I stepped into a very exciting world yesterday, when I paid a visit to the Spier Architectual Arts building on Commercial Street in the city. It’s a lovely old building, but there’s little to make you guess at the large-scale vision and projects being tackled, the skills being grown, and the sheer busy-ness going on …
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Spier Architectural Arts
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Shapes I like
Scultures Alphabetique – Paul Cox Left: Hannah Abelow R: Cecil Touchon Grass fabric in mink – Schumacher L: Work no.930 – Martin Creed R: Oil on linen – Lynne Woods Turner The Native Trees of Canada, by Leanne Shapton Photograph by Fan Ho, 1954 Weaving by Brett Wadden “Argolas” …
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First Thursdays and yellow dots
Last week we put a big yellow dot on the front of our shop at 201 Bree Street, in an attempt to infect the city with enthusiasm for World Design Capital dottiness. Now we want to spread yellow dot fever even more! If you’re in Cape Town and don’t have a yellow dot in your life yet, …
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WDC2014: A big yellow DOT
A week or so ago, I wrote a blog post that summarised the way we’d started thinking about Cape Town as World Design Capital 2014. In a nutshell, our WDC2014 manifesto of OWN IT, PAINT IT, WORK IT simply means that we need to take this year-long event by the horns ourselves. And that’s exactly …
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Illustration: Tokyo-inspired prints for Sketchbook Series
My sketchbooks are filled with drawings and ideas, many of which never become patterns or designs on fabric. Last year, I launched the Sketchbook Series of high-quality giclée prints, so that I could allow some of my sketches to see the light of day. After returning from Tokyo last year, I added three more prints …
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Hot tip: Succulents are cool
I do like a good succulent plant, which must be why my studio roof garden is getting bigger, and also why my camera seems to be full of succulents pics.
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Trend spotting: Hallelujah for Flamingos
On our visit to Tokyo last year, it was abundantly clear that flamingos were hot, hot property, trending like crayzee, and we’ve got the pics to show for it: Now, a couple of months later, the flamingos have followed us to Cape Town: I’m utterly smitten by the pink flamingo interior of brand new …
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Out & About: Shapes I like
Who’d have guessed that the SABS building in Rosebank would have such interesting shapes and colours for me to snap? By the way, if you like the shapes and colours in this post, you might enjoy a new Pinterest board I started recently, called Shapes I Like.
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Looking back on 2013
I’ve been easing my way back into work this week, starting with planning a new shop window, and also starting to make a very solid plan for 2014. One of my resolutions for the year, however, is to slow down and to look back upon my own history, trying to get a bigger sense of …
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