Playful Ideas in Art, Reflection & Subtle Linking

by Emilie Froment | Sep 26, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

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

by Emilie Froment | Sep 25, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

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

by Emilie Froment | Sep 19, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows

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...

Clay, Concrete, Plaster, Earth, & Flora: Up & Coming Thai Artist’s Pieces Explore the Intersection Between the Natural World & the Man-Made Structures Inside It

by Emilie Froment | Sep 1, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

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,...

Rewiring Neural Pathways & Investigating the Experiential Nature of the Mystical, the Knowable, & Unknowable

by Emilie Froment | Aug 22, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Home Decor, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows

  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...

Melding the Mirror of Scientific Observation with Her Artistic License: Ronél de Jager’s Work Interprets Transformational Qualities as Core in All Matter

by Emilie Froment | Jun 29, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Home Decor, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows

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...