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Finding Power in the Pretty| Finding Power in the Pretty| Finding Power in the Pretty| Finding Power in the Pretty| Finding Power in the Pretty| Pretty Serious is Cape Town’s Women’s Month group exhibition exploring femininity as a space of imagination, joy and resistance. WORDS Neyani Mphephu PHOTOS Courtesy of ORMS School of Photography What happens when you take beauty seriously? When softness becomes a strategy, and joy a form of resistance?

Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Glass Works| Shaped by a 35-year friendship and a shared obsession with beautiful things, Casa LV’s hand-blown glassware sits somewhere between sculpture and utility. We speak to the Cape Town brand about the craft, colour and friendship at the heart of it all.

Layered, sculptural and quietly confident – Reynaers Haus Cape Town shows what's possible when architecture and aluminium glazing systems work in perfect balance.| A showroom that doesn't just display our systems – it lives and performs in the type of environment it was built for.| Where indoors and outdoors dissolve into one. Our HiFinity motorised sliding systems frame Cape Town's iconic backdrop without interruption.| Every line intentional. Every junction considered.

Fancy your design skills? Here’s an opportunity to design the city of Cape Town’s new public bench. The PLASTI(CITY) design competition calls on  Cape Town’s creative community to rethink public seating for the inner city. VISI is supporting this cool new initiative by The Mission for Inner City Cape Town and Plastic Pioneers, inviting designers, makers, architects, students and creative citizens to submit an original design for a public bench or seating installation.

Emerging artist and winner of the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition, Juandré van Eck returns to the Pretoria Art Museum with his first major solo exhibition, Die Vallei van Adem, on 10 September 2026. WORDS Palesa Mohola PHOTOS Supplied Sasol New Signatures continues to be South Africa’s longest-running platform for emerging visual artists to showcase their talents and gain recognition and exposure within the art world.

“The stained glass windows are such a bold move, especially in a house with incredible views – most homeowners wouldn’t want to obstruct them,” says interior designer Jase Sullivan.

Form Follows Outdoors| Form Follows Outdoors| Form Follows Outdoors| Form Follows Outdoors| Form Follows Outdoors| Form Follows Outdoors| As new kids on the design block, Blunt & Co gives outdoor furniture a bold, architectural twist. Meet the brand turning steel, aluminium, and wire into enduring design.

Shaped by the Elements| Shaped by the Elements| Shaped by the Elements| Shaped by the Elements| Sponsored Landmarks eroded by time. The word Mesa refers to a flat-topped mountain or elevated landforms that have been formed over millions of years through the process of wind and water erosion. Softer rock layers cannot withstand the conditions, leaving behind the durable rock that creates the table-like formations. These earthly practices are what inform our ethos.

Julia Franco of NOSSO in reflection.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo and the 2026 ABUP fair.| Textures, colours and scenes from São Paulo...

Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| Between Two Shores| On the top floor of El Corte Inglés in Lisbon is El Mar – an immersive new restaurant experience lead by chef Kiko Martins.