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Design & Interiors.
South African architecture, interiors, craft and material culture — from Cape Modernism and Atlantic seaboard houses to Soweto craft studios and the country's furniture renaissance.
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Made by Hand
The artisans rebuilding Joburg's material culture
In Maboneng, Newtown, and Braamfontein, a generation of furniture makers, ceramicists, and textile artists is turning reclaimed urban material into gallery-grade craft — and rethinking what 'local' means for South African interiors.
Living Architecture
The homes that breathe
Biophilic design — the practice of weaving living plants, natural materials, and ecological flow into architecture — is moving from wellness retreats to everyday Cape Town and Joburg homes. We visit three that get it right.
The New Aesthetic
When African cosmology meets the living room
A generation of South African interior designers is drawing on Ndebele geometry, Zulu beadwork colour theory, and Sotho textile traditions — not as decoration, but as structural design language.