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• Ultra Violet is Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2018

  08-12-2017 14:35
  If we break the colour purple down into the sum of its parts, it combines the calming stability of blue with the fierce energy of red. Brought to the forefront by musical icons like Prince and David Bowie, and with long-held associations with the mystical, purple is powerful and symbolic of counterculture and unconventionality. It certainly feels like a fitting choice for Pantone‘s Colour of the Year for 2018.
  The shade in question, Ultra Violet, is both 
  
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• Five modern window treatments we love

  08-12-2017 11:19
  No longer purely functional, window treatments have been given a new lease of life with innovative designs in gleaming finishes inspired by precious stones.
  Gold
  Aluminium blinds in Gold POR, Taylor Blinds
  Give your interiors a glamorous Art Deco feel with sumptuous fabrics and decorative additions infused with the Midas touch.
  Azure-Malachite
  Yeti fabric in Emerald/Saffron/Stone from the Translucents 01 collection by Anthology R2 465/m (3m wide), Black Fabrics
  Jewel tones and pared-back accesso
  
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• The Butchery by Marble opens in the Keyes Art Mile

  08-12-2017 10:51
  A year after the fiery debut of Marble restaurant, which became an instant hit on the Johannesburg culinary scene, The Butchery by Marble followed, opening directly underneath it in August. Chef David Higgs, together with his business partner Gary Kyriacou and Gary’s wife Irene of Oniroco design studio, always intended for Marble to have this extra dimension. ‘When this baby was born, we knew we wanted it to include a butchery,’ says Irene, who together with design practice Re
  
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