On Thursday last week, Paul and I were lucky enough (along with 120 others) to get onto the OH tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s iconic home. These are the photos I took. Gawie Fagan has been in private practice in Cape Town as an architect since 1964, and his buildings have contributed substantially to the …
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OH Tours: Fagan Residence
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Making Friday – Monday Ceramics
I’ve mentioned here and there that these days, I start my week with a couple of hours in a ceramics class with Louise Gelderblom, where I’m really having fun. A couple of weeks ago, after sketching lots of little footed pot-bellied little objects, I painted this row of interesting shapes, and decided that I’d spend …
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In Fair Lady: My workspace
Fair Lady was the first grown-up magazine I ever had a subscription to. The bi-weekly arrival of that bible of vital info about The Glamourous Life of fashion shoots, make up tips and wry commentary by snappy city girls was a dreamy escape from the life of debating society, orchestra rehearsal and Friday night youth …
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Pebble Dresses
It’s always fun to spot people using Skinny laMinx goods and fabrics out there in the real world, and we love it when we can get a pic to share, too, like this one of a sweet little girl called Iris, wearing a Skinny laMinx smock dress. And then there’s this magnificent frock, spotted …
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WDC2014 – yellow all over
I’m spotting more and more World Design Capital 2014 yellow all over Cape Town these days. There’s a slew of yellow shop doors all over the show, and have you seen how Stefan Antoni architects has clad the entire building on Hope Street in yellow? Here are a couple more: Love this gorgeous yellow window …
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On the way in and on the way back
It’s great having a phone on my camera, as I can take pics of things I spot on my walk to the studio in the morning, and on the way home, too. Today’s batch: This morning (above): colours on a pole set in concreteoutside the garage on Kloof Street (to stop people parking on the …
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Ducking below the parapet
There is the most amazing bunch of people working at Skinny laMinx, making calculations, keeping records, cutting, stitching, ordering, stockchecking, quality checking, packing, customer relations, and then there’s a shop to run too. Everyone is working at full capacity every minute of every working day to make sure that the things we produce are of …
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Half Square
You may remember my recent blogpost about a visit to Spier Architectural Arts last month, but in that post, I didn’t mention that my visit was to talk about an exciting collaboration: I’ve been invited to participate in the Spier Architectural Arts’ official World Design Capital 2014 project (#WDC382_HALF-SQUARE) The project consists of the ceramics studio working with …
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Sketches in the Sunday Times
While attending the Design Indaba Conference at the end of February, I took notes and sketched each presenter, to remind me of who was who. It’s three days of awesome speakers (amongst themThomas Heatherwick! Stefan Sagmeister! Naoto Fukasawa!) but no matter how brilliant, it can be easy to forget who said what. During the conference, …
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