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bulthaup b3
To re-think space and be truly innovative, you dont just need in-depth expertise and
uncompromising design, quality and craftsmanship. Everything we do at bulthaup
is based on the lasting values that drive us to go the extra mile, to think outside the
box the values of passion and consistency. bulthaup is proud of its history and
builds on the traditions and values of previous generations of the family. After all,
there is no future without a past.
bulthaup b3
The universal bulthaup b3 design system offers everything you could wish for from
a complete kitchen: unusually versatile solutions for the equipment of the perfect
kitchen, but also for functional and aesthetic modications to rooms that go way
beyond the kitchen workspace.
bulthaup b1
bulthaup b1 means room-height architecture, proportional coherence, seamless
design and owing transitions from surfaces to edges. The deliberately minimalist
appearance facilitates a matchlessly perfect design, allowing the typical features
to make the difference: bulthaup b1 is sleek, harmonious and aesthetically perfect.
It is clear from each plan that this is a bulthaup product. And true to the motto
as little as possible and as much as necessary.
bulthaup b2
Based on the philosophical origins of every living space the re and water point
bulthaup has developed bulthaup b2, an open and mobile kitchen that can be added
to and put together to suit the individual. It embodies the kitchen workshop in its
original interpretation in a unique combination of workbench, tool cabinet and
appliance cabinet.
Living Kitchens (Pty) Ltd
Media Quarter, 47 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005. Tel. 021 419 5445.
info@bulthaup.co.za. www.livingkitchens.bulthaup.com
bulthaup b1
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This is the rst magazine we have produced in the Chinese
year of the horse, which started on 31 January. The year of the
horse is said to be inspirational, logical, intelligent and
friendly, and promises a time of unexpected adventure, quick
victories and surprising romance.
I dont normally take too much notice of the Chinese zodiac
but as soon as we started working on this issue, horses started
popping up on wine estates, wallpaper, ne bone china and
artworks. So much so that we have prizes for counting the
correct number of horses in the magazine (page 14).
Perhaps signicantly, it is also the year of the rst World
Congress on Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Durban
from 3 to 7 August (uia2014durban.org). The focus will be on
local issues but the solutions will be globally relevant and its
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the shack in the backyard of his fathers house. The studio was
useful for working in, as well as for entertaining fellow dropouts
of civilised society. Most of Boys friends are drug addicts that
are also more or less permanently jobless; many of them have
been in and out of prison, too.
Boys one-room shack studio was conceived in an alleyway
behind the seedy intersection where grimy necessity becomes
intimately familiar with creativity. The entire structure was
lashed together with thin rope, knocked together with rusty
nails. Wavy sheets of green breglass were mixed up with wood
boarding adorned with oil-stains and mildew. There was a door
but no window.
To say that the interior departed radically from any kind of
conventional aesthetic would be an understatement: the walls
of the shack studio were covered with pages of glossy hardcore
pornography liberated from magazines and axed to the walls
with insulation tape. A single faded blue carpet covered part
of the dusty plank oor. A bed had been cobbled together from
planks and a yellow sponge mattress.
The shack is no longer there. Boy paints less and less. His
appetite for drugs, however, remains unchanged. As a teenager,
whenever we visited, and no one was looking and Boy was not
at home, I used to like sitting inside the studio. To get an eyeful
of the naked women displayed on the walls, to be certain.
But also to breathe in the air of a modest kind of liberty. Boy:
Michael K of Bishop Lavis. However, whenever I stayed inside
the shack too long the same air would become oppressive.
And I would realise that this type of freedom could only be
gained by giving up on trying.
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wild,
overgrown garden obscured the 1923 Parkview heritage
house when Delani and Richard Roothman first came
across it. And it wasnt much better on closer inspection.
The house was on a slope and looked like it was sliding
down the hill towards Zoo Lake, Richard describes.
Nevertheless, it stood on a 2800square-metre
property, and in their suburb of choice. Weve always loved
Parkview for its villagey feeling, Delani explains. They had
been living on a smaller stand in the suburb until they
decided their three boisterous children Rynhard (11),
Wian (nine) and Lin (six) needed more room to grow.
The grown-ups in the family werent averse to some
private space either, laughs Richard.
Still, crossing the threshold into the new house was
an exercise in faith over reality. The floors comprised rotten
timber, and the interior spaces were dark and pokey with
lots of passages, says Delani. It was clear that an
intervention was urgently needed.
