The brightest magazine to blossom onto shelves this year, the new VISI 68 is SPRINGLOADED with inspiring essays, exquisite photoshoots and 36 reasons to flourish with the flowery season. Not to mention two Greyton getaways and Issey Miyake’s new Pleats Please fragrance to be won.
Spring is about fresh starts, content director Sumien Brink explains in her editor’s letter before she hands it over to the six essayists. From crime writer Karin Brynard’s spring disaffection to columnist Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s poignant pledge to swim the Atlantic Ocean, learn about the never-seen-before madness of Sarah Lotz’s (aka one half of SL Grey and one third of Helena S Paige) writing room and how the sunlight transforms filmmaker and FOBLO founder Oliver Hermanus’s inner city pad. Why is time sometimes so fleeting and other times so slow, asks science journalist Mandy de Waal; while poet Reneilwe Malatji questions not, rather revelling in the spring love affair on its own terms.
Keep paging because Khanyi Dhlomo’s Jozi emporium, Luminance, and Alexandra Höjer’s new Bree Street boutique will have you yearning for a blank canvas to begin anew. Leon At CCXIX has also popped up in Woodstock, adding elegance to the edgy neighbourhood.
The resourceful contemporisation of two heritage buildings – a duplex in the Bo-Kaap and a one-time-prison in Greyton – shows the wonder of reinvention. However, a Winelands villa that is under constant revolution at the hands of its imaginative owner, takes ingenious upcycling to a romantic level. Similarly, two passionate owners of a Johannesburg apartment give it a complete facelift, transforming it into a lock-up-and-go art gallery and entertainment arena.
For a whole new headspace, it’s the Wyatt Hairdressing salon in Melville and for a mellow yellow perspective it’s Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 pop-up offices. Wind down with a spin through the Kalahari in Gavin Rooke’s custom-built Porsche 912 – leaving a trail of flowers!
After all, spring is about petals and blooms; wonderful bursts of vivid colour that beat off the winter drab. And so, a wallpaper and floral decor shoot offers a rainbow feast to the senses. A feast to be invited into our homes, with the 36 Reasons to Love Spring breaking it down from balcony gardens to pressed flowers and a guide to the most common interior design mistakes, as well as an insight into the latest colour forecast and fabric trends. See what Heath Nash has been up to in Kenya, the new project that Aiden Bennetts has applied himself to and the bold new Walter Battiss decor trend.
It’s a deal at R49.95, but why buy one copy when you can subscribe to a year’s worth for R210? By subscribing before 15 November, you will be entered into a lucky draw to win one of two two-night getaways at Greyton Lodge.
So, get SPRINGLOADED with the 68th edition of South Africa’s most iconic celebration of homegrown design, decor and architecture. With its distinctive uncoated paper stock and the seductive musty smell of a book, VISI is the mag of choice for Mzansi’s printophiles.
Get VISI 68 in retail outlets from 16 September 2013 or get the digital edition online now.
