So, tra-la-la, it’s all “clever me” when the facade of Fortuna apartments on the Sea Point Promenade gives me an idea… but what happens next? How does a sketch on paper actually turn into a vase? One that stacks? The fact is, there’s a MASSIVE gap between an idea, and the idea becoming something for realz. And …
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The gap between idea and execution
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The PROMENADE lifestyle collection
When you take 3 midcentury architectural facades on the Sea Point Promenade, add a pinch of admiration, 3 dollops of attention, a few choice collaborations, what do you end up with? The PROMENADE lifestyle collection. This collection pays homage to the large-scale public murals at Fortuna and Bonne Esperance apartments, and on the Beach Road …
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Collaboration: Wren x Skinny laMinx
In this design collaboration, carefree prints & colours from Skinny laMinx & the innovative stitched paper accessories from WREN meet to tell a bright & optimistic story evoking the mood of a breezy Summer stroll along the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. WREN specialises in the innovative use of stitched paper to create personal …
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Winking is the new smiling
I’m winking because you can’t see me smiling under my mask (and they say that #winkingisthenewsmiling in these crazy times). The reason I’m smiling is that I’m thrilled to have been asked, along with 3 other SA designers, to design a set of four masks for African Smiles Masks, to be sold on Takealot.com to …
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Collaboration with VISI
It took me a while to slow down and look properly at the mid-century mosaic mural on the public bathrooms on the Sea Point Promenade (read more here), but I’m so glad I did, because it’s become part of my life in ways I might not have ever considered. For instance, I was inspired to …
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Slowing down on the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk, and when the exercise ban lifted a few weeks ago, it became clear that I’m no exception there. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a …
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Gluten Morgen! A collaboration with Jason Bakery
When we opened our shop in 2011, Bree Street was not exactly the beating heart of the Cape Town scene, although it was a great place for car upholstery cleaning and spark plugs. Actually, the only real reason I signed the store lease was that my favourite coffee shop was half a block away. Eight …
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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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A Skinny Doughssant?
F I R S T L Y. . . do you know about the unholy union of croissant X doughnut, known as a Doughssant? It’s the terrifyingly decadent brainchild of our friends & neighbours, Jason Bakery, whose weekly inventiveness (there’s a new doughssant EVERY SATURDAY!) results in winding queues down Bree Street, as salivating Capetonians queue …
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