I’ve been going to Kromrivier in the Cederbrg Mountains for about 17 years now in the summer holidays and this was my first visit in autumn. The colours and textures blew me away…. plants, flowers, rocks, sand, the sky, the falling leaves…it seemed like I was walking around inside a …
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Next to superstar ballet dancers, uber chefs are amongst my favourite PTA (People To Admire). There are only a handful in our fine city that are truly outstanding and it’s not often I get to meet and speak at length with any of them. But halfway into this year I’ve …
If you’re up for a new spot to have brunch, look no further than Mondiall Kitchen and Bar in the V&A Waterfront, a perfectly positioned restaurant that was once the Green Dolphin though thankfully looks nothing like it any longer. A joint venture between Patrick Symington, formerly of Cafe Dharma and Asoka, …
Cape Town is saturated with events and make no mistake many are great but every now and then one comes along that is uber amazing, well organised and tons of fun. Such was the #Stellenblog tweet up I joined last week (5 May) in the Western Cape’s foremost student town …
My last day in Tokyo and I realised I’d almost forgotten about this place! I would have hated myself if I’d missed it because not only is 21_21 Design Sight an incredibly beautiful building, but the exhibition that’s currently running, KOME The Art of Rice, is truly one of the …
Tadao Ando is a legendary Japanese architect, someone Lateral Paul has spoken to me about for years, literally. So to see the International Children’s Library (and thanks to Shingo for taking me there) was a major design and creative moment for me. Located within Ueno Park in Tokyo, the International …
If you’re going to do a spot of serious shopping, parting with your precious plastic to score top end brands you feel you cannot live without, then do it properly and lose yourself somewhere where your surroundings are so beautiful that you won’t feel the pain. These places exist in …
Our good friend Shingo took me to see breathtaking buildings today, designed by some of Japan’s foremost architects. St Mary’s Cathedral in Sekiguchi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo (Metro stop is Edogawabashi), was our first stop, and it’s all I expected- spectacular. Before it was flattened in a WWll air raid in 1945, …
I awoke on Monday morning with a sensory overload hangover and for that I’m blaming the Design Indaba Expo, Cape Town’s creative piece de resistance! Every year I look forward to trawling the design bedecked CTICC halls, and am never disappointed by what I discover. Obviously certain things make my …
A brave decision by moi to attempt 7 days of detox this past week, rapidly downgraded into a ‘no sugar’ commitment, partly because I have no willpower with diets and mostly because I just hated the food on the detox menu – stuff like tofu, egg white and quinoa…..bleh, I …