It’s a Saturday morning in May. The thickest mist I have ever seen has wrapped itself around the Cape Town City Bowl, snaking through the streets, stealing colour and re-rendering the world in hazy black and white. I’m on my way to Gallery F, one of the top photographic galleries on the continent, and as I’m buzzed through the little black door at 78 Shortmarket Street, I step out of one monochromatic world and into another, climbing a staircase bracketed by exquisite black

There is butter here that will ruin you for other butter. It is made by hand each morning by an Italian-trained cheesemaker, and it sits in cheesecloth on the breakfast harvest table in a large wooden bowl.You spread it on bread that was baked just before dawn from a sourdough starter that is nine years old, and the combination is so straightforward and lush, nothing else matters. Words: Rosa-Karoo Loewe This is Babylonstoren's particular trick: the extraordinary delivered wi

An Interview with Dr. Maureen Allem and Victor Snyders Few industries have evolved as dramatically over the past two decades as aesthetics, skincare and wellness. At the forefront of that transformation in South Africa is Skin Renewal, founded by Dr Maureen Allem and Victor Snyders in 2005. What began as a single clinic has grown into a nationally recognised brand. By combining medical science, advanced technology and a holistic approach to wellbeing, the group has built a r

Of all the choices an architect makes, the window may be the most revealing. It is, quite literally, how a home looks at the world. Stand in any room and look at the window. Not through it: at it. Notice its proportions, its placement, the way it frames the light. Notice whether it feels like a polite gesture towards the outside world or a confident embrace of it. Notice whether it interrupts the wall or completes it. The window, more than any other architectural element, tel