On walking through Rupert Smith’s extraordinary and beautiful inner-city Cape Town loft, it’s easy to appreciate why he is in constant demand in South Africa and abroad for his work in visual merchandising, installations, and high-end media events.
Matt textures, layered tablescapes, and whispers of earthy colour provided by nature make for a serene Christmas setting in Algria Ferreira-Watling’s Cape Town home.
Return to the simple things this festive season: a table decorated to evoke a sense of comfort and nostalgia, a humble colour palette, and homespun decorations that weave in the wild spirit of nature
How Francesca Baur is bringing bespoke, natural textiles to the UK Francesca Baur, founder and designer behind Fable and Base MD: Hello, Francesca! Can we start with a little about your art education? When did you first become interested in art and textile design? FB: Hi Michael! I’m from a family of artists, architects, seam-mistresses, […]
Creativity is creativity. It just plays out in different ways,” says Nneka Mosley of One Handy Momma. She started out making and selling designer handbags, a hobby she’d turned into a business, but closed down when she and her husband decided to have children.
The arid, semi-desert landscapes of South Africa’s central Karoo region are an acquired taste. This is a place where extreme harshness—scorching heat on summer days, icy cold on winter nights—coexists with the delicate beauty of indigenous plant life, and where the bone-dry air is scented with dust yet still exquisitely clean and crisp.
After spending a number of years searching for the right property in the ideal location, the new owners of this characterful home in Cobham, Surrey, asked London-based interior designer Kim Stephen to assist them with its renovation.
Mona Bavar is the delightful and engaging entrepreneur behind DLISH, a start up company specializing in curating distinctive gifts around food, art and design for the corporate market as well as for person-to-person gifting.
Clayton Gray Home stocks some of the design world’s best brands, blending contemporary lines and finishes with casual accessibility. We love the site’s curation and focus on timeless, heirloom-worthy pieces you can keep forever. Most are made in the USA of organic, all-natural materials. For fall, we’re channeling Mayan modern with a few key picks from the Clayton Gray Home repertoire:
