with home. ‘For us, lived-in means a bit of old, a bit of new,’ she says.

This is an interior lovingly built up by a family who spent time collecting and restoring items that were special to them. The siblings’ father, who owns an antique store in Woodstock called Haute-Antique, contributed many pieces to the design, some of which he had been saving for them for years. The golden curtains are one such feature in the apartment. They were carefully sewn together to blend the faded and unfaded portions of a thick, vintage 1940s fabric, originally hand-embroidered in South Africa.

The pair aren’t afraid of colour. From the curtains to the reupholstered cushions and the repainted kitchen shelves, yellow gradually emerged as a hue of significance. ‘The yellow trunk really took it to the next level, though,’ says Lucie (‘Oh, now we’re a colourful flat!’).

Whether in Lucie’s ink paintings that adorn the walls, or the giant delicious monster she describes as ‘Tommy’s baby’, or the furniture they found together, there is a part of both Lucie and Tommy that dwells within these walls . @tuynhuys_nest

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The classic Tulip chair and table by Knoll offset the elegant curves of the building; ‘The artworks will be switched around,’ says Lucie. ‘They are mainly ink paintings from my studio and pieces from my dad, so it’s a mish-mash studiosalon style’; a speciallydesigned Xandre Kriel metal desk takes up residence alongside Tommy’s beloved delicious monster.

The desk looks like an artist’s easel and serves as a practical space saver. It has a secret plug in the old school desk that flips up to charge a phone or laptop.

OPPOSITE PAGE Thick vintage 1940s golden curtains, from the De Moyencourts’ father, who owns an antique store in Woodstock.

From the curtains to the reupholstered cushions and the repainted kitchen shelves, yellow gradually emerged as a hue of significance.

OPPOSITE PAGE Anchoring the studio is a four-poster oak bed from Weylandts (weylandts.co.za), they opted for a four-poster bed because it creates a room within a room and brings in a sense of intimacy to the larger space. The standing lamp comes from their dad’s store, HauteAntique, in Woodstock.

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT The dog cut-out above the four-poster bed is a decorative remnant from a Club Disco event organized by Tommy, held at the Cape Town Club. They thought, ‘It might be nice for guests to have a pet!’; the wallpaper in the bathroom was custom made by Cara Saven from one of Lucie’s ink artworks entitled ‘Camps Bay Beach People’; a repainted shelf in the kitchen ties in perfectly with the other vibrant yellow add-ons.

orking within a contemporary expression of an Art Deco building is quite wonderful,’ says Yaniv Chen of Master Studio. The Cape Town-based interior architecture practice designed the interior of penthouse 801 in Tuynhuys for a client in New York.

The client wanted something unique and contemporary that could still appeal to a wider audience, as the apartment would be rented out on Airbnb for the majority of the time. Working in a space that needed to be both general and specific presented a challenge for Master Studio, which would typically design for the particularities and character of the client at hand.

Master Studio’s approach has been to blend nostalgic elements from different periods and styles as a way to appeal to multiple sensibilities of home and comfort. The armchairs in the lounge, for example, have paired a contemporary form with a traditional houndstooth fabric. ‘We designed these specifically for the space to tie into the strong curves found on the facade,’ says Chen.

This is a fundamental principle of the design practice; it creates special pieces and works closely with local manufacturers to realise them, rather than importing most of the furniture.

The penthouse interior celebrates the monochromatic palette of the building, layering materials and colour to add depth and richness. A custom-made blackened-oak dining table keeps company with dark wooden antique dining chairs, designed in 1934 by Austrian architect Josef Hoffman. The introduction of a rich, dark green bestows a calming effect on the internal world of this bustling inner-city apartment.

Like the penthouse, the majority of the apartments in this building have been bought with short-term rental in mind. Chen looks at this model positively, citing it as a valuable incentive for homeowners to invest in Cape Town in the face of a challenging property climate. On the other hand, Silke thinks this first wave of temporary living may be fleeting (he has already noticed a young couple, owners of a small studio flat in the building, sharing a bottle of wine on the rooftop balcony on warm summer evenings). O masterstudio.co.za

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT Design powerhouses and co-founders of Master Studio, Leigh Finck and Yaniv Chen are behind the inspired interior of penthouse 801; the armchairs in the lounge have paired a contemporary form with a traditional houndstooth fabric, designed specifically for the space to tie into the building’s strong curves. A rich, dark green softens the pared-back palette in places.

