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The Friends of Friends Podcast: Cinga Samson

Isabelle Moulding — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:41:15 +0000

South African artist Cinga Samson was born in 1986 under apartheid. Having grown up in a small town on South Africa’s remote Eastern Cape, he has emerged in recent years as an increasingly influential painter known for his otherworldly yet realistic portraits of young black men in contemporary clothes, posed against deep-hued backdrops of tropical

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Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Gwen and Gawie Fagan on creating their dream house

root — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:46:58 +0000

The house itself and most things in it are handmade by couple Gawie and Gwen, their son and three daughters. Today it’s just the two of them living here. It’s a magical place with magical people who have lived long and full lives. Sitting around a table with Gwen and Gawie drinking a hot cup

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Fritz & Chanelle Schoon

root — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:30:28 +0000

Their business, De Companje, is a bakery, a restaurant, a coffee roastery, a butcher, a produce store, a wine shop and an ice cream parlor in one – and that’s just the beginning. Fritz and Chanelle are young entrepreneurs who have made their dream a reality, building a little indoor market in the Western Cape

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Living where the mountains meet the sea: Gwen & Gawie Fagan

root — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:40:50 +0000

Depending on where you stand, the Fagan’s self-built home ‘Die Es’ has a mountain or seaside backdrop. ‘Die Es’ – meaning ‘the hearth’ – is situated on the Atlantic Seaboard in Camps Bay, but it feels more like it’s on a little farm with its own private nature reserve. The house itself and most things

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Mokena Makeka

root — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:20:54 +0000

In 1994, a year when everything changed in South Africa, a New York and Lesotho bred gentleman decided to transform the world through the field of architecture. Mokena Makeka believes in the power of design in order to better people’s lives. His guiding philosophy embraces the notion that everyone has the right to experience good

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