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03/06/2026

NOTICEBOARD : THE NERVE 📌

Friend and talented artist is hosting a thing tonight, and it caught our eye – so here we are to (re)share ... 📲 Join Michael for the opening of his latest exhibition, featuring some of the paintings he’s made. 🧑🏻‍🎨

He’s cool, the exhibition looks fab, and we think everyone should go. 🙂‍↔️

The Nerve
Opening Wednesday, 3 June 2026
6pm – 8pm
18 Buiten Street
Cape Town

*Show runs until the 14th of June.

28/05/2026

Let’s go.
Let’s go far, to places beyond the map. 🗺️

By boat, by foot, by balloon, we venture.
Hands on the wheel. Eyes all over.
Look.
Birds above, all around, showing off in sight and sound. 🦜

Moer koffie on the brew,
and sticky marshmallow spit on a stick,
roasting over open, warm fires. ⛺️

Tongues click, curl, and hiss as we hop,
from corner to corner,
continent to continent,
further and further. ⛰️

Let’s roam. ⛵️

House and Leisure () Volume 21 (Roam) is now available at our independent stockists and countrywide retailers, via our website for convenient home delivery, or to download on our free House and Leisure app. 📲

On the cover 📔:
A Land Rover Defender exploring a vast Namibian landscape from ‘Forgotten Castle’ – featured on p236.

Art direction by Storm Ross ()
Photography by Alex Oelofse ()

27/05/2026

last look 📔

The last leaf has fallen, and so the season of autumn exhales its final breath. We pause here, just for a moment, to savour – a deep inhalation, held gently – for Curate. 🌾

May she always remain in spirit, in stillness. 🤍

Tomorrow marks the final on-shelf day to find Curate – House and Leisure () Volume 20 – though she’ll still be available to purchase online for a little while longer, before winter arrives with something new… (keep your eyes posted). 👀

For an intimate look at the scribbles, snippets, and ideas behind Vol. 20’s styled shoot – through the eye and hand of House and Leisure Style Editor, – head to Journal 03 via the link in bio.

a LOOKBOOK Studio production ()
Art direction & Styling by Storm Ross ()
Photography by Frances Marais ()
Videography & editing by Jana Human ()
Featuring Yiu Keeping ()
Production assistance by Murray King () and Jana Human ()
Shot on location at Dylan Lewis Studio & Sculpture Garden ()

26/05/2026

arranging things ✏️

As a last note for our ‘Gallery’ journal, Editor-in-Chief, , unpacks why we get to call ‘pottering about’ a full-time job. Because trust us, it is. 👓

Moving something one inch to the left, no, two inches down. 🔍 Or, ‘let’s swap out the mustard yellow lamp for something completely different, like a canary yellow lamp’... Others may think, ‘What’s the point?’ To us, that is the point. It’s the (not-so-subtle) art of arranging things, things that make all the difference. 👁️

Link in bio. 📲

Photography by
Illustrations by +

25/05/2026

coastal curves🍦

Set apart from the expected strawberry daiquiry, white umbrella, ‘glits and glam’ noise of Camps Bay, 🍹 the new Marriott Autograph Collection property – Morea House () – feels considered, extremely luxurious and deliberately softer. 🌾

‘In a neighbourhood often built around visibility, this is a place that understands the luxury of softness.’ – contributing travel editor,

Read and see more about Morea in our latest journal story – in the words of , thourgh the eye of , and with a touch of . 📔

Journal story credits:
Photography by
Words by

22/05/2026

Things. 🌻 Goedjies. 🐟 Tsatskes. 🌽

In our latest journal story, we scanned the studio – literally – in search of our favourite things. 🖨️

Visit the link in bio to see them all, face-to-scanner, pictured in a more (dramatic) look. 🖤

21/05/2026

We did a podcast with Monocle.
Yes, Monocle. 🧐

Follow Editor-in-Chief of House and Leisure (), Charl Francois Edwards (), on his recent journey from London 🇬🇧 to Pah-ree 🇫🇷 – a step, train, hop between Monocle shops and cafés. 🥐

Yes, we went for merch, but more importantly, we joined our first Monocle podcast to chat all things print, publishing (and geek out about both!) with our new friend, and podcast host, . 📒🎙️

Have a listen (link in bio): Monocle Radio, The Stack, Episode 716.

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19/05/2026

WE HIT 10K BABY! ⭐️

Firstly, what a relief. Finally, a round number aaaaand double digits – whoop whoop? So satisfying. 😉 Secondly, and MOST importantly, you guys are like, the best... 🥹

To all ten-thousand-and-something of you: we see you, we love you, and we’re so fricken grateful you’re here. 🫶

We hope to keep feeding you the new, the fun, the crème de la crème of content, because life’s too short for anything less than LOOKBOOK. 🙂‍↔️

Chin chin to you, and the next 10K! 🤸

(yellow) hugs and kisses,
LOOKBOOK Studio

💛

15/05/2026

‘But did you go to Milan?’ 🤌

After what seems to be a two week recovery, we’re ‘back’ – finally able to digest the ‘muchness’, splendour, overindulgence, carbs, romance, champagne, language and stimuli that occurred over this jam-packed week in Milano. 🍝

For an experience that’s kinda hard to describe, we thought to show you instead. A 1min30sec slice of our time at Salone Del Mobile, aka Fiero Milano, Milan Design week, aka one of the most-attended (must-attend?) events of the year. 🍕

More to read & see in the next issue of House and Leisure, (coming soon...). 👀

14/05/2026

RUG ROOM 🧶

In our latest journal story, stylist, designer, consultant and House and Leisure ‘Eye’, , takes us on a magic carpet ride (*cue the Aladdin theme song*)... 🪄 By ‘magic’ we mean the whimsical touch (and eye) of , and . And by ‘carpet’, we mean the wonderful craft that is every rug.

Have a read, take a look! 👓
Link in bio. 📲

Interiors by , and
Photography by

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