Last month we featured Beloved Beadwork’s exquisite jewellery, this month the pieces of South African beadwork are equally as beautiful, but demand to be seen rather than to be worn. Monkeybiz creates a range of colourful dolls and three-dimensional animals that make you feel joyful by just looking at them. They are selected for Cape [...]
The fifth annual World Go Vegan Week is taking place from 24 – 31 October 2011. World Go Vegan Week is an international campaign to promote a vegan diet as a sustainable and healthy way of eating and living. Although most of us know what vegetarianism is, veganism remains rather misunderstood. Vegans live on a [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on Fairview Wine Estate’s winemaker, Anthony de Jager. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? All I was sure of was that I didn’t want a normal office job. I just wanted to [...]
“People are travelling again,” is the positive message that Cape Grace’s General Manager, Nigel Pace, took away from his US trip in August 2011. And this in the midst of ever-worsening economic news, talk of a double-dip recession and a plummeting stock market. But people are fed up with all the bad news and are [...]
Terrible novel writing doesn’t come that easily and the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening line to an imaginary novel prove this. Sue Fondrie, who walked away with the 2011 Grand Prize for the worst opener is a university professor, so it goes to show what you can do with a [...]
The word “tapas” is derived from the Spanish verb tapar or “to cover”. To cover what you may ask? Well if you reference the book The Joy of Cooking, slices of bread or meat were used by Andalusian tavern goers to cover their glasses between sips to prevent fruit flies from dropping into their sweet [...]
There’s a distinct feel-good factor in buying art and crafts when you know something about its creators. That’s why we are featuring some of the artists whose work can be purchased at Cape Grace. Today it’s the turn of Zizamele Ceramics, whose beautiful Bambanani Bowls are part of the Africa Nova collection at Cape Grace. [...]
Cape Culture manifests in many different forms and at Cape Grace it can be seen in the décor. Furniture, walls, drapes and fabrics are used as canvases to tell the stories of the past. The 17th century period setting is authenticated through the rare collection of over 300 pieces of original antique furniture, ceramics and [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on Anthony Hamilton Russell, owner of Hamilton Russell Vineyards. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? Although I have made wine, I am not our winemaker. Being Proprietor of a Wine Estate requires [...]