Let Your Imagination Be Led by a Profound and Private Connection, Serenity and Flow
Gazing upon the Teton Mountain Range for the first time is an unforgettable experience. The mountain range is awe-inspiring in its magnitude and drama. This Wyomingite project, Five Shadows, belies the density of the surrounding area. It’s located on a prime...
Holistic & Botanical: Stellenbosch Design Project Recognised in the Company of Other Luxury Winners Such As Chanel, Dom Perignon & Ferrari
Stellenbosch and Cape Town-based design group, Rumour Has It, was recently awarded Winner in the category of Best Luxury Commercial Interior Design in South Africa from the International Luxury Lifestyle Awards for their 360 integrated design work at Ernie Els...
The Birth of Boxed Micro-Living: Customised and Refined to a Flexible and Sustainable 13-Square Metre, Fully Equipped Home
With micro-spaces popping up all over the world, Cape Town-based interior design graduates transitioned from the design and manufacture of furniture and home décor to the design and creation of private and luxurious interior spaces in the form of micro-homes....
No Turning Back: A Lockdown Project by Bomax in Bamboo Lane
This appealing rebuild for a family of four involved the integration of a forest site, koi garden, tree house and path in the forest ravine estate Bamboo Lane of Hout Bay’s Scott Estate. The house was built using the existing structure of an old cottage and the...
Bring More Beauty and Verve to your Music Life Through This Infinite Circle of Sound and Craftsmanship
Even Frederich Nietzche admitted that ‘we should consider every day lost on which we haven’t danced at least once’. Does music express that which can’t be put into words and at once can’t remain silent, as Victor Hugo believed? It’s been aptly described as the...
A Hillside’s Solid Limestone Excavation Gives this Country Wine Cave its Enigmatic Allure
Located at the eastern edge of the Texas Hill Country, this private wine cave serves as a destination along a secluded bend of the Blanco River. Excavated into the north face of a solid limestone hillside, this shotcrete lined tube is protected on the east and...
Etched into a Cliff with Jaw-Dropping Views and Design Cues from River Curves, a Textural Landscape and Luxury Yachts
Overlooking the Swan River, Infinity Views is nestled into the cliffside above Perth’s sought-after Blackwall Reach. The structure and composition of this residence is extremely efficient by necessity. Conceived as a mechanism to communicate the expertise of...
Designs That Capture the Social and Cultural Spirit of Our Country
A multi-award-winning product designer who’s remained a constant on the South African scene, Haldane Martin is one of those exceptional creatives that’s been able to move seamlessly and successfully between interiors and furniture. Since establishing Haldane in...
A Pioneering Initiative Takes South African Design to the World, Giving the Whole Local Creativity Plot the Calibre it Deserves
In 2020, she made history when she became the first South African designer ever to have her work collected by the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, for their permanent collection. Not a trivial detail, not in anyone’s books. . . anywhere in the world,...
A Community of Belonging by African Creatives – Home is an Oasis Where We Can Begin Again: Vulnerable, Steady and Healing
As a contemporary and genuinely South African furniture and design company based in Johannesburg, The Urbanative's products are manufactured locally. Expect a synergy between the juxtaposition of abstracted African heritage inspirations with the functionality...
This U.S. Island Home’s Discreetly Striking Rural Narrative Harnesses Lightness from a Focus on Material Aspects
Intentionally appearing low-key from the valley, as a courtesy to the pastoral farmlands below, this gracious architectural dream was designed as both retreat and part-time residence for a growing local family with strong local roots going back several...
All Hypes Aside: When it Comes to Lisbon as the City of Choice to Invest in Offshore, Finding Our Place in the Sun is Easier (and Savvier) Than We Care to Admit
With unflinching sincerity and confidence, this prime offshore investment property has been launched in one of Lisbon’s demonstrably – even obviously – cool suburbs. Many of us might admit to having been, at some point or another, convinced by the wise move of...
Sharp Peaks, Soft Hills and Sunlight are the Guiding Elements Dictating the Design of Lac Léman’s Swiss Villa
By at the the same time blending in and standing out this project testifies to a rare dexterity and achieves a statement-making tribute to both its spectacular lakeside setting and to the many hands that made it. Just as its alpine setting has been formed by...
The Simple Over the Superfluous: High-End Design Choices Boost Collective & Environmental Well-Being by Aligning with a Concern for Our Planet
The United Nations projects that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will inhabit urban areas by 2050. City-living will have a key and lasting influence on the new luxury mindset that was once defined by materialism and excess. The new luxury will...
Forever Chasing Rainbows? An Intricate Richness Eases Us into a Composition of Nuanced Emotions That Buzzes Brightly and Beckons
In the wake of a recent return from a three-and-a-half-year sabbatical stopover in Mexico where Christiaan Conradie travelled with the wild and determined intention of learning Spanish there and surfing its Pacific paradise, we’re swaddled back into that...