Leisure time news

• go east: where natural objects meet high design

  27-09-2018 13:49
  A historical horticultural show garden, built at the highest point in Johannesburg, has found new life in the hands of Jonty Mark, a sports editor, and husband Vincent Truter, a curator and creative director. The immense property includes a manor house, two charming stone cottages – built from the stone of the quarry below it in Bezuidenhout Valley – and, at its acme, a pale-pink 1950s ‘summer pavilion’.
  Today, Lightning’s Nest seamlessly combines the coup
  
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• cabin fever

  27-09-2018 11:01
  The Elgin Valley is the apple-growing centre of South Africa. Filled with orchards as well as cool-climate vineyards, the valley is surrounded by mountains and nature reserves, including the protected Kogelberg Biosphere. It’s also less than an hour’s drive from Cape Town, which makes it the ideal weekend escape from the city. That’s why hotelier and entrepreneur Jody Aufrichtig chose it for his delightfully eccentric farm lodge, the Old Mac Daddy, where the rooms are luxurious
  
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• living paper: your reading just became shoppable

  27-09-2018 08:31
  Although home is always at House and Leisure‘s heart, and decor inspiration can be found within its pages, our focus has evolved to innovation too – with the reader experience in mind. In an effort to bring some of South Africa’s most stylish homes, products, trends and objets to life, we’re making our pages shoppable.
  If you like what you see on the curated pages of HL, it’s now possible to shop them. Use a QR reader (available in the App store or searchable
  
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• a trio of places to see, eat and shop in berlin, germany

  27-09-2018 07:57
  Berlin has to be one of the planet’s most multifarious places: you can visit the city and just explore museums full of ancient cultural artefacts, or spend all your time clubbing, or only immerse yourself in the huge variety of classical music concerts on offer. Next time you visit, aim to spend at least a day or two ambling about rather like a local – take in a memorial to one of the most momentous events of the 20th century, enjoy a peaceful lunch surrounded by some of the city&rsq
  
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