One of the best things about doing what I do is when I spot the things I’ve designed out in the real world, getting put to use, making other peoples’ sofas / kitchens / groceries look good. So it’s always a thrill when you show us on social media what you’ve done with your Skinny laMinx, but we …
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Best Things 04: Stripes
It must be the late summer light that has had me taking lots of stripy photos lately. Stripes are great and graphic and strong, but with a bit of colour, they’re a LOT more fun. I thought I’d look around the web for stripes for this week’s Best Things post. Clockwise, from Left: + Kat & Roger’s …
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In the Press: My City
Are you planning a trip to Cape Town some time? I’ve got a couple of things to recommend, and I put them into this article for the April issue of The Simple Things magazine. Read it here.
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Best Things #02
We’ve just bought the studio apartment next door to ours, with the intention of bashing through to expand our 80 sq/m 2 bedroom flat into a roomy open planned 120 m/sq space. This is why I haven’t been doing much online this week, other than pin thrilling wide-open loft-style apartments to my I Could Live There …
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Launching: Block Printed Scarves
Join us in our shop tonight as we launch our exciting collection of hand-blocked cotton scarves, which I designed after my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last October. Each scarf has been block printed by hand in a small printing house in Bagru village, just outside Jaipur, using vegetable dyes and printed onto fine cotton …
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Block Printing with Jesse
After my teaching stint in Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last year, lots of people at home asked me about learning to block print here in Cape Town. Well, I have good news for you: Jesse Breytenbach is an illustrator and a Fine Arts-trained printmaker, who has been lino block printing for YEARS! Her …
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Black Gold
For quite some time, I’ve been buying and stashing brass animals in a cupboard at home, waiting for the day that I had enough to send off to the foundry. No, not to melt down for pocket money! I was dreaming of turning them black. While I have nothing against a brass animal, I prefer less shiny …
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The idea that seeds the pattern
It was 30 years ago that Susan Sontag wrote that “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted”. Imagine what she’d have to say about the Instagram epidemic! But I hope to be forgiven, at least in part, for my compulsive snap-snap-snapping, by putting …
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Instagenic at Chandler House
It’s First Thursdays Cape Town tonight, and of course our shop is open, but I’m hoping to also pop by the Voorkamer Gallery of Chandler House, where the month-long INSTAGENIC photo exhibition is opening. I’ll have 9 of my photos on show, along with the pics of 8 other photographers. It’s very exciting for me …
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