Design
Playful Ideas in Art, Reflection & Subtle Linking
Smac Studio and Van Rooijen Meyers Architects combine to craft a home of considered detail and refinement, capturing the personalities of those who live there. This is the third project that SMAC Studios and client have worked on together and is a double-storey duplex...
Be Transported into a Rich & Emotional World Anchored in a Spiritual Language Spoken Through Artefacts Belonging to a Lineage of Ancestors
The Seabranano and Seabrina installation comprises a myriad of inherited objects, heirlooms, organic matter and curiosities composed inside cabinets as an intimate echo of the artist’s family. ‘The feminine plays a very important role in this exhibition,’ says artist...
All About Creating Vistas: Pitlochry House Captures the Essence of Contemporary Living
Fabian Architects and Make Studio (FAMA) were recently contracted to breathe new life into this home in Bakoven, Cape Town through an intervention that culminated in a complete renovation and an extension. The project saw the existing home transformed from an old and...
Stunning, Highly Efficient & Customisable Outdoor Gas Heating From Calore
The Italkero Etna outdoor gas heater is equipped with a highly efficient and modern ceramic burner. Customisable options allow you to enhance the visual effect of the flame bed with decorative elements such as lava stones or white glass pebbles. In addition, it’s...
Clay, Concrete, Plaster, Earth, & Flora: Up & Coming Thai Artist’s Pieces Explore the Intersection Between the Natural World & the Man-Made Structures Inside It
San Francisco-based multimedia artist Sasinun (“Sasi”) Kladpetch is carving out a name for herself in the art and design world. At the kinetic intersection where SoMa, Union Square and Tenderloin converge, the LINE HOTEL SF aims to reflect the complex history,...
Material Durability, Passive Energy & Wildfire Resistance Beside an 8,000-Foot-Tall Extinct Volcano
Dubbed CAMPout and designed by Faulkner Architects with NICOLEHOLLIS, this 353-sq-metre house is a courtyard driven, earth sheltered, insulated concrete ground form. Outdoor furnishings use materials and tonal qualities that further reinforce a quiet presence to allow...
Roche Bobois: 2022 is a Booming Year for Luxury Furniture
Created by Sacha Lakic, a designer with a passion for cutting-edge technology, Bubble 2 expresses the balance between innovation, function and emotion. Inspired by natural and mineral forms and entirely handmade, its design required the development of specific stretch...
Rewiring Neural Pathways & Investigating the Experiential Nature of the Mystical, the Knowable, & Unknowable
Nicholas Hales is a contemporary artist living in Cape Town, South Africa who works across a number of disciplines, including painting, drawing and video/film. He says: 'When I was 28, I got a chronic illness and I started to meditate for no other reason as I...
A Summer Home for a German Couple of Engineers-Come-Property Developers in Camps Bay
Up close with three design strategies that follow through every detail: durability, minimalism and practicality, the purpose of this project was to design large enough to accommodate an extended family from both the US and Germany. The original 1980’s structure...
The Opposite of Fussy: Open & Casual Quintessential Beach Retreat In Kauai, Hawaii
Set amidst mature palm trees, project Hale Nukumoi’s central living area is like a Swiss army knife – very simple with many ways to function. The complex is ready-made for family and friends. An indoor/outdoor lifestyle is exemplified by the home’s airy design: large...
Close to a Charming Village Oasis Renowned for its Art Scene: A Couple’s Cabin in a Giant Redwood Forest
An artist and an avid gardener/yoga enthusiast, the residents were looking to situate their growing retirement pursuits in spaces that would capture the imagination. The steeply sloping site that had long been their home offered seclusion and...
How Architecture Can Work Towards a Common Vision & Goal From Technical & Social Angles: The Story of Two-Families-Come-One
Spread across two main living levels as well as a basement that opens out onto the pool terrace and a rooftop level with extensive gardens, the program for project Sound House was unique in that it needed to accommodate a large family of two adults and six children....
Just Launched 》》Modular Fireplaces for Winter 2022
Calore fireplaces is excited to launch its new range of inserts and freestanding fireplaces for Winter 2022. The Modular Cristal range is exclusively imported from C&A Chama, one of the top fireplace manufacturers in Portugal. CRISTAL...
Rare Opportunity: 10% OFF All Plantation Shutters ONLY UNTIL Sunday 31st JULY!
There’s good news amidst the load-shedding and winter blues: To strike that classic, chic interior look-and-feel that brings the essential element of immediate style and the function of security to your home, Plantation Shutters holds the key. These...
Melding the Mirror of Scientific Observation with Her Artistic License: Ronél de Jager’s Work Interprets Transformational Qualities as Core in All Matter
Ronél de Jager’s chat with habitat kicks off cross-legged on her living room couch, the artist’s three-year-old daughter Nova has just had a bath and is curled up on her mother’s lap and about to go to bed. Two minutes later: Great, Nova found the puzzles in the...