By EdySutio
IN A NOD TO THE renaissance transforming South Africa, Cape
Town has been crowned the World Design Capital of 2014. The art scene here
particularly flourishes in the neighborhood of Woodstock, a historically
industrial quarter along a shabby stretch of the city’s eastern fringes.
Revamped heritage buildings hum with galleries, vintage shops, restaurants, and
working ateliers. “I love the energy,” says chef Luke Dale-Roberts, who opened
his top-rated Test Kitchen and Pot Luck Club restaurants in Woodstock’s Old
Biscuit Mill, with views of Table Mountain from the top floor. “Within a
two-mile radius, I can go to a bronze foundry or a woodworker’s factory.”
Design mavens can chat with the artistic tenants at Side Street Studios, admire
crochet objects d’art (hand-produced by crafters from the impoverished
Khayeltisha township) at Moonbasket, and consider contemporary African art at
What-if- the world, a gallery in a former synagogue.
And every Saturday,
Woodstock’s Neighbourgoods Market brings out the city’s bohemian tastemakers
(fedoras, Afro curls, round spectacles, and tattoos aplenty). Here, in a once
abandoned warehouse from the Victorian era, local vendors hawk screen-printed
cushions and handmade leather bags alongside artisan cheeses and buttery steak
pies.
Explore the tangle of lanes below Albert road, where mural
subjects range from rhinos to mother Teresa.
In 1967, Cape
Town surgeon Christian Barnard
performed the first ever human heart transplant.
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