Leisure time news

• let’s get rowdy!

  24-09-2018 23:09
  In 2012, when Nick Meinert was still a student, he kept coming across the same problem – there were no well-designed, durable leather bags to use for his trips around campus. And so, quite simply, he decided to start making them himself. Fast-forward to 2018, and Nick’s brand ROWDY has grown to become one of South Africa’s go-to producers for beautiful, affordable leather bags. While the offering initially began with just the iconic ROWDY backpack, the range has since expa
  
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• a review of anatoli, the cookbook

  24-09-2018 14:59
  Established way back in 1984, Anatoli is a culinary institution in Cape Town – the place where generations of customers have sampled Turkish food for the first time. And, of course, definitely not the last.From its richly decorated interior to the huge wooden trays on which waiters bear the restaurant’s 22 delectable mezze with which every meal there begins, Anatoli has for many years been a very special experience for Capetonians, and one that replete food lovers return to agai
  
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• q&a: five minutes with designer-decorator dicey du toit

  24-09-2018 14:23
  After moving to Port Elizabeth from Paarl, architectural heritage specialist Dicey du Toit delighted in the opportunity to experiment with colour, paint, fabric, flooring and greenery in her new space – Dicey and husband Tom’s former home, an all-white Bauhaus abode, had been ‘all about clean spaces, minimalism and no clutter’.
  To express her instinctive penchant for colour and texture, she opened a decor and interior-design practice in PE’s Richmond Hill called The
  
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• light box: fashion designer rich mnisi’s sunsplashed apartment

  24-09-2018 12:35
  ‘I always start with the most flamboyant, the most elaborate piece – like this blue sofa. This is where I get my visual cues. And then I either dress it up – like I did with the green daybed and the blue rug – or pull it back a bit.’ That’s how fashion designer Fumani Rich Mnisi describes the way he created his new space in Johannesburg’s Maboneng district: ‘It’s the same way I design my collections.’
  The LISOF fashion graduate founded
  
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• meet the maker: karoo dreaming with designer frances van hasselt

  24-09-2018 11:18
  It all began on the southern edge of the Great Karoo. This semi-arid region of the Western Cape is where Frances van Hasselt spent her childhood. It is what inspires her – and it’s the birthplace of the world’s finest mohair.
  Working with the luxurious yarn was always on the cards for Frances, who developed a love for it early on. ‘I grew up on a farm with a family who is passionate about Angora goats, which produce mohair. ‘I’ve always wanted to cre
  
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