Enter their brother-in-law, and namesake of Ludwig
Hansen Architects and Urban Designers: I wanted to help
them create a backdrop to their lives, not a showroom.
Planning took six months and had to be approved by
the local heritage association as the house was older than
60 years with an underlying understanding to retain
as much of the heritage structures and trees as possible.
Poorly added additions were removed, as well as
interior walls, to improve flow while simplifying the living
spaces. Two skylights were added to bring in light because,
as Ludwig points out, often the central part of a deep
house is dark. Bay windows were modernised with steel.
Five original red-brick fireplaces were retained and two
new ones added.
An extension was built for the family sleeping area
that clips onto the existing house in two places to form
a U-shape, creating a quiet, private courtyard, Ludwig
clarifies. We used the simplicity of the existing house
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Without lifting a paintbrush or knocking down
a wall, tribal art dealers Mark and Christine
Valentine of Amatuli have transformed their
cookie-cutter industrial apartment into a
friendly and functional home.
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WHAT THE
OWNERS SAY
Why Pringle Bay?
We wanted to see more of our
children who live in the Western
Cape and we needed a big house.
Friends who live in the coastal
town recommended it.
How difficult was it to manage
such a long-distance project?
Not dicult at all. After getting to
know Guillaume, we knew we were
dealing with a person of integrity.
We chose Martin and Therese
Helmbold of Quali-Projects to do
the building and we were happy
to later learn that Therese is a
landscape architect whose passion
is fynbos rehabilitation.
How did you come to trust
Guillaume?
Guillaume not only spent a lot of
time on the property, he also made
trips out to us in the Free State to
establish our needs and tastes.
What do you love most about
your new house?
Its big enough for our entire family.
We also love the magnicent views
and the peacefulness.
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THE
most
striking thing about Aaron Kohns bachelor pad on the third floor of
the new Artisan Lofts in Maboneng is not that its right next door to a
brothel or that the balcony catches the most indulgent rays of sun on
mornings after a night of partying. Its that the apartment is, well, so tiny.
At only 30 square metres as well as a 10 square-metre balcony,
he emphasises Aaron has to make the space work for his needs. We
settle on the short-short chairs on said balcony and enjoy the sunlight,
as a low-hanging lamp sways in the breeze. I know theyre tiny chairs, he
laughs, thats kind of the theme of the apartment if you havent noticed.
This, he gestures to his bedroom, looks massive to me. Especially
after living in New York. Its, like, three times the size of a New York
apartment at, like, a fourth of the rent. Everyone has it hard in New York.
You make a lot more money in New York but over there you have a
shittier quality of life.
The 23-year-olds quality of life has improved considerably since
he left his birthplace in Cleveland. Before he was a resident of Joburgs
hipster hub, Aaron was an African Studies student at Columbia University
in New York. He spent a year as an exchange student at Wits University
because I knew all the Americans had gone to UCT and co-founded
the AfricanLookbook.com e-retailer where five-panel Babatunde caps
priced as high as $40 are sold to Americans and Europeans who want
some African flavour in their wardrobes. Even before that though, he did
a year of high school in Gaborone, Botswana, and travelled through
Namibia. Its these experiences that are part of the reason he became
obsessed with this continent.
Now, he is the director of the new Museum of African Design
(MOAD), a stones throw from his apartment. MOAD is a project of
developer Jonathan Liebmann, who was recently named one of
Forbes magazines 30 Most Promising Entrepreneurs in Africa. Since
2006, Jonathans company, Propertuity, has rejuvenated the entire
Maboneng Precinct, transforming it from an industrial neighbourhood
to a creative one complete with an independent cinema, restaurants
and a Sunday market.
The initial plan was to give AfricanLookbook.com the pop-up shop
treatment inside MOAD, but through a combination of impulsive emails
from me, and them giving me a chance, he was tasked with being the
director of the museum. In November last year the museum, which
describes itself as a permanent cultural laboratory, officially opened
with an exhibition called Native Nostalgia, curated by Aaron and inspired
by a book of the same title by journalist Jacob Dlamini.
Images from the exhibition are still stuck to Aarons kitchen wall.
They are swallowed by a blood-red colour scheme. A cow-skin from
Amatuli lies on the cold floor. When I first lived in Africa it was in
Gaborone, a place that relies on cattle for everything, Aaron explains.
