8+ hour ago   (921+ words) LRNCE began quietly. What started as Laurence Leenaert’s personal exploration of textiles and ceramics in Marrakech has, over more than a decade, grown into an internationally recognised design studio spanning furniture, art, objects and hospitality. The brand has built its…...

8+ hour ago   (338+ words) The all-inclusive holiday has shed its old reputation for buffet lines and poolside daiquiris. Once dismissed as a mass-market, unadventurous category, it has become one of the fastest-growing and most reinvented segments in global travel — visible for South Africans, in…...

8+ hour ago   (446+ words) “The Soft Life is not beige on beige,” says Alan Hayward, one of Decorex Africa’s creative directors alongside Garreth van Niekerk. For them, softness may be found in colour, an inherited cabinet or a chair that accommodates the body generously....

8+ hour ago   (729+ words) Wanted Online A riverside English retreat steeped in grandeur Shaped by spies, celebrities and spectacular riverside views, Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire is a historic English escape Danesfield defies the literal translation of its name, “Danish ditches”. The gleaming Neo-Tudor mansion…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (933+ words) If, as literary scholars argue, there are only a handful of stories in the world, then Trésor Riziki’s is one of the oldest: the hero’s journey. It has all the elements of an epic — reluctant departure, impossible trials, unlikely allies,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (302+ words) This year, the gathering operates under the thematic banner of “Evophoria,” a concept that attempts to bottle the collective elevation of music, food, and design. Created through a partnership between title partner Investec, The Marble Group, G&G (The Goosebumps…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (340+ words) Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space travel, almost the same length of time Odysseus is away from home in “The…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (342+ words) In a column earlier this year, I borrowed Manchester painter LS Lowry’s comparison between the north and south of England to make an offhand remark about Johannesburg and Cape Town. Lowry didn’t like the south because it was “too beautiful…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (327+ words) Cape Town’s award-winning pan-Asian restaurant, Tang Waterfront, has once again partnered with Moët & Chandon to raise a toast to the remarkable women who shape our world as its eagerly anticipated Women’s Month event returns for a fourth year. Now firmly…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (591+ words) Wanted Online MICHAEL FRIDJHON | There is more to fine wine than taste alone Many producers (and their marketing gurus) use price as a proxy The adage about why academic controversies are so virulent (“because the stakes are so low”) could…...