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Cape Town’s Hoi P’loy lets you build your own perfect lighting
Hoi P’loy creates ‘good and simple’ design while championing local crafts. Their modular system gives customers the freedom to configure pieces without compromising on quality.
How Cape Town’s beautiful €2m public pool upgrades are making a splash
Enhancements to many of the South African city’s 37 bathing facilities have made for a bumper summer of swimming and poolside fun. Monocle wades in to find a populace brought together.
Field days
For the Dutch couple who run Sterrekopje among the valleys and fields near Stellenbosch in South Africa, operating a hotel encouraging guests to interact with its staff is as natural as the bucolic surroundings.
Urbanism
A new design school in South Africa and trainers designed for the London Underground.
Staying power
Checking in at intimate boltholes including a Portuguese hilltop town hotel, a wine shrine in a former Arizona newspaper building, and more characterful new properties worldwide
Sight and sound
From an artist’s interrogation of identity to an auteur’s latest work of high melodrama, we survey forthcoming cultural highlights.
Bags of potential
As Christmas beckons, we circumnavigate the globe with more efficiency and insider nous than Santa himself, dropping in on the finest spots and shops to source seasonal gifts.
Kerb appeal
Driving along a road less travelled reveals South Africa’s charms. We start the ignition to take you from roadside craft shops to homely inns and pretty pit stops. Get your kicks on Route 62.
Easel living
Why rent expensive studio or gallery space when you can create and showcase at home? Meet the real artists in residence.
The change-makers
These urban interventions cleverly improved their neighborhoods and cities.
