Last year was the year of the selfie and this year VISI has every intention of making it the year of the shelfie! The shelfie is a picture of your bookshelf, whether filled with books, plants, collectibles or photos. We’ve put together a fun pop quiz to help you figure out what shelfie you are and have decor ideas for each personality type in the gallery above. When you’re done, snap a shelfie in your home and send it to us to stand the chance of winning a prize.

Show us what shelfie you are and win!

Snap a shelfie and send it to us on web@visi.co.za or via Twitter @VISImag #shelfie. The deadline for entries is Wednesday 28 May 2014 and we have some fantastic books up for grabs – two copies of Obie Oberholzer’s Karoo, three copies of Dominique Botha’s False River, two copies of Eben Venter’s Wolf Wolf (one in English, one in Afrikaans), and one copy of the Ardmore monograph.

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“I don’t normally take too much notice of the Chinese zodiac,” says editor-in-chief Sumien Brink in her letter, “but as soon as we started working on this issue, horses started popping up in unexpected places – on a wine estate in the Boland, on wallpaper, fine bone china, sculptures, paintings and in a wine cellar.” So much so that there’s a reader competition to correctly count the number of horses in the magazine.

Contemplating change and new starts on a personal level are our six essay writers – the high-profile Dominique Botha takes the word “autumn” for a walk and the controversial Tim Noakes describes his own journey to the best-selling Real Meal Revolution book. Novelists Angela Makholwa and Mary Watson take us inside their domestic lives, while cartoonist Nathan Trantraal and journalist Sipho Hlongwane consider that change is a constant.

The exquisite eco-friendly Cavalli Estate in Somerset West, architect Henri Comrie’s award-winning Stellenbosch ode to Modernism and Ellerman House’s dramatic new wine gallery are sure to steal your breath. The ingenious solutions on a Pringle Bay renovation, the smart use of 30sqm in Maboneng and the radical makeover of a Parkview house will undoubtedly set the brain alight. The quirky Green Point apartment of a die-hard collector, and its Jozi counterpart of a collector family, are sure to turn a smile. And, the cover feature, the new MannaBay boutique hotel in Cape Town announces boldly that the sky’s the limit!

Besides the 15 fresh design talents, the 38 reasons why design is for everyone includes a section on getting broody for baby, report backs from Ambiente and Maison & Objet, Ruan Hoffmann’s new Woolworths range, furniture that integrates with technology and beaded AK47s.

Buy VISI at selected retail outlets for only R49.95 or get a 30% discount on annual print subscriptions and 50% discount on annual digital subscriptions. Subscribing before 19 May 2014 will enter you into a lucky draw to win one of seven contemporary lights from local designer Martin Doller.

Rewind, redo, renew with VISI now. Buy in selected retail outlets or get the digital edition online right now.

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