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At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : We all live in a yellow submarine - sort of. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The Organisation Man at work: Gifts, books, doodles and art by friends and colleagues Hannah Parr, Heather Moore, Laureen Rossouw and Katrin Coetzer. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Facing the day. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Tea time. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Colour coded clutter and creative layers. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Big Apple Shrine. A collection of New York-themed trinkets from Muji and postcards received from a friend in NYC were stacked next to Charl's bed before his first trip to the Big Apple. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : That’s a wrap. A lot of the trinkets in Charl's apartment were intended as gifts ... however he often gets too attached to give them away. When he can bear to part with an item, he often incorporates small items from his collection into the giftwrap. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Milnerton Market reincarnated. Charl's collection of Monocle magazines share a space with bats - because you never know when those might come in handy. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : You cane do it! Cane chairs from Malawi stand side-by-side in the living room. Or stood, to be accurate. Charl keeps moving the furniture around. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Dialogues. Meerkats have a casual chat while a distinguished lady and gentleman face off on the couch. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Fabric flowers, paper petals and real blooms form a whimsical bouquet. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The Garden of Eden. Charl's trolley garden, his grand turquoise Christmas tree (courtesy of Lego), a handmade wreath from a friend's wedding, and scatter cushions by Orla Kiely and Woolworths. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The living room. Charl's flatmate Alexander Matthews judges Charl's taste quietly from the couch. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Into the wild. Objects and trinkets collected on his travels. Artworks by Katrin Coetzer, Marsi van de Heuvel and Charl's twin brother John Edwards. Scatter cushion by Sera Holland for Handmade by Me. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Off the grid. Graphic prints from Country Road, Primark and Mr Price. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The blues. VISI editor Sumien Brink gets a little lost in Charl's living room. Luckily there's a map on the floor. Phew! (Artwork by Sunette Viljoen. Confession: The "carpet" on the floor is a blanket... From Prize in Ashland, Oregon.) -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Fruit salad. Enough said. The fruit pillows are from Country Road. The wooden apple is from a thrift store in Oregon, USA. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The Reader. (Charl claims to have only read three books in his life. He is, however, an avid collector of vintage orange Penguin paperbacks. In other words: he judges books by their covers.) -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : Primary colours in the dwelling. -
At Home With Art Director Charl Edwards : The Gathering. A photograph of Charl from an Elle Decoration shoot and artworks by Renee Rossouw and Gert Pretorius is peared with a banana postcard - see what we did there?
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Charl Edwards, who gave us a sneak peek into his home in VISI 74, is one of the most obsessive igers we know. We convinced him to put this obsession to good use by sharing his collection of objects and trinkets with us.
It wouldn’t be fair to call art director Charl Edwards a hoarder – although he definitely has a bit of the compulsive collector gene going on. But Charl’s collection is expertly curated, the clusters of objects arranged in his Tamboerskloof home are artfully arranged by theme, colour or type. Charl compiled an Insta-exhibition of some of these objects especially for VISI, and told us some of the stories behind the things he hunts down and gathers.
For more on Charl’s home and to see the spaces of seven other young Cape Town creatives, get your hands on a copy of VISI 74, in stores now. You can also follow Charl on Instagram (@charl_edwards).
