Issue 68 sees the start of an exciting new feature, known as Design Showcase. In this feature, a South African designer has the spotlight put on his or her work over three whole pages!
The first Design Showcase features one-time ad man, now turned designer/lateral thinker/inventor, Porky Hefer.
Porky (he’s the thin one in this pic) says about local design: “Often a local solution turns out to be a global one because it’s so simple an honest. A perfect, pure design idea should be followed by a chorus of ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’” You’ll see lots to illustrate this way of thinking in the Design Showcase in Issue 68, and here are two examples:
We posted about Porky Hefers’ Lites last year some time, and since then, he’s released a version in pure white too. Lites are turned wooden ‘light bulbs’ made from indigenous African hardwoods.
Another recent notion of Porky’s is his Phe-Phela seat, where he explores the possibility of turning a chair into something more productive when it’s not being sat upon. The Phe-Phela is inspired by ventilator outlets, and it spins in the slightest breeze when not in use.
Find out more about Porky Hefer’s work and also about creative consultancy Animal Farm at the website.
Enjoy these few additional shots of artist Shany Van den Berg’s beautiful old home in Stellenbosch, and see more pics on pages 90-97 of Issue 68.
Production: Laureen Rossouw
Photos: Jac de Villiers
In the Style Steal feature in Issue 68, we take a close look at a home occupied by two seriously stylish retro treasure hunters.
Art director Jelena Jovanovic and film maker Terence Neale have renovated their Killarney apartment and furnished it with the fruits of their vintage finds. Their place was so filled with lovely things, we have almost as many pics in our outtakes folder as we do in our Style Steal story on pages 45-49 of Issue 68. (Oh, and I couldn’t help but play “spot the Skinny laMinx” stuff!)
Production: Tiaan Nagel
Photos: Elsa Young
The new issue’s cover image is from the story on pages 60 – 69, entitled “Natural Selection”, and I do dearly wish I’d been the one picked to live in this beautiful home on the slopes of Table Mountain.
Chilean architect Antonio Zaninovic worked with the owners, using the footprint of their small home to make one much larger. Re-purposed ceiling rafters, stone excavated on-site, and using the “bones” of the existing house mean that this home is not only beautiful to look at, it also meshes with the principles of sustainability that the owners hold dear.
Visit Antonio Zaninovic’s website to see many more images of the beautiful Liss Springthorpe family home.
Production: Laureen rossouw
Photographs: Mark Williams
In our Secret Cities feature this issue, we’re celebrating South Africa’s vibrant and multi-layered cities and we have two fab giveaways for you! We asked Neville Trickett (renowned trend forecaster and one-time blog contributor) to head onto the streets of Durban and show us what his eye for detail picked up in that multihued, overheated, subtropical city of ours.
We really loved Neville’s montage of the bizarre and the beautiful that Durban has to offer (more info on each pic on page 124 of Issue 68), and we thought you would too, so that’s why you can download it as a printable greetings card. Just click the icon in the sidebar, download it to your desktop, and print. *
See more of Neville Trickett’s montages and photos at his Saint Verde Digest, and also at his treasure trove of a Flickr site.
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