Issue 67 – Nest Egg

Product company  Egg Designs is no stranger to the pages of our magazine, nor to this blog, so we’re really loving taking a peek behind the scenes, into the home of the dynamic duo behind Egg Designs.

Greg and Roche Dry and their two children live on a smallholding in the lush rolling hills of Drummond, [...]

Going crackers for the environment

This is just adorable. Durban handmade outfit Cupcake Couture is doing their bit for the environment this festive season, making customised crackers from recycled ingredients.

You can pick the gifts inside, selecting from  mini tape measure corsages, small sewing kits, pencil crayons, wax crayons. Just send an email to Nadia (the nimble fingers behind [...]

Liza Lou

I heard about and seen artist Liza Lou’s incredible works, Kitchen and Backyard a few years ago, and of course, my jaw dropped when I realised that these massive, life-sized installations were composed entirely of hand-applied beads. But it’s only recently that I discovered that Liza Lou has been living right here in South Africa [...]

Saint Verde’s-eye view: My all time best Hindu temple

Props to Neville Trickett for coming through with his guest post today, after having (ouch!) fatally dropped his laptop just before the weekend. Great recovery, Neville!

I have been taking photos of all the Hindu temples in and around Durban, and the oldest of them happens to be my all time best. Away from the mindless [...]

Saint Verde’s-eye view: Cecile & Boyd’s

Back in the late ’80s I remember my visit to Boyd Ferguson’s first shop, a tiny little hole in the wall called Cecile & Boyd’s on Durban’s Argyle Road. At the time they were making lamps cast in plaster, hand-finished with decorative patinas that still seem fresh today. The store fast became an icon of [...]

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