I like the Nguni rug because it is one of few Ive seen with both black
and brown tones. Theres usually only one or the other.
Looking around the man cave, past the clothes hung on a rail,
bottles of spirits in varying degrees of emptiness line the top of his
fridge; there is coffee in a white cup with Johannesburgs skyline circling
it. We drink water out of a jug that uses the Marlboro cigarette brand
motif to announce Joburg Tap Water. An alphabet shoe rack has
notebooks, tools, remotes for all the different gadgets in the place,
power cords... With so little space, it becomes a fun storage solution.
Aaron explains that he doesnt have any keepsakes or souvenirs
from around the world in his apartment where would he put them all?
But hes happy to source everything locally. Its clear: Aaron hearts Africa.
My attitude is Im happy here. I can be here a lot of the time and
never have to step into a mall, he smiles broadly. And besides, everyone
knows that design and art are going to reshape this city and country.
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SPIRITS
Ellerman Houses new wine gallery shows how a
humble cellar can be transformed into a monumental
art installation with custom pieces by sought-after
designers, sculptors and craftsmen.
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This extraordinary
basin in the tasting
rooms bathroom
is a 960kg piece
of Belfast granite.
The water spouts
(from Lavo
Bathrooms) hang
from the ceiling.
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WONDER YEARS
This enchanting fabric and wallpaper
collection by Patrick Frey, president
and creative director of Pierre Frey,
was inspired by his sons growing up
in the 1980s and motivated by his
brood of grandchildren 30 years later.
The themes vary from cars and stars
for boisterous boys to embroideries
and pretty prints for girls.
wallpaper from R1 787/roll
fabric from R1 334/m for a tulle
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BECAUSE
GOOD
FURNITURE
CAN BE
FOREVER
Children dream beyond what they see,
believes Denne Viljoen, the owner
and designer of De Steyl, a furniture
design and manufacturing company
in George. They are interested in the
things that surround them, they see
beauty in tiny details, they are little
people who grow up, change and adapt
over the years in the spaces of the
homes they share with their parents
just like the lovely range of furniture,
Play Play that Denne, an architect by
trade, designs for them.
Inspired by the 1950s Scandinavian
furniture she grew up with, as well
as that odd quirky piece she thinks
we all remember from childhood, Play
Play is a modular chest range made
from sustainable birch plywood with
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B A N DA N A S
FOR BABES
Old schools cool but not when it
comes to wiping o dribbles and
catching all sorts of spills with a nasty
plastic-backed bib. Instead, these
cotton Bandana Bibs, by graphic
designer and mom-of-two Andrea
Barras (left), are the new cool.
Handmade in two styles, reversible
and dribble dry (the latter backed
by soft absorbent toweling) they are
super practical too.
Bandana Bibs from R35
babybirdbasics.com
B E C A U S E
W O N K Y
W I N N I E
01
38 REASONS
B E C A U S E
MERMAIDS
ARE
MYSTICAL
Forget Me Not, R21 800.
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FA
S T FAC T
In African
mythology there is a
mermaid goddess called
Mami Wata (water mother).
Jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela
recorded a song named after
her, which appeared on his
1975 album The Boys
Doin It.
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BECAUSE
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03
01 Dean and Julian Pozniak, and Alfred Manyoni of Simon & Mary.
02 Serai, creative consultant and entrepreneur, wearing Julian.
03 Wanda and Kabelo, known as The Sartists, wearing Monza and Julian.
PHOTOS AIMEE POZNIAK, GARETH PLACE BRANDING & ART DIRECTION JANA + KOOS WORDS MALIBONGWE TYILO
01
OLD
HATS
ARE
TAUGHT
NEW
TRICKS
DESIGN a Kitchen tap that can heat water at the point of use,
using induction heating technology.
PDC CATEGORIES ARE: STUDENTS AND OTHER.
First Prize: R30 000, Naming of your range and PR/recognition, you will be announced as the winner in the media.
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Second Prize: R15 000
Winning Institute: R10 000
Semi finalists will be announced in the 1st week in August 2014. Finalists will be invited to a function where the winners
in both categories will be announced. Format for submission & design competition brief can be found at www.cobra.co.za.
38 REASONS
BECAUSE
Every year the Ambiente consumer goods trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, partners
with a dierent country and this year it was the Land of the Rising Sun. Our resident
Japanophile, Annemarie Meintjes reports that there was a great deal of gentle
and minimal products better designs with less unnecessary detail.
