Modern Living

Modern Living is a modern interior décor magazine, packed with inspiration, trends, style and shopping. Its focus is on aspirational homes across beach, rustic, urban and apartment living, with plenty of shoppable pages to help readers identify their style, be inspired by the spaces around them and invest in their favourite pieces.

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Hot Right Now peaches & cocktails • Bieber gets his in Georgia, we get ours locally. And all summer long. In fact, with this stone fruit in season RN, why not show off your cocktail skills while making ’em local? To make you really look the part, we’ve sourced some of the best cocktail accessories your home bar needs. Peachy, baby!

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A GLOBAL Design Feast • Feeling uninspired? Get yourself over to Expo 2020 Dubai, where the world showcases its top design, community-building, sustainability and technology innovations. It runs until 31 March 2022. Sinead Martin picks out the highlights not to be missed

Dubai Expo 2020 In Numbers

CREATE A STUNNING, COMFY RETREAT • Get that magazine-style room or outdoor space with beautiful and affordable homeware from Room Service. Their bedding is manufactured in Cape Town and their décor items are sourced with quality and price top of mind.

Hot Right Now teddy chairs • Welcome to the new eye-catcher in your living room: the teddy chair. You may choose one in the form of an occasional chair or a dining chair. Or if you’re really into the warm and fuzzies? An entire sofa. #HereForTheCuddles

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Book Marked • Our pick of the best coffee-table decor and food books for RN

STAY COOL THIS SUMMER • ESCAPE THE HEAT WITH ISOBOARD’S ASSORTMENT OF PRACTICAL AND CLASSIC INSULATION SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR MODERN HOME.

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Brave New World • It’s not often an architectural design that sits as a counterpoint to the magnificence of its natural environment truly works, mostly because it’s hard to trump nature. And yet, Johannesdal, the home of Dané Erwee and Chris Willemse does just that – and more

Reimagined FARMHOUSE • Mix woods with linens, patterns with colours and textures with botanicals to make your house feel like it’s been a home for a lot longer than it has…

The Great Escape • Interior designer Lisa Storer’s modern farmhouse outside Johannesburg blends rustic warmth with industrial simplicity to create a happy home for her family

Injections OF INTEREST • Neutrals and muted tones form the perfect starting point for any room. From there, mix interesting textures, colours and surprising artefacts to give your home a point of difference

Sub-Tropical Modern • An architect’s decision to restore rather than renovate her 60-year-young modernist marvel of a home is a timely reminder of this movement’s roots in philosophy, not aesthetics. Built at a time when architecture was about defining a new way of living – it’s a home that offers valuable lessons in the power of longevity

STILL LOVIN’ The Sixties • From avocado green to house plants, terrazzo anything, mushroom lamps and bold pops of colour, there are so many things the folks in the sixties made popular – and we’re grateful. Here are some of our fave pieces inspired by the daring era that you can bring into your home for 2022

Modern Marvel • Equal parts architectural wonder and oasis of calm, this home just outside the Joburg city centre is a precious sanctuary for the couple who live in it

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