It’s always exciting to watch a young brand grow, particularly so if you know the hearts and minds behind the creative dream. Cape Town-based fashion design studio Margot Molyneux has recently opened its first store; a chic, elegantly finished boutique at 69 Roeland Street, Cape Town.
In Cape Town’s De Waterkant, Lume is a newly opened beauty atelier that offers a luxurious array of treatments for skin, nails and hair, as well as hair styling, cutting and colouring.
Original to the core, Porky Hefer, having recently represented South Africa at the inaugural London Design Biennale with Southern Guild, is set to stagger audiences with his first solo exhibition in New York at the design gallery R & Company.
Danish studio Norm Architects has taken influences from both Scandinavian and Japanese design to create this pared-back gallery and workspace for Kinfolk magazine in central Copenhagen.
London architect Sophie Hicks designed Stockholm-based ACNE Studio‘s flagship store in Seoul, taking a deliberately anti-Swedish approach to the rough concrete structure. Ironically. The narrow, winding side streets of Gangnam house some of the most exclusive shops in the South Korean capital. It is in this setting – a haven of peace in a fast-moving city – that Sophie built a new store for Acne Studios: a flagship store, in which to will sell both their men’s and women’s collections.
Frederik Vercruysse is a Belgian photographer based in Antwerp. His varied portfolio includes architecture, interiors, still life, landscape and people, a prolific body of work that captures the story and soul of its subject matter.
