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Piecemeal : Shards of antique Delft pieces collected on the farm and displayed under glass. -
Top perspective : The entrance to a restroom. An aerial view of a stack of Delft plates, printed on Perspex and laid into a wall of metro tiles. -
Budding past : A persimmon tree framed by a mosaic plate in the garden. -
Paper Delft : Tablemats from recycled paper to serve light offerings in our greenhouse. -
Paper Delft : Tablemats from recycled paper to serve light offerings in our greenhouse. -
Paper Delft : Tablemats from recycled paper to serve light offerings in our greenhouse.
Babylonstoren‘s peerless Karen Roos unravels the thinking that went into the contemporary Delft-inspired details to be found around the boutique leisure farm.
Delft porcelain has been used in Cape households since the 1700s, when the VOC established a settlement to feed the fleets sailing between Asia and Europe. While working in the garden, we regularly encounter shards of discarded Delft crockery from different centuries. So we were inspired to use the Delft heritage in new original forms.
Originally published on the Babylonstoren blog.
Food stylist and founder of Babylonstoren’s Babel restaurant, Maranda Engelbrecht will be talking at the fourth Trend Talk afternoon at the Plascon Design Centre on Thursday 11 October. More details here.
More from the SPRING FLING edition of VISI
- New and second-cycle
Renovation and interior design is seldom a stagnant, once-off affair. The best spaces grow into themselves. See the before pictures of the houses featured in the magazine.
- Deft blue strokes
Fabric, surfboards, shacks… Something is afoot, and not just in South Africa! From Babylonstoren to Russia, browse our full Delft trend report.
- Popcorn architecture
We have inspiration from the Architecture ZA 2012 Biennial Festival to share. Watch our online film festival and read our report back.
- Mechanical futurism
Some say steampunk is what happened when Goths discovered brown. Others say it grew out of a literary genre. Explore our steampunk trend report.
- Joburg Art Attack
For at least one week in September, Joburg was hit by an art attack. Read the post-mortem and our guide to starting an art collection, written by the experts.
- Winning wishes
In October, Warren Lewis will be giving away four paintings. Up for grabs over October and November is a Bodum Bistro Coffee Maker from Banks Kitchen Boutique. Enter the competitions here.