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by Fameg (fameg.pl) surround a bespoke blackened-oak dining table by Master Studio.

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Light streams into the space from verandas on either side of the space; sublime mountain and city views are taken advantage of from a small round tea table; a cleverly angled desk

by Master Studio.

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT ‘I love the bold pattern and texture on such a clean palette,’ says Chen – as evidenced in this monochrome bedroom; a large porthole window affords a glimpse of the cityscape from the bathroom; a painterly wallpaper forms the backdrop for another calm, clean-lined bedroom.

OPPOSITE PAGE ‘We tend to limit our material palette for the most part, allowing the texture of the materials to form the foundation of the design,’ says Chen.

The penthouse interior celebrates the monochromatic palette of the building, layering materials and colour to add depth and richness.

THIS PAGE A view from the cobbled street into the cottage.

Folding shutters allow for privacy but can just as easily open the space up to the quiet street. The panel of glass on the right lets much-needed light into the space from the house’s courtyard behind.

The bright geometric rug is from Brita in Sweden (britasweden.se).

OPPOSITE PAGE Situated on a narrow cobbled street, from the outside you would never guess that this was a former run-down carpenter’s workshop with a few tool rooms and a toilet. Today it’s a multi-story bespoke living space comprising unique design elements.

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THIS PAGE The galley kitchen is given warmth from Douglas Fir wood cupboards. The chairs were discarded frames that Jack Mama and Nina Tolstrup had resprayed and reupholstered. Bright pops of colour are added through the unique detail of Nina’s kettles, which she collects from flea markets in Denmark.

OPPOSITE PAGE Clean lines, graphic prints and bright colours dominate in the living and dining area of the house.

Every piece of furniture has been made by Jack and Nina, either recycled from discarded chairs such as these orange ones, or spray painted in a cheerful colour for a new lease on life.

omething of a mantra for designers Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama of Studiomama is ‘Waste not want not’. This husband-and-wife design team based in London, has a commitment to design that is borne out of a process of invention and reduction, rather than the elaboration of a decoration style. With this same thinking magining are critical and constant themes in their work and is clearly evident in the London cottage that they created as a rental for a family of four.

At just 45m² in size, creative thinking has allowed them to completely remould the existing structure of the cottage: the former garage is now a compact and clever space comprising of two living areas; a kitchen, a dining area, as well as two bedrooms and a bathroom. Miraculously generous for so small a footprint, it is a stylish lesson in how to get more from less. Flooded with natural light and filled with the couple’s incredible furniture and a savvy Scandi-design aesthetic, the house is a marvel of engineering with not one but two sleeping pods that have been designed to give privacy without eroding the sense of space.

‘We believe passionately in designing for the real world,’ says Nina. ‘With more people moving into cities around the world, space is at a premium and we are interested in creating

hardworking homes from a small footprint.’ This goes a long way to explain the timeless and unpretentious qualities of the studio’s work too. Looking at works such as Routine Shoe Horn for Tokyo-based furniture label E&Y Design (exhibited at the British Design Museum) to Marc Jacobs collaboration, Metamorphic Wardrobe, these excellent examples contain the consistency of their functional yet playful approach to their work. And although Studiomama’s work is best described as simple, honest and minimal it is always playful and relevant too.

The cottage itself is a case in point. The couple came up with the idea after travelling for years with their children and finding it hard to create a sense of ‘home-to-home’. ‘I find that when we travel to big cities with our kids, especially when they were much younger, we’d always book double rooms and then pair off with each of them, which wasn’t great’, explains Nina. The cottage was designed as a place where a family of four can be together and yet have space to find a corner of their own. A glass light-well in the floor and a skylight creates natural light in the kitchen – a mean feat considering the house is set in the middle of other terraced houses. ‘When you have a very small space,’ says Nina, ‘it’s all about defying that confined feeling. It’s about considering both proportion and shape, and understanding how to enhance that illusion even more.’ O studiomama.com

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Downstairs in the openplan kitchen and living area is a sofa that sits beneath the window for ample reading light.

The sofa is a repurposed find, while the lamp and the wooden creatures, made from offcuts, are both by StudioMama; miraculously, a landing between the first floor and the mezzanine has enough space for a conversation area with a pair of low-slung chairs that Jack and Nina have repurposed; a glass section in the floor allows light from the upper levels to filter into the more cavernous ground floor level.