CHAIRS AND SIDE TABLE
GEORG STOOL
BLOSSOM BAG
by Odin.
Made of eco-friendly
synthetic leather, this was
the bag on every Japanese
magazine editors shoulder.
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by Konstantin Slawinski.
Another Design Plus
award-winner, this solves
a long-standing problem
the ugly re extinguisher.
It also has a rst aid kit.
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BECAUSE
ITS COMING TO A
STORE NEAR YOU
BLACK-ANDWHITE CHINA
Whether in stripes
or designs, the
monochrome trend is
going to glamorously
pop up on tables
everywhere this year,
like the minimalist
but opulent new
Sieger by Frstenberg
Ca dOro range.
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COFFEE MAKERS
Bialettis new Mokissima Militare is dressed
in camo and has a trio system that allows
you to use ground coee, pods or capsules.
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HAND-BLOWN
GLASS
An omnipresent dining trend
at Ambiente, the Ivalo range
with custom-made wooden
lids and hand-knotted
leather handles was
the ultimate example.
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PONIES
ARE
PRETTY
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ST FACT
BECAUSE
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B E C A U S E
WELL ALWAYS
HAVE PARIS
DIANE DU TOIT
GM PENDANT
by Grethe Meyer.
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CLOCK
by Norm in green.
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by Simon Legald
in burgundy.
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by Simon Legald
in grey.
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A visit to the city of lights, love and style, and home to the inuential
Maison et Object fair, is always good to dust o the inspirational cobwebs.
We asked two design romantics about their latest pilgrimage.
CAVALIER VELVETS
in ale, armour, champagne,
lead and saddle.
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MARGUERITE MACDONALD
MARABOUT MULTICOLORE
Owner, Mavromac.
The raw, thick and untreated wood trend just
gets stronger and stronger. Tree stumps, barktrimmed tables, freeform benches, gnarled
roots and huge slabs.
Retro rattan takes us back to the 60s with the
romantic curved lines of Palm Beach furniture
everywhere. The Dutch and Flemish come to
the fore with all their Indonesian sources.
A colour invasion of pastels pinks, purples,
tangerines, mauves and blues looked like a
macaroon party! Think nostalgic picnic baskets,
ovenware, oral china, rag dolls, enamelware
and clouds of Cath Kidston lookalikes.
Fabrics showed rich colour and textures
with the best by far being Pierre Freys Aloha
Collection. Rough texture and bold simplicity
have continued to keep a strong presence
nothing compares with the gorgeous linens,
paisleys and velvets of De Le Cuona.
The exposed light bulb and miners cage lights
trend has reached a point where it seems
almost rude to have a lampshade.
Vintage furniture still prevails, and hardly
a table is without the characteristic tapered
and splayed baton legs of the 50s. Stands
featuring period furniture looked downright
dull and stuy.
maison-objet.com
INSULAIRE
range of rattan furniture.
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BECAUSE
A LITTLE
BLING GOES
A LONG WAY
BECAUSE
WEVE
GOT
A
COPPER
CRUSH
From the high street
to the vintage
markets, from
clothes and make-up
to decor Copper.
Everywhere. Great
thing is, even if its
particularly popular
right now, shiny stu
from the earth never
goes completely out
of mode, like this
old-school copper
pendant light.
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GIVE IT
EDGE BY
Est. 1984
38 REASONS
BECAUSE
Downtown Design is
organised by the same
people behind the Art Dubai
and Design Days Dubai
fairs where Southern Guild has
presented many an exhibition of
collectible South African design.
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S T FAC T
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B EC AUS E
ZEN IS SERVED
ON A PLATE
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02
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BECAUSE
01
02
03
01 Martin Doller.
02 This kitchen
table top
is made of
eco-friendly
bamboo.
03 The small side
table is Martins
experiment in
working with
sheet metal,
which is
much harder
to bend.
04
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HES SHOWING
IN MILAN WITH
THE BIG BOYS
38 REASONS
01
B E C A U S E
FA
Dairy farmer
Wolraad Woltemade
and his horse, Vonk, were
the heroes who died while
rescuing sailors from the
shipwrecked De Jonge
Thomas in Table Bay
in 1773.
02
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ST FACT
A
SMOOTH
SEA
NEVER
MADE A
SKILLED
SAILOR
PROMOTION
VIVE LA
PRETORIA!
