Christmas on the beach is the perfect opportunity to get back to nature and keep things on the simple side – leaving you to enjoy the surrounds and the opportunity to really connect with family and friends.
An innovative solid-wood house in an architect’s Cape Town hillside garden was designed as much as a guest cottage as an experiment in a new kind of fast, sustainable building.
It’s been nearly 200 years since wandering shepherds first experienced the warm embrace of what was then a farmstead at Wharekauhau – te reo for ‘place of knowledge’ – cradled between the Remutaka Ranges and the churning surf of Palliser Bay in the southern reaches of North Island.
A mere moment from the shoreline, surrounded by the Atlantic on three sides, this extraordinary beach house defies expectations. Set in a dream location to while away lazy Cape days.
Plantsman and gardener Dané Erwee’s distinctive aesthetic combines boldness with beauty. Discover Dané's floral artistry.
