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Terroir
Since opening in 2004, the low-key winelands restaurant Terroir on Kleine Zalze (a family owned wine farm in Stellenbosch) has been honoured nine times with a Top 10 award in the annual Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards. This achievement attests to chef Michael...
Myoga
Signature Myoga Restaurant is situated in a quiet garden setting of the Vineyard Hotel & Spa in Newlands and offers a 5-course lunch degustation menu. Chef proprietor is Mike Bassett: ‘The dining experience is supposed to be relaxed, which is why the kitchen at...
Jeremy Franklin
Jeremy Franklin was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa in 1968. He recalls, ‘My family liked to get out and visit friends and places of interest all over the country, including game reserves and farms in remote country districts.’ ‘As a child and...
The Angle of Art
A-cero – another of Habitat’s favourite European contributors – presents a new single-family house located in southern Spain.
Ragtop Rolls
For those who have everything, there is always a little something to be savoured – and perhaps acquired. Not so little in fact. Habitat was invited on the international launch of the Rolls Royce Dawn in the Cape Winelands, an event that the global press corps found...
Union in a Bottle
For this year’s Cape Wine Auction (held in February 2016), the House of Bisquit created a lot prize of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the wonders of Le Château Bisquit. Ken and Jane Truter were the lucky couple and were the highest bidders on the day,...
Paris – Ligne Roset
Family owned and in operation since the 1930s, in collaboration with contemporary creative designers, Ligne Roset launched their latest collection at Maison & Objet, Paris in January 2016. Designer of furniture, objects and tableware, scenographer and interior...
Paris – Roche Bobois
With the meeting of two families in 1950, Roche Bobois combines modern creativity with the needs of today’s style of furniture. A team of renowned designers such as: Ora Ito, Cédric Ragot, Sacha Lakic, Christophe Delcourt and Stephen Burks; together with haute couture...
Highly Evocative
review: Colin Sharp | photography: Carla Nunes Evoque (French) – Evoke: summon, to call up or reawaken: Some years ago I recall waiting – almost with bated breath – for the original Range Rover Evoque, a much-heralded and elegantly penned vehicle, which has since...
Climate Control
Challenges – what challenges? In South Africa the times are becoming ever more ‘interesting’ energy wise: Eskom, nuclear power, solar? The many negative influences: a depreciating currency, social unrest, lack of service delivery, are now seemingly entrenched in 2016...
Seated in Style
Squat, sit, recline and / or lounge about: this is the relaxation mode that we humans accept as our norm. It’s been happening style-wise since the ancient Greeks and Romans – likely prior – and how best to do it is as serious a poser today; surely because relaxation...
Restaurant Jan
Restaurant JAN, a South African restaurant in the South of France, was awarded its first One Michelin Star in the 2016 French Guide Michelin. This makes owner and proprietor Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen the first South African to ever receive this prestigious...
Susan Proctor Hume
Susan Proctor Hume is a South African artist whose works have been exhibited at the Louvre. She only began painting in February 2014, so this represented an impressive start for a promising artist. The exhibited artwork was sold to a London surgeon – the event was...
Mother City Gem
The Odyssey – a recently completed penthouse – nestles between the bustling mini-metropolis of Green Point and Signal Hill on the Atlantic seaboard.
Paris – Hotel Les Bains
The City of Light, inhabited since the 3rd Century BC, is often the standard by which other capitals are judged. It has long been a world leader in fashion, art, science and gastronomy. This shows no signs of slowing down and there are a slew of new stars shining among the resplendent company of the old guard. Karla Dodge looks at the established names while rooting out the new kids on the block.