We’ve gone green for VISI #144
Reflecting a growing design trend, the leafy pages of this issue have plants and outdoor/indoor gardens as a strong theme throughout – from our featured homes to Stories.
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Your exclusive pass inside South Africa’s most breathtaking properties. 🏡✨ From architectural masterpieces perched on the coast to hidden off-grid cabins and luxurious city apartments, we take you on a curated tour of the country's finest living spaces.
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Rustic is back – and it’s wearing a tool belt. Beyond fluffy cottagecore or distressed shabby-chic, this is all about hard-edged 18th-century carpenter tools, and a fascination with tools, materials and processes.
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Roxanne Ferreira, founder of playfully colourful interior design brand Arrange Studio, shares some of her personal items and the accompanying stories that hold meaning for her.
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Cape Town-based design studio Urban Toolshed highlights its thoughtfully shaped approach to hardware with the new Gerrit Giebel Collection.
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A sensitively restored Art Deco apartment in Potts Point, with an interior that masterfully blends classic, deco and Mid-century design.
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The simple act of folding – paper, fabric, the petals of a flower – serves as inspiration for Alkaline’s newest pendant light, aptly titled Gathered.
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Rather than relying on spectacle, Markéta and Lars Killi’s contemporary holiday home in Puglia pays homage to a quieter form of Mediterranean living – one shaped by the rugged landscape, climate and material traditions of the region.
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Art critic, writer and curator Sean O’Toole on how to navigate the unpredictable waters of buying, collecting and investing in South African art.
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Our series on international design trailblazers continues with Gisbert Pöppler, whose signature style combines bold colour, a balance of past and present and a hint of rebellion.
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To mark 15 years of highlighting contemporary design from across the African diaspora, Merchants introduces FIFTEEN – a capsule collection celebrating the quiet landscapes of Southern Africa.
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Connecting our South African Modernist architects to the present is Robert Silke & Partners. Their latest project may be a building of two halves but in concept, build and location, it represents a link between past and present.
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Much-loved bespoke pet-accessory brand Chommies has released its brand-new Loop Collection – a lightweight range for when you just need to ‘go with the flow’.
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