OPPOSITE PAGE Every space, no matter how small, needs an entrance area, a place to put your coat, bag, shoes and parcels. Here a Windor blue coat stand, another StudioMama design, offsets a red and white hallway rug

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OPPOSITE PAGE The roof of the house was raised to accommodate Nina and Jack’s idea for a bed pod that takes the form of a mini-house. It was borne out of their desire to preserve the integrity of the existing structure. ‘As the space is small we wanted to create a sleeping area with privacy but not make a new room,’ says Nina. The consideration of recesses within the structure for storage was critical to keep such a small space tidy.

THIS PAGE, FROM TOP With space in limited supply, Nina and Jack worked hard to give every aspect of the design another function: the balustrade that runs from the ground to the first floor is also a shelf where someone can sit and work or have a coffee. The lamp is a StudioMama design made from wood offcuts; a bright yellow glass-fibre wetroom adds fun to the small space. ‘We wanted every aspect of the house to feel like an experience,’ says Nina.

THIS PAGE The sleep pod was inspired by an old Danish tradition where beds were often built into walls, harking back to a time when the Danes used to sleep naked and sitting up. This kind of bed is called Alkover.

The yellow throw on the bed is by Hay (hay.dk).

LIVING / STYLE THE LOOK

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Cossano 450 pendant in White from Eurolux R840, Takealot.com; ’50s Retro-style SMEG fridge-freezer in Yellow R22 600, Hirsch’s; Natural wood table lamp R599 (excludes bulb) from Eurolux, DecoSA; Oztrail enamel mug R69, Camp&Climb; Cuba libre cocktail table

by Daniel Rode R25 460 (36x60cm), Roche Bobois; About A Chair AAC25 chair in Blue by Hay R13 180, Créma; Humble Toothbrush with Yellow R160, Melhor; Drip kettle in Flame R1 199 (700ml), Le Creuset; ‘Frequency 1’ spray paint and acrylic artwork on shaped canvas POR, Andrzej Urbanski; Wooden flooring in Castle Grey from Crudo Living Range from R768/m2 , Oggie Hardwood Flooring; Amber water glass by Sixth Floor R249 (set of six), Superbalist; Lizz chair in Glossy Orange by Piero Lissoni with Carlo Tamborini for Kartell R4 425, True Design; Pillow cover in Rough Diamond Lollipop from R423 (40x60cm), Skinny LaMinx.

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FOCUS Taking you in a new direction for your living room: Create meaningful spaces through new and inventive ways of seating (p120), the clever use of tech throughout, finishes and flooring that tie the space together (p124), and natural additions that will bring the outdoors in (p125)

THE NEW WAY OF LIVING Style and function merge seamlessly in multi-purpose living rooms to help create a meaningful space for relaxation COMPILED BY STORM ROSS

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PHOTOGRAPH: THE MAGS SOFT THREE-SEATER SOFA BY HAY FROM R65 710, CRÉMA; CREMADESIGN.CO.ZA, FOR SUPPLIERS' DETAILS SEE STOCKISTS PAGE

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n it TECH STYLE CONVENIENT TECH DOES DOUBLE DUTY AS ART

Cotton platter scatter cushion R890 in Black and Natural (60×60cm), SHF.

Rosie round outdoor cushion R2 435 (40cm), Douglas & Douglas.

369 F1 floor lamp in Yellow POR, Newport Lighting.

The Frame 65” 4K UHD TV by Samsung R28 999, Takealot.com.

SOFTLY, SOFTLY INJECT COLOUR, TEXTURE AND PATTERN WITH OCCASIONAL SCATTERS

Panton chair in matte Chartreuse by Verner Panton for Vitra R5 635, Créma.

SET THE SCENE

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.Get curvy and comfy by introducing organic .shapes and versatile moulded plastic decor .items for a contrasting and playful touch

Beoplay M5 multiroom speaker R10 199, Bang & Olufsen.

THE PANTON CHAIR WAS THE WORLD’S FIRST SINGLEMATERIAL, SINGLE-FORM CHAIR TO BE PRODUCED IN INJECTIONMOULDED PLASTIC

OUTSIDE IN BRING THE OUTDOORS IN USING PLANTS AND OUTDOOR FURNITURE AS MAIN DESIGN FEATURES

Cesar side table in Bordeaux by Rodolfo DordoniR13 000, Limeline.

Bullet planter in Burnt Orange R1 980 (64cm), Design Store.

