House and Leisure

I’m thrilled to welcome you to your new issue of House and Leisure. As you can tell by our cover, we’ve taken the season and theme quite literally. And why not? (Sorry, Meryl Streep*) Who doesn’t love a beautiful floral still life and a touch of pink

Editor-in-Chief Charl Francois Edwards Publisher Pieter Bruwer Deputy Editor Lynette Botha Creative & Content Direction LOOKBOOK Studio Market Editor Margot Molyneux Style Editor Storm Ross Copy Editor Liza West Commercial Editor Greer Krige

A stalwart in the South African publishing industry, Sumien has a natural flair for creative energy and editorial vision. Her trajectory from fashion editor at Cosmopolitan to editor of House and Leisure (when it launched in 1993) and then on to Wool

If I’d just kept my ‘business’ called Funky Thangz going, I’d be cooking right now. Sure, there would have been those lean eons from say about 1997 to, erm, five minutes ago – but playing the long game would have been so worth it. You see, the fly-by

Multidisciplinary artist Jan Ernst de Wet, who uses clay as his main medium and nature as inspiration, has again brought his imaginative art to life through a collaboration with acclaimed concept store, Merchants on Long. The Ocean POP collection is

Also known as Tarot Garden, this enchanting sculpture park, located in a small province in Tuscany, is home to artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s intricately mosaiced and larger-than-life figures based on the esoteric tarot. Drawing her inspiration from G

This fictional novel by Torrey Peters is about the entanglement of three lovers, transgender and cisgender, bringing us to the limits of binary thinking. An unexpected pregnancy is the catalyst for unfolding the layers of complex relationships toward

It comes as no surprise that the topics of beauty products and design are hardly ever seen in the same social circles. I would also call it fair to dismiss beauty product packaging as simply the discardable conduit by which the stuff we slather on ou

One hundred epicurean items might sound like a lot but, as the person tasked with consulting countrywide, then researching and writing up Mzansi’s iconic eats, I can confirm this was nowhere near enough. Which was precisely the point. The aim of the

In its storied lifetime, Cape Town’s Heritage Square was a warehouse, among other things. With its cobblestone floors and rustic exterior, it is a characterful redevelopment that was once destined to become a dull parking garage. Through a joint vent

In 2020, Royal College of Art graduate Hannah Rozenberg developed an online tool to find out how words related to the built environment – think boardroom, decorate, glass, construct – and how they were understood in terms of gender sentiment. While t

After seeing all the amazing people featured within this issue – reading about their journeys and getting a glimpse into their spaces – thinking about what your children might bloom into one day may be top of mind. Children dream big, and as parents

The eclectic and individualistic spaces in this issue provided our editors with plenty of inspiration to curate this shopping guide (aka lookbook), showcasing an array of products that have caught our eye. We’ve matched our finds with the four varie

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