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PRESTIGE: IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
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drive through the growing number of gated estates that have become integral to the South African way of life, or through the neighbourhoods that are demanding top dollar in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg and Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard, reveals an interesting mix of architecture, very little of which is reflective of our way of life, culture or South African heritage. We seem to be obsessed with a stylistic approach to our living environment, so Tuscan, Georgian and Balinese architectural vernacular prevail without contextual relevance beyond reminiscence of a time spent in another country.