Okha

Haute interiors store Okha has had their rather glam showroom on Hatfield Street in Cape Town for some time now, but have recently gone all 21st Century, acquiring themselves a very lovely new website on which to showcase their furniture and interiors projects too.

I picked out a couple of things that caught my eye at [...]

Issue 65: Ready, get setting…

Our brilliant stylist Tracy Lynch does it again, showing us how to make stunning and cost-effective table displays with recycled paper and household items.

In the pic below, she’s worked wonders with nothing but old cardboard boxes, tape and a spool of twine. See pages 82 – 83 to see how to CIY (Create it Yourself).

On [...]

Issue 65: Fine Bones

So let’s take a look at more of that home gracing the cover of the Celebrate issue.

It belongs to fashion designer,  Jenni Button, and certainly is dressed to the nines, shot through with glamour all the way.

Jenni’s studio takes up half the top storey of her recently-renovated, quadruple-volume Oranjezicht home, and this is where where [...]

Out and about: Superette

Last week I stopped off at brand new coffee shop and deli, Superette, which is situated in the somewhat unlikely badlands of Salt River, Cape Town. Albert Road is a fast-paced, furiously-volumed street of sweatshops, boatyards, backyard mechanics and grimy-windowed half-empty general stores, but all this rough stuff fell away the minute I stepped [...]

Interview: Kenneth Cobonpue

Furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue is well-known for his unusual, handmade and eco-aware designs, many of which are carried by South African interiors store, Weylandts. Last month he was in South Africa, where he chatted to our deputy editor, Lauren Shantall, about his design ethos and future projects:

Why do you think your designs have [...]

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