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Everywhere you look, the city is alive with colour. Be inspired by the energy and colour of the streets with our free downloadable collaged posters (click in the sidebar to download each one). Then use the Freeworld paint swatch strip to bring the same vibrant energy into your home with colour.
Cape Town jeweller Marietjie Beeselaar has opened an online shop for her Skermunkil line, where she is selling these exquisite vintage silver spoons. Each one is hand cut, and is quite unique. They’re intended as pendants, but I could also imagine one hanging as a window decoration. Just beautiful.
However you choose to use your spoon, be sure to keep an eye on what Skermunkil will be bringing to us by visiting the Skermunkil shop, and by following Marietjie at her Eendag op ‘n Reendag blog. ELLE Decoration and Le Creuset invite you to a fun-filled foodie evening at the Silwood School of Cookery in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Learn to cook a range of mouthwatering dishes, before enjoying a leisurely two-course meal. Plus, you’ll take home a goodie bag to the value of R580 and stand to win le Creuset cookware!
This exciting reader event only takes place on the evening of 29 September, but we’re giving advance warning, as there are only 20 places available. The course costs R290 (subscription holders pay R260), and apart from the demonstration and meal, you’ll get a Le Creuset goodie bag, and a 1-year subscription to ELLE Decoration! To book email Lauren with the words ELLE DECORATION in the subject line, and wait for a confirmation email with more details. The Design Showcase feature in each issue of ELLE Decoration looks at home grown artists, designers, architects and innovators. You’ll find more of these under the Profiles pulldown menu at the top of the page, and right here, we’re featuring textile artist Karen Suskin in an interview by deputy editor, Kelly Berman. Karen Suskin is a multimedia artist, interdisciplinary designer and design lecturer. She’s been a proponent of all things sustainable before it became a buzz word, and built her own straw-bale house 12 years ago with her husband, Anthony, her family and a small local workforce.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY ‘In everything I do – be it designing a garment, creating an art installation, working with a community, collaborating on a piece of furniture, or mentoring a student – I’m aware of the context and of the need to find environmentally sensitive and ethical ways of working. I frequently walk on the beach or in the mountains close to my home; I observe and collect things that inspire me and return to the studio with new treasures and deeper insight into nature’s fascinating processes.’
CROSS POLLINATION
‘The design on this felt dress came from a line drawing I did while working out an idea. The chalk doodle she’s drawing continues down into her dress as a physical embodiment of the idea itself.’ Interview: Kelly Berman. Our Small Spaces: Big Ideas issue comes with a fab 48 page supplement called The Room, brought to our readers by Freeworld Coatings. The Room is absolutely saturated with colour ideas, DIY projects, helpful painting tips and sheer colour inspiration for every single room in your house, using Freeworld products like Earthcote, Plascon, Midas and Hamiltons. There are ideas for kids’ rooms, a home office, a loft, your front door, and more… I particularly fancied this dresser and fireplace makeover, myself.
While helping prepare the supplement, DECO’s intern Maryke Olivier went the extra mile and took some behind-the-scenes pics of just how our brilliant stylists managed to give a dreary old dresser a new lease on life, with the help of a couple of pots of paint from Freeworld Coatings: Step 1: Sand the wood before applying a coat of Midas Universal Undercoat. Step 2: Use a pencil and ruler to draw equal-sized squares along the front surface, leaving a border around the edges. Step 3: Connect the squares’ opposing corners with lines to form triangles, then carefully mask the spaces you want to paint. Remember to mask one triangle completely, if you would like the bare wood to show.
Step 4: Choose your colours. Our stylist, Misi Overturf chose Plascon Cashmere ‘White Canvas’ (D13-1) and ‘Lapis Blue’ (B6-B1-1), and Midas Midacoat Satin ‘Black’.
Step 5: Use a small, flat brush to paint the triangles very carefully. Here are all the DECO interns and production assistants in full concentration.
Step 6: Paint the border and remaining sides black, then step back to admire your handiwork. Production: Misi Overturf Assistants: Elsa Gouws, Nina du Plessis, Maryke Olivier Photographs: Justin Patrick
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