No need to y to Paris to nd ne French
architecture and cuisine, simply pop over
to Brasserie de Paris in Pretoria and enjoy
fabulous food while marvelling at the
interior of an architectural masterpiece
all la Franaise!
38 REASONS
THE
SPOTLIGHT
IS ON
SHOWBIZ
GLAM
Evoking movie studios and
photographers lofts, the
tripod statement lamp casts
you as the star in your own
home ick. Although the
high-priced vintage originals
probably initiated the trend,
the extremely useful
adjustable legs and
directional light have made it
stick. Here are some of VISIs
favourite movie moments.
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The tripod sh is
so named because of
its three elongated ns
with which it stands on
the ocean oor.
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B E C A U S E
02
03
04
PROMOTION
FLOATING TABLE
A fabulous new table has seen the light of day thanks to ergonomic
specialists Humanscale. Called Float, it does its name justice by making
mechanical transitions between sitting and standing feather-light and
its available in SA only from Formfunc Studio.
On the forefront
of ergonomic technology,
and renowned for
achieving more with less,
Humanscale has designed
Float with a counterbalance mechanism
featuring constant-force
technology. It is also the
only table top of its kind
with a unique safety feature
it only allows adjustment
when the desktop and
contents are balanced.
With more than 140
prestigious awards to
their name and products
displayed in the Museum
of Modern Art, Humanscale
has ne-tuned ergonomics.
Formfunc Studio is their
exclusive dealer partner
in southern Africa and has
been the local supplier of
world-leading ergonomic
tools and furniture for
six years.
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B E C A U S E
THE
WORLD
IS
WATCHING
01
02
03
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04
01 Laurence Brick.
&( Bench by Cape
Town designer
Laurie Wiid.
03 Customised
sneakers,
handpainted
by artist Atang
Tshikare.
04 Ceramic pots by
Martine Jackson.
&+ The Sweat Lamp
by Dokter and
Misses, made
out of a solid block
of soap stone.
Ceramics from master potters Martine Jackson,
Anthony Shapiro and Nic Sithole, as well as
relatively new names like Madoda Fani and
Mervyn Gers. Not to mention surface design
from Atang Tshikare. There will also be the
100 Beautiful South African Things exhibition.
A trend youre loving?
3D-printing.
A trend youre tired of?
Perfect formulaic interiors.
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BECAUSE
BRANDY IS
TRAILBLAZING
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B E C A U S E
WE
CAN
BE
LEFT
TO OUR
OWN
DEVICES
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BECAUSE
02
03
GREEN
SOLUTIONS
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However remote or wild your location, our team of
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38 REASONS
B E C A U S E
CLAUDINE
FLOOR CUSHION
by Madwa.
The outer shell of this
eye-catching eco-friendly
pouf is handwoven from
papyrus, and the inside
stued with pine needles.
R1 190, madwa.com
IPHONE CASES
by Vukile Batyi.
Our new iPhone 5s is hot
o the ship and in need of
protection, preferably by
one of these nifty beaded
cases we spotted at Design
Indaba Expo.
R750,
vukile.batyi@gmail.com
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BULB CUPS
by Margrethe Odgaard
for Siyazama Project.
A Swedish designer and
colourist, Margrethe worked
with the Durban University
of Technology community
project to develop these cups
that diuse and prettify the
ol light bulb.
Prototype in development,
siyazamaproject.dut.ac.za
XHOSA BASKETS
by Design Afrika.
Woven by women in the Eastern
Cape, these supersized baskets
are bound to make a dramatic
statement. Think of them as the
exclamation mark in your home!
R2 400 (150 x 75cm),
designafrika.co.za
LAMPSHADES by Noush.
The vendor bag check goes chic in these
lampshades designed by Manoushka Kraal
and hand-embroidered with wool by
crafters in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
From R590, noush.co.za
38 REASONS
01
BECAUSE
01 Candice Lawrence,
owner and designer
of Modern Gesture.
02 Table, R4 800.
02
THIS TABLE
IS SHAPED
BY BODY
LANGUAGE
B E C A U S E
YOU CAN
WEAR
ART
AROUND
YOUR
NECK
01
02
03
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01
BECAUSE
IN THE LAND
OF THE BLIND
THE ONE-EYED
MAN IS KING
02
03
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05
www.straussartonline.co.za
38 REASONS
BECAUSE
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01 Katherine Glenday
at her potters
wheel in Kalk Bay,
surrounded by her
nished pieces.
