Lifestyle
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...
Time Spent with This Cat is Never Wasted: Most Do as They Please, This One Does as It’s Told (and Then Some)
We all know they’re instinctive connoisseurs of comfort, but this particular specimen is also the most skilful hotstepper in the kingdoms of stamina, intelligence, safety, innovation and style. Among a voluptuous list of other advanced technological...
Emotional and Sculpted, Storytelling Silhouettes Connect with Cultivated Technologies: What does 2025 Have in Store for Us Drive-Wise?
habitat and its readers don't admit it that often, but now and then ideas are presented and we can't help but be blown away by them. One such example is the unveiling of a concept battery electric vehicle (BEV) by Lexus, the LF-Z Electrified1. The boundaries of...
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...
This Overnight Plug-In Converts Life’s ‘A to B’ into a Quick, Conscious, Practical and Very Pretty Gesture
The Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric – the first all-electric car from the Swedish luxury brand – will be launched in South Africa in the second half of this year. This all-electric SUV has demonstrated strong sales internationally. Thousands of orders were...
Multidisciplinary Art Collaboration in London Produces Provocative Limited Editions With Pinpointed Finishes
In a tandem creative step taken by two illustrious London brands, Bergman Interiors and Hofa Gallery are launching Aeditions, their new joint design project in May this year. Inspired by their appreciation for contemporary art and bespoke luxury interiors,...
Five-Course Feast Kinda Fine-Dining Chefs Bring A Casual New Wave to the Everyday Dining Scene
We speak to two fine dining chefs responding to the challenges of this past year. The contemporary experience is diversifying and innovating. Drinks to go with this are top quality, but equally relaxed and approachable. Previously Head Chef at award-winning...
New Hybrid Sports Sedan’s Confidence Comes Across Strong and Culminates in Sleek Signature Contours
For the first time, Lexus has decided to launch IS as a hybrid-only model. The hybrid sector has shown immense growth on a global scale in the past five years and Lexus South Africa plans to leverage its existing dominance here to enlarge their share further,...
Racing Spirit Supremo: A Dream Machine with an Uncompromising Soul
The Maserati MC20 is a very rapid machine with incredible aerodynamic efficiency. It received the prize for Best of the Best at the Red Dot Awards 2021 in the Product Design category. Innovative by nature, its every design detail is functional: the butterfly...
Good Things Take Time: Imagine the Result 13 Years After Designing One of the Most Significant Gardens in Connecticut
It appears wiser than ever these days to heighten our human experience of the natural world and one way to do so is to design emotive, varied, immersive public spaces that beautifully integrate built form, sophisticated horticulture, fine art detailing, and...
Hypnotic Disclosure: It Reflects Transformation, Not Costume Change Frill. This is Jewellery With a Purpose
Her calmness of mind seems to be only one among many of her beautiful jewels of wisdom; and her works have life in them. If the artist herself were something we could slide onto a finger or around a wrist, into an earlobe or fasten at the back of our...
Major Retrospective Exhibition in Rome with Precious Material from Worldwide Collections and Archives
The architect and the cities exhibition is on the Italian architect Aldo Rossi and presents over 800 drawings, sketches, notes, letters, photographs, models and documents. It celebrates Aldo Rossi over 20 years after his death and offers an opportunity to...
Unadorned Silhouettes: Peek into the Cognitive Creativity Process Behind Three Irresistible Lighting Designs
Created by renowned Japanese designer Ichiro Iwasaki for Vibia, the Flat collection features distinctive, disc-shaped diffusers that form horizontal planes of light. The flat metal plates reflect light off their surfaces, casting an enveloping, wrap-around glow...
Isn’t It Beautiful? Lexus Team Raises Ride Comfort and Drive Performance to Radical New Heights
Impeccable ride comfort has always been a defining quality of Lexus’ flagship sedan, the LS. The model helped found the brand 30 years ago, and the benchmark set by the original LS has inspired the teams developing successive LS generations to always seek to...
The Secret Starts With a Black Dot in Exceptional Privacy Where Hours Become Seconds
There being a substantial or subtle strangeness and ambiguity behind all that is beauty, really reveals more of it, doesn’t it? You might imagine someone of her creative calibre to take themselves super seriously. Thankfully, on the contrary, a curious and...