Design
Jeeves – Summer Wisdom
Warm evenings, late sunsets: signs that summer is here and time for braais and swimming. With all this fun in and around the sunshine, you may be wondering where your heated towel rail fits into the scheme of things. Come rain or shine, there’s a promising chance...
Casarredo – Elegantly Adopted
The Coco sideboard, exclusive to Casarredo, is designed by La Ebanistería – a Spanish designer and manufacturer of contemporary furniture specialising in high-gloss finishes. It’s a piece with an impressive presence that simultaneously exudes lightness and delicacy....
Paul Couzis and Sergio Galli – Italtile Retail
Sergio Galli was educated in the south of Johannesburg at Sir John Adamson High School, while his co-director Paul Couzis was schooled at King Edwards in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs; both currently reside in the Cape. Their paths were linked from an early age....
Room Outside
Clean lines with a sleek look seems the way forward for contemporary style in outdoor furnishings and this should continue to grow in popularity by end 2016. The preference is characterised by the use of metals or metallic finishes; an urban-inspired look that...
Home & Hearth – Bathrooms
Bathrooms are no longer coldly clinical interiors with rudimentary clanking, low-pressure plumbing and dripping pewter or brass taps à la the Victorian era. This was then a clinically white small room that most users wanted to get out of as soon as possible and often...
Home & Hearth – Kitchens
Home remodelling trends come and go, but when considering the most trafficked interiors in the modern home it’s vital to know what’s on trend in terms of resale value. Kitchen cabinets might not have changed as much as other elements within the contemporary kitchen,...
Thomas Feichtner
Having designed numerous products for Austrian industry and for such traditional crafters as J&L Lobmeyr, Neue Wiener Werkstätten, Wiener Silver Manufactur, Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur, TON and Carl Mertens: Thomas Feichtner is an internationally established...
Spreading the Love
Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder; then again with more than 50 years’ experience in architecture and design, Stile Milano know more than a thing or two about beautiful interiors. With a keen eye for inspired European design, this celebrated furniture...
Timeless Sophistication
Stefano Bigi presented the Infinity Table to Italian manufacturer Porada as an aesthetically powerful project, but surely not one easy to produce; featuring as it did a solid wooden base curved to create a sort of sculpture. But Porada believed in the project,...
Origins Reborn
Created by renowned designers Ejner Larsen and Aksel Bender Madsen, originally designed in 1949 and added to the Carl Hansen & Son collection in 2014 – in a fully upholstered saddle leather version – the classic Metropolitan Chair will now be available in another...
Brian Slavin – Slavin & Co
Brian Slavin was born and educated in the UK and after grammar school he attended a two year Fine Art course in Cheshire, learning the basic fundamentals of painting and sculpture. He recalls: ‘This included the principles of drawing and the understanding of both line...
Philip Richards – blu_line
Philip Richards recalls: ‘The company was inaugurated more than 14 years ago and over that time I’ve concentrated on taking blu_line from a small niche operation to one of the leading brands in SA’s luxury kitchen market. I’ve always focused on the relational aspect...
Mexico – Déjate: Tapestry & Rugs
Desert Flower is the result of the last Déjate Querer collaboration, this time with well-known Mexican designer, Emiliano Godoy. Emiliano Godoy sought out the Déjate Querer team as they share the same interest for assemblies. They worked together for six months to...
Cadaval & Solà-Morales Architects
After being founded in New York City in 2003, Cadaval & Solà-Morales moved to Barcelona and Mexico City in 2005. The studio operates as a laboratory in which research and development are key elements of the design process. The objective of the firm is to create...
Mexico – Zeller & Moye Architects
Zeller & Moye was founded by Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye as an architectural studio that operates with an interdisciplinary and global approach, with bases in Mexico City and Berlin. The studio established a unique working method of extensive experimentation...