Spotlight: La Grange Interiors

Being offered a first look inside Sumari Krige’s home is a little like winning a golden ticket. But instead of discovering the inner workings of a chocolate factory, you get to see how one of South Africa’s most lauded interior designers translated her craft to create a welcoming home environment for her and her family.

A finely curated mix of modern and rustic, machine-made and handcrafted, the rooms are characteristic of Sumari’s signature high-low style that combines comfortable pieces for everyday use with elevated designs for stylish, yet effortlessly casual interiors.

When it came to designing her home, Sumari took the same approach she does with clients: carefully addressing the homeowners’ needs through an eclectic, always considered composition of texture, tone and individuality.

“It is a design language that incorporates both the contemporary and the rustic with the finished spaces feeling quite eclectic,” explains Sumari.

To this end, the house, which overlooks Cape Town’s Atlantic coast, is filled with visual interest and delights you from the moment you step inside.

From the foyer with its graphic wool Berber, vintage French server and mix of accessories to the free-flow kitchen-dining-bar area where warm ocherous tones and fine woodwork are offset by brutalist concrete and stone. 

All of this, of course, creates just the right amount of dynamic interplay on which to showcase some of the most covetable pieces of furniture available today, such as the signature Loop dining chairs by District Eight (exclusively available at La Grange Interiors) covered in an abstract Mark Alexander fabric, and so doing setting a new gold standard for design.

www.lagrangeinteriors.co.za