House and Leisure – August 2019

n the evening I arrive to interview the owner of this punchy Parkhurst home, classical music wafts a background melody throughou ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP A Monkey Paradise Flame scatter cushion from Ardmore Design (ardmore-design.com) is a vibrant ad ...

Having just moved into this Georgian house two months prior, there wasn’t a huge amount to be done to tailor the space to the ow ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP The vivid blue kitchen was inspired by an image the owner saw on Instagram and features a server ...

The walls of his home are adorned with an array of artworks, most of them by South African artists like Nandipha Mntambo, Wilhel ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP A four-poster bed from @home (home.co.za) that was painted gold makes a grand statement in the m ...

TEXT LAYLA LEIMAN PHOTOGRAPHS ELSA YOUNG A revamped house in the suburbs of Johannesburg is home to an extensive array of contem ...

THIS SPREAD,I FROM LEFTI A carved jelutongI sculpture by PeterI Schütz is one of MarinaI Appelbaum’s favouriteI works in her Cra ...

henotion of terroir is afamiliar one in winemaking, referring to the way in which theprecise environmental contextof a vineyard ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFTI Vanessa Mitrani’s No Limit vase from Roche Bobois (roche-bobois.com) adds a characterful t ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT A photographic piece by Broomberg & Chanarin hangs behind a vintage reupholstered LC4 chais ...

On the veranda is a set of limited-edition ceramic artist plates in Perspex housings. These are from the Orange Babies Plate Pro ...

THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT The Appelbaums’ individual aesthetics merge in the master bedroom, where antique furniture collected by R ...

‘The entire interior of the house was revamped and modernised while maintaining the integrity of the original design.’ ...

ART FARM Limpopo’s THIS SPREAD, FROM LEFT The Limpopo home of Jaco Roux and Menno Venter has slowly evolved to accommodate the c ...

AUG 71 SEP HOUSE / LIMPOPO Gallerist Menno Venter and artist Jaco Roux’s fruit and nut farm in rural Limpopo is the unexpected h ...

s far as farmhouses go, there surely can’t be many that boast two art galleries among their basic amenities. But in the Limpopo ...

THIS SPREAD,I CLOCKWISE FROMI FAR LEFTI On one end of theI room, ‘Prick’ (2013) byI Willem Boshoff hangsI above a server fromI A ...

THIS SPREAD, CLOCKWISEI FROM THIS PAGEI An early reverse glassI painting by Conrad BotesI takes pride of placeI above the kitche ...

Furthest from its imposing form stands an Edoardo Villa totem, its topmost bauble peeking out from behind a mass of scarlet brom ...