Confluences two-seat settee by Philippe Nigro R87 500, Ligne Roset

Fuji ottoman (small, medium, large) by Francesco Rota for MDF Italia from R15 500, Limeline.

ERS MODULAR FURNITURE GIVES YOU THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE YOUR SPACE AT WILL

ECO TECH TODAY, INNOVATIVE MATERIALS BALANCE RECYCLING TO CREATE NEW ECO-TECHNOLOGIES

ABSTRACT ARMCHAIRS UNUSUAL SHAPES AND TONES TO PIQUE INTEREST

Mansion armchair R10 779, KARE.

Accord Fatsak in Blueberry from R2 500 (extra small), ElevenPast.

LOOK TO FAT FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERED PIECES FOR A CONTEMPORARY AND MODERN LOOK

Ellis one-seater modular sofa in Danny Amber

by Steffensen & Wurtz R7 699, SofaCompany.com.

Astair armchair

by Pierre Charpin R89 509, Ligne Roset.

DOUBLE TAKE BLUR YOUR KITCHEN AND LIVING ROOM LINES WITH STATEMENT SINGLES FOR BOTH SPACES

MUSICAL CHAIRS .Change a room’s personality by adding well.designed seating that works across rooms; .from the kitchen to living space

Replica HC kitchen stool in Yellow R1 550, ElevenPast.

DEEP IMPACT DEEP-SEATED MODULAR SOFAS ARE ALL ABOUT COMFORT AND FLEXIBILITY

Brittany dining chair in White R2 099, Mobelli.

Scott Sofa Curve R29 110 (1.05×2.1m), La Grange Interiors.

OUTSIDE OPINION OUTDOOR SEATING CAN WORK ON THE PATIO AND INSIDE Achille armchair in Blue by Jean Marie Massaud for MDF Italia R17 000, Limeline.

Togo Fireside chair by Michel Ducaroy R43 900, Ligne Roset.

Tape Cord outdoor armchair in Green by Nendo Design R69 700, Limeline.

Split lounge chair in Coral from R5 995, Weylandts.

HOLDING IMAGE FEATURES PRADO SQUARE SETTEE BY CHRISTIAN WERNER R125 700 (INCLUDES TWO BACKRESTS AND TWO BOLSTERS), LIGNE ROSET; LIGNEROSETSA.CO.ZA, FOR SUPPLIERS' DETAILS SEE STOCKISTS PAGE

Mini Ejoro ottoman in Pastel R2 090 (filled), Ashanti.

TILE RUN AN INTEGRATED KITCHEN-LIVING SPACE THAT’S UNIQUE YET PRACTICAL MEANS YOU CAN SOCIALISE WHILE YOU COOK TRC9-3 tiles in Red R449/tile (30×30cm) or R3 904/m2, Opia design.

LOCAL IS LEKKER SUPPORT HOMEGROWN DESIGN BY OPTING FOR LOCAL MANUFACTURERS

Plain Hexagon tile in Midnight R70/tile, Opia design.

Salt River City Map Rug in mohair and wool by Fabrica R14 500 (1.65×2.5m), Design Store.

HOLDING IMAGE FEATURES MATT PORCELAIN TILES IN MVG784 PICASSO CASA BLANCA BY MOSAICOVERO R276/M2 (20X20CM EACH), STILES; STILES.CO.ZA, FOR SUPPLIERS' DETAILS SEE STOCKISTS PAGE

PATTERN PLAY Pattern and texture – from tiles to rugs and wallpaper, these are key elements in creating a bespoke look DIGITAL SAVVY ADD TACTILE DEPTH TO MODERN DECOR WITH DIGITALLY PRINTED FABRICS AND WALLPAPERS

Psd040-10 handmade, hand-decorated ceramic tile R7 399 (40×40cm), Officine Gullo.

Isometric outdoor rug in Stormy R4 100 (2×2.9m), Haus by Hertex.

AS MORE SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES INCREASINGLY INFLUENCE TRENDS, EXPECT EXQUISITE DESIGN – WITHOUT HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES FOR NATURE

Printed wallpaper the Edition One Til Collection R679/m Made by Lemon.

BOLDLY GRAPHIC INCORPORATE VIBRANT HUES AND DRAMATIC MOTIFS IN RUGS AND WALL COVERINGS

Glossy Liso Flat Azul Brillo tiles in Blue R289/m2 (10×20cm), Stiles.