01
ITS SHOWING
INSIDE THE
ARTISTS
OWN HOME
38 REASONS
B E C A U S E
THE PUPPET
PROCESSION
COMES TO TOWN
Once a year, magic reigns in the sleepy dorp of Barrydale when people and
puppets march through the town in the Day of Reconciliation parade.
Crowds line the streets to watch merry processions swinging colourful
decorations, following behind larger-than-life puppets. The event sees the
Handspring Puppet Company (most famous for the War Horse production
in London) giving back to the community, by training youngsters to build
puppets and make decorations from recycled items (this time designed by
former Handspring puppet-maker, Andy Mias-Jones of Shrinkray). Its done
in collaboration with Net vir Pret, an NGO that organises after-school and
holiday activities for local children, and the Magpie Art Collective that
runs craft projects in the community. Heres how the procession unfolded
Barrydale is a town
on Route 62 that
lies on the border
of the Overberg
and the Klein Karoo.
One way to reach
it is via the scenic
Tradouw Pass.
Adrian Kohler,
manipulator of
the mermaid, is
co-founder and
artistic director
of Handspring
and considered
to be one of the
worlds masters
of puppetry.
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BECAUSE
02
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01
THE
DESIGNER
WILL
BUY HIS
FURNITURE
BACK FROM
YOU
Ashanti Mbanga,
Samsung Ambassador
Miss Earth 2014
Samsung recommends
TM
with
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BECAUSE
THE MAP
IS NOT THE
TERRITORY
01
02
BECAUSE
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THEYRE
SCATTER
PALS
CHIC KITCHENS
A DIAMOND FOR LIFE
DIAMOND RANGE
38 REASONS
BE C AUS E
RULES CAN BE
BROKEN
02
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03
01
PROMOTION
EASY
ALFRESCO
38 REASONS
B E C A U S E
02
03
IT JUST
TAKES
A NEW
FRAME
OF MIND
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2
3
4
5
B E C A U S E
FIRST CAME
SHACK CHIC,
NOW THERES
REAL MEAL
REVOLUTION
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9
10
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A fab and varied selection of reads has recently come our way,
so take your pick from this bright bouquet. Theyre all about the
journeys of special people, and the things they create and discover.
The best part is that its also ne to just look at the pictures!
B[ji][jj^[Yedjhel[hi_WbXWbbhebb_d]m_j^^[e\
J^[If[Wh\Wc[" Brett Murrays 30-year art journey. Filled
with evocative photographs and text, Brett Murray (Jacana) tracks
this artists prolic output from the 80s onwards and culminates
at the sharp tip of South Africas most infamous artwork. A book
to spark o lively dinner-time conversation.
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FWjh_Y_WKhgk_ebW"creator of Moroso sofas, B&B Italia chairs and Flos
lights. Her gorgeous monograph, Time to Make a Book (Rizzoli) shows how
her passionate and emotional approach has shaped the past 12 years of
her career. So even if you cant aord her to-die-for lounge suites, the
book can inspire forever!
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in the Making: From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance (Black Dog), and follow
the fascinating history of hues from ancient natural pigments to the
synthetic versions used today. Colour innovations and the advances
of organic chemistry are also explored. Ever wondered how printing
techniques developed or what lies in paints crystal ball? Wonder no more.
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Love all things bright and beautiful? Get your hands on Colour
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UNDER OUR SKIN
BECAUSE
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01
BECAUSE
CHILDHOOD
FRIENDS CAN BE
BUSINESS BESTIES
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38 REASONS
THE FLOWERS OF
TOMORROW ARE IN THE
SEEDS OF YESTERDAY
Natural, wild and a little bit
extraordinary is how young orists
Emma Frost and Jessica Ellis
describe their approach to oral
design. Although urban, edgy and
exquisite arent too far o either.
The two started Supernatural
Floral Design last year and with
hard work, determination and
copious amounts of passion, have
built up a reputation that has them
creating beautiful arrangements
for anything from weddings to
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Both, however, agree that the only
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experience and between them
they have had their fair share,
Emma having experimented at
well-known Flowers in the Foyer
in Stellenbosch and Jessica at
Ecozest in Knysna.
Constantly keeping a pulse on
oral art trends and collaborating
with other young creatives to
keep their products fresh and
contemporary, this is a design pair
well be keeping a close eye on.
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