We’ve gone green for VISI #144
Reflecting a growing design trend, the leafy pages of this issue have plants and outdoor/indoor gardens as a strong theme throughout – from our featured homes to Stories.
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Architizer A Awards have announced their winners for 2026, with South African firm Hubo Studio taking home not one but two awards.
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Across the 2026 runways, designers turned sets into living landscapes, collapsing the boundary between interior and exterior.
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At the foot of the Swartberg mountain range, overlooking the vast open veld of the Great Karoo, this family home embraces the landscape and its challenging climate.
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VISI was once again media partner to Cape Town Furniture Week, held over four days at various venues around the inner city – an annual showcase of just how talented our local design community is.
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Echoing the theme of our current issue is this home in the Cape Winelands, where Loredana Morton Interiors has employed used layered materials and the surrounding landscape to soften the linearity of modern architecture.
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Italian luxury menswear atelier ZEGNA brings the legacy brand’s refined aesthetic to the Mother City with the opening of its first store at the V&A Waterfront.
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Your exclusive pass inside South Africa’s most breathtaking properties. 🏡✨ From architectural masterpieces perched on the coast to hidden off-grid cabins and luxurious city apartments, we take you on a curated tour of the country's finest living spaces.
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Rustic is back – and it’s wearing a tool belt. Beyond fluffy cottagecore or distressed shabby-chic, this is all about hard-edged 18th-century carpenter tools, and a fascination with tools, materials and processes.
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Roxanne Ferreira, founder of playfully colourful interior design brand Arrange Studio, shares some of her personal items and the accompanying stories that hold meaning for her.
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Cape Town-based design studio Urban Toolshed highlights its thoughtfully shaped approach to hardware with the new Gerrit Giebel Collection.
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A sensitively restored Art Deco apartment in Potts Point, with an interior that masterfully blends classic, deco and Mid-century design.
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The simple act of folding – paper, fabric, the petals of a flower – serves as inspiration for Alkaline’s newest pendant light, aptly titled Gathered.
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Rather than relying on spectacle, Markéta and Lars Killi’s contemporary holiday home in Puglia pays homage to a quieter form of Mediterranean living – one shaped by the rugged landscape, climate and material traditions of the region.
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Art critic, writer and curator Sean O’Toole on how to navigate the unpredictable waters of buying, collecting and investing in South African art.
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Our series on international design trailblazers continues with Gisbert Pöppler, whose signature style combines bold colour, a balance of past and present and a hint of rebellion.
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