WIL504 wallp from the Wild Collection R2 277 (53cm×10.05m/ roll), Hertex.

Circular blue bamboo silk rug R5 200/m2, Gonsenhausers Fine Rugs.

Hand-tufted blended wool and viscose Zigo Zago rug by Carlo Colombo for Cappellini R91 490 (3×4m), True Design.

WINDOW WORKS FOR PRIVACY AND PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS, TURN TO BEAUTIFUL BLINDS AND SHUTTERS Specially shaped kiri-wood shutters in Silk White from the Normandy range POR, American Shutters.

AIM HIGH EYE-CATCHING CEILINGS ARE INCREASINGLY USED TO ENHANCE THE AESTHETICS OF AN INTERIOR

Upper Edge polystyrene medallion in White R215 (each), Builders.

SUBTLE IMPRINTED DETAIL ON WALLS AND FLOORING ADDS A SENSE OF STYLE AND SOPHISTICATION GROUND LEVEL SET THE SCENE WITH ELEGANT NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC FLOORING SOLUTIONS THAT WILL LAST Nefertiti vinyl tiles from the Fortitude collection R385/m2 (2.5mm), Belgotex.

Finoak pre-finished Winterberg 3-ply core wood flooring R1 265 (26×190cm), Finfloor.

25mm aluminium Venetian blinds in Rose Gold from R149, Decorland.

STRUCTURAL SENSE Planning a new living room? Start with good bones:. timeless flooring and window coverings provide the. basics for a warm, welcoming area.

SPACE MAKER MOVABLE ROOM DIVIDERS GIVE YOU FLEXIBILITY IN CREATING AND CLOSING OFF SPACES Rattan and wood screen in Black R4 999 (1.6×1.7m), @home.

Endless screen in Divina fabric by Delo Lindo R23 500 Grey, Ligne Roset.

HOLDING IMAGE FEATURES NEFERTITI VINYL TILES FROM THE FORTITUDE COLLECTION R385/M2 (2.5MM THICK, EXCLUDES LABOUR); BELGOTEX.CO.ZA, FOR SUPPLIERS' DETAILS SEE STOCKISTS PAGE

Duette shade in Batiste fabric POR, Luxaflex.

Monroe polystyrene cornice R100 each (12×15cm), BUCO.

Ganesh stool in Mustard R2 995, ElevenPast.

PLANT POWER A LITTLE FOLIAGE LENDS CALM – AND LIFE – TO INDOOR AREAS Smart Garden 3 self-watering garden with LED lamp in White R1 999, Superbalist.

SIDE SERVING STATEMENT SIDETABLES MAKE IDEAL ADD-ONS, ESPECIALLY IN SMALL SPACES Powder-coated DLM table in Pink R625, ElevenPast.

Monstera deco plant R3 019, KARE Design.

FINAL CALL ADD TACTILE INTEREST AND DEPTH WITH THROWS OR SCATTERS Linen cushion cover in Mustard R379 (45×45cm), Zara Home.

Luxury Z rainbow sidetable R4 469, KARE Design.

FINISHING TOUCH .Considered objects and extras such as .plants, .scatters and sidetables round off the look

HOLDING IMAGE FEATURES MAGS SOFT SOFA THREE-SEATER SOFA BY HAY FROM R65 710, CRÉMA, FOR SUPPLIERS' DETAILS SEE STOCKISTS PAGE

Vrou-Vrou cotton throw in Magenta from R3 315, Mungo.

APART FROM THE AESTHETIC BENEFITS OF PLANTS, IT ALLOWS AREAS TO MERGE TOGETHER IN A FLUID WAY WHEN GREENERY IS BOUGHT INDOORS

Sabine scatter in Salsa R1 590 (60×60cm), SHF.

AMBIENT QUALITY ADD TO YOUR SENSORY OFFERING WITH GREAT SOUND & A GOOD READ

Sofia velvet cushion cover in Blue by Sixth Floor, R249.

FEET UP A GREAT WAY TO LEAN BACK AND RELAX, WHETHER INDOORS OR ON THE VERANDA

‘Evergreen: Living with Plants’ R790, Takealot.com.

Palissade outdoor ottoman

by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Hay R6 985, Créma.

Softruck couch in Rose

by E27 and Tim Brauns R8 500, Ligne Roset.

Addon Bluetooth speaker in Green with leather handle by Audiopro R3 699, Superbalist.

Belmont ottoman in Fossil Grey R3 895, Mobelli.

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