Spring is on its way in Cape Town and the new light and the shadows it makes is catching my eye.
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Springtime light and shadows
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OHA16: Rex Trueform
The Open House Architecture tour I went on last weekend – OHA16 in the series – is one I’d been looking forward to for some time, as I’d always wanted to see inside the Rex Trueform buildings, which have been out of use as clothing factories since the mid 1990s. The Rex Trueform factory buildings stand opposite …
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A new lease on Space for Life
Space for Life, as you’ll know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, is the go-to Cape Town store for fans of mid-Century Nordic furniture, ceramics and glassware. Everything is brought in from Denmark, and then painstakingly restored. I’m a big fan, but the last time I tried to visit their Foreshore store, …
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OH Tours: House Stekhoven
Last evening, I went on the next in the series of the Open House Thursdays series of architecture tours organised by OH Architecture, this time in Newlands. (If you missed last month’s tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s Camp’s Bay home, click here). I’ve actually visited this home, just off Kildare Rd before, on the …
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Spier Architectural Arts
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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WDC2014: Own It, Paint it, Work it
I’m sure you know that Cape Town is has been named as World Design Capital in 2014. Hooray! All year long, there will be official projects and seminars and whatnot going on in the city (read about them here), and although Skinny laMinx isn’t involved in any of the official WDC2014 projects, we still want …
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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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WDC2014 shop window
All week I’ve had pots of yellow paint out and yellow brushes drying, as I prepped for my brand new shop window, and today I put all the bits together. The yellow circle, of course, is to celebrate that Cape Town is this year’s World Design Capital. Looking forward to seeing what the year 2014 …
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OH14
I had such a brilliant time on Sunday, when I joined my friends Jo & Stu and rode our bikes out to Rondebosch/Newlands to join the first Open House Architecture tour this year. These tours are periodically organised by local architect Ilze Wolff, to showcase the architecturally significant buildings in Cape Town and surrounds. This …
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