Highveld Highs
Photograph: Dook
This kitchen by Ideations is the hub of a Highveld home. Straddling Joburg’s Linksfield Ridge, this glass house demonstrates how architecture can create a showpiece of nature’s elements – the kitchen being no exception.
Muted Monochrome
Photograph: Elsa Young
All the bulky kitchen appliances are neatly concealed behind dark-wood cabinets in this sleek and streamlined Parktown North home. Function and form marry in effortless style.
Panelled Simplicity
Photograph: Elsa Young
In this luxurious bachelor pad designed by Andrea Graff, panelling screens the working part of the kitchen from the rest of the open-plan living space.
Modern versus Rustic
Photograph: Elsa Young
The washed-oak kitchen island’s design creates extra storage space. Humble, rustic textures and cool contemporary design make magic in a Cape Town manor house.
Minimal Modern
Photograph: Elsa Young
A palette of military greys dominates most of the rooms in this minimalist Joburg home. Functionality drives the design but details such as a 1950s-style spike clock imbue it with personality.
Living Kitchen
Photograph: Elsa Young/Frank Features
This kitchen is designed to be part of the living space and so the ‘Beatrice’ armchairs by Poltrona Frau do double duty as armchairs. Graphic pendant lights by Moooi hang above the dining table, which was custom-made by Cécile & Boyd’s.
Material Wonder
Photograph: Dook
Intersecting steel beams are both structural and aesthetic, rendering and industrial-modern edge to a country-chic kitchen and framing the wall behind it. Modernist lines meet understated natural contours in this Lanseria home.
Artful Architecture
Photograph: Greg Cox
The owner of this Cape Town house designed around family life, contemporary architecture is complemented by a modern take on African motifs. In the kitchen, the owner custom designed the shelving in the kitchen.
Sophisticated Imbibing
Photograph: Dook
Coffee-coloured marble blends almost seamlessly with the wood panelling and floor tiles to create a tone-on-tone effect. Eames stools and a leather ottoman continue the thread. In this Sandton home, contemporary finishes create comfort and sophistication.
