While Cape Town’s winelands suffer no shortage of lush estates, few have successfully fused the area’s Cape Dutch heritage with contemporary design in their original settings. Krone’s reimagining of its Twee Jonge Gezellen farm was a two-year project in which architect Rick Stander looked at how the estate’s interlinking buildings could find new purpose. Along with interior designer Tracy Lynch, Stander needed to refresh the space without losing any of its three-century spanning history.
The outcome – a newly renovated tasting room – is accessed via the farm’s earliest entrance, before guiding visitors through glass doors and into the arched entryway of the reception area, overhung by a woven metallic light cluster. Acknowledging the architecture of the national monument, whitewashed walls and clean design leave the Cape Dutch legacy untouched, hosting a gallery-like space in which nothing feels permanent. A rotating collection of modern artwork is anchored around freestanding industrial design pieces and metal sculpture in the deliberately minimalist rooms, tied together by a theme of spherical motifs that manifest throughout the decor. Take it in from the raised terrace while looking out over the valley with a glass of one of the best vintage-only bubbles South Africa has to offer.
ADDRESS
Twee Jonge Gezellen Estate Road
Tulbagh
-
The Stuff That Surrounds, episode three: Inside the home of architect Glenn SestigIn The Stuff That Surrounds, Wallpaper* explores a life through objects. This episode, we’re invited inside an architectural gem – just what you'd expect from one of the most distinctive voices in the field today
-
Germane Barnes just transformed a humble Indiana parking garage into an enormous sub-woofer systemWith Joy Riding, the Miami-based designer’s installation at Exhibit Columbus, Barnes celebrates togetherness by evoking Black car culture
-
The best Ruth Asawa exhibition is actually on the streets of San FranciscoThe artist, now the subject of a major retrospective at SFMOMA, designed many public sculptures scattered across the Bay Area – you just have to know where to look
-
Wallpaper* checks in at Few & Far Luvhondo: an intimate South African eco-lodgeWith just six cliffside suites, Few & Far Luvhondo offers front-row seats to the untamed wilderness of South Africa’s Limpopo
-
The world’s best new hotels to love without reservationExplore the best new openings in the world, from Park Hyatt’s soaring debut in Kuala Lumpur to W Hotel’s charming coastal retreat in Sardinia
-
Singita Ebony Lodge celebrates 30 years of wild beautySingita Ebony Lodge in Hazyview, South Africa, begins a new chapter with a refresh by Cécile & Boyd
-
A refreshed Cape Grace hotel embraces the best of South African heritageCape Town’s Cape Grace hotel reopens its doors following an extensive and playful renovation by international interior design studio, 1508 London
-
Cape Town: 8 things to do and see for the design-minded travellerCape Town is a capital of art, design, food and wellness; local resident Sean O’Toole on the best things to do and see, from a Bree Street meander to a Constantia wine route
-
Villa One at the One & Only Palmilla — Los Cabos, Mexico -
Martim — Wroclaw, Poland -
Tattersalls Hotel — Armidale, Australia
